Billy,
Thank you for the comments. I was reading about M-Theory (strings and stuff) and as I was moving through special relativity I thought of this poem. You don't have to be religious to get it so that's cool (in fact if you were a religious person you might think I was a heretic
)
dust infused with
the brilliance of your image.
biblically speaking aren't we supposed to be in his image?
Let me try to answer this question. I'm not necessarily trying to explain the poem it should either fail or succeed without explanation. What I was going for here is what does it mean to be made in the image of God. According to the bible man was made from the dust and had life breathed into him. I used infused purposely because it's a loaded term for how is man righteous (is it inherent or is it as the protestant side would say now is it imputed)...we'll prior to the fall infused probably wins out. Okay too much info...If God is Light as the bible says what if man being in the image of god means that they take on some of the characteristics of light what if the fall (into darkness) means losing those qualities of light.
Basic idea in a nutshell. Way, Way more than you asked.
I'm usually pretty negative in my god oriented poems (but I have two this one and another one that deal with what does it mean to be in the image of God and they don't strike me as necessarily negative. In the other poem I said the image means that mankind is a namer and can create with words).
Oh well, enough aside...thanks for reading and commenting Billy.
Much appreciated,
Todd
) are meant to accomplish a couple things:
Introduce god as perfect in a sense
Foreshadow the judgment and the fall of man (clouds tie into Noah ultimately as the text of genesis talks about a mist watering the earth instead of clouds)
Tie in the idea of Sabbath rest and what it symbolized
And introduce the communion between god and humans as being in uniform motion with him
Complicated: YES...maybe too much so.
Thank you again,
Todd
Thank you for the comments. I was reading about M-Theory (strings and stuff) and as I was moving through special relativity I thought of this poem. You don't have to be religious to get it so that's cool (in fact if you were a religious person you might think I was a heretic
)dust infused with
the brilliance of your image.
biblically speaking aren't we supposed to be in his image?
Let me try to answer this question. I'm not necessarily trying to explain the poem it should either fail or succeed without explanation. What I was going for here is what does it mean to be made in the image of God. According to the bible man was made from the dust and had life breathed into him. I used infused purposely because it's a loaded term for how is man righteous (is it inherent or is it as the protestant side would say now is it imputed)...we'll prior to the fall infused probably wins out. Okay too much info
...If God is Light as the bible says what if man being in the image of god means that they take on some of the characteristics of light what if the fall (into darkness) means losing those qualities of light.Basic idea in a nutshell. Way, Way more than you asked.
I'm usually pretty negative in my god oriented poems (but I have two this one and another one that deal with what does it mean to be in the image of God and they don't strike me as necessarily negative. In the other poem I said the image means that mankind is a namer and can create with words).
Oh well, enough aside...thanks for reading and commenting Billy.
Much appreciated,
Todd
(10-22-2010, 11:17 AM)addy Wrote: Fascinating take. The science geek in me is gleeful, and I've always been interested in religion on a philosophical level, so this was really interesting.Hi Addy, Nice to meet you! Thank you for your comments. I appreciate you taking the time, and I'm glad you liked it. The lines you mentioned (hard to say whether they fail or succeed at this
I'm probably slow, so the line:
You, the cloudless day—
clouds an afterthought,
a judgement—
is a bit hard for me to tack into the single and very specific image of god as light in the physics sense. But don't get me wrong, it's sounds very beautiful and still works well.
Thanks for the great read.
) are meant to accomplish a couple things:Introduce god as perfect in a sense
Foreshadow the judgment and the fall of man (clouds tie into Noah ultimately as the text of genesis talks about a mist watering the earth instead of clouds)
Tie in the idea of Sabbath rest and what it symbolized
And introduce the communion between god and humans as being in uniform motion with him
Complicated: YES...maybe too much so.
Thank you again,
Todd
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson