This month’s two featured poems from our 在线诗歌小组 are responses to an invitation to write a prayer for world healing, by Wildee Manfa and Jody Kisten.
Healing Hill
By Wildee Manfa
At day, the eyes are black oceans,
And the night gropes to a scary stumble for being blind, a sea!
I know the screams are hellish hornets stinging helpless souls,
And rainbows seem a furious far cry from healing hope,
But a hill beckons every beholder to behold a hand that motions a healing sunshine.
Wildee Manfa is an award-winning Nigerian writer, speaker and performer of performance poetry with over a decade of creative writing experience.
Glass Eyes
By Jody Kisten
What do you see,
When you look into the mirror?
Do you see the torture behind the eyes,
Do you see deception, do you see the lies?
What do you see?
Do you see the pain, do you see the scars?
Do you see the pressure behind the bars
Of your mindless prison?
See it’s like that right before you’ve risen.
Before the blessings come and the lessons suffer fission.
But before all that comes you need to make a decision,
Make the choice with your heart before your brain starts collision,
See at this point in time don’t ask for permission,
Because He sees it all, all the goals and the vision,
Even when you’re left with nothing, He will provide provision.
So what do you see,
When you look into the mirror?
At the age of 26, Jody Kisten describes himself as “a living testament to His glory, walking in divine light.” Four years of faith, endless wonder and God’s promises unfolding.
Related poetry and resources
- Enhance Your Creativity through Poetry – an MAI webinar with Akolo Anthony James
- Join 在线诗歌小组 with Akolo Anthony James and Joan Campbell
- Still: Poems of Peace in Times of Turmoil – about the Online Poetry Group anthology