Ancient gathered wisdom
Heavenly celestial maps
Long forgotten rites
Codices and scrolls
Strange fire
Incense and embers
A star unlike any have seen
Oracle of the coming King
A small ossuary emptied
Then filled with tribute:
Gold, frankincense,
and myrrh
A long journey west
Three magi hasten to prepare
to leave all behind
Jerusalem bound
The rest of the poems from Rusten Harris’s Advent series on Moss Kingdom:
Incarnation, Christmas Eve, Kings, Some Kind of Glory, Chains, Gifts, Quotidian Couple, A Thousand Lights, Eve & Mary, Treasured Up, Christmas, Winter Staves, The Glorias, Cherubim, Joseph, Strange Redeemer, Womb, Magi, Temple Trough, Advent, Lord’s Day, Far as the Curse is Found, Jubilee, The Massacre of the Innocents, Liturgical Time
Other Advent poems on Moss Kingdom:
December 21: an Advent poem for the Winter Solstice, Of Edmund and Aslan, Tiptoe Hope, The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats