{"id":18358,"date":"2025-12-22T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=18358"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:58:54","slug":"poem-luke-21-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/poem-luke-21-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Luke 2:1-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luke 2:1-7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It was the time Augustus Caesar had cried pax<br \/>\nAs children used to do, and said the world must now be taxed,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0When Joseph, following the government decree,<br \/>\nWent out of Nazareth and travelled down through Galilee.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If words are put into a prophet\u2019s mouth, and before<br \/>\nHe knows it, he\u2019s uttered them beside the trembling posts of the door,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Then Caesar\u2019s made unwittingly an agent of God\u2019s<br \/>\nAnd Joseph\u2019s destination is, against all the world\u2019s odds,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The one that destiny and Micah once decreed.<br \/>\nEach little act they performed there becomes for us a deed<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Of great significance, but in the ancient text<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll find no search for a place, no donkey, no Joseph vexed<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0By three refractory innkeepers, no ass and ox,<br \/>\nNo treasured doll that\u2019s laid inside a painted Amazon box<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And children crawling around as sheep, causing mayhem.<br \/>\nWe are just told it was, when they arrived in Bethlehem,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0That the days of Mary\u2019s pregnancy came to a close<br \/>\nAnd she brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And laid him in a manger, since there was no room,<br \/>\nNo, not in Tyndale\u2019s inn, or Virgil\u2019s, or that of Jerome.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nFeature Image: A painting of Bethlehem by Vasily Polenov, 1882<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 2:1-7 _\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It was the time Augustus Caesar had cried pax As children used to do, and said the world must now be taxed, _\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0When Joseph, following the government decree, Went out of Nazareth and travelled down through Galilee. _\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":18379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[184,1449,1631,2837,2840,2842,2843,5567,5702,5703,7320,7341],"class_list":["post-18358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-poetry","tag-21-7","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-christian-poetry","tag-edward-clarke","tag-edward-clarke-christian-poet","tag-edward-clarke-nativity","tag-edward-clarke-poet","tag-literature","tag-luke","tag-luke-21-7","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}