I hope everyone who celebrates had a Happy Easter yesterday. My weekend was, as usual, extremely busy, as our family spends all of Good Friday making our special Easter bread for family and friends. Think of it a kind of giant calzone, stuffed with Italian sausage, ham, hard boiled eggs, and three kinds of cheese. Yum! Sunday we had sixteen people for dinner, and an Easter egg hunt for the kiddies which unfortunately got rained out before we could finish it. All in all, a good weekend, but I'm exhausted. Still, I've been able to keep up with the daily prompts.
Today's prompts from Write Better Poetry and NapoWriMo: (1)Write a "water" poem, and (2) "try writing with a breezy, conversational tone, while including at least one thing that could only happen in a dream." Well, as someone who celebrates Easter, I've had Jesus on my mind, and like most GOOD Christians, I bristled at not only the right-wing evangelists who last week practically anointed a certain President as the second coming of Christ, but also the same guy's vrtriolic, profanity-laced posts about what he plans to do to Iran, some of the most belligerent and un-Christian swill ever to come out of the mouth of a "world leader." So here is my response.
so he thought he would test that theory.
He rowed his bigly boat to the middle of the lake
and stepped over the side, immediately
falling in, his heavy suit pulling him down.
happened to skate by.
“Jesus could do this, and so can you,
“Because I’m so light, I skim
on the surface tension of the water.
It’s a talent God gave me.
You humans sink from the weight
of your own sins. And brother,
you’ve got a ton of them!
Good luck on the bottom.”
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