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Sonnets
Poet Lariat
PEOPLE OF GOD
The Red Sea crossed, dry shod
pursuing armies drowned;
Israel’s people freed by God
in the desert, future-bound.
They are the signal sign of man:
life is thence a journey taking,
life, fulfilment of a plan
life, a kingdom in the making.
Not a person’s pleasure pleading
nor an individual success
but the task which God is leading
is friendship, goodness, love, no less.
Move on! Lift up your wounded brothers,
Can’t reach the goal alone, without the others.
Poems from the Eighth Decade
Copyright © Harold Macdonald 2004
used with permission