Before the Palms

by The Devotional Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Before the palms were lifted, someone cut them from a tree. Before the road sang welcome, a colt was found and led. The holy enters history through borrowed things: a cloak, a branch, an animal returned by evening. Teach us to notice what devotion uses, and what it must give back.
51 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
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