Sonnet

When you finish your meal.
Give thanks in this manner.
This ancient text seems real.
It is the Didache, faith’s ancient banner.

I found it in the Office of Readings today.
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.
Written as early as 80 AD they say.
A very first liturgy, these are no mere fossils.

They speak with a new freshness.
Of a Mass said with true simplicity.
Here is a certain crispness.
The way of life and of death in felicity.

Then some apostles were still alive.
It is good these simple words survive.

Haiku

If it is early
It is often genuine
Before all disputes