For today Release me, God, one more time, from carrying these boulders of regret and guilt that I have created through thoughtless acts and blind inactions. They are part of my journey now, forged into my past with no … Continue reading Three Poems from Thalia Dunn | PAROUSIA Magazine
Souls are dying Youths are crying, Who would lead them across To calvary where lies the cross? Who would let them know They are cleansed white as snow Through the blood of the lamb Which made them a … Continue reading Two Poems from Olaitan Victor Olanrewaju | PAROUSIA Magazine
Making Melody A small mission church with motley voices Of people from here, from there, everywhere off-key, perhaps? but with enthusiastic flair! Together, we sang the way that rejoices. CDs and speakers carried the tune giving Sunday songbirds inspired guide … Continue reading Two Poems from by Victoria Crawford and George W. Ross | PAROUSIA Magazine
Hurrahing in Harvest Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? I walk, I lift up, … Continue reading Hurrahing in Harvest | A Poem by Hopkins, Gerard Manle | PAROUSIA Magazine
Gideon Cecil captures both the heart and the ear in his romantic musings. In bold style Cecil re-establishes the territory of the masters in his rhythmic and rhyming pieces. Here is a book of poetry worth investigating.
– John Kaniecki Continue reading IMMORTAL LOVE SONGS by Gideon Cecil | Parousia Christian Poetry Chapbook No 2 | PAROUSIA Magazine
Morning Prayers Wearing tallit and praying shacharit with loving intent, my prayers become electronic donations to this messianic era, and allow me to shed the synthetic skin of ego and become the rhetoric of beauty. Life is noisy, but … Continue reading Morning Prayers by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
deliverance my sin is like yellow rain falling through broken trees but grace is like a seaward sky leaving me benign and pliable so that I become a calm clean river. Download Rick Davis’s Poetry Chapbook “WALKING” Continue reading deliverance by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
A FEW MOMENTS Silence unwinds into peaceful loving afternoon. The cat sits in his cat-tree grooming himself While the dog stares out the overcast window. Both sing a quiet melody of contentment. Playing with and petting them, … Continue reading Two Poems from Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
A Stone for the Garden He digs in the river bank searching right-sized rocks shaped for garden gate. Gray, black, white stones pile up. A last one is found, not square, jumbled colors, granite composite, … Continue reading Three Poems by Victoria Crawford on PAROUSIA Magazine
JOURNEY I looked out of the train window I saw a young woman sat next to the sitting statue on the bench if you didn’t know he was not real you would never know. The woman sat opposite me gets … Continue reading Three Poems by Marc Carver | PAROUSIA Magazine
STEPHEN HAWKING: FORCED INTO CHRISTIAN GLORY “For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.” – Ps 699. There couldn’t be a better illustration for … Continue reading STEPHEN HAWKING: FORCED INTO CHRISTIAN GLORY By Mike Ekunno | PAROUSIA Magazine
Clutching Hope Whenever you feel like vanishing remember all those times you wanted to pause it all but your God kept sending one more breath your way. … Continue reading Two Poems by Ifunanya Angelique | PAROUSIA Magazine
THE YOUTH AND MIND DELIVERANCE Introduction According to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), “a youth is best understood as a period of transition from dependence of childhood to adulthood’s independence and awareness of our interdependence as members … Continue reading THE YOUTH AND MIND DELIVERANCE – Chinedu Vincent Okoro | PAROUSIA Magazine
Galaxies Publishers releases a new concept in the appreciation of the arts, both the creative and performance arts. This is to inform the general public as well as all art lovers and critics, that a new concept in … Continue reading PRESS RELEASE: A NEW CONCEPT IN APPRECIATING ARTS PIONEERED | PAROUSIA Magazine
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles in all stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, … Continue reading Pied Beauty | A Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins | PAROUSIA Magazine
THE MYSTERY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Part 2 By Gideon Sampson Cecil The incredible bulk of Shakespeare’s plays and poems reveal that the author was a voracious reader citing over two hundred books, some of which were … Continue reading THE MYSTERY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Part 2 By Gideon Sampson Cecil | PAROUSIA Magazine
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