Eight Year Old’s View of God


by Jack Eisenman


Preacher said
God’s in heaven
Waiting for me
To come stay
With him
Someday.

I saw him yesterday
Leaning against the oak
When I landed hard
But didn’t break anything
Of tree climbing value.


Jack Eisenman is Professor Emeritus of Education and Religion at Palm Beach Atlantic University. He has written poetry since the early 1960’s. Jack enjoys creating poems that have a religious/spiritual theme.