Gautama Christ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSN TUVWV XYVZA2B2C2D2E2YE2The 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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