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Poetry has allways been a popular form of offerings upon religious ceremonies and rituals. This is a thread to discuss this, and post some of your own creations.

Oh, I have one- from back when I was Wiccan! Um, I originally wrote it in runes, because at the time I was living with my parents and didn't particularly want them to be able to read my spiritual journal... now let's see if I can still read them.^_^'

"Runes of Power"

As golden sun retires his post
The clouds burst into flames.
The winds rejoice from coast to coast
And comb their silv'ry manes.

The moon steps up and sweeps a bow
Upon Her starlit stage,
And summons sailors to their prow
Across the seas of age.

The animals greet gentle night
With music light and fair-
They dance and sing 'till morning's light
Has taken to the air.

Then morning breaks and turns the dark;
The stars softly depart.
And heralding the dawn, the lark
Flies swiftly as a dart.

The owls sleep; the stags awake
And hail the sun's new fire!
Birds chant along the wooded lake
And praise their golden sire.

They celebrate in stormy feast
Until the sun must leave.
Then back to sleep goes bird and beast
And magic dreams they weave.

Oh, good- I wasn't quite sure if it was good or overdone, LOL! You can never quite tell if your own poetry is good, because you tend to get caught up in whatever emotion inspired you to write it, and it always either influences the way it sounds to you, or you keep comparing it to what you originally felt and it never quite measures up. It's like trying to share song lyrics with someone who's never heard the song- oftentimes they sound very different without the music, and once you've heard the song (especially if you liked it) it's very difficult to read the words without playing the music along with them in your mind. So I wasn't sure if my poem would measure up to the precedent you set with your own, but I guess I made it! Cool.^_^

I think I will do that- I've been looking for some interesting journals to read. I wish there was a way to sort the journals by content, and rate of update.^_^' I know there's a page somewhere other there which sorts journals by date of update, because I saw it once- but I can't figure out how to get back there!

Interesting. It has some good emotional resonance, but the rhyming scheme is a little off.

The part about tears of joy and fear falling the same way really struck a chord with me. I remember a time when I was crying- sobbing, really- and I was crying so hard and the situation was so screwed up that eventually it struck me as extremely funny that something could even be that messed up, and I just started laughing hysterically- and then I was afraid that I might be losing my mind, because honestly I kind of sounded that way^_^', and then I got scared and started sobbing again. And then I realized that the hacking sobs and the laughter both sounded pretty much exactly the same... and then I started laughing again.^_^' It was a pretty messed up night.



I also wonder, sometimes, what future races will make of us. Sometimes I almost hope that, as time goes on, my remains will be preserved in such a way that they will be recovered by future paleontologists and placed in a museum along with other relics of our world. Then, I can roam the museum as a spirit and see what their "people" make of us- and maybe point a scientist or two in the right direction, if they're sensitive to such things. I think that would be an interesting and potentially rewarding way to spend the afterlife- in between all the usual feasting and farming, that is.^_~ I always have loved museums.^_^

I have never written any religious poetry...

I'm thinking of not doing poetry next tie, but rather switching to my speciality. A sort of philosophical prose which decribes and emotion, a feeling or something intangible like that.