Ambiguity of Prophets

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The sonnet is a chrysalis with God

Deleted, holding D.N.A. to make

The world anew, a D.N.A. not awed

By Christ’s declared divinity.  The shake

[Click for video ⇒] Adult Monarch Butterfly Emerges from its Chrysalis

A Monarch has to do to for its escape

To air and light explains to poets how

Their words replace the world and leave agape

The canyon in between them.  Life must bow

Away and let the lines become the things

More deep, more rich and more a mystery

Than earth so sonnetry becomes the wings

That earth is not, with tortured history.

  That history becomes the phantom part

    Painstakingly transforming facts for heart.