CARMINIAN

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Carminian

In your pilgrimage
You have already arrived
Never to taste second death

Clay of earthen jars
Formed by Potter's hand
For drinking wine
for His own sovereign will

and pleasure

Hence Esau's portion
Misappropriated grace
A doctrine of damnation

Yet freely I choose
With my own volition
To declare this truth

The rose of Sharon
is beautiful and sweeter
    than Calvin's tulip ...



by NeiL ArandA. 08/04/2015

Author's Note

Like a rose trampled on the ground
You took the fall and thought of me
Above all ...

Reviews

[gabrielle]

The last stanza could stand on its own, Neil. I feel that the concept of "truth" is being peddled these days like a commodity by various organized religion using different "marketing strategies"...

[NeiL ArandA]

It started as a senryu . The I felt oblige to expound more . This is the most difficult and confusing theology I have tackled. Thanks Gab for checking and reading it. And I agree that the last stanza can stand alone .

[jacob erin-cilberto]

interesting piece with much said in this perfectly done senryu...

j.

[NeiL ArandA]

Thanks Jacob. A recent encounter with a minister whom I have known for years embraced and introduced me to Calvinism. Trying to grasp with my finite mind the complexity of this controversial doctrine which brought more confusion and contradiction than understanding on my part. I thought I could settle with just one senryu to summarize our lengthy discourse but I was enticed to expound more. Appreciate you dropping by :)