Vendor Poetry

BETWEEN INTENTION AND RESULT

JEN A.

Not every action results in instant gratification

It often takes long hours, weeks, or years--An intermission, as it were--

Between intention and result

Think of the patience of the bird

As it waits from egg to empty nest

There’s a season to sow the seeds

And a later one to reap the fruit

The mosquito drinks

Before the itch commences

There is an interval of time

Between making a committed try

And ultimate failure

Between being bitten by the snake

And the poison crippling your heart

Between belief in his malicious lies

And the day democracy dies

BEAUTIFUL DISASTER

DEANA H.

Life goes faster when you walk past me

I’m standing there alone

Waiting for a coster of blessings

Come around my head

I stand in the street

You walk by and say

Hi And then as a blessing

You gave to me to hold

Send me home with hope and I stop to do better

Not a disaster

It’s cold out here

I am praying you bless me with a dime or two

For me to survive in this hard world

I thank God for people like you ‘cause it makes me have purpose

I’m not alone when you stop to help

God will bless you for my blessings

We all need each other as we separate ourselves for health and maybe wealth

One day I’ll be standing high

One day giving generosity like you

REVELATION

JEN A.

In this year of 2020

When the faithful gather

In their churches

To celebrate the Nativity

And to raise their voices

In carols of the season

(Against sound medical advice

And posing a deadly threat

To their wider community

Of believers and those who don’t-- Just because they can)

When they exclaim

“O come let us adore him”

They’re singing about Jesus Right?