The Unusual One Seeking
By Peter Menkin

Make a prayer
on morning daystar.
Make a prayer
on the nightstar.

Say
yes
to the Lord.


Seek the Trinity,
celestial sense.
Large, encompassing
greater than the sky
and nebula beyond
into galaxies.

Like the deer
that yearns.

So went his
thoughts, feelings,
desire.

An unusual one,
reading his books on God,
and stretching out his spirit
at Church. This young man

came every Sunday.
Saying, is it so
eccentric

to want the Lord,
to know Him
in the Eucharist,

that I am a man
and mortal; so it shall take
all my life living
in the spirit and knowledge
of the maker.

Two photos by Hubble telescope.

Audio reading of poem by poet is here:

Here is a good reason to go to Church -- to find God...

Lately, and by that I mean the last six months, I have been reworking poems. Here is one I workshopped on Blueline Poetry. My visits there have been helpful. This poem is about wanting God in one's life. More so, it says "yearning." Advent and Christmas are good seasons for finding God. We ask that the Lord Christ be born in our heart at Christmas. Advent is the preparation for the birth of Christ.

A Man finds he Yearns for God

by Peter Menkin

Shall I be personal about it.

I have begged the holy spirit:

Lead me in reading the Bible.

For my hope is in the Lord.

Nothing matches for me

this hope of knowing God.

I have implored the spirit of truth.

Reveal to me the Word

of God in the Bible.

I yearn, this is a man's truth.

To live the life--

The promise I want

to have this language in my heart,

in my mind, on my lips. This is an earnest need:

yearn. God chooses us first.

We go to his call.