The great song of announcing

Haiku that lead to fulfilment.

Mary went in haste

to visit Elizabeth

at home in the hills

Two women embrace,

both pregnant, feeling wonder

and knowing the joy.

They cry and they sing

their songs of expectation;

the world is pregnant.

The young woman’s song

filled with its socialist themes

won’t win many friends.

The proud are scattered;

powerful kings and rulers

brought down from their thrones.

And yet the lowly,

cast aside, will be lifted

and the hungry filled.

And what of the rich?

They have had it all; send them

away wih nothing.

A promise of hope

for the people who struggle:

The new realm comes!

All old promises

will achieve their fulfilment

in the One who comes.

© Ken Rookes 2018