Sonnet

If that first covenant had been without a fault.
There would have been no need for a second one to replace it.
The old is replaced with the new salt.
A new lamp is lit.

In Philipp Runge’s painting.
It is a translucent morning.
Here is harmony of lighting.
This is landscape newly creating.

Here is an innocent view.
Of young human life seen.
Skies of cerulean blue.
Fields of verdant green.

Can we too begin a new covenant.
To recreate benign government.

Haiku

Can we too begin
A new covenant to make
Benign government