Pistols into ploughshares
Starve a fever, feed cold
steel barrels into the forge
Beneath scorched earth cool clay
the kiln at earth’s core;
creation’s heart of stone
Beneath the concrete floor
reverb of the hammer starts a rumour
– revolution, evolution, healing –
over the anvil, fever breaks
swords into ploughshares
long guns into garden tools
threat into the promise of
life grown from a mustard seed …
This poem first appeared at https://episcopaljournal.org/pistols-into-ploughshares/
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About Rosalind C Hughes
Rosalind C Hughes is a priest and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. She serves an Episcopal church just outside Cleveland. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing , and Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence, both from Upper Room Books. She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.
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