Title

Seeking Deseret (Ether 2-3)

Book Title

The Glory of the Son

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2019

Authors

Anderson, Sharon Price (Primary)

Number of Pages

66 Publisher

Time Lines Etc.

City

Orem, UT

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Seeking Deseret

From sun-bleached bones

of tribulation and death’s dried hides,

marrow-rich honey flows—

food for prophets, queens,

and resurrected beings.

In this promised land,

coils of braided straw, tawny as lions,

speak order, industry.

Where coupled oxen pulled wagons

of refuge under clouds, white as froth

overflowing buckets of milk,

behold the skep—carved upon pulpits,

emblazoned on flags, chiseled in stone.

Here bees, gathering succulent nectar

and corn-yellow pollen, make valleys

of Deseret fruitful by their presence.

Invisible paths vibrate with intelligence,

connect blossoms and trees.

Six-walled chambers, worked in wax,

fanned by whirring wings,

become royal reservoirs of rest.

See messengers fly from humming hives.

Colonizing, with sting of truth

they swarm afar gathering goodness

to fill earth with incorruptible sweetness

the color of the sun.

Skep: a bee hive made of twisted straw which resembles an inverted basket.

Subject Keywords

Poetry

Deseret

Honeybee

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