If you're interested - March 10th, 2008

  

The prompt for this week's poem on ReadWritePoem  is  'Dream' and my poem is entitled 
'After she's gone..' my first effort on the site..appreciate any comments.


A young man, in love for perhaps the first time...whose lover has literally just departed from his bed leaving him alone with only his dreams for comfort...

After She's Gone...

After she's gone...
The scent of her lingers.
Won't  wash  away...
From my hair or my fingers 

After she's gone...
The warmth of her stays a while...
Sensual and comforting...
The thought of her makes me smile.

After she's gone...
Still taste her sweet flavours...
On my lips from a kiss..
That my memory savours.

After she's gone...
I picture her sleeping.
And I know that my heart...
Will be safe in her keeping.


The End.
  

 
I see that the Vatican has decided to nominate a further Seven deadly sins for the modern age to go with the original seven scribbled down by Pope Gregory the Great...obviously not Pope Gregory the Humble but bear with me...so we had Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed and Sloth., a formidable list I'm sure you'll agree, but patently not enough to keep modern day Catholics in line...So the Papal politburo have brainstormed a few new deadly sins for the faithful to avoid like the plague on pain of eternal damnation.. polluting the planet, genetic engineering, being obscenely rich , drug dealing, abortion, paedophilia and causing social injustice...a wonderfully socially aware list most of which I would be more than happy to see all world Governments put an end to but in this case, a particularly ironic list of nefarious activities given that the edict comes from a Catholic Church which has at some point stood guilty, directly, indirectly or by association of almost all of them...still Catholicism and Hypocrisy have been willing bed-fellows for centuries...why stop now?

What is it about all religions...and the Church of Rome particularly... how arrogant to assume that they have the right to presume what is and is not sinful..if you believe in God..and I do not...don't you also believe that he created it all and he decided what was sinful and then whacked it on a stone for Moses to pass on..and this is exactly my point, God did not decide a jot ...for he does not exist ...only man with his rules and his commands..and this latest malarky is merely further evidence of this as if it were needed...all religions are bunkum...invented by man for the enslavement of man...get a grip, give it up.