January 21, 2013
Monday Poem
Who made you? ,,,................,, God.What else did God make? ...... God made all things.
Why did God make you and all things?
………………. —Catholic Catechism for Small Children
Catechism
God made the world
as much an open sewer
as a blazing emerald
in space
Why did god
make the world
whirl, was it
grace?
And why me,
part dark
part bright
Why did god
concoct schism
emeralds and sewers
shade and light
television
Why did god so diddle
make two poles?
Ah! —no ends, no middle
Apprehending the corona
of an eclipse: grabbing the
ring of fire round a vacant gate
Here a veined leaf,
there scorched earth
upon an earthen plate
bitterness unbounded
unbounded love
weightlessness and weight
decision, indecision
Are we made to love and serve
or to send hate off on a roll
to suck the us from we?
But to suck the us from we
leaves just me
with no god above
.
by Jim Culleny
12/28/12
Posted by Jim Culleny at 12:30 AM | Permalink
Comments
Jim,
It took me multiple readings before I could get a rhythm and make the rhyming work. But, when I did, it was music to my ears.
Thank you.
Posted by: Norman Costa | Jan 22, 2013 7:23:22 AM
Norman—
Your tradition?
Posted by: Jim | Jan 22, 2013 9:41:56 AM
Roman Catholic. However, I was enjoying, literally, the sing-songiness that I found here. So I was reciting it aloud to myself. I don't know if you intended it as such.
The last two stanzas, though, are an indictment.
Posted by: Norman Costa | Jan 22, 2013 4:12:27 PM
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