“La Pieta”
Sculpture by Michelangelo
Photo from michelangelo.buonarroti.historiaweb.net
marble preachers
deliver their sermons
wordlessly speaking
through sculpture to
lately diminishing masses
depicting dimensions
exemplars of fealty and faith
reverential esthetics
a hushed iconography
coaxing ambivalent souls
to the purpose of prayer
to that peaceable interlude
quiet with dialogue
man with his God
private personal words
amid liturgies scripted
and publically joined
catholic artforms who tend
to offend plainer
protestant ministries
argue commandments
interpreted even to point
of iconoclast wars
schisms east and west
old and new ruptures
along the same route
Michelangelo traced with
the consummate grace of
his hammers and chisels
straight into the rebirth
of reverence for creations
by creatures the Creator
has made sculpture either
of flesh or of stone likewise
settles my ancestral soul
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amazing words. Blew me off my couch.
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thank you most kindly
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Hi Paul. Like humans frozen in time! Thank you for liking my poem Blank! Best Wishes. The Foureyed Poet.
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yes, indeed
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Wow!
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love those wows
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WOW! 😊 Haʋɛ a ɮʟɛssɛɖ ɖaʏ. Sɛɛ ʏօʊ ʟatɛʀ.
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thank you so very much, vee (cool font)
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Mʏ քʟɛasʊʀɛ! Tɦaռҡs😊
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Sounds celestial and amazing. It’s very rich in history and very real. I can feel my pulse as I read it.
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thank you most kindly
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Was just there (Italy) and saw this sculpture. I was fascinated by the details, so alive…your words add to the image. Thanks for sharing ❤
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much appreciated, violet – welcome home from my ancestral lands
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