Lady Labyrinth Poet Free verse

The Hearkening

"The Hearkening"



In the woods 
a clearing
bare of all leaves
and trees, with exception one

The ground is 
borderless, 
yet hallowed
dirt and sharp rocks

They call this place,
The Place of the Skull
The woods
disappear in thick mist

A tree stands tall
branches outstretched
devoid of all leaves
Not Dogwood, a tall barren pine
maybe cedar, maybe cypress

no Hollow Hills hanging tree, this,
a titulus affixed

IESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDAEORVM

Footprints, singular 
mark the loose soil
at the base of the tree
a blood red crown of flowers

Corona de Cristo
Thorns
There, with patience, He watches
There, with patience, He waits

Torn,
The captive monk 
named Cyrene
walks barefoot towards the tree
compelled to bear another story 

for He, 

he hesitates,
opening himself like a book
he lowers himself to the ground
and supplicates
there is time

"There", is 
All of Time, 
temporal paradox
there, 
He waits

Cyrene, 
“The Hearkening” 
is in his name
An open book, he supplicates

The other walks forward, 
speaks to him softly, 
“Here is a story, just for you, for today.
Listen closely to me, for it is in your name.”

(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
gvlm/scm
Easter 2019



Luke 23:33



https://youtu.be/pnWWWyxb5kQ
Peter Murphy/"Fake Sparkle or Golden Dust"




NIV

John 19:19

Luke 23:26

John 10:14

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Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:13 PM “This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.” DH Lawrence Leanne Lovejoy-Burton April 21, 2019 at 7:55 PM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism Leanne Lovejoy-Burton April 21, 2019 at 7:25 PM Now this - this is BEAUTIFUL. "The Sophia of Jesus Christ", The Nag Hammadi Library - [http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/sjc.html] Leanne Lovejoy-Burton April 21, 2019 at 6:26 PM https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/lionheart_1015885?title=lionheart&id=1015885

Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:12 PM SIMON OF CYRENE. Below, Wiki; And (Revert notes under Shiva re: SIMON OF CYRENE - (2) Surviving Crucifixion; (3)Nag Hammadi Library; (4)Second Treatise of the Great Seth; (5)SUBSTITUTION HYPOTHESIS; (6) Islam). Lady Labyrinth April 21, 2019 at 8:17 PM SIMON OF CYRENE, Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_of_Cyrene

Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:11 PM Ziziphus spina-christi Lady Labyrinth April 21, 2019 at 10:03 PM Crown of Thorns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_thorns Lady Labyrinth April 20, 2019 at 6:07 AM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziziphus_spina-christi Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:11 PM In the Levant, a hundred years ago, it was called sidr (associated with the Lote-trees of the Quran) and was common in the Jordan Valley and around Jerusalem.here were some folklore traditions that said the trees were protected by benevolent spirits or dead saints (weli). By some traditions, it was the tree from which Jesus' crown of thorns was made.Matthew George Easton argues that the spina-christi is too brittle to be bent into a crown, and suggests another local plant which he says is called "nabk" may have been used to make the crown of thorns Jesus wore.

Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:08 PM “Nabk”/Ziziphus Lotus Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:11 PM Ziziphus lotus is often regarded as the lotus tree of Greek mythology. It is thought to be referenced in the Odyssey, consumed by the Lotus-Eaters as a narcotic to induce peaceful apathy. Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:09 PM In Arabic-speaking regions the Ziziphus lotus and alternatively the jujube are closely associated with the lote-trees (sidr) which are mentioned in the Quran, while in Palestine it is rather the Ziziphus spina-christi that is called sidr. Elsewhere in the Arab world the European and Chinese jujubes are also associated with the Lote-trees (sidr). Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:09 PM A sacred lotus tree planted near the temple of Vulcan in Rome was said to have been planted by Romulus, who is said to have been a contemporary of the composer[s] of the Odyssey (8th century BCE); it was still standing some 700 years later, in the time of Pliny the Elder Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:08 PM The nineteenth century English explorer, Richard Francis Burton reported seeing an ancient sidr tree in the mosque containing the Prophet Muhammad's tomb in Medina. It was in a garden dedicated to the prophet's daughter, Fatimah. The fruit from the tree was being sold to pilgrims and its leaves used for washing dead bodies

Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:07 PM Corona de Cristo/Euphorbia milii Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:07 PM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_milii

Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:06 PM Titulus Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:06 PM http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/INRI

Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:05 PM Peter Murphy, “Fake Sparkle, or Golden Dust” Lyrics. Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:05 PM https://genius.com/Peter-murphy-fake-sparkle-or-golden-dust-lyrics

Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 2:04 PM (1)Shiva;(2) Surviving Crucifixion; (3) Nag Hammadi Library; (4)Second Treatise of the Great Seth; (5)Substitution Hypothesis; (6) Islam; (7) Cardiologist's perspective; (8) Salvador Mundi/Da Vinci x 3; (9) Forensics defending authentication of Shroud. Lady Labyrinth April 20, 2019 at 6:09 AM (1) Shiva/["The Trimurti is a concept in Hinduism in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified by the forms of Brahma the creator,Vishnu the maintainer or preserver and Shiva the destroyer or transformer. These three deities have been called "the Hindu triad" or the "Great Trinity"."] https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/deities/shiva.shtml Lady Labyrinth April 20, 2019 at 6:01 AM (2) Surviving Crucifixion http://www.humanreligions.info/jesus_survived_crucifixion.html Lady Labyrinth April 20, 2019 at 5:31 AM (3) Nag Hammadi Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library Lady Labyrinth April 20, 2019 at 5:24 AM (4) Second Treatise of the Great Seth/Simon of Cyrene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Treatise_of_the_Great_Seth ["Second Treatise of the Great Seth is an apocryphal Gnostic writing discovered in the Codex VII of the Nag Hammadi codices and dates to around the third century. The author is unknown, and the Seth referenced in the title appears nowhere in the text. Instead Seth is thought to reference the third son of Adam and Eve to whom gnosis was first revealed, according to some gnostics. The author appears to belong to a group of gnostics who maintain that Jesus Christ was not crucified on the cross. Instead the text says that Simon of Cyrene was mistaken for Jesus and crucified in his place"]. Lady Labyrinth April 20, 2019 at 5:20 AM (5) Substitution Hypothesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_hypothesis Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 11:21 PM (6) Islamic Perspective, Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_views_on_Jesus%27_death Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 10:07 PM (7) A Cardiologist's Perspective/"The Swoon Hypothesis" -https://www.reviewofreligions.org/11445/jesus-christ-did-not-die-on-the-cross-a-cardiologists-perspective-2/ Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 9:26 PM (8) Salvador Mundi/Da Vinci - (8.1) [https://youtu.be/N382dggI4C0]; (8.2) Article dispelling Da Vinci of faking Shroud [https://www.gingkoedizioni.it/the-turins-shroud-leonardo-da-vinci-is-innocent/] Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 8:54 PM (8.3) Da Vinci /Camera Obscura - https://youtu.be/GneGHYpyyPg Lady Labyrinth April 19, 2019 at 8:53 PM (9) Forensics defending authentication of Shroud of Turin/Jesus. Good Shepherd Productions - https://youtu.be/pdwnTpWXi3M