Promise

 

Haiku for upsetting

News of excitement!

A pregnancy of promise:

confiding cousins!

Luke holds nothing back!

In Elizabeth’s old womb

the child is leaping!

Prophet-like, Mary

announces the radical

program from above.

His way is mercy,

this God who finally comes

among God’s people.

They will be brought low,

the powerful and mighty;

their time is over.

They will be raised up,

the poor and the lowly ones,

their moment has come.

The hungry are filled,

the rich sent away empty;

the great levelling.

The conservatives

tremble; this is not the faith

they were counting on.

© Ken Rookes 2021