Michelangelo's Mother

[heslopian]

Mary is placid as rain. It will be, it will go,
and one day soon may be again.
Returning to the first repose
of a mother, newly spent,
she holds her adult son.

What was once a hairless brow
is fringed with thorns and blood;
Pain has exited the stage;
only applause is left.
We can but pray our mothers know what Mary did that day.


Pietà (Italian for "pity") is a term for artworks, most often sculpture, which depict the Virgin Mary cradling Jesus after his crucifixion. The Pietà pictured is by Michelangelo (1475 - 1564).

[Aish]

I am intrigued as to what it is you're hinting Mary knew?

[heslopian]

That her son would be in heaven.

[Wildcard]

Hi Jack,
   Nice little surprise for a Wednesday morning. I am starting my work week here and I shall take this little 'passage' with me tonight when I play. It will be my good luck charm

[heslopian]

You flatter me sir.

[Wildcard]

I do no such thing.

[grannyjill]

May I ask what kind of rain?

I like the idea of summer rain...it is gentle and nurturing (and the rhythm reads well)

[heslopian]

I was thinking along the lines of soft summer rain.

[rowens]

That brings to mind that we don't want to take faith away from mothers that still believe. So we don't feel so bad when we're selfish enough to want to go before they do, so we don't have to deal with it.

[heslopian]

Thanks for the comment, rowens

[billy]

i like it better than i like mike's david

i think that particular statue is a poem all on it's own.
most parents have to contend with real grief, Mary was lucky in as much as she knew her son was god and would therefore ascend into heaven. she also knew that he wasn't actually dead. oif course she could have been nothing more than deleriously hurting mother who was hiding from the fact that her son was dead as a door nail

i like my first thought on it.

[heslopian]

Thanks for the kind feedback, Bilbo I first heard about the statue after watching Sister Wendy:
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[billy]

i remember her, she seems like she likes a laugh

i think she's related to bugs bunny, she talks just like he does (almost)