A MATTER OF TIMING

A MATTER OF TIMING

(Based on the best available Bible scholarship and the author’s educated opinion.)

Maundy Thursday–today–

Tradition says Christ was betrayed…

Good Friday, the cross,

When Jesus felt lost

Til risen on Easter Sunday.

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Tradition, a gentile plot,

To cut off a Jewish knot…

Tassels off a shawl

Blinding us all

How far from the truth we’ve got.

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Traditional time makes no sense,

But ammunition for skeptics immense…

Evening and a morn

How Jewish time formed

From Genesis One, and hence!

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Western tradition is short,

Of ignorant comport…

Anti-Semitic

Christians steeped in it,

Are making Christ’s Kingdom contort.

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Sinful fascist gentile pride

Would the real truth override…

God’s people, the Jews,

Have been misused

Power struggles for souls–woe betide!

–Jonathan Caswell

COMMUNITY POLITICS

COMMUNITY POLITICS

 

In a sweet little rural community,

Newcomers have moved in…

Old alliances have broken up

As new relations begin.

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I heard there was quite a row

In a meeting held just last week…

The old stalwarts are out of favor now

Without a paddle–up a creek.

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I’m rather glad I’m off on the side,

Both camps contain my friends…

I’ll listen as I can and offer support–

The Management has peculiar ends.

 

–Jonathan Caswell

(No residents or managers were hurt…or named…nor locations given, in the writing of this poem.)