Creator
The imagination of God
is limitless and subtle in the ways
of our suffering and death.
What purpose other than misery
can cancer serve? And Parkinson's,
AIDS, and STDs?
In His infinite cleverness,
God must relish most
how men, in His image,
devise an array of mechanical
ways and means to expand
the realm of suffering -
the hollow points and automatic weapons,
the finely honed swords,
the hot swirl of napalm.
The imagination of God
is infinite, subtle and cruel
and we exist to suffer Him and die.
07.04.19
is limitless and subtle in the ways
of our suffering and death.
What purpose other than misery
can cancer serve? And Parkinson's,
AIDS, and STDs?
In His infinite cleverness,
God must relish most
how men, in His image,
devise an array of mechanical
ways and means to expand
the realm of suffering -
the hollow points and automatic weapons,
the finely honed swords,
the hot swirl of napalm.
The imagination of God
is infinite, subtle and cruel
and we exist to suffer Him and die.
07.04.19
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My feelings this unfortunate Fourth of July.
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Powerfully put, but I would say the imagined IS God here. Forgive me, I've never done this before, but I'm going to respond with a poem of my own, which I posted here some time ago. I think it's provides another way of looking at our imagined God:
http://fictionaut.com/stories/mathew-paust/play-it-sam
What purpose, indeed. Quite a depressing poem, Gary.
"What good is a disease that won't kill you? / Why, no good -- I *guess* -- no good at all!"
-Lou Reed, "What's Good"
*
" ... life's good, but not fair at all."
Thank you, Matt.
Thank you, Erika.
Thank you, Smiley.
not quite as subtle as God *
Thank you, Beate.
Like it. Did you ever see or hear about Stephen Fry´s interview on RTE (Irish Tv)... it triggered a debate on blasphemy laws such was his candid (and well worded) opinions on God!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo
Thank you, Neil.
A Jew goes to heaven and meets God. He tells the almighty a joke about Auschwitz. God says "I don't get it." The Jew says, "You had to be there."
God sat out the holocaust. That's why I'm an atheist. Must be the same God you're talking about.
Good poem and intelligent. *
*. Gary. I think when we invented our loving, all powerful God we must have forgotten to give him credit for tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, forest fires all manners of disease, starvation, World Wars and various, cruel dictatorships, etc. But, of course, He loves us every one.
Thank you, Gita.
Thank you, David.
If God is portrayed as anything other than a super villain, it loses all credibility. This is wonderful, Gary. Arch and menacing. Two of my faves. Well done, sir. *