5
"5"
benevolence and favour
seemed to be absent
in the world
grace, a name
whispered before
a meal shared
5 fingers
on each hand
steeples, hiding people
games played
in reverence
as a child
war paint
bleeding
signs
in the footprints
the number of toes
we all share
peace in
the closed eyes
that stare
through screens
invoking
absence of real
glimpses
of other lives
tortured
invisible
monsters
are found in webs
everywhere
dreams snuffed
viewed comfortably numb
6 by 3 on an 8mm film reel
left
poetic
for dead crushes
to save the day
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
"Comfortably Numb"/Pink Floyd
https://youtu.be/_FrOQC-zEog
"Dead Crush"/ Alt-J
https://youtu.be/GOJUNJ1o394
Dead Crush
refers to a person no longer living you would ascribe to having a ‘crush’ on, to love.
The term emanates from Alt-J song “Dead Crush”, referencing Lee Miller, Anne Boleyn, Sylvia Plath, as dead crushes.
Lee Miller / American/ WWII
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/lee-millers-second-world-war
Lee Miller/Photographer
https://pleasekillme.com/lee-miller-photographer/
“The Nazi guards had hanged themselves, and were dangling from the walls, necks blackened with bruises, tongues swollen and protruding. Miller took their portraits.
Hitler had committed suicide and his house at Berchtesgaden was set aflame. After duly photographing that pyre of insensate evil, Miller went with David E. Scherman to Hitler’s apartment, where the pair ran a bath in Hitler’s tub, stripped off their uniforms and took turns scrubbing away the grim remembrance of the day’s events. Each took a photograph of the other. Hitler had installed a portrait of himself on the wall of the shower, and from under the cold gaze of the dead fascist, Miller looks over her bare shoulder at Scherman. Her dirt-caked combat boots are discarded on the bathmat, and the ashy smear of dirt on the plush bathmat is the dirt and ashes of Dachau.”
“Dead Crush”, could relate to calling on a plethora of characters in today’s world’s current events. One could consider Jesus Christ, a dead crush, for eg. Or for that matter, any hero of substance, no longer living … or perceived, as no longer living...
What does 5 represent spiritually?
"Symbolizing God's benevolence
and favour toward us,
the number five is grace."
"There are five books of God's Law,
known as the Pentateuch.
('Penta' meaning five):
Genesis,
Exodus,
Leviticus,
Numbers,
Deuteronomy."
Www/666
https://www.av1611.org/666/www_666.html
Logo, Cern
https://home.cern/
all sorts of wars
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