Preface
These are a few poems taken from a larger repository of writings for the purpose of showing that there are poets and writers in the kingdom of God who view the current state of the arts as functioning well below this standard:
The burden of Art, especially Poetry, is the
establishment – and defense – of human reality.
Of course, what human reality is is a hotly contested matter. As the world deteriorates morally and with regard to its vision of what is real – actual – it seems the poets and writers, the men and women of letters, have by and large abdicated the tower of vision and joined the merry throng on its descent into eternal ruin through a studied obliviousness to the things of eternity, as made known to humans by the kindness and mercy of the great God, and His Son, our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. What He has done in the being of humankind is a crucial aspect of the human condition – and human nature.
There are poets and writers in the employ of Heaven who remain true to their humanity, true to the disciplines and craft of literature, and true to the King of poets – “the Word of God” He is known as! – who spoke as never any other man or woman ever spoke, and who is the embodiment of Truth. A genuine poet ever reflects this. Any poet and writer who does not may have his fleeting day of glory among the throng of rebels, only to end in eternal ruin.
There is light in true art – may it transmit His glory through human vessels to the end of drawing souls to know Him, whom to know is eternal life. He lives in godly art.
[here’s the 44-page booklet of poems in this vein]