Sonnet
Bab El, the Gate of God, fallen indeed,
The common tongue remembered, speaking of
Ancient forgotten mysteries, our creed.
Words come to their senses, even love.
I turn away from the cremation ground
That burns from summer's end to winter's start,
And walk, perplexed and soulsick all around
The cityscapes in which I lose my heart.
We build again, more humanly this time,
And mindful of the holy ground we tread.
I raise my little towers out of rhyme
Fearful lest something might be left unsaid.
For death, that took these quick, still waits for me
And I must earn my freedom to be free.
© 2002 FP Purcell
The common tongue remembered, speaking of
Ancient forgotten mysteries, our creed.
Words come to their senses, even love.
I turn away from the cremation ground
That burns from summer's end to winter's start,
And walk, perplexed and soulsick all around
The cityscapes in which I lose my heart.
We build again, more humanly this time,
And mindful of the holy ground we tread.
I raise my little towers out of rhyme
Fearful lest something might be left unsaid.
For death, that took these quick, still waits for me
And I must earn my freedom to be free.
© 2002 FP Purcell
problem I see with that
but, I think of fall of tower of babel and dividing
of tongues not just of rise of babel. I mean the
original one fell too etc +S.
Gosh, Bish
Besides, in the use of the American Orthodox Church the House of God, the trump of the tower struck by lightning, is the icon of Pentacost. As I learned in Pleasantville a year or so ago...
sorry
and try to bridge all the dots, chico's
poetry is more symbolist and when I ask
him even he doesnt know what the symbols
symbolize and I dont think mallarme did
either and I respect that just have kind of
a plodding mind in some if not I hope quite
all ways...+Seraphim.
A plodding mind