Brooks Haxton God Poems

  • 1.
    I made sackcloth my garment once, by cutting
    arm and neck holes into a burlap bag.
    A croker sack they called it. Sackdragger
    they called the man who dragged a croker sack
    ...
  • 2.
    In the hidden part thou shalt make me to know
    wisdom. Psalm 51

    That young man
    ...
  • 3.
    My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
    Psalm 22

    When fever burned the last light out of my daughterâ??s eyes,
    ...
  • 4.
    Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
    waterspouts. Psalm 42

    The waterfall in sunlight is God
    ...
Total 4 God Poems by Brooks Haxton

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Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
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