Poetry

Fishermen on Fire

by John Puckett 
03/13/22
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Fishermen on Fire

Unlearned and ignorant,
Mere nobodies,
Just fishermen,
Inferior mortals,
Far below proud priest and Pharisee and scribe.

For such to preach or teach
Within those holy temple walls
Was tantamount to blasphemy –
Just like that other man from Galilee.

No problem that for two apostles bold,
Fresh-fired by God
To minister his mighty word
And heal a cripple forty years from birth.
Unscared by priestly threats,
They blazed the scene
With resurrection life.

Unlearned and ignorant maybe,
But far above proud priest and Pharisee and scribe
Supreme they stood, and spoke those holy words,
“There is no other name
By which we must be saved.”

And rulers, elders, scribes and haughty priests
Compelled to marvel and to note
“These men had been with Jesus.”

         John Puckett