Monday, January 2, 2012

Poem (re-post) can you suggest a new title?

Stephen, because the Jesus parallel is so strong, it might be better not to abandon some connection in the title but to mute it or make it more embedded. That sets me to thinking. The father and son were traveling, on a journey, and even though the Christ-figure they encounter claims no special destination, he becomes part of their journey, their life, because they have been changed by meeting him. What of "The Journey" because life itself is a journey, whether one overtly acknowledges the Lord's place in it or not. That seems to me to be the balance you seek between keeping God ever present and yet not foregrounded. Best wishes Stephen; either way it is a fine poem as I said in my initial review of it.

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