lacking was a human pair
To tend to all with loving care.
Moments after Divine Meditation,
Humans arose to crown Creation.
Woman and Man, God Created
With both limitless love and hate unabated .
Adam, the man, and Eve, the wife,
Were placed on Earth to honor life.
To their souls God Conveyed
The laws of decency to be obeyed
Plants and animals with loving kindness to be tended
And Nature’s frail were by humans to be mended.
God Ordained, when all was done,
A Sabbath day, a holy one,
A day of prayer, a day of rest,
A day Eternal God Had Blessed.
Sabbath is an Eden
And God Blessing the seventh day Made it holy. That day was Ordained a day of rest from all that was Created. Gen II, 3.
Sabbath is an Eden away from the noisy crowds;
Where Voices soft are heard of Angels beyond the clouds.
And where the eyes watch daffodils gilding a Sacred mound;
Where sweet attar of roses is in every whiffet found.
And where ambrosia flavors every food and kindles a savor of taste;
Where every thought the mind devises is wise, uplifting, and chaste.
And where each heart is beating with the rhythm of Creation;
Where every soul is set to worship God in adoration.
At that moment our hands join with those who have gone before;
At that moment generations to come will join with those of yore.
And every wounded soul will heal from Eden’s Soothing Balm
And will be rendered into words of a sacred Sabbath psalm.
Quest to Surmise Nature’s Aspects: Two Haiku Poems
Complexity
The weave of Nature
Is spun silky and gritty
In knots and tangles.
Indefinable Creation
Mystery and chance
Play dice with the universe
And scoff at Science.
Blessed Are They Who Seek God in Every Gene
Blessed are they who seek God
In every gene
And reveal its mystery.
The First Humans: Version One
God Said: “Let us Fashion a human in our image, a version of OurSelves. Gen I, 26.
God Sought the counsel of Angels, partners in Causation.
“Let a race of human creatures crown Creation;
A race who will respect My Authority
And preserve and augment Creation’s immensity.”
The Consenters advised, “Create a creature
With a Mind like Yours capable of learning,
With a Soul like Yours sprouting righteousness,
With a Heart like Yours overflowing with mercy.”
The Dissenters advised, “such a creature
Would have a mind abounding in ignorance,
Would have a spirit sprouting wrong doing,
Would have a heart flowing with malice.
What creature can be as perfect as God?
But God Accepted the advice of the Consenters.
“You will rue this day,” scoffed the Dissenters!
In a thrice some genes in God’s laboratory mutated
And from the Essence of God were fashioned humans: Men and Women,
Not too many, as humanity was still an experiment.
Adam and Eve, closest to God in mind, soul, and heart were endowed with free will.
God said, “live upon My Creation, enjoy it, improve upon it
But you must be obedient and be responsible for your actions.”
God placed them side by side in The Garden of Eden, Epicenter of Creation,
And consecrated their marriage, pronouncing them husband and wife.
Each was the complement of the other; each the help mate of the other.
A choir of the Consenters filled the heavens with sweet songs
Which wafted out of The Garden and is heard today in the arias of the birds.
The hearts of the newlyweds were filled with rapture.
But the vexed Dissenters brewed cannons of thunder which rumble even today.
The newlyweds sought shelter from the tantrums of the Dissenters.
Rain drowned their ecstasy.
In time Adam and Eve learned what hunger is and how to satisfy it,
What thirst is and how to slake it, what heat and cold are and how to protect their bodies.
What beauty is and how to admire it;
What comfort is and how to enjoy it.
What knowledge is and how to increase it.
They learned how to make babies:
How to feed them, protect them, and how to teach them to survive.
But they also discovered need, greed, and evil.
They surrendered to temptations and engaged in actions Scorned by God.
They disobeyed as well as God’s Forgiveness but also exile from Paradise.
The refugees learned about the work of life and the permanence of death.
They built houses protecting them from the elements and fortifying them from foes;
They sewed garments shielding their skin.
They composed songs celebrating God’s Creation; they painted visions of history.
They witnessed murder and learned to grieve, to console, and to endure.
They taught their lessons to their descendants and to other humans in God’s Creation.
And the Consenters who advised God to Create humans were vindicated
And so were the Dissenters.
The First Humans: Version Two
The biota of Eden were thriving
And daily new species were arriving.
Blooms were on every manner of plant:
Fruit bearing and flowers that enchant.
Stripe´d animals with great speed were running
Leather-hided animals stretched out were sunning
Spotted animals through brush were leaping
Night time animals lay in tree branches sleeping.
Birds nesting in all kinds of trees
Were