Monday, October 30, 2023

Let the wars begin

 Haiku to challenge the narrative


Story of wonder;

defying physics. Who knows

what really happened?


Joshua is told

that God will be with him, as

God was with Moses.


He is in command;

Joshua instruct the priests

at Jordan’s waters.


Selected leaders,

twelve, bear the Covenant’s Ark

across the Jordan.


Symbolic presence;

God will drive the foreigners

from their own country


Colonising God,

a most disturbing image;

should we accept it?


As their feet get wet

Jordan’s flow is arrested.

The people pass through.


The entire nation

crossed into the promised land.

Let the wars begin.

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