Challenge
Sensibilities
Write a poem about Jesus- but describing him as something that is translated through your senses, maybe as the pleasing aroma of mountain air, the taste of fresh figs, the feeling of holding an ice cube too long... Match your relationship with him to the relationship you have with whatever you chose to describe him with- make it personal and true to your own experience. A prize will be awarded.
Naysayers, Nayprayers
There are those who say
He was just a man
He never rose
He never existed
There are those who say
He was just a bum
He was just a criminal
He was just a rebel
There are those who say
Miracles are bullshit
I argue by asking
What was in it for him?
And I answer
Nothing
Pain
Betrayal
Death
Why would a man choose
Suffering, betrayal, death?
Why would a man who taught
Love
Forgiveness
Tolerance
Even to the point of loving enemies
Why would he
Matter?
He mattered because of these very things
These ideas
That rose from the dead
In times where love and forgiveness and tolerance were dead
Listen to the message and those who say are right--
It doesn't matter:
The way was better than the man
Because the way was God
And there are those who say
He was both