Poetry
Poetry is spirit unleashed upon words, words written to ignite the imagination and lift the soul. Poetry is God’s purest form of communication; because of this truth, God’s monumental prophets were poets. A love for the poetic is indicative of a soul leaning towards God. Theological poetry is both wonder and a call to merciful justice.
Purchase my book ‘Learning to Bleed Words; A Sojourner’s Journey’ it is a collection of sixty-six poems under 16 chapter headings.
You do not have to drop your eyelid over your eye to close your eyes or to experience blindness, you need only to think of yourself.
Phillip Michael Garner
Aug 10, 2018
Seeing through the images that portray the poor requires intimacy, knowing their names, feeling their pain, and understanding their smiles.
Phillip Michael Garner
Aug 5, 2018
A poem I wrote after observing another of the many catastrophic fires that plague the lives of the poor living in hovels in the cities of the Philippines.
Phillip Michael Garner
Mar 17, 2018
A poem reflecting my personal experience with faith, with the poor, and with life changes. The children in the banner picture live, and often scavenge, for food at a dumpsite in Lapu Lapu. We are providing them a meal.
Phillip Michael Garner
Oct 21, 2017
GOD IN THE COURT OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
This poem is from my book Everyday Thoughts and precedes a reading on Job. The theology of the poem is drawn from the book of Job.
Phillip Michael Garner
Jul 21, 2017
Shangri-La has no history whereas the history of Christian faith ends in an enraptured world of joy where peace remains constant and endless love abounds.
This poem precedes a reading in Everyday Thoughts. The banner picture for the poem is of Abbey and I at Disneyland in Hong Kong.
Phillip Michael Garner
Jul 21, 2017
WEALTH MOBILITY AND CHRISTIAN MISSION
This poem is taken from Theopoetics
Phillip Michael Garner
Jul 20, 2017
The personification of death can, in my thought, only be portrayed as a coward, a bastard.
This poem is taken from my book, ‘Learning to Bleed Words’.
Phillip Michael Garner
Jul 20, 2017
