Editor’s note: Over the next week, in celebration of Epiphany, we will be publishing a series of poems on the Magi by Bishop Graham Kings, originally included in Andrew Wheeler’s Desire of Nations: The Magi, their Journey and the Child (2015).
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Farcical Journey
Persians not Arabs
Farsi not Arabic,
Magi not Kings:
worship not rule.
Crazy and farcical,
leaving two rivers,
to follow a star,
to worship a King:
a journey afar.
Leaving behind
family and kin,
like Abram of old,
unlike the King:
outside his line.
Bishop Graham Kings’s other posts may be found here. The featured image is an etching in a 19th century Bible, and is licensed under Creative Commons.