Monday, July 18, 2022

All in the family

 

All in the family

Haiku of embarrassing nomenclature


Instructed by God,

prophet Hosea marries

prostitute Gomer.


It happens. A man

becomes smitten. Takes a chance;

It might just work out.


Marriage and message

jumbled in the prophet’s life.

Call that commitment!


Filled with sin, the land

has played whore with other gods.

A faithless marriage.


Prophet and harlot

have a child. Name him “Jezreel,”

place of death and blood.


A daughter this time.

Call her “Not Pitied.” Israel

is not forgiven.


A third child, a son.

Make his name “Not my people.”

I am not your God.


Yet, in the end, grace;

hope. They will be called “Children

of the living God.”


© Ken Rookes 2022

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