Forgotten Ground Regained

In the Beginning

  • When winds of stars blow with their light
  • The deep black dawn glows deaf to dark
  • And kindled sparks flow, slaying night
  • A start, then spawn shows life’s first mark
At first, something sacred spoken sounded out of nothing, no not a thing not even time or space
And out of heaven hovered a holy wind over the face of the formless void and from it came such grace
Then star’s fire filled the emptiness and there was light
And then the grasses grew, and flowers flourished and rested in the night
Then fish had filled the fledgling seas, their scales silvery and bright
And birds began to bring their song their feathers fraught with flight
And critters crawled and slithered, snakes while others only ran: and all were great in their own right But of the beasts, best born was man
who has the power, who has the might to honor or destroy everything in sight
Published in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 6, Spring, 2025
Copyright © John C. Mannone, 2025
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