SUNDAY CHIASMUS #1

SEERS THROUGH THE SANDS

From the journeys through the deserts dry, we thirst and thus are parched to desire the depths of wells that have been deserted long ago.

We seek for questions from the heavens, toward the stars and clouds we turn our gaze and wonder.

Yet, seeds of doubt from unanswered dreams are planted in our minds, thoughts that linger still with questions taking root of growing despair.

But from the heavens answers will come to those that seek, and those that wait patiently to find; yes, true response shall soon appear as drops of refreshing rain from the sky.

If you seek for peace, you shall be filled with cool refreshing rain, drops that calm and replenish to all who search for this solace.

Happiness groweth still in places parched and dry, wells still wet and full of rain, for God sendeth the seer, to be a guide among his people and leadeth us past the empty holes into which we could fall, but to find instead the oases of Joy amid the desert's dunes.

A Chiasmus is a type of Jewish poetry. It is used in other writings as well. Essentially, it is a style of rhetoric that takes multiple concepts in either a paragraph or full poem and repeats them in a reverse order, and in a different way. The above poem is written in a double chiasmus. Each line (prose) is written with internal chiasmus, while the full body also reflects a chiasmus, where prose 1 is repeated in prose 6, and prose 2 in prose 5, etc.