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Only Love Required

How do I compare to you, God What is the scent of my desire that the golden globes you trod that the grandeur of the celestial choir to quicken yet the voids 'neath this sod oblige your condescension into Hellfire

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Joseph May

Date: 4/23/2025 12:01:00 PM

Congrats on your win, Very nicely done

Trina Layne
Date: 4/23/2025 5:40:00 PM

Appreciated :) Be well.

Tom Woody

Date: 4/12/2025 1:34:00 PM

Fascinating. Interestingly, the Hebrew word (mis)translated in KJV etal as hellfire is Gehenna, a garbage dump outside the city that was kept burning with sulphur and into which occasionally the dead bodies of criminals who were considered unworthy of a burial were tossed. Jesus fittingly used it as a metaphor for eternal destruction, ie, oblivion. Factoid for the day

Trina Layne
Date: 4/12/2025 3:39:00 PM

Thanks, Tom, for giving my poem a read and sharing about that. Yes, there is more than one word for that terrible place, and they have different shades of meaning. I was thinking about Hellfire here less literally than one might first conclude. For this pen, Hellfire is a metaphor for a fallen Earth.