Gautama Christ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSN TUVWV XYVZA2B2C2D2E2YE2| The names of God and especially those of His representative | A |
| Who is called Jesus or Christ according to holy books and | B |
| someone's mouth | C |
| These names have been used worn out and left | D |
| On the shores of rivers of of human lives | E |
| Like the empty shells of a mollusk | F |
| However when we touch these sacred but exhausted | G |
| Names these wounded scattered petals | H |
| Which have come out of the oceans of love and fear | I |
| Something still remains a sip of water | J |
| A rainbow footprint that still shimmers in the light | K |
| While the names of God were used | L |
| By the best and the worst by the clean and the dirty | M |
| By the white and the black by bloody murderers | N |
| And by victims flaming gold with napalm | O |
| While Nixon with his hands | P |
| Of Cain blessed those whom he condemned to death | Q |
| While fewer and fewer divine footprints were found | R |
| on the beach | S |
| People began to study colors | N |
| The future of honey the sign of uranium | T |
| They looked with anxiety and hope for the possibilities | U |
| Of killing themselves or not killing themselves of organizing | V |
| themselves into a fabric | W |
| Of going further on of breaking through limits without stopping | V |
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| What we came across in these blood thirsty times | X |
| With their smoke of burning trash their dead ashes | Y |
| As we weren't able to stop looking | V |
| We often stopped to look at the names of God | Z |
| We lifted them with tenderness because they reminded us | A2 |
| Of our ancestors of the first people those who said the prayers | B2 |
| Those who discovered the hymn that united them in misfortune | C2 |
| And now seeing the empty fragments which sheltered those | D2 |
| ancient people | E2 |
| We feel those smooth substances | Y |
| Worn out and used up by good and by evil | E2 |
Pablo Neruda
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