Bicentenary Poems and Prose

Manifold Tokens: To The Bab

Manifold Tokens:
To The Bab

I contemplate the manifold tokens
of God's love
that unite beneath the shelter
of divine unity--
of progressive revelation--
the Manifestations
of the Unknowable Essence
         that created the universe.

The Bab--
one of the tokens of God's love--
was like the purifying floods of spring
clearing the debris of winter
from the river of religions
and opening the channel
for Baha'u'llah.

Poet's Note: ▼

This is poem 138 of the 200 I am writing to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Birth of The Bab.