God is a Metaphor ... With All Due Respect

God is a Metaphor ... With All Due Respect

A Poem by Einstein Noodle

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God is a Metaphor
erupting with fingering phrases
glissando winds ripple limbs
frisson rises in all those places
dawn's sun breaks and swims 

how can i think what God is?

newly fallen snow, fresh kill 
heat steams wavering over
shaded rooms like  a poet's quill
enlighten corners like no other


how can i say who God is?


tuck and rolled white-red leather
the clouds lay cotton in the valleys and
in a faceless place the eyes are a trema
prickly pare cactus bleeds bended knees


how can i see where God is?


immovable and curdled milk senses
mixed in whiskeyrum tumblers 
ice hiccup clinking glass  ..... a 
frenetic lens
 ....and
stippled integrity ...and 
icy fingers probing the most difficult; 
forcing open brittle parchment
peering
loving parts i will not admit

God is a metaphor
With all due respect

© 2020 Einstein Noodle


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Beautiful deep dive of introspection, thoughts and words here E. "God is a Metaphor...With All Due Respect"- a knockout of a title! Exquisite language and great form with questions asked and answered-or not really... Maybe we are all metaphors. Loved this provocative poem E. Happy 2020!

Posted 4 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

thanks Annette .. Happy and prosperous 2020 to you as well ... i try hard to find God ...most all th.. read more
Annette Pisano-Higley

4 Years Ago

Awwww- you are too good to me E.! Love reading your work and your many layers of thoughts. Gives my .. read more



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Loved this one. To me God is nature and all that it encompasses. Don't pray to it but respect it. I am amazed by it and stand in awh of it. It created me and will take me. It is omnipresent and omnipotent. I guess all that is a metaphor. Write some more poems friend.

Posted 5 Months Ago


Einstein Noodle

5 Months Ago

thanks for taking time to find this one, Soren .. i am so dry for so long ... i'd say you do believe.. read more
Without man, God is still God. Without God, man could not and would not exist. If existence is only a metaphor then one might question what it represents. But whatever it may be, it will not replace the reality that without man, God is still God. "A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” Stephen Crane

Posted 1 Year Ago


Einstein Noodle

1 Year Ago

what a great quote .. yes! our Creator, (implies us the created) is the true light that is it's own .. read more
Hmm, I like it! --- And I do believe that your last words are correct. Why The Good Book says, John 1:1
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Well, there you have proof!

Posted 2 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

2 Years Ago

can't believe you found this one sir! thank you! "... and the Word was made flesh..." if my memory s.. read more

You just nailed poetry again, so ya did sir... With all due respect … this is bloomin brilliant... period.

slainte mhath brother

N :)))

Posted 3 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

3 Years Ago

nothing is more gratifying than when someone traipses around my pages and chooses one to read .. i k.. read more
Neville

3 Years Ago


of course it does and I quite understand my friend .. am so glad to hear the truck is coming.. read more
I'm honestly so amazed at how good ALL of the poems I've read by you are, Mr. Noodle!!!!! It's like they just keep getting better!!!! This one is so deep and well thought out. I honestly wish my brain could think up something this BRILLIANT!!! "God is a metaphor" such a simple phrase, yet I had to click on this poem because of just that! Oh, god, Mr. Noodle, you're so... there are no words to describe how brilliant your work is!!! (Actually, there probably are, I just can't think of any lol)
Loved this poem, it's definitely a thinker.

100/100

Nix❤️️

Posted 3 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

3 Years Ago

awww your words are more than sufficient ... they make me blush my friend .. you are so kind and enc.. read more
Nix is typing...

3 Years Ago

You are very welcome!!! :)
thought provoking poem, nicely penned. When thinking about God; my brain melts and steam arises out of my head. Where i want to seach God, Heaven and Hell; is all inside me! Even I have no time to do my job; then why i should think of god. If, God knows what i am doing; and he meant it. I once asked god; you made me do live here; i didn't ask you to make me alive; you didn't ask my consent for making me alive! good work.

Posted 3 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

3 Years Ago

thank you Arundass ... I don't think we have met before .. i appreciate your thoughts on this poem. .. read more
Very deep introspection. God is a metaphor , a marvellous way of the omni present's portrayal.

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

thank you so much for taking time to read and review .. yes .. introspective for sure ;) peace and j.. read more
wow you continue to amaze me this is one hell of a philosophical poem wherein very open to lots of interpretations but one thing which holds true it still depends on the faith of a being so as to measure the worthiness of another being or even the being in oneself. take care

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

thanks for taking time Sette! yes .. Faith has as much foundation as Science says i! As science must.. read more
God is to me ...all embracing...the past, the future. the universe and all that is in it...things great and small. Find a quiet spot I say: look around and marvel at the work of the Creator of all. the proof is there - all life must have a beginning and therefore an end ...unless we believe in the afterlife! Profound, deep and meaningful. Thank you for sharing. Keep safe

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

thank you for sharing your wonderful beliefs Kitty ... and i whole heartedly agree ;) our Creator is.. read more
kitty

4 Years Ago

Its hard in this day and age to enforce our beliefs on any one person. People take offence at being .. read more
Given I am more prone to science than mythology I guess the title drew me in straight away. And indeed if we contemplate, as a poet might, seeking answers, and there are many things that make us doubt the existence of such a commanding, all powerful 'wizard'. Stephen Hawking even in his end days maintained his faith in science. Me I believe we are still flat earthers and so very primitive still. We understand, even in human terms, so little of where we are and what context we exist. Science provides a comfort blanket for our ignorance and feels, to many, more certain than 'old wives tales'. Yet we are still 'Flat Earthers' and there is an endless void out there with many more startling things to reveal. You capture in this questioning, reasonable voice just such questions as the poem uses some provocation to slay the reader. Very worthy.

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

Thanks John .. thank you for sharing your own personal perspectives on Science and God the Creator ... read more
John Alexander McFadyen

4 Years Ago

You are most welcome big 'E'. I have to apologise for the title of my recent post lol!
Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

oh...now i have to go see ;)))))))

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