Poets United...Mid Week Motif
1000 years is a long wait for sainthood
tsk hildegarde did no one teach you
to flutter your eyelashes
to immerse yourself
in overpowering fragrance of
faux manipulative gentleness
to feign awe at every utterance
the rooster makes to maintain
a good pecking order in the hen house
saint theresa of avila
with her orgasmic manifestations
of divine love gained her sainthood much sooner
just 40 years after her death
yours only came 1000 years later
thanks to an unpopular but brilliantly enlightened german pope
what did all the maths music philosophy brilliance etc
achieve
apart from the admiration of a few strong erudite women
and even fewer men.
dear saint hildegarde
will your sainthood be instrumental in releasing that iron fisted
stranglehold on womens' throats by the sons of adam?
if god is a man your intercession stategies
may need to take a different approach
even if god is a woman i still don't like your chances
Whoa ... this is amazing. I've always admired Hildegard -- a truly remarkable, under-appreciated woman. And her music ... exquisite.
ReplyDeleteSo many brilliant phrases here -- the "faux manipulative gentleness" and "even if god is a woman i still don't like your chances" -- and keeping order in the hen house --- ouch -- but so true, so true. Bravo.
Thank you. I was pleased with this one even though it may cause some discomfort to others:)
ReplyDeleteLOVE! You sure have her number. And you talk to her, pushing the intercession in ways she well may have thought:
ReplyDelete"to flutter your eyelashes
to immerse yourself
in overpowering fragrance of
faux manipulative gentleness
to feign awe at every utterance
the rooster makes to maintain
a good pecking order in the hen house"
I trust in her own house at Bingen, she found someone to laugh with.
Yes she would have had a few laughs:)
ReplyDeleteOrgasmic manifestations sound much more.fun....and chuckled.as ever at your parting line...
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant........and still, the regard of a few strong erudite women carries great weight in one's life and can be treasured as wealth. It isnt so different these days and it is the incredible women in my life by whom I measure my worth.
ReplyDeleteNever easy to be enlightened. And women are supposed to feign what men expect of them.
ReplyDeleteI see her as a woman way before her time.
Bravo!!! Rall, I LOVED this. Yes, a long time to wait for sainthood...lol. Still, if it is what Catholicism believes in, she's one darn lucky soul!!! thanks for the entertainment and to Susan above, your prompt still rocks cause look at what it got Rall thinking. True poet!!!
ReplyDeleteSadly most religions go through soul searching and flesh chastisement, cruelty and worse. It is one thing to believe in God but another to have mankind interpreting his love which so often results in hate. I'll have to leave it to you youngsters to sort it out.
ReplyDeleteThis is simultaneously funny and deep. Poor Hildegard. But I'm sure she's thrilled, if she can be here, to have such a good poem written on her behalf. You really wrote some good lines here, the last one is sadly too true.
ReplyDeleteYes, they use the women when they need them. Such is the nature of that organization.
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