Tuesday, November 19, 2024

New Name


Mourners bench
 What doth hinder Thee?

John Clare Stokes


Imagine the rickety wagon pulled by molly mule

returning from a sweltering rain starved field

when deep dips the rut road into shady cool

To the barn of home the two are steeled

when faintly a discernible voice whispers low

“Come to the water, what does hinder you?”

It was that Saturday evening Preacher was called

A new name was written in Suwannee by night fall.


A Prospect Primitive baptism 

Suwannee River


I can bet money if Johnny shares this it will only  be the photo not the prose. 

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