They asked me to wait. To wait for God to come laughing, wait on His voice to destroy the golden temples of man, hold my tongue until His powerful breath was upon me, and from His loving casualties I’d at last know the Savior.
They asked me to wait. To wait for God to come laughing, wait for His followers to die away their persuasive babble and the murder of Islam to breach the walls of the earth as the many damned souls drowned under holy laughter.
“O! The Lord God is looming! On his way with God’s wrath! We are to take up swords and send evil howling back to die their well deserved and slow death! Their faces popped and spattered these words as they fell back, caught in His fiery presence, twisting their tongues into drivel and thrashing their minds in the glory of an Eden unlike any other.
And then the snake planted his venom through the laughter of their gyrating madness. Tears emptied their pockets, spirits came crashing, and the anointed rapture of their making grew tired, weary of such euphoric trotting and wheezing and falling over one another in ecstasy.
I did not wait.
They asked me to wait. To wait for God to come laughing, wait for His followers to die away their persuasive babble and the murder of Islam to breach the walls of the earth as the many damned souls drowned under holy laughter.
“O! The Lord God is looming! On his way with God’s wrath! We are to take up swords and send evil howling back to die their well deserved and slow death! Their faces popped and spattered these words as they fell back, caught in His fiery presence, twisting their tongues into drivel and thrashing their minds in the glory of an Eden unlike any other.
And then the snake planted his venom through the laughter of their gyrating madness. Tears emptied their pockets, spirits came crashing, and the anointed rapture of their making grew tired, weary of such euphoric trotting and wheezing and falling over one another in ecstasy.
I did not wait.
© 2008 mrp/tpm
Her main contradiction is that she is saying she is for change, but telling people to vote for the party in power. A hard dialectic to deal with.
ReplyDeleteIn the end nobody will care about the side things as religion. Not with the economy as it is.
I never leave this site without a wow and a poem of action.
ReplyDeletePs. I do feel a "Wave" of nausea every time read about the Palin.
ReplyDeleteThis is frightening.
ReplyDeleterenegade,
ReplyDeleteYes. That particular dialectic is a large bone in a bite-sized lie.
mandt,
Thank you. Your leaving here with something, especially a "wow" and a call for action, is really my only objective.
And... I too feel that wave.
pagan,
Frightening is certainly what these people are. Their objective, at least by this blogger, will always be met with great resistance.
yup..the wave of nausea...
ReplyDeleteit 's all different here..you are redecorating...very exciting....
This scares me. On the one hand, one would hope that this turns voters off, but the reality is that it will turn many on as well. Creepy.
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt Obama will win.
ReplyDeletefrom the time he takes office, to 100 days later, it'll be Mayday.
I was already scared without knowing any of this. Today I've been watching the Banking Committee question Paulson and Bernanke on the trillion dollar bailout of the greediest bastards the world has ever known on Wall Street and thinking I should spend my nearly worthless dollars quick, before they are entirely worthless.
ReplyDeleteI think the video pretty much explains itself.
ReplyDelete---Just got to post a satire on the witch business and Palin, but am waiting for Halloween!
ReplyDeletePalin sounds more like Bush every day. Both of them are militant, anti-American fundamentalists.
ReplyDeleteenigma, Frieda, renegade, utah, omnipotent, mandt, libhom,
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your comments. I'm finding myself a bit behind the eight ball lately...I will give it my best to pull myself up by my bootstraps, or what have you, and get back into he flow.
Peace.
Hi dear Mark, sorry for the long absence. I keep following your poems. The one in this post is completely awesome. Your verses and political activism won't be unheard. Warmly
ReplyDeleteDearest Ben,
ReplyDeleteThank you my sorely missed friend and peace seeker.
I do hope that you are well.
I will soon be by your blog.
(Hey? Maybe we need to do as our sites suggest...and collaborate again sometime.)
Hi Mark, I'm well.
ReplyDeleteI just recommended you on LinkedIn.
Surely, we should collaborate far more. Our association has become so obvious to me that I tend to post completely on other stuff...
But you keep being on my blog all the time, as you're part of this great adventure
We're seeing the end of the GOP.
ReplyDeleteshe is scary
ReplyDeleteI blogged about this a while ago..scary shit....we have to keep her away from DC... I feel bad for my AK friends...they knew nothing of this....
ReplyDeletethanks for blogging it....your blog looks beautiful over here....really...
thank you for bringing this important topic to my attention.
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone. I wish I had more time- just took on webmaster of a gymnastic company here and am swamped, but still on good terms with my muse... :>?
ReplyDeleteHey Poetryman,
ReplyDeleteGood to see you still at it. You're a prolific poet and I envy that.
I agree with your assertions concerning Palin. Interesting though, that religious beliefs are off-limits. No newscaster is asking her about dinosaurs. Religious beliefs get a free pass, as though they had no relevance as to a person's qualifications.
The media is mute.
upinvermont,
ReplyDeleteI am humbled by your praise and I, unfortunately, do not find it odd that they are not asking such things of her. It is testament as to where our journalism and democracy are in this country. Shame on us... We shall soon, if not already, regret this fact.
Peace...