The power of the written word…
the spoken word supreme
Ink to recommission,
what only breath can glean
Soldiers line up back to back,
letters ranked and filed
The command to march just given once
—its war chant loud and wild
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
Crafted in marble
Over a period of years
Discarded by the master
For it's impurity smear
Newly down from the cross
Lay Jesus Christ
In the arms of faith
Thrice
Nicodemus
And Mary Magdalene
With the Virgin Mary
Complete the scene
This sculptured beauty
In rebuild recommission
Completed by Calcagni
Is Michelangelo's
The Deposition
My entry in Raul's contest " The Deposition "
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