Tag: prose poem
member name: Sheila Deeth
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May 02, 2009 05:07 PM EDT --
John watched two leaders preaching to the clamoring crowds below till they died in the dust.
"They've lost," cried John.
"They've won," the . . .
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April 27, 2009 05:10 PM EDT --
Dark locusts poured from the portal to hell, chewing the hearts of people instead of crops. John called to the guardian angels for help, but they just turned their backs and the demons ranged wider. . . .
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April 28, 2009 06:43 PM EDT --
“So we suffer because it’s a fallen world?” said John. The angel agreed and John wrote “4” on his page; then “1/4” for the death of an earthly fraction of mankind.
“And we suffer because . . .
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May 01, 2009 07:41 PM EDT --
I've revised this since William reminded me I'd edited out something that I wanted to keep in. Many thanks.
"When will the end arrive?" asked John.
"When . . .
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May 04, 2009 05:44 PM EDT --
Joseph, who dreamed the sun and moon and eleven stars would bow, was sold as a slave.
And now a woman with sun and moon and twelve stars round her head appeared to John. “She’s history,” . . .
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May 08, 2009 04:52 PM EDT --
Three angels proclaimed the story as the fifth text was read from the scroll. Three angels prepared the harvest at the sixth. And seven angels flew with bowls of incense at the seventh.
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May 11, 2009 06:18 PM EDT --
Nobody wanted to ask God for help. Instead they turned to the dragon beast and prophet. Even as the dragon was losing its power, as the fifth bowl of incense devoured the stench of its presence, . . .
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May 14, 2009 03:02 PM EDT --
“Teach me,” said John and the second angel explained: “Look at the hills surrounding Rome. Think of the emperors who say they’re really gods.”
There were seven hills, thought John, . . .
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May 30, 2009 06:41 PM EDT --
No one’s seen God, but we’ll see Him then. We’ll stop writing names in our own Books of Life, and find His name on our foreheads. We’ll stop counting days of our own victories, . . .
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May 07, 2009 06:27 PM EDT --
The sun was rising on the start of a perfect day. The shades of dawn played symphonies like wings of doves strumming on harps of gold. A hundred and forty-four thousand people were singing around . . .
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May 09, 2009 02:58 PM EDT --
John felt a cold wind blowing. The final words from the scroll dripped into his ears with whispered fear. Seven angels appeared and the four earthly creatures peered over their bowls of incense with . . .
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May 12, 2009 08:29 PM EDT --
“It’s finished.” The voice echoed through time. The curtain of the temple was torn in two and the ghosts walked free.
“It’s finished.” The cities fell each into three with the force of . . .
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May 13, 2009 06:43 PM EDT --
“Teach me,” said John and the first angel said “Watch.” Then John saw a woman, a whore riding the beast and drunk on its power.
“Who is she?” John asked. “Who d’you think?” And, behind . . .
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May 15, 2009 06:58 PM EDT --
“Teach me,” said John and a third angel recited the prophecies. Those ancient enemies—Babylon, Nineveh, Tyre—fell down again. A fourth angel proclaimed the call to freedom: “Escape. Run away.” And a . . .
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May 17, 2009 11:43 PM EDT --
John bowed, but the angel said “You should only bow to God.” John prayed, but he said “Only pray to God too.”
“Pray for what?”
“Pray for what you have seen.”
So . . .
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May 18, 2009 05:34 PM EDT --
The armies had gathered at Armageddon. They were ready. The war could begin. Hard soldiers snarled insults at their foes and crashed their sharpened weapons against shields. They chanted songs of glory . . .
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May 19, 2009 07:27 PM EDT --
The pictures of history remained in John’s mind: Gog and Magog’s armies lined up for war; Ezekiel’s promise that combat would dissolve into a feast. Daniel dreamed the beast and horns and watched the . . .
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May 20, 2009 06:14 PM EDT --
“I saw Satan fall from heaven,” said the leader John loved. But when did he fall, John wondered. Why didn’t we ask?
Michael, holy guardian of God’s people, threw the dragon down to earth. . . .
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May 21, 2009 05:21 PM EDT --
John saw Him rise, that leader he loved. He saw Him walk the earth after He’d died. They ate together and talked and John and others wrote down the words, until the leader was lifted from earth . . .
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May 22, 2009 02:22 PM EDT --
At the end of time, the angels cease their guard and abandon us. At the end of time, the dragon is freed from the pit. The beast and prophet enslave mankind and God makes no more effort to hold them . . .
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