A painting of Jesus

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A painting of Jesus




He couldn’t help but stare
at the painting on Granny’s wall
That gold rimmed magnum opus
The master of the room

She’d introduced him to that man long ago
he got older, and forgot that he knew him at all
he fell
to the depths of dependence
into the legion of transgressors
for the power of the gun
Granny had taught him better

Bound by manacles
Fated for the cell
he wondered
did He forget me too?

until he remembered
the painting
Of Jesus
on granny’s wall
He rose
he rose


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cmlestrade commented on A painting of Jesus

07-23-2009

Terrific. Good images, nice steady meter. This was very powerful.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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