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JESUS' LOVE TO MANKIND
JESUS' LOVE TO MANKIND
You are so soft and full of deep concern.
You can do all, destroy or build the world.
You built it, and then shaped Adam and Eve,
in perfect form and loved them like your kids.
Your love to them was great, which made you take
the shape of man, and come to earth as one.
Then Your most sublime soul abode inside
their hearts to turn them pure and more humane.
You showed mankind the love that none's revealed.
You've built a bridge that leads man to Eden.
When l behold your face inside my being,
I strum my harp to play the angels' song.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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You are so soft and full of deep concern.
You can do all, destroy or build the world.
You built it, and then shaped Adam and Eve,
in perfect form and loved them like your kids.
Your love to them was great, which made you take
the shape of man, and come to earth as one.
Then Your most sublime soul abode inside
their hearts to turn them pure and more humane.
You showed mankind the love that none's revealed.
You've built a bridge that leads man to Eden.
When l behold your face inside my being,
I strum my harp to play the angels' song.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Published 11th Apr 2020
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11th Apr 2020 8:37pm
I'd very much like to see a bible verse that shows or says that Jesus, not Yahweh, built the world and shaped Adam and Eve. I'd also like to see one that says Jesus had a soul, let alone one that dwells in hearts.
11th Apr 2020 9:24pm
'a bridge that leads man to Eden' - another poetic image of Jesus, restorer of man's relationship with the Father.
Too bad, even if the sentiment in this line is theologically sound, that the meter here is ragged and works against the line having the poetic music it should have.
And what's with the claim that someone else's face appears, and can be seen, in one's "being"?
And what's with the claim that someone else's face appears, and can be seen, in one's "being"?
11th Apr 2020 10:06pm
Dear Solomon Song,
Thank you very much for your very kind and expressive comment, which l like very much. I depend on poets like you who can understand poetry, and not on those who can't understand the real meaning of poetry or write good poetry and hate to see others able to do that.
Thank you very much for your very kind and expressive comment, which l like very much. I depend on poets like you who can understand poetry, and not on those who can't understand the real meaning of poetry or write good poetry and hate to see others able to do that.
Is that line's meter regular or not?
And haven't you read into the Genesis account of creation things it doesn't say?
Moreover, I am pleased to note that given how you have recently praised the way I write, and have gone so far as to say that my work is "beautiful",
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/378711-fire-eyes/
you yourself have excluded me from being among those whose criticisms of your "work" is to be explained by how dull and uneducated they are when it comes to knowing what good poetry looks like, their lack of imagination, and their curious inability to perceive the truth of the fact that you are positively unable to write poorly.
In any case, please tell me who specifically you have in mind as hating your work because they are unable to write like you.
And haven't you read into the Genesis account of creation things it doesn't say?
Moreover, I am pleased to note that given how you have recently praised the way I write, and have gone so far as to say that my work is "beautiful",
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/378711-fire-eyes/
you yourself have excluded me from being among those whose criticisms of your "work" is to be explained by how dull and uneducated they are when it comes to knowing what good poetry looks like, their lack of imagination, and their curious inability to perceive the truth of the fact that you are positively unable to write poorly.
In any case, please tell me who specifically you have in mind as hating your work because they are unable to write like you.
12th Apr 2020 4:37pm
To suffer death
was so for him
an easy thing to do.
And being raised
was just a matter of
a small wait in a tomb.
The hardest part
of his becoming
hard enmeshed
within the world
which knew him not
was squeezing down
all of what the Logos was
to be inside
a woman’s womb
to then be made
a tented person
wrapped in flesh.
was so for him
an easy thing to do.
And being raised
was just a matter of
a small wait in a tomb.
The hardest part
of his becoming
hard enmeshed
within the world
which knew him not
was squeezing down
all of what the Logos was
to be inside
a woman’s womb
to then be made
a tented person
wrapped in flesh.
O Jesus, Lord!
You are so soft,
like down,
like flakes of falling snow)
so good to me
that I can never,
any longer, frown.
You’ve taught mankind
to plainly see, to know
that, like old Plato
and the Orphics claimed
before you came
to earth,
and like the Gnostics, too,
assert against the orthodox,
I have (I am)
an entombed soul
and its intended berth,
its telic goal,
its home, is up aloft,
not here within
this doomed, corrupt
(though blessed as good
by God and where thinks
all humans, even after death,
in resurrected form
are then designed to live;
please see you what is said
in Genesis)
(though God blessed
see you Genesis)
material world.
I give you cliched thanks
for what I think
you did
to make my kind
your kids!
So can I call you Dad?
If not, I’ll be so sad
and then return
to doing bad.
You are so soft,
like down,
like flakes of falling snow)
so good to me
that I can never,
any longer, frown.
You’ve taught mankind
to plainly see, to know
that, like old Plato
and the Orphics claimed
before you came
to earth,
and like the Gnostics, too,
assert against the orthodox,
I have (I am)
an entombed soul
and its intended berth,
its telic goal,
its home, is up aloft,
not here within
this doomed, corrupt
(though blessed as good
by God and where thinks
all humans, even after death,
in resurrected form
are then designed to live;
please see you what is said
in Genesis)
(though God blessed
see you Genesis)
material world.
I give you cliched thanks
for what I think
you did
to make my kind
your kids!
So can I call you Dad?
If not, I’ll be so sad
and then return
to doing bad.
12th Apr 2020 5:41pm
"I depend on poets like you who can [or is it "do"?] understand poetry, and not on those who can't understand the real meaning of poetry or write good poetry and hate to see others able to do that."
I'd be grateful if you would name which of your "poems" that you think are those that have made readers here wish that he/she/they had composed and that show off poetic talent that a reader would be/has been jealous of.
I'd be grateful if you would name which of your "poems" that you think are those that have made readers here wish that he/she/they had composed and that show off poetic talent that a reader would be/has been jealous of.
