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Prophet Poet

Lyrics of Conviction

Cindy Koch
May 6, 2023
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Prophet Poet

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Blank words stuck
Under my tongue
Inside the gum 
I chew and meditate

The words. Regurgitate. 
I taste too late
Guilt aftertaste

Harsh reprobate
she’s spoken in my name

I knew better
It didn’t matter
My words had scattered

From the top-down tower

They didn’t bow 
Or
Blink or bother

The father or His Breath

Betrayed
My lord, my hope, my brother

I speak: myself, another

You hear His rooster cry


Flame and fire
Cannot refine 
the words I search to find

They’re mine
They’re fine

Untruth.

They’re named for fire


But His words 
From above
Like a dove
A flame

All I taste is fire
A liar
Inspire

It burns 
Tequila midnight

Asleep 
To speak

I don't know how to light it
but I can feel it burning

It’s nothing new
Under the sun
Under my tongue

But my words sound stupid
Muted, not reduced
Compared to Amos

Infamous
Prophet 

Compelled
To poorly say

His life-restoring
Breath of ashes

The prophetic, poetic, Word of the Lord. Spoken Truths which are veiled and hidden. God says, “Go and say to this people: Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing but do not perceive.” And so, even as God’s mouthpiece servant speaks the Word given, the prophet knows it will be ignored.

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REFLECT

on the Words that God first gave to us. Meditate on the Truth that has made any of our words mean anything…

  • READ Isaiah 1:2-15

  • READ Amos 3:7-8, 8:11-12

  • READ Habakkuk 2:1-4

  • READ Matthew 3:1-3,Matthew 3:11-17

  • READ Matthew 17:1-8

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May 17Author

I would look back to the specific and terrible call of the prophets:

And (God) said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Then (Isaiah) said, “How long, O Lord?” And (God) said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste, and the LORD removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose STUMP REMAINS when it is felled.” The HOLY SEED is its stump.

It is the Christ Story over and over. Caused by sin? Yes. Caused by God? Yes. Answered by the holy seed, JESUS. Yes.

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Frances (Frankie) Meadows
May 16

So, is it possible for this famine, as in Amos chapter 8, to be caused by the people themselves?

It doesn't say that there is no Word of the Lord, but no -hearing- of the words of the Lord?

Here we are, surrounded by opportunities to crack open a Bible, probably having at least several in each of our households, headed to Google some wisdom?

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