"And Moab Began to Revolt," poetry

First Edition: LukivPress Online (Quesnel, BC), 2011. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Introduction Second Kings describes the activities of 29 kings, 12 from the northern kingdom of Israel and 17 from the southern kingdom of Judah, as well as those of three prophets, Elijah, Elisha, and Isaiah. The book does not follow a linear chronology of events, but it does cover 340 years of Hebrew history, reaching to the destruction of Samaria at the hands of Assyria, in 740 BCE, and to the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of Babylon, in 607 BCE. From 920 to 580 BCE, these many stories of Jehovah's dealing with kings, prophets and others, some faithful, some not, helps readers evaluate their own relationship with their creator. An excerpt Chapter 9 Jehu's strong men
Did not find
Much of painted
Jezebel,
Daughter of
A king:
Two palms,
A skull,
Feet that
No longer
Skipped.
O pretty fingers,
Legs,
Soft breasts,
Gone!-
Unlike wind
That sometimes
Howls,
Unlike manure
Always upon
The earth. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).