pre-flight Moses is hidden beneath my ambitious hand. Radiance is never as warm as Light. Ancient communication once bright now bland Pre-flight instructions introductions to Life About Jerry Swartout: I am a retired log home builder, having spent forty- … Continue reading Poetry | pre-flight by Rick Davis & Jerry Swartout | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Scripture Treasure the scripture for it is the picture of your future Be nurtured by the scripture and be sure of a structured future Do otherwise and end up being tortured A creature made in the nature … Continue reading The Scripture by Olubunmi Austin | PAROUSIA Magazine
Histoire d’un homme infidèle Un homme vient d’arriver en France. Cet homme a rencontré sa compagne, mais la situation de la vie lui a rendu infidèle. Il était obligé de faire des choses qu’il n’avait pas envie de … Continue reading Paintings from Vita Léo | PAROUSIA Magazine
BETRAYAL We were in the garden of doom eleven of us with him. He said we should watch an hour, an hour that took eternity to elapse. Praying within boundary of wills, he poured libation of sweat and blood to … Continue reading Two Poems from Benjamin Elemide | PAROUSIA Magazine
God Doesn’t Make Sense God doesn’t make sense Who is he that honors is words than his name Yet, his words a spell to cast Earlier chants of prayer, his name beareth the master’s key Like your … Continue reading God Does Not Make Sense by Daniel Ajayi | PAROUSIA Magazine
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
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
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
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
