Author: Nahum

Like A Mountain Goat (Poem)

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Below is a re-write of poem that I penned in 2023, which reflects on how slipperiness of life and the things that we trust, as well as survival.   It has been written in the form of a rondeau redoublé, where the four lines of Stanza 1 are repeated at the end of Stanzas 2-5.  The poem then concludes with the first part of Line 1 (Like a mountain goat);  a repeated phrase that structures the entire poem.  Each stanza rhymes with an alternating A-B-A-B/B-A-B-A pattern until the end; each line has 7 beats that alternate between trochees and iambs.  Enjoy!  Nahum.

I Am His & He Is Mine (Poem)

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Today I wrote a poem that’s based on 2:16 of The Song of Solomon, “I am my Beloved’s and He is mine”. It reflects upon being painfully rejected by my family of origin, but taken in by Jesus. Upon writing it, I couldn’t stop weeping. It is written in the form of a cinquain chain, where the last line of each stanza forms the first line of the succeeding stanza.  The first line of the poem is also its last.  The rhyming pattern with each stanza is ABBCC.  May it bless you, Nahum.