Sunday, June 04, 2006

fallen


there's a halo under the bed
half hidden by dust bunnies, they
soften the glow.

rumpled sheets, damp
linen, scented with sex
blessed

with holy water tears
another angel
fallen.
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9 comments:

QUASAR9 said...

You are on a theme. A teenagers dream? oh life so sweet, what is it young girls hearts do meet? Most have now grown tough, no longer feeling lost after giving up what they treasure most.

I think hell, purgatory, limbo & heaven, are states of Mind on Earth. Some glide thru them easier, some slide thru never knowing. Laters...Q

6:01 PM
QUASAR9 said...

PS - What time zone you in. Can't be eight hours from here to Philly
Just noticed the time on last post that's all. Laters...Q

6:27 PM
QUASAR9 said...

PPS - I remember that statue of the miners. Hope I haven't offended any sensibilities with some of my 'Green' Posts. Hard working men, yet the dust & smoke was no good for man or beast. It cost many miners their health in the uk. And though we didn't see the worst of it, the 'historic' London smog was from the burning of wood & coal fires. No good for densely populated urban cities. Though a coal or even a log fire in the countryside is more than just romantic, heart warming too. It is a harsher reality in concentrated urban living spaces.

I did one of the first hard hitting videos regarding the petrochemical industry over 20 years ago. Needless to say I was not popular at the time, but everybody is grateful at the sandy beaches that have been recovered become oil free, pollution free, and the river mouth teeming with fauna, flora & fish. No jobs were lost, just more care was taken, more money spent from EU subsidies to clean up the pollution & make the industry cleaner + safer. I suspect the same round your neck of the woods.

7:00 PM
Sherry Pasquarello said...

hi, oh i don't believe in hell. i've said before i'm an eclectic. i pick and choose and use what comes to me to help me on my journey. i have never believed that an allknowing god could sentence even those souls that we might want to go, to a hell. the divine has to be better than the best of us.
i am in pittsburgh pennsylvania, it is 7:40 pm here, but i think blogger is in califoria.

the statue, ah, no problem. miners are a hearty bunch. most of the mines round this area have been closed for awhile now. there are still ones in west virginia etc.
i go to a club that is a 19 minute drive from here and it is in an old coal mininig town. i know men that worked in the mines, had family from years before that , some worked the mines but my grandfather was a steel worker. i know steel better. the steelmills are gone now too. pittsburgh has become a high tech city, that and education and a huge medical center/reserch town.

7:44 PM
Sherry Pasquarello said...

the poem, oh, not a teenager and not a loss of virginity. an "angel" need not be a virgin.

7:46 PM
QUASAR9 said...

"with holy water tears
another angel
fallen."

What makes the angel fallen, the loss of wings, the weight of reality?

I'm glad you haven't tasted hell. But hell does exist, some are in a 'living hell' - No, no good blaming God for pain, disease, death, suffering, loss. These are mortal experiences 'created' by mortals for mortals. An actor on a screen can bring people to tears, yet we later see them in another film. Some actors just play their 'roles' more convincingly.

PS - Certain respiratory diseases are like 'purgatory'. But unlike the perfect laws of karma which would attribute the sufferer with payment for 'their' sin, I attribute the suffering of those who suffer mainly to some other experience. Pollution of air, smoking whether 'personally' or passive, etc...

But that is just me, and I can be in error. Yep. I know you are in Pitts, meant to say Pennsylvania.

5:05 AM
Sherry Pasquarello said...

oh, hell on earth i understand perfectly well. but that is just life.
illness, well, some are brought on by habits or by habitat.
i do refuse to believe that any "god" would give a child cancer or any other disease or cause a child to be born to a crack addict or such. it is just fate.
the fates, i believe in.
i tend to believe in a sort of instant karma or "what goes around comes around"
doesn't much matter, what happens happens as to the things we can not prevent. there are many things that we can prevent or ease. these are the things i think about.
i try to treat others as i would wish to be and go on from there.
that is a tenent of many faiths.
i think the divine will understand me and "cut me some slack" when my time does come. tapped danced enough times with death as is, one of these days i'll step on his foot tho and he'll get pissed! : )

8:43 AM
QUASAR9 said...

It seems a human condition or pre-condition to tempt "the fates"

Seems the eternal irony that some can tempt fate unscathed, and yet others are scathed before they dare tempt fate.

7:40 PM
Sherry Pasquarello said...

yes, it is . sad, but that is just the way of it.

7:16 AM

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