Prompt: write a poem based on a word featured in a tweet from Haggard Hawks, an account devoted to obscure and interesting English words.
“THNETOPSYCHISM (n.)
the belief that a person’s soul
ceases to be at death,
but is later recalled to eternal life.”
Let the soul be the sum
of human flesh
and holy spirit
parted for a time
by mechanics of mortality
Death, then, it is true
is a ceasing of the soul
while yet the spirit lives
awaiting prophesied reunion
in a forever, heavenly home