Footstool (in collaboration with Zahra and advise from Arturo)

The Footstool

with grandiose beginnings

wrapping three walls

plied high with pillows 

Ottomane of velours d'Utrecht

life continues its pirouette,

igniting an ignis fatuus

shapes generating and erasing each other,

there is dark - and light there is

as if our cosmos filtered

on point 

lift your tired feet

place them on my back

as God is man finding place 

earth his footstool 

engineered within such architecture

we become grains of heaven

3/22/2015

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Reviews

[FOih;]

Engineered within such architecture

I feel this line encompasses the entire poem...a hand behind the creation of Earth, urging it to move...

But it is as you both have said (very eloquently), we are the Greater God's footstool, until we humble ourselves before God and creates again - this time transforming who we are into something beautiful...

[Einstein Noodle]

i love your take on this Arturo! your insightful and thorough .. that's why your advice is so good! :)
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[FOih;]

Thank you E Noodle!

[Zahra]

thank you very much Arturo! :) Thanks for joining in.

[Einstein Noodle]

i am so grateful to have worked once again with Zahra .. her contributions are so inspiring for me ... and thank you, Arturo for advice on tweeking this one ..
E.

[Zahra]

an honour working with you E. :)

[Dr. Wood ?]

ah,,real poetry here...I understand SOME of it but I am a simple man...

[Einstein Noodle]

Dr. Wood!! i am so glad to meet you! yours is the fastest response to a post i have seen!! thank you .. this one leaves a lot of leeway for interpretation .. if gives a moment of reflection .. that alone seems a positive response .. thank you for taking time here
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[Zahra]

Thank you Dr. Wood.

[Dr. Wood ?]

Zahra..I know.......But I have trouble in finding responses to my reviews.my computer is at war with me...Great poem, the both of you