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They sat that Moses found such favor That God knew him by name and when they met It was face to face and when they talked It was like as two friends He talked often of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob As if every word spoken between them were chiseled in stone And He remembered His promises As if they were made just today And I have often wondered That if I like Moses met the Lord what I would say But I have come to reflect much more now On what words He might speak to me Would He recall His talks with Moses And remember the face of Pharaoh or experience them As if in present time for tense has no meaning For that which stands outside of time For He Led the twelve tribes of Israel Through the wilderness moments ago And in the tent of meeting He speaks To Moses at this moment And now too in God is parting the curtains Of blue and purple and scarlet stuff to watch the sun setting Beyond the mountain and both He and Moses Marvel at a desert sunset And I know too that if I met the Lord Like Moses I would hang on His every word As if they were raindrops in the desert And I would whisper only one thing to him remember me by Doug Tanoury This poem is © Copyright 2001 |
[The Moses Soliloquy | A Slaves Life | Blue & Purple & Scarlet Stuff | Burnt Offering | Cherubim Skillfully Worked | Favor In My Sight | Up on Sinai | Molten Calf | The Finger Of God | The Pharaoh of My Past | The Red Sea Between Us]
Doug Tanoury is primarily a poet of the Internet with the majority of his work never leaving electronic form. His verse can be read at electronic magazines and journals across the world.
The greatest influence on Doug's work was his 7th grade poetry anthology from Sister Debra's English class: Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse (Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, (c)1966 by Scott Foresman & Company) He still keeps a copy of it at his writing desk.
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