Hellmouth (poem) by Sage Sweetwater on AuthorsDen

Hellmouth
by Sage Sweetwater → (All Poetry by Sage Sweetwater)
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Gristmill on Cherokee Nation land Unfailing stream of water Missionaries are convinced of Sin Waterwheel turning Water splashing off the paddles Brown wool tunic Silver Cross necklace Genuflect Dear Lord By faith we lay hold By offers of mercy Through atoning blood We do believe The Christians Are truly one heart engaged To God for Sinners Indians sitting Under a tree Reading the Bible While their horses feed Great elk Bugles White man's Jeep axle snaps Leviathan Bane berries Frostbite Black Rose Mandrake Root Seven Princes Of Hell The Gatekeeper Demonology Book of Job Canst thou Put a hook through His nose Or bore His jaw Through with A thorn Canst thou fill his Skin with Barbed irons Or his Head With Fish spears Isaiah 27:1: In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish the leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. Copyright 2.19.2010 Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist

Reviewed by Kate Clifford

Reviewed on February 23, 2010

Here I am innocently playing games at FB and my eye catches a title, a name, and it beckons me to return to AD....and here I am reading amazed as always to how you can touch the reader with just a few words.......drawing them in, keeping them to the end...they have to read and the only thing they can do at the end is go .........Wow! Sometimes what we read goes beyond what we can say when we really like what we have read. And of course then there is people like me LOL.

Reviewed by D Johnson

Reviewed on February 20, 2010

Dear Sage, a very piercing piece upon which to ponder. Enjoyed mightely.

Cheers,
Dan

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan

i get from this a strong sense of what the overpowering forces, be it the white man, Napoleon, Columbus, etc see as sinners who must be saved by their pious selves-what blasphomy this has been

Reviewed by John Flanagan

Reviewed on February 19, 2010

You draw together the threads of recent work into a new summation and philosophy...and yours is a voice, Sage, that expresses the greed and self-righteousness of those who were never in touch with the natural and today still are not...and have made a living Hell for so many others...outstanding symbolism and thought.

John

Reviewed by Peter Schlosser (Reader)

I have a headache. Must be the fish spears. Ouch! Great piece Sage. Loads of cool imagery.

Reviewed by Leslie Hoffman

Being from that part of the country, I grew up hearing stories about the relocation of the Cherokee via the Trail of Tears. "Missionaries convinced of sin" became the ultimate sinners.