mnaz' poem - This is the Problem of Heaven... recorded

[Doreen Peri]

mnaz wrote this piece.. it's called
This is the Problem Of Heaven

I met a high priest one time.
He stood on his radioactive fortress,
on the big bang's highest, holiest hot rock,
well short of grazing the nearest star,
yet taller than every other fortress,
built on everyman's sinking sand.

He peered down at me when he could,
our big bang father, who art in heaven,
who loves light years of hurtling chaos,
redemption soaked in blood and diesel,
smashed into verse, read from a turret.
I barely made him out, he was so high.

Other times he sat next to me,
looking toward the sky, offering brochures.
He told of heaven's black hole gravity.
He knelt to be filled with the rapture,
stated clearly in the chosen verses
Of truth, rotating like a planet.

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And we just recorded it... click here to listen
>>> The Problem With Heaven

Lightning Rod on piano keyboard and vocals and me also doing vocals and playing a coupla bars on the keys at the end.

Thank you, Mark, for letting us record this fine piece of yours! You are a Poet! We enjoyed this!!!!

[M_Mehdi]

This is came out great! Thanks for sharing.

[Doreen Peri]

Thanks for listening, Muhammed!

Glad you liked it! We had fun with it.

[joel]

I have loved reading this piece and then hearing this...the difference is amazing and powerful with the various voices it gets in its various presentations!

I love the imagry and the commentary and the creativity and the imagination! Absolutely beautiful! Thanks!

(and look at that, every thought dressed up in a "!")