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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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5498 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) a poet who cares |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
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 |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand |
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 a poet who cares |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
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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