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Easter Sunday Notification
Some label the grave
cold, dark, rigid, desolate -
I am not one of them.
Vision-quest travels have impinged in me
huge beauty, higher vitality,
a permanent brightness of transience -
it sticks like an aroma of home
and cannot be unexperienced.
Easter’s meaning sweats my sensitivities:
‘O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?’ -
notification of reality beyond mere hope
paying no mind to vile church histories, perverted priests
enslaving theologies and burned cathedrals.
cold, dark, rigid, desolate -
I am not one of them.
Vision-quest travels have impinged in me
huge beauty, higher vitality,
a permanent brightness of transience -
it sticks like an aroma of home
and cannot be unexperienced.
Easter’s meaning sweats my sensitivities:
‘O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?’ -
notification of reality beyond mere hope
paying no mind to vile church histories, perverted priests
enslaving theologies and burned cathedrals.
Published 21st Apr 2019
| Edited 9th Mar 2024
Author's Note
NaPo Day-21 contribution. Italicised quote is I Corinthians 15.55 as sung in Handel’s ‘Messiah’.
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21st Apr 2019 3:23pm
Thank you Ahavati - and Happy Easter too.
Even the final 2 lines, I feel, can't trash what is truly real.
And thank you for the RL.
Even the final 2 lines, I feel, can't trash what is truly real.
And thank you for the RL.
21st Apr 2019 3:52pm
1st stanza - so good. Very jealous, wish I could have wrote this :)
"it sticks like an aroma of home " - completely get it - those visions of something more 'true'
last stanza - reality check.
I loved this.
"it sticks like an aroma of home " - completely get it - those visions of something more 'true'
last stanza - reality check.
I loved this.
21st Apr 2019 5:29pm
Hello nomoth - thank you for visiting and commenting with such precise clarity. Nice to meet you on DUP.
" those visions of something more 'true' " gets my meaning entirely.
And thank you for the RL.
" those visions of something more 'true' " gets my meaning entirely.
And thank you for the RL.
21st Apr 2019 4:09pm
Religion has never been the problem, only those who fear it or twist it to suit their desires.
Words to live by, Josh
Words to live by, Josh
21st Apr 2019 5:32pm
Thank you A_t and for the RL.
It's amazing how 'good ideas' turn into 'bad ideologies' with (as it seems to me) such exacting ease and regularity. No 'good idea', once it grows, seems exempt from this process.
It's amazing how 'good ideas' turn into 'bad ideologies' with (as it seems to me) such exacting ease and regularity. No 'good idea', once it grows, seems exempt from this process.
30th May 2019 1:52pm
Oh to be able to see the power behind the message in the midst of the failures of those persons and organizations we once believed to embody the truth of Christ.
Thank you for pointing this out
Thank you for pointing this out
30th May 2019 2:03pm
Thank you for visiting and commenting. I'm glad the poem was helpful. Best regards, Josh.
