Alicia over at the Poetry Foundation offered up some musings over poetry and prophecy that I found interesting. She wrote, “I am curious whether other poets ever feel that their poems are indeed in some minor—or major–ways “prophetic.” I know that mine seem to be, at least on a personal level. Friends often read my poems as keyed to personal events, but they get the chronology wrong, because the poems in fact often predate said events, sometimes by years.”

There was a wonderful, open discussion about the topic on the blog. Here’s my take, as I explained to the group: I think it’s certainly plausible and more than likely that some poems are prophetic. The Spirit of God is a prophetic Spirit, a creative Spirit, an inspirational Spirit.

If we are sensitive to His Spirit, we may find ourselves penning prophetic poems, or psalms, without even realizing that we are drawing inspiration from Him. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve written an essay, a psalm, or a song and it just flowed from my fingers through the keyboard and on to the screen with such ease that when I read it later, I halfway didn’t remember writing it. It was so poetic, so beautiful, that it could only be inspired by the One who is Love.