"Just not as urgently" is a good description of what I perceived. I
wouldn't expect anything that moves someone to write a poem to be totally
lacking in feeling.
John
On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thanks, Chris, for the comments -- also for reference to the error. I
hadn't decided which word to use and so seem to have used them both. I
think though I will use "its".
Also in reply to John I will say that this subject was personally felt --
just not as urgently so (but maybe that's what he said -- don't have his
note in front of me) as Susan. I had studied my way through various things
and though I had previously rejected Christianity (based upon my mother's
pressure to accept the teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong) had decided to
give Christianity another look -- was riding the bus to McDonnell Douglas
reading a commentary on the Book of Acts when a young lady sat down next to
me, looked at the title of my book and asked if I was a Christian. That
was my introduction to Susan.
Lawrence
On 2/7/2016 1:29 AM, epostboxx@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On 07 Feb 2016, at 01:05, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:------------------------------------------------------------------
… This one doesn't work as well for me as your ones about Susan …I, on the other hand, was struck by this poem in two ways:
firstly (and trivially), by its coincidence with my reading this morning
of a novel on the topic of Druids, Stonehenge and bloody sacrifice — so
badly written that I would be embarrassed to mention its name; and
secondly (and much more deeply), because I am one who definitely could
not ‘slip away’ without some rather deep wounds … (To this day I am of two
minds about the benefit and detriment of organized religion, and come to no
conclusion — except for recognizing that sadists and masochists with no
religious channel through which to work their psychic mutilations, would
soon find some other means of erecting, or participating in some existing,
social institution which allowed for similar abuse of self and others.)
I especially appreciate the ‘how you bow and sing and suppose’ —
especially that ‘suppose’.
Chris Bruce,
licking his psychic wounds, and
finding no need to specifically name
social institutions of equal perfidy
(given my country of residence), in
Kiel, Germany
P.S. Is there an extra, or a missing, word in the line “Against the its
Legions”?
On Feb 7, 2016, at 3:00 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:----16
Finding the cache of bones,
Spear-points and skulls,
Seeing the large bones
Split for marrow
Convinced the archaeologists
Of ritual sacrifice
Midway through
The Roman invasion.
Force was of no avail
Against the its Legions.
Blood needed to be
Shed to appease the
Gods; then even so
The Romans won.
Who can say what they
Would have done given the
Coercive sway of priests?
Some would no doubt
Slip away to avoid a
Bloody end as today
Occurs symbolically:
The insistence on religious
Rules, bowing one’s head
To God or God’s priests
And how you bow
And sing and suppose.
Don’t think you’ll slip
Away without a wound.
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