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poettothecars
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0 posted 2006-06-28 05:31 PM


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In Arms Borne

29 June 2006


This morning to awake
and hold you close in arms borne
An understanding, a knight away
from yesterdays dreams

Happiness and love
into your eyes of green
Colours of a rainbow
a child’s eyes, an age added forth

Clutching breasts, breathing
your smile, the grace of each day
But what was love, charity becoming
pure, unfeigned in you

Our past an echo, as to an evening breeze
the soul a window, fingertips meshed
Distance shattered, as to the
glass of a frozen water spout
A fountain of youth, another day to love


“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And
though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and
all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. Charity suffereth long,
and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed
up, Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all
things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. When
I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a
child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now
we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in
part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth
faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 13: 1-2, 4, 6-7, 11-13 KJV


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

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Margherita
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1 posted 2006-06-28 07:48 PM


Love and charity may well go hand in hand, dear Christopher.

I love your poem and the reproduction of the Letter to the Corinthians.

Love,
Margherita

poettothecars
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2 posted 2006-06-28 07:58 PM


some versions of 1 Corinthians 13, convert the word "charily" into the word: "love"

this goes against the fact that charity is considered to be the "Pure love", of Jesus Christ.
Thus perhaps more to love and a greater charity to proclaim

Thanks for your note on Corinthians, Margherita, given I felt I should add these words in addition to your own.
And is where the KJV has far more charity than any other version of the Holy Bible.

But on that note, this is my own personal observation and this forum is not the arena for such further debate on the topic

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Margherita
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3 posted 2006-06-28 08:08 PM


Charity is love truly LIVED, I think. Certainly LOVE is the highest form of energy we know, but to give this energy concreteness we can express it in the form of true CHARITY.

Thank you again.
Love,
Margherita

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