Promise

Haiku for upsetting

News of excitement!
A pregnancy of promise:
confiding cousins!

Luke holds nothing back!
In Elizabeth’s old womb
the child is leaping!

Prophet-like, Mary
announces the radical
program from above.

His way is mercy,
this God who finally comes
among God’s people.

They will be brought low,
the powerful and mighty;
their time is over.

They will be raised up,
the poor and the lowly ones,
their moment has come.

The hungry are filled,
the rich sent away empty;
the great levelling.

The conservatives
tremble; this is not the faith
they were counting on.

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