STILL TRAVELLING

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Even as a girl, I worried about the three Kings and their camels getting
back home safely.  Christmas goes by so quickly, we find those in this part
of the Nativity story soon leaving us so, at some point, I accepted that the world is their
home and  therefore they are constantly travelling – constantly making it all come true..

STILL TRAVELLING

We think now of those three Kings,
Long since gone, bones dissolved
Into the tight care of history.
Making the world creak in their slow haste
To follow that great star
Blazing into eternity.
Bright, fierce and incomparable.

As their leaving tapped
Through the long deserts of time,
Never stopping until Bethlehem,
Birmingham or any bus shelter
Or rackety garden shed,
Where quiet love and courage
Made them hesitate.
Hold them still.

Travelling along the tops of hedgerows,
The camels great feet crushing snow
Down through solid cold branches,
Plodding into the big field
Alongside the frozen river.
Breaking the ice,
Drinking frozen water.

Camels and Kings being out there.
Kings and camels still travelling.

                                            ©2024 Gwen Grant

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19 thoughts on “STILL TRAVELLING”

  9. “Never stopping until Bethlehem,
    Birmingham or any bus shelter
    Or rackety garden shed,
    Where quiet love and courage
    Made them hesitate.”

    Love it!

    “Just the worst time of the year
    For a journey, and such a long journey:
    The ways deep and the weather sharp,
    The very dead of winter.’
    And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
    Lying down in the melting snow.”

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  15. Love The Journey of the Magi – there’s a sense of inevitability about this journey – almost as if the words used are the only
    possible words to use. Thank you for this and for your other comments. Much much appreciated.
    Gwen.

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