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- From: zola@hardy.u.washington.edu (riene des tournesols)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: Re: by request / dan graves
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 00:01:07 GMT
- Organization: Singing Spider Ranch, Walking on Water and Fire Division
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- What I wrote to Dan-
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- dan@jonas.berkeley.edu (dan graves) writes:
- >i saw Jesus in berkeley today.
- >
- >his Eyes burned
- > atop his frail cage of Bones.
- >his Hair hung down
- > over thin Shoulders.
- >i hear those Shoulders
- > can carry the Pain of the world.
- >
- >but i don't Believe it.
- >
- >
- >dan graves
- >dan@barkley,berkeley.edu
- >
- yes! this is the one! ah! at the time even I was sad that I had somehow
- lost it. I had connected the images of jesus and berkeley, and for one
- reason or another I had a mental picture (the way I tend to remember things)
- of Jesus in Berkeley, maybe walking through the fire,
- maybe in the flames of the fire.... hmmmm. in anycase, I didn't see this
- as a "religious poem", rather something more symbolic. An abstract of some
- object/person that was more of a jesus-stand-in.
-
- Over Christmas my brother and I had a dicussion about why Jesus appears in
- his (my brother Bob's) artwork so much. It is not a specific religious
- meaning for him, but rather an icon.
-
- -Rebecca
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