ABOUT POETRY By Don Grigsby Poetry wraps its delicate fingers around our hearts and gently probes its deepest reservoirs for the locked gates it can open. Its inspiration whispers in our ears and dances across our mind. King Davids poetic Psalms awoke the dawn with excited worship. Joyous understanding swept away the stilted ceremonies and replaced them with leaping and shouting. Many times it sweeps away the toxic cloud of fear and the smog of lies. Atmospheric freshness, with the brilliant sunlit day of poetic expression, wind sweeps the hills and the horizons of life. Heaven finds its reflective image in the pens of poets. Poetry is more than lines of words that rhyme. Anything that you can feel the deep inspiration in, whether it has rhythm or meter or not, it is still considered poetry. As the prophet is an inspired speaker, so is the poet. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon are not the only poetry of the Bible. Pauls writings in the 8th chapter of Romans is considered the triumph poem of the Spirit. Anthems of creations triumph crescendo in the poem of majesty in the 5th chapter of Revelation. In a paraphrase of Psalms 45:1 by Peterson it declares, My heart breaks; its banks spilling goodness and beauty. It pours out into a poem. Shaping the river into words. If we really obey the word of God in James 1:22 and 23, we are to be not only hearers of the Word but doers of the Word. Doers of the word is translated from the Greek word for poet. If we speak the Word in poetic layers, we are doing the Word also. May the music of this symphony of declaration and definition delight your mind and spirit with the inspiration that will lift you into heavenly places in the Lord.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:04:04 +0000
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