Sunday's Zoom service excerpts - Tree service

An old creation story

A poem for the Narrative Lectionary

An old creation story

Haiku from the dreamtime

The ancient story

sees the divine creator

sculpting humankind.

The Eden garden;

fruitfulness to be enjoyed,

The man must tend it.

The tree of knowledge

of good and evil is there;

a great temptation.

What did God expect

from her arboreal ban:

don’t eat of this tree?

Humans dominate

the other creatures, even

giving them their names.

The man sleeps deeply

as the woman is taken,

rib-like, from his side.

Fashioned from the ground

the man and woman of dust

belong to the earth.

She is his helper;

he will be her helper, too.

They will be partners

What means this order;

first the man, then the woman?

Damn patriarchy!

Two will become one,

this divine purpose: friendship,

support, and oneness.

© Ken Rookes 2019

Zacheus colouring