{"id":367,"date":"2018-01-29T17:59:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarvepalli.net\/story\/?p=367"},"modified":"2025-10-24T02:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:25:52","slug":"the-french-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericavijay.net\/story\/2018\/01\/the-french-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The French Sparrow Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

– A poem of meditation when I was stuck in Paris flying back from Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
\n<\/span> by Vijay Sarvepalli<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuck in the transit between these two worlds
\nI pause in Paris, when I stumbled upon these birds
\nThey do not stop singing even when sky is not blue
\nMaybe because they still believe their creator is true<\/p>\n

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All I can say “Little sparrow play on your harp”<\/em>
\nDon\u2019t let us with our inventions make you stop
\nYour voice is in union with millions of others
\nthanking a great God who seems but unheard<\/p>\n

Job himself said “Ask the beasts, they will teach you”
\nhe continued “the birds of the heaven, they will tell you”
\nWhat do they tell us? what should they share?
\nThey seem to be singing even if we don\u2019t care<\/p>\n

The song is just simple yet so very deep
\nyou can even rhyme with it even in your sleep
\nIt is just to say that the hand of the mighty one
\nhas made every place, everything and everyone<\/p>\n

In a song sung long ago in only seven days
\nThe creator made all this in his own ways
\nWe still debate how many millions annorum
\nsince a living cell has turned into our hominum<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know when the creator\u2019s song was sung
\nwhy it is hidden from us of all that was said
\nThe sparrow seems to know only that it was all beautiful
\nthat God\u2019s hand is indeed on everything and make us all full<\/p>\n

Apostle John seems to think we may not care
\nfor a million more years in heaven of the detail of this work
\nAll too busy in praise to his holy name, to sing a new song
\nWith 24 elders and another world of many many more<\/p>\n

Every hominum is created unique and beautiful
\nTo sing the same song even on days we don\u2019t feel very full
\nSing oh mankind and do not stumble or stop
\nBy every distraction or by the marketing of a new shop<\/p>\n

Every page in the book will be sung a million times
\nOf creator and his love that will wipe all our crimes
\nIn creation and in salvation he has made us all this new
\nOnce as new things and later as “all things new”<\/p>\n

These are the two songs repeated many times
\nIn the book of visions with its own unique chimes
\nHop, dance and sing every word to the benevolent king
\nClock in every minute with this pure thanksgiving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– A poem of meditation when I was stuck in Paris flying back from Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire by Vijay Sarvepalli Stuck in the transit between these two worlds I pause in Paris, when I stumbled upon these birds They do not stop singing even when sky is not blue Maybe because they still believe their … <\/p>\n

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