Lilith

[westcoast]

A congress of Apologists utter
heraldic visions

Atonal harmonies
of religious
vagaries

Heresy! Yahweh's umbilicus
is
dangling

[An unseemly sight]

How women willfully drown

themselves
in the sea

to escape the Midwives
merciless
murder

To escape Eve's stretch marks

and a Genesis ex libris

tattooed
with heavenly flourish

Across Lilith's
gorgeous
white
ass

[westcoast]

wow - lost all the formatting. what a drag. oh well...

~westie

[constantine]

beautiful, intelligent - you are so talented westie.

[westcoast]

thank u! your appreciation energizes me

~westie

[jweeble]

Absolutely love the image this gave me...wonderful write!

[Lightning Rod]

How women willfully drown

themselves
in the sea

to escape the Midwives
merciless
murder

strong image, westie
enjoyed (and puzzled over) this

[westcoast]

hi LRod glad you enjoyed the poem as a whole. its original title was: "The UnUnified Whole"

that specific reference is to the persecution of midwives during the dark ages when orthodox medicine made inroads. at the time midwifery was "demonized" along with other pagan and natural or folk ways that worked to heal and stabilize society. in order to escape the terrible inquisition and torture that lay ahead for any woman targeted by the establishment, some women, according to historical accounts, said goodbye to their husbands and children and literally drowned themselves in the sea.

it is not a happy poem...

hope that helps?

~westie

[stilltrucking]

Yeah Lilith was a trouble maker from the git go, It must have been a monday when Yahweh made her, he had to take another rib and make a second wife for Adam. One who could get with the program.

I think that is sarcasm

thank you for writing
please pardon ramble

[Lightning Rod]

when my son was born, I caught him at the bottom of the chute.

A midwife interviewed me at a Denny's restaurant. When she told me that I should have kept it in my pants, I tipped her herb tea over in her lap.

We had another midwife.

[Doreen Peri]

there should be a way to use code to retain the formatting here but damn if i can find it.... sigh.... vbulletin has a button for it ... maybe it's the "code" button? I never knew what that was.

let's try

Code: Select all

let's type this line normally
	then indent this line
		then indent this line even more
then type this line normally again

[Doreen Peri]

Yahoo! It worked!

Try the "code" button on top of your posting window. Type your poem into a text file or a Word file to create your formatting. Then hit the "code" button 2x to create an opening and closing "code" tag. Then copy your poem from the text or Word file and paste it in between the "code" tags. Voila!

heh... always wondered what that was for. Just guessed.

.... oh and enjoyed your poem!

I wrote a conversation poem between Lilith and Eve once.... hmmm.. wonder what I did with that thing.

[hester_prynne]

Wonderful read....
I want to sing this one.....
H

[mtmynd]

damn! i bet this was fun to write, eh?

would've liked to seen it 'formatted' as you intended.

((i'm still digesting this, j.. i'm slow, but deliberate. ))

[Arcadia]

thanks westcoast & Isaías!!!!!!!
I was googling Lilith and I realized I didn´t know too much about it. Amazing bible addendas!!!!!!!!!!!
During the last weeks I´ve been re-visiting with my students creation myths -mayan, greek, incas, jíbaros, bliblic (the mayan one with 4 gods/aspects? that have mistakes is always the favourite!!! they also made comics about that one, they were really great!).
We were also reading some greek myths between them Calíope´s one.

[Lightning Rod]

thanks westcoast & Isaías!!!!!!!
I was googling Lilith and I realized I didn´t know too much about it. Amazing bible addendas!!!!!!!!!!!
During the last weeks I´ve been re-visiting with my students creation myths -mayan, greek, incas, jíbaros, bliblic (the mayan one with 4 gods/aspects? that have mistakes is always the favourite!!! they also made comics about that one, they were really great!).
We were also reading some greek myths between them Calíope´s one.

recommendation:
Chanting the Square Deific by Whitman
postulates four gods