Thursday, January 12, 2006

Baptism

A stoic Yankee
A Baptist bowl
and a lot of water
met for a moment
one November day
Some fifteen years gone bye

Back erect
Arms folded across your chest
You fell back into loving arms
joining a fellowship, a community
a new walk, a reconnection
a new life up from the waters of life




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edited August 15, 2019
Holy Water – v4
edited July 28, 2019
Holy Water – v3
edited July 28, 2019
Baptismal Waters – v5
edited July 28, 2019
Baptismal Waters – v4
(editing original again)
edited July 15, 2019
Baptismal Waters – v3
edited January 15, 2019
Baptismal Waters – v2
&
edited January 15, 2019
Holy Water – v2
(edited after contact by composer, Gwyneth Walker, who wanted to
use the poem for a choir composition
&
January 11, 2006 23:25
Holy Water
Mark 1:9-13, 15
&
January 11, 2006 23:45, revised 1/12/06 6:16
Baptismal Waters
Matthew 27:24-26
&
January 11, 2006 23:30
Baptism
(about Dad’t baptism, November 1990)

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