To Kent, Shalom, Steve, David.... everyone here...
I'm addressing this to "John Galt" because he posted a msg to me in his area (even after he had asked me to leave and I did so!) and he ALSO requested that I post the poem he came up with in my "cave" which is the term he uses to refer to this ASK GOD thread which j garcia was inspired to start. Here is his post and my reply, comments welcome:
To: John Neufeldt ( 77 )
From: John Galt
Sep 8 1996 8:44AM EST
Reply #83 of 101
I've got a poem just for you, caveman, and all your Christian
hogs on this Sunday morning.
"Jesus is on the Cross...
His blood is dripping.
Get another nail...
His head is slipping."
The Fifth Estate
To: John Galt ( 83 )
From: John Neufeldt
Sep 8 1996 5:49PM EST
Reply #98 of 101
John, it was thoughtful of you to supply that poem.
It does a good job of echoing the tone
of the Calvary taunts and jeers;
here's one for you that starts with tears
and ends with the nails your poet requests:
LOVE'S AS WARM AS TEARS
Love's as warm as tears,
- Love is tears:
Pressure within the brain,
Tension at the throat,
Deluge, weeks of rain,
Haystacks afloat,
Featureless seas between
Hedges, where once was green.
Love's as fierce as fire,
- Love is fire:
All sorts--infernal heat
Clinkered with greed and pride,
Lyric desire, sharp-sweet,
Laughing, even when desired,
And that empyreal flame
Whence all loves came.
Love's as fresh as spring,
- Love is spring:
Bird-song hung in the air,
Cool smells in a wood,
Whispering 'Dare! Dare!"
To sap, to blood,
Telling 'Ease, safety, rest,
Are good; not best.'
Love's as hard as nails,
- Love is nails:
Blunt, thick, hammered through
The medial nerves of One
Who, having made us, knew
The thing He had done,
Seeing (with all that is)
Our cross, and His.
C.S. Lewis |
