Another Advent Sonnet for Week Two

I’m sharing my Advent sonnets, which follow the traditional characters for each week. This week it’s John the Baptist.

Week Two: Relic radiation is the cosmic background radiation, which is a remnant from the big bang according to scientific theory. In the 2000s, scientists actually measured the postulated frequencies. The data we measured are called acoustic peaks. In this poem, I play with this idea, a bit like playing with fire since I have not studied it enough to fully comprehend it, and the thought that came to me as I drank coffee
with a friend: The background music of the universe is love. The self-giving of creation is from and for love. Jesus coming as Emmanuel is the completion of a long ago begun project to be face to face with the creation that began from “In the beginning God said let there be light,” and “In the beginning was the Word.”

John the Baptist Making a Big Bang

The relic radiation’s cosmic hum
Has kept on thrumming, thrumming all this time,
And everyone who’s ever tried to climb,
Has failed to make the light-born numbers sum.
Acoustic peaks may fall and rise unplumbed,
But I know it’s the depth of love they chime,
And you’re aware that love itself is prime.
See, that’s what made old Zechariah dumb;
Love undivided lived in his life too,
His son in sync with all creation’s drone,
His wife with child and his own mouth a stone.
“His name is John,” unbound his doubting tongue,
And leaping John let out his Jordan Blues,
“Prepare the way!”  The Time at last has come!

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You can listen to me read it here
https://on.soundcloud.com/PZAVf