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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How appropriate I was
just praying to him and
I'm doing daily devotional
on forgiveness.


Beautiful God is
everywhere I loved
this 🙏💗👍

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


Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

oh Benita .. i am so thrilled that this caught you at such an opportune time ... yes! i agree! God i.. read more
Benita-Staebell M - KindredPoet

4 Years Ago

Thank you my friend
I always appreciate your
input on things and enjoy
readin.. read more
Intriguing title and lovely phrasing - is God inside the beauty of everything marvelous in this world, or something more...

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

:) ....... what say you Lyn Anderson?? something more?? :) something "All" perhaps .... thanks for g.. read more
Excellent use of words, metaphor and descriptions. And of course from the title onwards you are taken into realms of imaganitive prose that seems to rally the mind and develop the senses. Which is as good a definition for what God is as I have seen. Philiosophical and mystical journies through belief in time and space. Quite simply wonderful even to a recalctrant like me.

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

my goodness Ken!! i am enthralled this took you there sir! really happy you stopped to read and revi.. read more
This is exactly how I see God and I've never known how to express it, but now I know! It's the idea of God in everything, in all of us . . . not some sky-dwelling deity! You pick some of the most fresh details to show all the ways you see & think about & feel God. THINK - SAY - SEE . . . I love it when a writer uses a repeated phrase by changing one single idea or word . . . love how you've done this. I love the ending, becuz we do feel sheepish when we try to define God in an avant-garde or nebulous way, rather than shoveling gobs of that "Christian-eze" type of phraseology we freedom-seekers have come to despise! Wow! This really gets my motor running & the ideas flow! Love it! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

i know you have legitimate complaints on "Chritian-eze" ..and like i shared with Ken ..i could not b.. read more
dear Gene... God is Integrity... the light through a stained glass window...
the shadow of a smile when all seems lost. Your poem reflects the soul
that sees and hears divine guidance when a bird sings or a baby cries.
A metaphor of pure innocence when stars align and Venus shines. truly, Pat

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

your reviews are poetry in motion dahlink! i am always thrilled ... really thrilled to have them on .. read more
Firstly, may i just say that the "with all due respect" part of the title told me who wrote this before i saw who wrote it. Class, that could only be from you. 😀

Posted 4 Years Ago


Lorry

4 Years Ago

Sorry, pressed send accidentally, or maybe God did it.
Goda & metaphors on the same page? I b.. read more
Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

well .. i asked for your opinion my friend! ;) and am grateful to have it .. i think man as God can .. read more
amazing Imagery, E and the word flow of the rippling limbs to the brittle parchment flows like a river , each phrase, the metaphor of God through Natures eyes, loved this and Hendrix is playing in the background, works well :}

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

ohhh poor Jimmy right!? :( what would he be doing with his music now?? thank you for reading and a g.. read more
gram linski

4 Years Ago

peace and joy, back at ya, E. with a little wind cries mary on the side, :}
Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

:) ............love that song!
Linguistic perfection - a great poem to ponder and read over and overagain

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

your smiling and bright sunny face make me smile Fay ... thanks so much for reading and reviewing .... read more
Is God a metaphor? An oft posed question, impossible to answer given we are contingent beings, limited by time and space and our almost slavish reliance on the temporal.

It all sometimes gets a bit divine and oblique for me. But whenever I sit down and think about the question you pose, (which I often do,) coming at it directly just tends to add to the confusion, especially when poetry and storytelling is mixed into the pot and one considers the highly metaphoric narrative of the bible.

Suffice I think, to say, that this is an intelligently written and very good poem that makes the reader think long and hard; and that if God is indeed a metaphor,then it's just as well Humphry Davy was around. Because despite the Good Lord, being 'the light of the world,' I do find the electric light bulb to be quite a comfort. :)


Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

yes..we have plenty of comforts to be thankful for eh!? thank you so much for taking time Terp! i ap.. read more
I really loved the line "prickly pear cactus bleeds bended knees". It rolls off the tongue very nicely

Posted 4 Years Ago


Einstein Noodle

4 Years Ago

good morning Brina! so nice to meet you! at least i don't think we have met before .. at any rate i .. read more

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