Today’s post appears on both poetry blogs today, not least because
a number of heterosexual readers got in touch to say they enjoyed my
serial Dog Roses.
The poem has appeared on the blog before,
and introduces a new serial - Blasphemy -
on my fiction blog; a gay-interest crime novel set in London UK that was
published in 2006.
For details and a synopsis: http://rogertaberfiction.blogspot.com
Meanwhile...
According to Psalm 14 of the Bible, people who don’t believe in God are
filthy, corrupt fools, entirely incapable of doing any good. Although those
sentiments were written over 2,000 years ago, non-believers are still
stigmatized to this day, especially by Christians and various other religious
groups regardless of which Holy Book they purport to follow.
Does the fact that I take a strong sense of spirituality from nature
where I found none in religion and cannot begin to relate to a personified God make
me an non-believer? Religious groups would say, yes. Me, I am not so sure...
This poem is a villanelle.
This poem is a villanelle.
BLASPHEMY
Where the blasphemy in any Belief
that takes its cue from humanity,
shining through like a spring leaf?
Why the pain, recriminations, grief
put down to a person’s sexuality?
Where the blasphemy in any Belief?
Earth Mother has given us our brief
for each season of our mortality,
shining through like a spring leaf
Let religious leaders make mischief,
undermining a common equality,
where the blasphemy in any Belief?
Another word pit against us is ‘if…’
confusing us, its very duplicity,
shining through like a spring leaf
While bigots use God’s handkerchief
to sneeze at our integrity…
where the blasphemy in any Belief
shining through like a spring leaf?
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2009
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