A friend was blogging to today about African American poets. That got me thinking about some of my favorite poems, the sharing some youtube videos with my kids, and then my kids wanting to write their own poems. So here is my Ethan's poem. He'll love you forever if you comment on it on his own blog, Art by Ethan, where it was originally posted. He wanted it to be more theologically and technically accurate than the famous version.
"God's World"
by Ethan
In the beginning, there was God, and there was shadow.
God said, "Let there be heavens and let there be earth."
And they were.
Then God made light, and grabbed it, and formed it to a ball,
And made the sun.
God blew on the sun, and from it came the stars.
And there in the darkness a glow from a rocky mirror shined out it's light,
There the moon.
God threw out lightning and broke water from water.
There was land.
A wave from the sea cracked up fish and the birds.
The land gave birth to all living creatures.
And God gave birth to man.
This was inspired by Genesis 1 and "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson
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And now the video of James Weldon Johnson's version that we loved so much:
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