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Jesus in the room of splintered mirrors or how he met Buddha walking on the water

After his ghastly crucifixion,
Jesus awoke in a room of mirrors,
nothing more than another wandering Jew.
In time, facing himself, he wondered about delusions
was his sacrifice for nothing?
Was no one saved?
And where
was his father? Fathers are supposed to welcome
their sons home, he thought, still bleeding at
the sight of holes in his hands.

He sighed the sigh of only those who know persecution
can, and from this breath came a pure white dove,
and the dove held a sprig of home.

Jesus followed where no man had gone before.

There was love in that antechamber and it still shines
today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVx7PYbuCjs ~ Bleeding Love

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Comments

This poem really appealed to me. I don't agree with all of you poems because I rate your work very highly sometimes I think you could do better only because then you come out with a poem like this that I wish I had written. I wonder if your published elsewhere in an actual book. I have no crit really, and you probably prefer controversy to praise. But your back on form with this one. And I admire anyone who could referance Jesus in a poem without forcing a philosophy down our throats and thats coming from a Christian. Thanx for the pleasure of the read.

John

Hehehe. I love it: I prefer controversy to praise. Never thought of it that black and white before. Thanks for the read and the comments.

I' don't even know where I'm published anymore. It just depends on the poem, though I'm seriously considering putting together a few books. After going on 8 years of non-stop writing, I have enough poems on every subject.
If nothing else, it will prove to my children that I was here and that mom had some vocabulary skills. ;-)

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You must publish. I'd buy your book. I'm saving to get a book published myself I don't know what the score is your side of the water. But I don't write every day but I admire your writing. I think its important to publish so you leave something behind you when you're gone.

John

I would take it as a compliment. What if the world didn't have gadflys?

Ron

Blue Demon77

Blue Demon77

"What I want is to be what I was before the knife,
before the brooch pin, before the salve, fixed me in this parenthesis:
Horses fluent in the wind. A place, a time gone out of mind."

The Eye Mote-Sylvia Plath

Very nicely done, my Anna. I never understood the crucufixion.Why is suffering a necessary "prerequisite" to "salvation"--and what are we being "saved" from. Was Jesus duped? Even we Roman Catholics "think".

Kryste, eleison, my Anna.

Joe

And if there is a God, I'm in deep shit.

Its true what Geremia says. My mums Catholic and thats what she always says how can a religion of love be based on human suffering. I see it in the traditional way that regardless of motives Jesus acted out of love. Though these motives may have been misinterpreted by those wishing to control and inhibit our actions. But I still think its important to have a spiritual life. And not to leave God alone in the universe.

we had a white zipper bible
with colour plates on the vellum
tucked in their with life insurance
policies and music sheets and
photographs in the piano bench

our finest peice of furniture next
to the console tube television

we stopped going to church in our
little town when I was eight

United was our church formed up
in 1928

I asked jesus for help then
as I sometimes do still

Ive read of renditions of his suffering
for Man through and visa via God
and of the forthcoming END TIME
through meetings in Catholic places
Ive seen the plaster images of him
on the cross

At least there was nothing spoken of wrath
like the old testament
and the most human I can think of for me was
David in the teachings

Buddha I know just periphery of
most of my more intellectual friends embrace
him

my most favourite teachings of Jesus was when
people wanted to see a miracle more then hear
what his teachings actually were
and he told them that he cured a man twenty
miles from the town where they demanded to
see a miracle And I liked when he drove the
money changers from the temple
He was a man of passion
who stood up for what be believed in
all his powers and he harmed no one

cures and teachings

enlightenment is work discipline
satan lures with whatever means
the temptations are juicy and delicious

I like that you question the suffering
the ponder of it all
as many did in his time if he was
the real Messiah
or just another jewish rebel in many
uprising and revolts

he even respected Ceasar
and he did love his mother
and was respectful of his father

Human leaders today are faulted
and the world is slowly failing in
this human system of things

I am glad I was exposed to the teachings
early on in my day
that the ideals were a building block
to a crystal of good in me

it perhaps saved me from a more
practical and human route of belief
and yet is this not where most
start to lay down their arms
and follow the way?

Thank You Kailashana for this
poem of journey

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