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Topic: Write in the POETRY genre (05/17/07)
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TITLE: Voice of God | Previous Challenge Entry
By Nathan Perkins
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So small that I feel that I can reach you, grasp you and even contain you somehow.
O voice like thunder.
I can’t be where you strike or I will die.
O, voice of flashing light,
My eyes are blinded by seeing things that are not possible to see without you.
I see racing pictures and the brilliance of your surprise in an instant. I feel that the flash has opened a package that contains the whole of existence.
O, shivering earth.
Do you move such beneath my feet because even you are demanded to bow in reverence before our maker? Do you shake or is it simply the incredible trembling that God’s nearness causes my heart to do?
I am anticipating something as my emotion and senses are peaked in the static of a thunder prepped sky.
I am incapable of bracing myself against the quake of moving earth. I look for a footing and something to grasp.
Then I see fire in every direction. It is an all consuming fire. There is nothing that will remain. Even I am not meant to endure these flames.
There can be nothing left but a barren landscape, a runway, where the breeze can play, where the tiniest voice can be hard without an obstruction.
It is a small voice. It is all that is left after wind, lightning, and fire. But it is also all that is necessary.
And I can hear God’s voice!
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I would suggest that you consider adding more line breaks to allow this to flow more like a poem.
Great job!