Devotional Poetry

Proclaiming God's Name

Proclaiming God's Name

"...Verily We behold all created things moved to bear witness unto Us. Some know Us and bear witness, while the majority bear witness, yet know Us not."

Baha'u'llah1

1
Proclamation:
To H. Callis Featherstone

God's Cause is a living creature
welding together the races and creed of the world
into an organic whole.

2
He Has Come

Out of the veiling darkness
voices supplicate
their risen Lord to return.

He has come,
with twenty thousand angels in His wake;
in the Glory of the Father,
He has come!

3
Power of the Greatest Name

atoms of fear split
melting terror's components
redefining faith

divine unity
transforms doubt to certitude
transmutes lead to gold

4
Proclamation

Proclaim
The Cause of God
Unto all creation
For all will bow down before Him
Proclaim

5
Emancipation

Love melts
The icy breast
Of winter

And liberates
The heart's
Broken winged bird

6
He Has Come Again

He has come again
and gone,
but still some wait.

Wait for His Return!

Expecting
Him to come
in accordance
with their own preconceived ideas;
not the laws of God.

7
Creating Paradise

Soul by soul
and heart by heart
we are creating paradise.

Transmuting hate to love,
transforming war to peace,
and morphing tanks into tractors.

8
The Healer

God is the healer
The binder of all our wounds
The All-Knowing physician

9
The Witness

Every undivided component of matter
Affords evidence of God

10
The World Awaits

The world,
and all that is there in,
awaits the coming
of God's Promised One.

Awaits the Last Judgment
when the Lord returns
and the world comes to an end.

11
Presenting Baha'u'llah's Message

There is a jewel I have,
I wish to present to you:
it is the jewel of unity.

12
Somebody New to Love

There is somebody new to love,
wrapped in the womb of faith,
a new soul waiting to bloom
for Baha'u'llah.

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Poet's Note: ▼

These poems were written over several years. They were inspired by people and events that proclaimed God's Cause or Baha'u'llah.

Footnotes
1  Tablets of Baha'u'llah, page 15.