Poem July 27, 1981 Issue

View from Patmos

PEARL STRACHAN HURD

Not preterit, not future tense, but now
the revealing, the unveiling
from that rock in the Aegean.
Such solitude
has its obvious compensation.
The lonely hours encourage contemplation.
For John not mere survival but a view
of a Jerusalem entirely new,
not walled or garrisoned by ethnic tribe
or stale theology.
Consider John
flung out of all
familiar pattern and environment,
misunderstood, condemned, deported,
yet—
in this remoteness
in blaze of illumination
able to see
Truth eternally established—
a message to all nations
through constantly unfolding
revelation.

PEARL STRACHAN HURD

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