oh let this cup, please, pass from me...

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serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

0 posted 2003-05-03 08:01 PM

Point your finger, then, at me.
But notice how the others curl.
Four more pointing back at you
accusations in return.

"Turn the other cheek" he said.
(But how does that renew the trust?)
It doesn't. No, it never does.
Sometimes we must just wash the dust

knowing we were not received.
A flogging of hypocrisy
Here. If you enjoy a bleed?
Just watch and I'll fulfill the need
of this unbecoming lust--
tears do not remove the rust.

I offer, in humility,
the shame of my humanity.
If you find that not enough?
Judge ye not, lest ye be judged.

There is no final word to this.
Christ himself--betrayed by kiss--
knew the power of our words
returns, returns, until we learn...

the bitters of our self-filled cup--
and no place left to go but up...

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2003-05-03 08:12 PM

And it will...James

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

2 posted 2003-05-03 08:32 PM

Truly spoken and well composed.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

Yossarian
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 7

3 posted 2003-05-03 09:36 PM

Excellent poem, I enjoyed the read.

Stephanos

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since 2000-07-31

Posts 3618
Statesboro, GA, USA

4 posted 2003-05-03 10:10 PM

Serenity,

Just a minor detail, but how about "three" fingers pointing in return. Your poem made me point for a better overall experience of your description, and lo and behold, only three were pointing back... unless you are double jointed and have one funky thumb!

playfully,

Stephen

vashthestampede
New Member

since 2003-05-03

Posts 9

5 posted 2003-05-03 10:12 PM

vash? smiles and tells Stephanos?

never underestimate the power of the thumb of serenity!!!

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

6 posted 2003-05-03 10:19 PM

There is no final word to this.
Christ himself--betrayed by kiss--
knew the power of our words
returns, returns, until we learn...

the bitters of our self-filled cup--
and no place left to go but up...

I know, Karen.

Some don't know, though, do they?

Hugs

Ethel

brian sites
Senior Member

since 2002-06-25

Posts 1475
usa

7 posted 2003-05-04 01:07 AM

I keep returning to this
myself
3 times now
and learn I must

you bleed on these pages
(purple rage)

I want to hug you

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

8 posted 2003-05-04 01:48 AM

It seems to me,
that lately,
you have a new geography

Your writing comes
from a different local
A place where the language
understands.....us

Damn witch! you get even better at this.

And you don't even know it.

(we do)

~yeti

Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

9 posted 2003-05-04 11:16 AM

serenity blaze - I feel your hurt ye witch of the cypress, guess it must be the gyspy in me...

BC

Thomas119gold
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since 2002-06-03

Posts 708
Biloxi, MS (city by the sea)

10 posted 2003-05-05 10:32 AM

Beautiful write
touched me deeply

Rogue

jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

11 posted 2003-05-05 10:42 AM

well it would seem that this describes the very lowest that we can go, when there is only one direction left to go...but I must be a skipping stone for I keep hitting bottom over and over....oh lady, do I ever know this....hugs

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

12 posted 2003-05-05 10:45 AM

Judge ye not, lest ye be judged.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

13 posted 2003-05-05 01:25 PM

I offer, in humility,
the shame of my humanity.
If you find that not enough?
Judge ye not, lest ye be judged.

Such powerfully written pain... along with the knowing that some things are out of our hands. *S* You just get better and better. *S*

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

14 posted 2003-05-05 09:22 PM

still though, sometimes, we have to take a big drink from that cup. . .and just spit it back out at who's holding it from the other end. . .

well done. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

paladin

Senior Member

since 2001-08-05

Posts 930
Pensacola,Fl.

15 posted 2003-05-05 09:42 PM

....let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.Indeed!

paladin

....a knight without armor

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

16 posted 2003-05-05 10:04 PM

Karen - you're writing never ceases to amaze me. Wonderful. Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-
that perches in the soul....

-Emily Dickinson

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