Poetic Bloomings bored

 Bored for the Lord

 

Meeting with God

and his people

should be the last place

I get bored.

 

But there are hazards

of being a writer

of poetry and

daily devotions.

 

I listen to the sermon

spotting the wordiness,

the beginning, middle, end

another middle and end.

 

I think, It took him 45 minutes

to say what I could have said

in a fourteen-line poem

or a 250 word devotion.

 

And so I take notes

I’ll never read

and doodle

flowers and faces,

 

letting him think

I’m hanging on every word.