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All power in heaven and earth was given to Jesus of Nazareth. As the thief said at his side on the day of crucifixion, “Remember me, when you come into your kingdom.” Before his throne, the elders of the earth cast their crowns. And it is the blood of a King that wipes the world free of sin.
Yet, the King of Kings, who is in his glory was greater than Herod’s gilded temple, came to our world in the most humble way, born among the lowly cattle, and announced to shepherds. He chose his people from the simple, the outcasts, and the ostracized. The orderer of nature, who as the Word made all things, confounded his creation by ordaining the first shall be last and the last shall be first, and that the foolish would shame the wise.
His kingdom was truly not of this world, and in his succinct collection, Christ the King, cosmic poet Simon Pole explores how our saviour can be both Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and last; the sacrifice and the temple where the sacrifice was made. Who can know the name written, when he comes, Faithful and True, and judges all by the sword of his mouth? No one can know. But as Jacob wrestled with God at the ford, and received his new name, so too we wrestle with the Word, and will continue to wrestle until our new names on us are written when the King of many crowns comes again.
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His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Kingsville, Ontario. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.
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Christ the King - Simon Pole
Christ the King
Sacred Poems
Simon Pole
www.simonpole.ca
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Table of Contents
Christ the King
Christ the King
Jacob’s Throw
All I Can See
The Sign
Lost Lambs
The Tent of Meeting
Get Right
Nathaniel
The Word is Here
Costumes Vile
To You, A Sign
Why We Pray
Lost Hearts
Our Help in Pain
Pentecost, as Jesus Promised
James, Brother of the Lord
Mine Enemy
Other Poems
Holy Blood of a King
Saint Stephen
Signs
In the Tombs
About the Author
Christ the King
Christ the King
To Christ the King I make my claim,
Who promised on us never shame
Would fall for him, so we intone
Upon our land let sit your throne,
Upon these people bent on knee
Let shower magnanimity,
Make present justice, judge us do,
Forever to your love be true.
And Christ the King he spoke out loud,
Across the hushed and trembling crowd,
In every heart and every ear,
Who speechless shook with holy fear,
"Be not afraid I am your king,
And from you drops not anything,
My people dear, not child
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