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.

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