Creed Call
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Verify your own identities,
join your verses with the other half
of the "symbolum"*, that is, poetry,
to speak truly, to show in the light,
authority is no sole property
of those who govern and teach with might.
Truth, and her Sisters, Goodness and Beauty,
suffer no abridgement from small souls
with big sticks, who speak softly behind doors,
whose hidden decisions lurk in shadows
of fine words. So speak to illuminate
your true plain selves in open meadows.
So speak! Stand in the Open! Say your words!
Though they not be as sweet as whey and curds,
yet they culture and nourish your free Soul,
and only from there may you say your "I"
and have license to claim in town and street
that you live not lies, but genuinely.
*Note: A creed was called in Greek a symbolon, which originally meant half of a broken object which, when fitted to the other half, verified the bearer's identity. The Greek word passed through Latin symbolum into English "symbol", which only later took on the meaning of an outward sign of something.
( from the first paragraph under History ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed
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