This one makes me think--what a juxtaposition in life. I hope for a good outcome--no matter what choices are made...in light of religion or not. The writing is cryptic, but seems to address the everyday habits of a person who drinks their sorrow away--a person who has a great wisdom and knowledge--who sees themselves as being incapable of making a substantial change in life, or is oblivious to it because of their excess of consumption.
The church (all denominations) and religion is in a massive tangle...as portrayed here in your photo where the cross is tangled but seeing its way to the front of the maze where generations of Christian fathers have buried religion with lies and deception...Bloody lies is a sanctuary to toss off a few thorns no doubt leaving blood on the pulpit and the little girls and boys underpants...this has cross-over prophecy also written in it, the recent oil mess and the volcano in Iceland, the flood in Nashville...it's the thousand-year cycle, yes, earth is falling, falling, but she always springs back, and the church does need to die to be reborn back into something of value and pristine discernment of ancient Christianity "borrowed" from the Pagans...inspirational in the way of Light, Scolding in its ecclesiastical capacity, a very revealing scroll of poetry, Dayvid. Oil is all about religion, fighting over a pipeline of money in foreign lands...Osama bin Laden and Sadaam Hussein's evil plot...
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Selected poems from previous & forthcoming collections together with Q&R apps on each page to enable audio rendition simultaneously with the written text
GOD BLESS YOU
TONY
Cheers,
Dan
Love 'n Stuff,
Sage