Religious Protection

by vixeyt

Published April 13, 2010

This here what I behold
The blood and the body
Is it our Christ of old?
Or yet one other tormented soul?
Desperatly clinging to a vestige of hope
Weakly fighting the roaring darkness
This could be another Pope
More like a scheming bishop

Do you hear those notes?
Softness of the Moonlight Sonata
Clarity sowing it's oats
Languidly to the tune
This is no Christ or Lord
Just the cause of a broken heart
Whose awful wailing chord
Is soon to make a song

Do the angels above weep?
When they see a sight like this?
Or for a thousand years of sleep
Has there never been a tear shed?
Do the angels and their lord mock us?
Struggling blindly through Purgatory
Or do they love and cherish us?
Granting moments of blissful reprieve

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Kale
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Kale wrote a review Review · Apr 16, 2010

I found that the inconsistent punctuation made this difficult to understand on first read through. These lines in particular:

This here what I behold
The blood and the body
Is it our Christ of old?

The first line is just phrased awkwardly. I suggest rewording it to "This, what I here behold". It makes much more sense. You also need some sort of punctuation. I suggest m-dashes after "behold" and "body" so that it will look like this:

This, what I here behold --
The blood and the body --
Is it our Christ of old?

This is much easier to read and understand.

Desperately clinging to a vestige of hope
Weakly fighting the roaring darkness
This could be another Pope
More like a scheming bishop

Watch your spelling, first thing. Secondly, the lack of punctuation again makes these lines difficult to understand. My suggestion:

Desperately clinging to a vestige of hope,
Weakly fighting the roaring darkness --
This could be another Pope.
(More like a scheming bishop.)

As you can see, the punctuation really adds a lot to these lines, and makes them much more coherent.

Basically, my only issue with this poem is the punctuation. You really need more of it. A general rule of thumb for punctuation in poetry is that it's the same as in prose. I suggest you rewrite your poem in prose format, add in the appropriate punctuation, and then convert it back into poem form.

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Smexaykk01
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Smexaykk01 wrote a review Review · Apr 13, 2010

This is very creative is so many ways,
The way you talk about God and Angels mocking us is very moving, maybe they do y'know...


Do the angels above weep?
When they see a sight like this?


This is my favourite, Its so bold and it stands out to me....

Or do they love and cherish us?
Granting moments of blissful reprieve


This is also my favourite, how you ended it on the opposite note of what it all meant.

Keep writing more please!
I like it a a lot!



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