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Imagination Poetry Series

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My brother Robert and I collaborated on some reflections on imagination. In something of a rarity nowadays, I share some poetry in this piece. Check it out, and subscribe to his substack (if you aren't already)! -
Trey Ferguson
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Last week, I opened up about my love for poetry and gave a signal that I would shift some of my focus on this page to include glimpses of poets that I admire and original content. I am excited to bring you the first installment of a collaboration that I did with my brother

Trey Ferguson
. Our friendship is so meaningful to me. I respect him as a brother, friend, pastor, and colleague. (Check us out on our podcast Three Black Men).

The topic that we chose to write around and muse through is “Imagination.” Here is his poem:

in the beginning, God created.

in the midst of chaos came goodness.

light. bursting through the darkness

in the madness, we find a rhythm.

And if we are made in that image…

we should probably do the same.

We are limited not by what we can see.

but by what we can imagine.

Be loved, beloved. And imagine yourself

A CREATOR.

and. here is a musing/poem I wrote on imagination:

nothing that is outside of me

could ever diminish that which is inside

and I know because I live in a cold world

a frigid world of rules, responsibilities, hate, and rigidity.

when I close my eyes in the night or in the day

and allow my breath to slow,

I tumble into a world unending,

with free Black boys and a song that rings through the land

entitled “more than enough”

*Thank you all for being paid subscribers. The money, encouragement, and interactions you bless me with are vital to my continued evolution as a man, scholar, and creative.

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Love Revolutionary. Anablacktivist pastor at The Intention Church. Public Theologian. 1/3 of Three Black Men. Creator of The New Living Treyslation. Author of 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒛𝒊𝒏’ 𝑩𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓.
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