I don't know why my name is posted below but I will leave it there for all to read. It is obvious that you attribute all the good things to God. This is certainly a change from your usual humorous poems. But I believe you think it is timely during the Christmas holiday.
As I look at that picture, I am reminded about how dogs love us unconditionally and how they like to have their picture taken. Perhaps they see us as gods when we treat them well. And they even honor us when we treat them badly. A sign of real devotion.
Just one question Tom: Since you say God is the manifestation of LOVE in Man's environment
(you said: "Skeptics claim that evolution caused this human trait")
and in the Dog, then WHY is there hatred, doubt, violence, pestilence, destruction of property and the environment, pollution of the skies through volcanic eruptions (not forgetting Hiroshima and Nagasaki: this, I agree, is Tru(e)-Man-made), Covid-19 (Trump says: "Chinese-made", but then the Chinese are not human, nay?), plagues, divorces, patricide, matricide, fratricide (check RMC "True Histories"), pedophilly, incest, swindling, cheating on spouses who utter before God: "Until Death do us part",
corruption, money-laundering, Swiss Bank numbered accounts, backbiting, envy, plagiarism,
the caste system, the aristocracy, "blue-bloodied" royalty, drugs, drug-pushing cartels, un-earned income (the Biden-Ukraine/Chinese kind), TRUMP-power to pardon criminals, the poor, famine, hunger, the Black Slave Trade, inequality of the non-White races vis-à-vis Roman/Gaullic/NAZI/Middle-Kingdom/British, etc., empires, Apartheid, the arbitrary awarding of the NOBEL PRIZE only to those who manage to accumulate all the traditional publisher caucuses-buckled prizes: the Prix Goncourt, the Hawthornden, the Booker, the American National Book Awards & Pullitzers, the Sahitya Academy awards on unread or misread mss, the critics in leading newspapers who get paid to write the stuff the over-lord patrons want, that multi-billionaire black woman on the tele who can make or break any aspirant's chances for a Grammy or an Oscar or a Pullitzer, or even God if He tried to get his autobiography published in the English-language (with the exception of the French tongue which is the ONLY language of prayer Gods and dogs understand), wars and more wars, religious internecine cut-throat divisiveness, the cult of the "cul" as the Ultimate Joy (didn't God put the toilet too close to birth-sight for want of imagination?), coprophilia, hedonism, epicureanism, existentialism, carpe diem, make Motherhood indistinguishable from the oldest profession in the world, 00? 00!!> < Tom Leftwich, the Authors-DEN, AMEN!
P.S.: George Bernard Shaw said: " We all love children, but we don't cut their heads off to proffer them (the severed heads) as presents." Or words to the effect.
You say: "Why do you love the giving of a rose, it’s just a thing so small,
But it warms the heart with love and beauty for us all,"
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this gem would get my vote. Come to think of it,
I'd vote for this poem every day of the year.
How special your words are. Thanks for sharing this lovely feeling.
As I look at that picture, I am reminded about how dogs love us unconditionally and how they like to have their picture taken. Perhaps they see us as gods when we treat them well. And they even honor us when we treat them badly. A sign of real devotion.
Ron
(you said: "Skeptics claim that evolution caused this human trait")
and in the Dog, then WHY is there hatred, doubt, violence, pestilence, destruction of property and the environment, pollution of the skies through volcanic eruptions (not forgetting Hiroshima and Nagasaki: this, I agree, is Tru(e)-Man-made), Covid-19 (Trump says: "Chinese-made", but then the Chinese are not human, nay?), plagues, divorces, patricide, matricide, fratricide (check RMC "True Histories"), pedophilly, incest, swindling, cheating on spouses who utter before God: "Until Death do us part",
corruption, money-laundering, Swiss Bank numbered accounts, backbiting, envy, plagiarism,
the caste system, the aristocracy, "blue-bloodied" royalty, drugs, drug-pushing cartels, un-earned income (the Biden-Ukraine/Chinese kind), TRUMP-power to pardon criminals, the poor, famine, hunger, the Black Slave Trade, inequality of the non-White races vis-à-vis Roman/Gaullic/NAZI/Middle-Kingdom/British, etc., empires, Apartheid, the arbitrary awarding of the NOBEL PRIZE only to those who manage to accumulate all the traditional publisher caucuses-buckled prizes: the Prix Goncourt, the Hawthornden, the Booker, the American National Book Awards & Pullitzers, the Sahitya Academy awards on unread or misread mss, the critics in leading newspapers who get paid to write the stuff the over-lord patrons want, that multi-billionaire black woman on the tele who can make or break any aspirant's chances for a Grammy or an Oscar or a Pullitzer, or even God if He tried to get his autobiography published in the English-language (with the exception of the French tongue which is the ONLY language of prayer Gods and dogs understand), wars and more wars, religious internecine cut-throat divisiveness, the cult of the "cul" as the Ultimate Joy (didn't God put the toilet too close to birth-sight for want of imagination?), coprophilia, hedonism, epicureanism, existentialism, carpe diem, make Motherhood indistinguishable from the oldest profession in the world, 00? 00!!> < Tom Leftwich, the Authors-DEN, AMEN!
P.S.: George Bernard Shaw said: " We all love children, but we don't cut their heads off to proffer them (the severed heads) as presents." Or words to the effect.
You say: "Why do you love the giving of a rose, it’s just a thing so small,
But it warms the heart with love and beauty for us all,"