We celebrated last year’s Feast of the Ascension with a single, potently philosophical haiku based on a Meditation of Philippe de Saint Maurice (Ascension). Focusing on a pebble at the bottom of a pond, it got a lot of comments about the nature of consciousness, the will to rise up from the mundane mud, and suchlike.
It was a rather uplifting item all round.
For this year’s Feast, we have another of Philippe’s mighty meditations, but this one comes at the idea of Ascension from an altogether more provocative angle, wondering whether Yeshua’s ascension wasn’t perhaps the result of his wishing to escape the judgmental coldness of us killjoy humans – a sobering thought, entirely apt on this day of feasting and celebration.
Becoming sweaty,
They feared their bodies’ passions
Would take them over
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Sometimes forever
They fought their desires to death –
Thought to transcend them
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Morals to judge them,
Judgment to condemn and kill,
Death to embrace them:
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They feared their own love
And so blamed others, made up
Sins deserving death –
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Is that why Yeshua
Rose up to heaven – to escape
Our killjoy death-wish?
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Tired of being judged,
He left us to our cold, mad,
Delusional lives.
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Omm
Feast of the Ascension, 13 May 2021
After last year’s abomination, I was waiting to see what horrors would be inflicted on the world this year.
Heretical insolence.
You will be judged, Philippe de Saint Maurice, and found very wanting! You will experience the reality of hell!
I have been going round various forum (forii) today to make amends and share that I was heavily drunk and stoned when making my postings, having now recovered from an epic hangover—the hangover of a previous life
I hope your recovery continues apace, Colin
Great verses, deep and thought-provoking
Thank you very much, Luisa
Provocative, and probably true in its implication regarding Yeshua/Jesus, it is not the most cheerful Ommnian production, although uplift perhaps can be sourced from such inquisitive poetry.
Perhaps in actions indicated by responses to the poet’s query?
But sobering, also