Submissions by joegracegrace
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
6th Sep 2014 4:02pm
6th Sep 2014 4:02pm
Black and White Belong Together Like Day and Night
There is the heat of a witheringly oppressive day.
While the stars in the night sky are like diamonds
Among the lodes of coal in deep mines far below
The surface of the Earth where miners toil like slaves.
But then there is the twilight where day and night mingle,
Producing "the coolness of the evening".
So the twilight can be called the best part of the day.
Likewise, there are Black people, and White skinned.
But the Mulatto inbetween combines the two opposites.
So the Mulatto may be the best part of the human race.
If White...
While the stars in the night sky are like diamonds
Among the lodes of coal in deep mines far below
The surface of the Earth where miners toil like slaves.
But then there is the twilight where day and night mingle,
Producing "the coolness of the evening".
So the twilight can be called the best part of the day.
Likewise, there are Black people, and White skinned.
But the Mulatto inbetween combines the two opposites.
So the Mulatto may be the best part of the human race.
If White...
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Sep 2014 8:45pm
4th Sep 2014 8:45pm
LIFE IS A RIVER
I'm single (what a curse).
So I have the opportunity to mingle,
And when I mingle, I tingle.
Life is like a stream flowing down a mountain.
Into the lush verdant valley,
Teeming with living things touching (each other).
The river follows on to other valleys.
It passes between other mountains.
It intercourses with other rivers.
Flowing east, flowing west,
Each new period of flow in a different direction
Is like a new life, a separate lifetime.
Then the river flows into the sea
- like souls becoming one with God - ...
So I have the opportunity to mingle,
And when I mingle, I tingle.
Life is like a stream flowing down a mountain.
Into the lush verdant valley,
Teeming with living things touching (each other).
The river follows on to other valleys.
It passes between other mountains.
It intercourses with other rivers.
Flowing east, flowing west,
Each new period of flow in a different direction
Is like a new life, a separate lifetime.
Then the river flows into the sea
- like souls becoming one with God - ...
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EROTIC POEM
Published
25th Aug 2014 11:18pm
25th Aug 2014 11:18pm
THE CREATION OF WOMAN IS HAPPENING EVERY DAY
The Biblical story of the creation
Of Woman is not literally true.
But it is, nevertheless, based on fact, after a fashion.
Moses wrote that God took a rib from Adam
As he was sleeping, lying prostrate.
(The suggestion is that he was in bed.)
And from the rib God made a woman
Where none had been before(Genesis 2.21-22).
How did Moses arrive at the story of that miracle?
It may be that this story is based on the non-miraculous,
On an every-day occurance, an ordinary experience
(But one that is extraordinary enough at the...
Of Woman is not literally true.
But it is, nevertheless, based on fact, after a fashion.
Moses wrote that God took a rib from Adam
As he was sleeping, lying prostrate.
(The suggestion is that he was in bed.)
And from the rib God made a woman
Where none had been before(Genesis 2.21-22).
How did Moses arrive at the story of that miracle?
It may be that this story is based on the non-miraculous,
On an every-day occurance, an ordinary experience
(But one that is extraordinary enough at the...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
25th Aug 2014 10:38pm
25th Aug 2014 10:38pm
CHRIST THE IMPLICIT POET
Hebrew poetry is nonrhyming.
Free verse to that extent, you could say.
Instead of one line rhyming with another,
It resorts to metaphor:
The Lord is my shephard,(Psalms 23.1),
"The sun..is like a bride groom
coming out of his chamber"(Psalms 19.4-5).
The objective is to develop, extend, the metaphor.
Can you take a one-line metaphor and
turn it into 2 lines, or 3 or 4 lines?
What is an example of Hebrew poetry by Christ himself?!
He says,"You must be born again
to...
Free verse to that extent, you could say.
Instead of one line rhyming with another,
It resorts to metaphor:
The Lord is my shephard,(Psalms 23.1),
"The sun..is like a bride groom
coming out of his chamber"(Psalms 19.4-5).
The objective is to develop, extend, the metaphor.
Can you take a one-line metaphor and
turn it into 2 lines, or 3 or 4 lines?
What is an example of Hebrew poetry by Christ himself?!
He says,"You must be born again
to...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
16th Aug 2014 5:28pm
16th Aug 2014 5:28pm
The Correspondance Between Yom Kippur and Sexual Intercourse
The High Priest on Yom Kippur corresponds
To the Penis during sex,
While the Temple plays the role of the Vagina-Uterus continuum.
The High Priest would enter "the Holy Place",
Which is the vestibule to the Holy of Holies.
Likewise the Penis enters the Vagina,
Which is the vestibule to the Uterus.
Like the uterus is separated from the vagina by the cervix,
A curtain separated the Holy of Holies from the holy Place.
On Yom Kippur the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies.
Carrying a bowl of blood into the...
To the Penis during sex,
While the Temple plays the role of the Vagina-Uterus continuum.
The High Priest would enter "the Holy Place",
Which is the vestibule to the Holy of Holies.
Likewise the Penis enters the Vagina,
Which is the vestibule to the Uterus.
Like the uterus is separated from the vagina by the cervix,
A curtain separated the Holy of Holies from the holy Place.
On Yom Kippur the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies.
Carrying a bowl of blood into the...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
13th Aug 2014 11:34pm
13th Aug 2014 11:34pm
"[Astronomy] Declares the Glory of God"(Psalms 19.1-4)
There's "General Revelation",
God's revelation of Himself thru nature(Romans 1.19-20).
And there's "Special Revelation,"
God revealing Himself via the Bible.
If we say the Bible reveals God,
That is shorthand for this idea:
The reading/studying of the Bible reveals God.
The Bible doesn't reveal truth to the illiterate.
Likewise,if we say Nature reveals things about God,
Isn't this shorthand for the following:
The study, the reading, of Nature reveals the Creator.
So it's not Nature, it's the study of it.
So,...
God's revelation of Himself thru nature(Romans 1.19-20).
And there's "Special Revelation,"
God revealing Himself via the Bible.
If we say the Bible reveals God,
That is shorthand for this idea:
The reading/studying of the Bible reveals God.
The Bible doesn't reveal truth to the illiterate.
Likewise,if we say Nature reveals things about God,
Isn't this shorthand for the following:
The study, the reading, of Nature reveals the Creator.
So it's not Nature, it's the study of it.
So,...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th Aug 2014 8:46pm
10th Aug 2014 8:46pm
The Constitution ENDORSES Religion
The First Amendment protects "the free exercise [of religion]".
Since the Amendments have become part of the Constitution itself,
this means the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion.
But why does this amount to an endorsement of religion??
By the Founding Fathers giving space
In the Constitution to Freedom of Religion,
This amounts to them saying religion is IMPORTANT,
Well DESERVING of that coveted space.
That by itself amount to an endorsement of religion!
If the Founding Father had written this...
Since the Amendments have become part of the Constitution itself,
this means the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion.
But why does this amount to an endorsement of religion??
By the Founding Fathers giving space
In the Constitution to Freedom of Religion,
This amounts to them saying religion is IMPORTANT,
Well DESERVING of that coveted space.
That by itself amount to an endorsement of religion!
If the Founding Father had written this...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
10th Aug 2014 8:28pm
10th Aug 2014 8:28pm
The Ruler of RUSSIA Will Be the Antichrist
The Antichrist Will be the Ruler of Russia.
Here's the Biblical Evidence:
Christ's Reappearing "will destroy the [Antichrist]
by the brightness of His Coming"(2 Thessalonians 2.7-8).
So the purpose of the Second Coming
Is the destroying of the Antichrist.
But the purpose of the Second Coming is to defeat
the invasion of Israel by "all nations"(Zechariah 14.1-4).
So, if we combine these two passages (2 Thess 2, Zech 14),
this invasion of Israel should be led by the Antichrist.
(But the nation leading this invasion isn't identified.)...
Here's the Biblical Evidence:
Christ's Reappearing "will destroy the [Antichrist]
by the brightness of His Coming"(2 Thessalonians 2.7-8).
So the purpose of the Second Coming
Is the destroying of the Antichrist.
But the purpose of the Second Coming is to defeat
the invasion of Israel by "all nations"(Zechariah 14.1-4).
So, if we combine these two passages (2 Thess 2, Zech 14),
this invasion of Israel should be led by the Antichrist.
(But the nation leading this invasion isn't identified.)...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
2nd Aug 2014 5:52pm
2nd Aug 2014 5:52pm
Christianity Doesn't Require a PERSONAL Devil
Fundies (Fundamentalists) claim that
There must be a personal Devil,
An actual supernatural person,
Evil as a person, not just a force.
A "fallen angel" aka Satan, Lucifer.
But even if there were no devil
Whispering in your ear to do wrong,
No Tempter tempting you,
There would still - still - be a tempter to resist,
I.e., yourself, "your own lust," as James 1.14 says.
The Devil is first represented as a...
There must be a personal Devil,
An actual supernatural person,
Evil as a person, not just a force.
A "fallen angel" aka Satan, Lucifer.
But even if there were no devil
Whispering in your ear to do wrong,
No Tempter tempting you,
There would still - still - be a tempter to resist,
I.e., yourself, "your own lust," as James 1.14 says.
The Devil is first represented as a...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
28th Jul 2014 9:56pm
28th Jul 2014 9:56pm
The Sun At Dawn is Like the Crowning of A Baby's Head
The crescent sun at dawn is unseen(by most).
The solar sphere only half-way above
The horizon is all but unnoticed.
For the darkness of the night dominates the landscape.
How sad that people are unaware that birth is taking place!
Yes, the sun emerging past the horizon line
Is like the "crowning" of a baby's head at birth.
(For the horizon line is like the slit
at the entrance to the birth canal.
For that slit too is a line.)
Mother Earth is giving birth to a new day
- how Glorious is that!
...
The solar sphere only half-way above
The horizon is all but unnoticed.
For the darkness of the night dominates the landscape.
How sad that people are unaware that birth is taking place!
Yes, the sun emerging past the horizon line
Is like the "crowning" of a baby's head at birth.
(For the horizon line is like the slit
at the entrance to the birth canal.
For that slit too is a line.)
Mother Earth is giving birth to a new day
- how Glorious is that!
...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
20th Jul 2014 9:06pm
20th Jul 2014 9:06pm
Mankind as the Collective Offspring of God(Mankind AS God)
The Bible says about the animals,
they reproduced,"Each after its own kind"(Genesis 1.24-25).
Then right afterward,it says about God,
He reproduced Himself by making man,
"In Our image, after Our likeness"(Genesis 1.26-27).
So like cattle produce cattle,
God produces God over again.
If Mankind as a whole is the offspring of God(the Son of God)
This means Mankind is a god,
a lesser god,under God the Father.
Just like a calf is a bull,
A lesser bull under the daddy bull.
Is the Milky Way galaxy the amniotic sac
In which...
they reproduced,"Each after its own kind"(Genesis 1.24-25).
Then right afterward,it says about God,
He reproduced Himself by making man,
"In Our image, after Our likeness"(Genesis 1.26-27).
So like cattle produce cattle,
God produces God over again.
If Mankind as a whole is the offspring of God(the Son of God)
This means Mankind is a god,
a lesser god,under God the Father.
Just like a calf is a bull,
A lesser bull under the daddy bull.
Is the Milky Way galaxy the amniotic sac
In which...
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