“Blessed are those who are persecuted
for doing that which is morally right,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
~ Jesus
Masters of War
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
will be called the children of God.” ~ Jesus
Contra Versia
The contradiction
within creation
a perpetual balancing act
with the disharmony
of destruction
That spark of oblivion
as sharp as a knife
From every dimension
in every direction
a never ending question
Salvador Dali whispering
. . . “Everything
that is contradictory
creates life.”
Conformity is death
Imperfection breeding strife
Continue reading “Contra Versia”
The Used Lover Blues (2)
A Mediterranean Odysseum
I once had an epic lover
of Olympian splendour
Nightly she would come to me
as the lustful goddess, Aphrodite
Lost in her insatiable pleasure
I was driven completely crazy
Yet by the break of dawn
she would miraculously transform
into Athena, the born again virgin
… Zeus’s warlike daughter
with her divinity fully intact
in a vesuvian rage, and ready to attack
Her Bronze Age Wisdom
wielded as a deadly weapon
Was I just her Troy Boy to be used
and then abandoned come the morning?
The Broken Hallelujah
For the children
of a grand delusion
who never stopped dreaming
For those hurting
through all the loving
and the loathing
who fell
chasing their own tail
like a sacrificial offering
to a reflection glistening
four sheets to the wind
and under the full sail
of a fevered imagination
Mother Ethiopia
Mother Ethiopia ~ by David B. Redpath
(pix-elation) © 2022
“Religion that God our Father accepts
as pure and faultless is this:
to look after orphans and widows
in their distress and to keep oneself
from being polluted by the world.”
~ Book of James
Utopia
Utopia ~ by David B. Redpath
(acrylic on canvas) © 2018-2022
“Man is born free, and
everywhere he is in chains.
Those who think themselves
the masters of others are indeed
greater slaves than they.”
“I prefer liberty with danger
than peace with slavery.”
“No man has any natural authority
over his fellow men.”
“Everything is good as it comes
from the hands of the Maker of
the world, but degenerates once
it gets into the hands of man.”
“I perceive God everywhere
in His works. I sense Him in me;
I see Him all around me.”
“Falsehood has an infinity
of combinations, but truth has
only one mode of being.”
“What wisdom can you find
greater than kindness?”
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buon Natale!
Buon Natale to every bloggin’ body
… from baby elf Levi (not eviL) 🎄🎁
David Redpath 