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
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 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
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
THE MYSTERY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Part 1 By Gideon Cecil Shakespeare’s legacy to mankind is rich indeed. His gifts to the English Language excel those of all other poet’s put together. He has put words and phrases into men’s … Continue reading THE MYSTERY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Part 1 By Gideon Sampson Cecil| PAROUSIA Magazine
The Word No word from God, of power is void, No idle word He’s spoken In every sentence now He lives His promise can’t be broken. A part is He, of all He’s said In every word He’s hidden The … Continue reading The Word | A Poem by E W Kenyon | PAROUSIA Magazine
ON THE WALK TO EMMAUS Plodding through with him on Emmaus road You don’t know you know him He colours history you nurture as fantasies with pictures, with quotes with facts, with truths like he’d seen it on … Continue reading ON THE WALK TO EMMAUS | A Poem by Oluwafemi Babasola | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Windhover To Christ our Lord I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein … Continue reading The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins | PAROUSIA Magazine
RENEWAL There will always seem to appear Along the way, along our journey; an end. But surely, the road still lies ahead, O friend. Do not look back, do not turn, have no fear. Is there really an end? Only … Continue reading RENEWAL | A Poem by OLATOKUN OLUWAFEMI | PAROUSIA Magazine
ASCENSION THURSDAY As you go up to the heavens dear Lord, Sprinkle unto this desolate land thy mystical colors, Standing crestfallen, flooded by bloodbath, Smitten by violent strife and hate. Let the mystery in these colors Absorb the awful sights … Continue reading PENTECOST | A Poem by NE Beyia | PAROUSIA Magazine
