Sheaves & Shelves

Sheaves of poems

On printed pages, no one’s

Asking, now collecting dust

On library shelves. Must

I relegate my verse

To be relevant? Terse,

Copiously edited,

Now I’m credited.

Yes, an accredited poet.

But you’d never know it.

Ethereal, spread digital, line

By line, preservation not mine

To decide but posterity’s:

Pride to provide, eternity’s

Heavenly side, and those

Whom learned by grace and chose

Still, this gift, to serve others,

The Lord’s sisters and brothers.

So let this His Kingdom come

And what’s earthbound - reduce to none.

Gary Edward Geraci