Poetry by George Harold Trudeau
Snatched by Fire
The birds sing and fowls have place to nest
but we are of heaven and earth
never laying our head to rest.
In our nomadic flight
ping ponging between the stars and the land of the dead
we evade postcards of death until the End of Time
soaring until we, like Enoch, are snatched from the land of mortals
from the moments of Evil Days
Or like Elijah, we are taken when our face is to the plow, back against the wall, and our eyes like
flint to the New Zion.
For we are a song of the birds, made for a moment, flung out of the clay toward paradise, given
flight by nature’s lungs
signifying something by the pleasure of the Spirit of Him who made us
in or out of tune to the melody of Evil Days
sung sometimes under a myriad of different tunes
the disharmony driving some of our migrations so insane
we descend into the silence of hell to ease our minds
into a dreamless night.
We are all the song of the air
flying under the Watch of Enoch and Elijah
often given voice without an ear in mind
given as a murmur to the wind
a sonnet rendered until the Chariot of heaven snatches us up
setting fire to our flickering anthems
our music lost to the trumpets of judgment
our notes falling likes feathers to the dirt
Never to be sung again.
Splinters that Linger
By George Harold Trudeau
You hurled that GameCube controller at me with mal-intent
I took a baseball bat to your precious dreams
Shattering them in 10,000 nightmares
Whose shards still splinter to this day.
And who plays GameCube anymore?
Only this kind of rage quitting assault
Could be mixed with such vengeance and nostalgia
That I am virtually sure I will never forget.
George Harold Trudeau is a High School English teacher. He graduated from the College of Southeastern with a BA in English where he contributed poems and short stories for the literary magazine SLAM. You can find him reading C.S. Lewis books in coffee shops, marveling the beauty of old churches, or cackling to dumb YouTube videos. Trudeau is the author of his first book The Jesus of Jericho: The Good Samaritan in the Public Square. It is available on Amazon for purchase.