A Sudden Resurrection (I.P.)

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By Silver Spun Sand

Sat, 19 Apr 2014
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“...The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity....”
W.B. Yeats – The Second Coming
 
If ever there were to be a second coming 
what would it be like? Beyond all imagining, or
would a Technicolor-lemon sky, split open like an egg – 
the ether seep out, as if from a cracked, blue bowl?
 
And would there be a fanfare from a host
of angels and would we all stand – dumbstruck
and pinch ourselves; think we were dreaming?
 
Would murderers stop their killing...the thief his thieving?
Would atheists start believing, humanists accept that god 
created god, and agnostics – cease wallowing
in unnecessary complexities?
 
Would the starving be fed – the sick, cured – the paralysed – 
the maimed, would they walk again? The homeless – find homes, 
and the ten lost tribes be found again?
 
Would the stone be rolled back from every tomb?
Would the lion, truly, lay down with the lamb...
the sun grow dark and the moon – glow blood red?
 
Would we be ruled by a kind of Manitou – a supreme being 
that, after a thousand years or so, would go zooming off -
back into the great unknown?
 
And if so, would they take a sprinkling of stars 
and a wedge from each planet along the way, as we may take 
a pebble or a shell from a beach, a brass rubbing from a church...
a feather from an aviary, as a memento we’d been there?
 
And would they muse, Once upon a time... I was? I even 
bought the T-shirt, saw the film, then wrote the book;
reminiscent, on reflection, of The Wizard of Oz.
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Comments

Submitted by Bee on

Powerful writing, Tina and thought provoking questions. An interesting interpretation.

Enjoyed.

Bee

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

My thanks to you, Bee.  Pleased you thought so.

Tina

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Can't say I understand all your musings here, Tina. But I'm happy that scripture makes clear that Jesus is coming back, but that will be the culmination of all, - yes the resurrection of the dead, but also a judgement, so that it is so important to have sought his forgiveness now, and be waiting for him. Then there will be a new order, not temporary. The images about a thousand years are interpreted either as a time of more widespread faith before he so comes, or yes, some sort of interim time before the finish of this now imperfect earth ( but I can't see that) or widely, a symbol of the time between his first coming (to Bethlehem and Calvary) and this second coming - the time when his good news of forgiveness through his death was to be, and still is, preached to all.
Don't mean to go on, just trying to see where you're coming from in some of above, really.

Hope you are having a happy weekend. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

Hello there, Rhiannon, and my thanks to you, as always, for sharing your inspirational thoughts and views.

As to your question, the way I see it,  is that the narrator of this poem is approaching the subject of  'a second coming' from  a more secular perspective, and similarly, the interpretation thereof.

But moving on to more mundane things, I am having a lovely Easter weekend, thank you, Rhiannon, and I wish the same to you and yours.

Tina

 

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

One of your best Tina, searching,vivid, inventive         Elsie

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

Glad you think so, elsie, many thanks, and greetings to you, this Easter Sundaysmiley

Tina

 

Submitted by Mark Say on

I like the way you create a sense of scepticism from asking questions without providing answers, and let the reader's brain do the rest of it. And the closing reference to the Wizard of Oz seals it nicely.

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

Thank you, mark.  Good of you to take the trouble to read this, and comment so positively.  A happy Easter to you.

Tina

 

Submitted by hudsonmoon on

Very intelligent and thoughtful write for an Easter Sunday, Tina. I ponder the same questions from time to time. I like seeing it in one neat package. 

Rich x

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

Thanks, Rich.  More than appreciated, and I hope you have had a pleasant Easter Sunday yourself. It's tipping it down here, unfortunately.

Tina x