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wranx
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since 2002-06-07

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Moved from a shack to a barn

0 posted 2003-02-08 11:55 AM

Tanach

My hands read the grain
Of the embossed black leather
Far better
Than my eyes could convey
The arcane language
And ancient knowledge
That is contained within

Oh! Accusatory tome!

The gravity of this
Personification of promise
Leant as oppressive
As any opprobrious burden

And should have decided

Not to consign this book of Truth
To one, that will not utter it

To one, that has read it
Studied, queried and pondered it
And looked past the message

To one that can quote you
Chapter and verse

And yet
Has learned nothing from it

That this innocent Volume
Acquired in adoration

Not be received with disdain

But, be withheld in indignation
And delivered into the fiery ark
Of my winters’ hearth

That the collected pages
An augury of sages
With the weight of ages

Would slip free of my hand
And settle…
Nestle
Into a bed of red ember

Fated to illuminate
Only the dark walls
Of this poor shack

Duncan
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since 2001-08-07

Posts 5455

1 posted 2003-02-08 12:05 PM

'To one that can quote you
Chapter and verse

And yet
Has learned nothing from it

That this innocent Volume
Acquired in adoration

Not be received with disdain

……

That the collected pages
An augury of sages
With the weight of ages

Would slip free of my hand
And settle…
Nestle
Into a bed of red ember

Fated to illuminate
Only the dark walls
Of this poor shack'

This is remarkable, don't know what else to say. Damn.

Poet deVine

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since 1999-05-26

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Hurricane Alley

2 posted 2003-02-08 12:14 PM

But does it warm you or is the burning symbolic?

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

3 posted 2003-02-08 01:30 PM

Powerful throughout but the closing verse aching and critical

regards2you
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since 2002-10-01

Posts 3940
California

4 posted 2003-02-08 02:14 PM

I didn't burn mine but it definitely got thrown across the room many times when I realized the Jews HAD to ask for water in the desert. What kind of God was that, I wanted to know. Why should one, if loved by Him ever have to ask and it seemed, beg for water..

I wondered.....

..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons..
"Desiderata"

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

5 posted 2003-02-08 02:26 PM

Ed, I wonder the same as Sharon...did you really burn it, or is that symbolic?

Anyway, I read and studied The Word for many years....still do at times. I can say that I've read it through completely about four times, and can quote many verses.....but, still don't understand all of it. It tells us plainly, though, that if we knew all things on this earth, our mind's would not comprehend...Right?

Ed, I love this. It really made me think.....

Hugs,
Ethel..

[This message has been edited by garysgirl (02-08-2003 02:27 PM).]

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

6 posted 2003-02-08 02:33 PM

...Oh wow!!...

~ Trace my body with your words..
And in doing so, you touch my heart. ~

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

7 posted 2003-02-08 10:45 PM

Not be received with disdain

But, be withheld in indignation
And delivered into the fiery ark
Of my winters’ hearth

Gotta hand it to you wranx~

I liked the complex spiral in this~

WhileIWasGone
Member

since 2002-07-18

Posts 486

8 posted 2003-02-08 11:21 PM

Beautiful...Enjoyed this much more then you can know Ed. *wink* I'm sending you this link so that maybe and I mean MAYBE you can learn something about Tanach.

It's a shame to destroy G-ds word just because you can't seem to understand it.
http://www.jewfaq.org/index.htm

Heather

wranx
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since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

9 posted 2003-02-09 12:51 PM

No, this Book was not burned..Merely sent on, to be received with...disdain.

Well?...I know about Truth and I know about Love...Yanno?

Thanks folks, for the reads and comments!

Ed...

Midnitesun

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Gaia

10 posted 2003-02-09 10:28 AM

I see you've found a way to read and stay warm at the same time. All kidding aside, this write has many layers, not all of them warming.
To know both truth and love requires an active attentive mind and an involved compassionate heart. You have both.

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