manna not from heaven

note: from wherever it is in the Bible that Moses and the Israelites find manna in the desert. always such a moving episode. ~acb

Manna not from heaven, but from the road beneath;

wandered in the wilderness, sought for what was meet

in the vengeful eyes of god. Who could have sought

such sugar, blended sour with the sweet,

gave glory to the one most high

and terrible, to keep

such a people as his sheep?

© 2016 Anna-Christina Betekhtin, All Rights Reserved.


Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s