Watching Cardinals walking in procession. This piece comments on the institution, I value the fundamental belief highly.


Gone With The Wind

In royal scarlet
Innocent white
Magisterial Irrelevance
Naively oblivious

A rotten clergy
Corrupted
A soiled theology
A thirst for power
Control and domination

They walk in tandem
Contemplating
A future addicted to
The past

The personification of
Gone with the wind
Frankly scarlet
I don't give a Damn







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Written on 2013-03-06 at 21:49

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Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
Well said, Joe. I especially liked the third stanza.
2013-03-10


countryfog
Despite the pomp and pageantry, the ecclesiastic raiment meant to be metaphors of holy sacrifice and redeeming grace, "the emperor has no clothes."
2013-03-07


ngaio Beck
Well somone had to say it!
The irrelevant in fancy dress.
2013-03-07


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
The gathering hypocrites , walking in procession , with more faces than a city's clock , confesing to each other , giveing hail Marys , then smile , and back at it , ASP
Ken
2013-03-07