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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
A corrupted life in constant mutation
With no recognition of nature’s concept,
A disposition without salutation
Hiding with the shadows he becomes adept.
Only after the removal of the night
Does one become exposed, an inner self plight,
To blend within the pretence of decency
His mirror the abridgement of prudency!
© Harry J Horsman 2011
A bridge thus far,yet far away...
Met thy God, thru Christ's own way.
This bridge beset a path thru Christ...
Unto God will all men meet
With opened arms of loving greet.
Rainbow accompanied with clouds
So bright...
Adjoined by all to man's delight.
Cast away ye untold sin...
Christ did open this way for men.
A new forgiven rewarded entry,
Shall justly by God begin.
This bridge begins t'ween God to Lord...
By their children,fondly adored.
04-09-2006'.
A bridge thus far, yet far away...
Met thy God, thru Christ's own way.
This bridge beset a path thru Christ...
Unto God will all men meet
With opened arms of loving greet.
Rainbow accompanied with clouds
So bright...
Adjoined by all to man's delight.
Cast away ye untold sin...
Christ did open this way for men.
A new forgiven rewarded entry,
Shall justly by God begin.
This bridge begins t'ween God to Lord...
By their children, fondly adored.
04-09-2006'.
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