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Otherwise Known
by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin → (All Poetry by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin)
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I had a New Year's resolution to write a poem a day, no matter how bad. If I got a good phrase, a good word, a good title, or a good punctuation mark, I would go easy on myself and consider the day a success. Over a two-day period I wrote 18 poems; I was that many behind. I've posted a couple. Here is another. I like to keep posting. These will need to suffice until I can scan some of the others which are lost in a computer, or write new ones. These would be a violation of my personal standards, but I have found it interesting what some people see in the poems; often things I don't see. So I will try a few on you faithful readers. New readers, please read the older works to start.

 

    Otherwise Known

 

I am eighteen poems short

of a New Year's resolution

to write one a day. I think there's

nothing left to communicate.

What more can be said besides

"mortality plus consciousness equals insanity,"

otherwise known

as religion?

 

Copyright Julianza Shavin 2008

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "Otherwise Known"
Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on October 24, 2008
Julie, never cared much for joining clubs or talking to ghosts. -gene.

Reviewed by Flying Fox Ted L Glines (Reader)
Reviewed on October 23, 2008
I love the bottom line of this poem (you knew I would). But religion is not an automatic creation of mortality+consciousness. It took power-crazed men to create the religions -- so they could build wealth on that base of insanity. God was doing quite well without their help.

Ted


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