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Subject: Re: Image Challenge

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Jess

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Date Posted: 22:00:48 11/19/07 Mon
In reply to: Sasha 's message, "Image Challenge" on 19:46:02 11/18/07 Sun

White roses always remind me of the Marys. I chose the Magdalene, and it came in a villanelle, with thanks to both Jimmy Hendrix and the gnostic Gospel of Mary Magdalene, who provided the refrains.

Mary
He who has ears to hear, let him hear:
Devils, he took from me seven and left again five.
(And the wind whispers �Mary�.)
A devil in my ears, now deaf, now listening hard
for a trace of his timbre. Hearing, I thrive.
He who has ears to hear, let him hear:
Devil in my eyes: A glimpse catches my guard
and my breath, and my heart-it dives.
(And the wind cries �Mary�.)
Devil in my fingers: A shred of his robe, a shard
of his skin, a brush, a pulse-I�m alive.
He who has ears to hear, let him hear:
Devil in my mind: my faith is marred
and forgotten. No saving, no repentance, no shrive.
(And the wind screams Mary.)
Devil in my soul-an alabaster jar, unguent, nard.
A brush of his foot with my hair, softly, my lips. My being restored, revived.
He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
And the wind, it cries "Mary".

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Jess
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Date Posted: 23:08:32 11/19/07 Mon

Well, let me amend that, Mary of Bethany was supposed to be the one afflicted with the devils, but at one point she, and the prostitute-penitent and the disciple were all bundled into the Magdalene. .... Me and the church fathers, free with the poetic license. ;*) It occurs to me that someone might be offended by my earthy treatment of a spiritual figure, but that isn't my intention.

Ciao, Jess

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