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Saint Joseph's Recollection At Nazareth
I taught young Jesus everything I knew
about the art and craft of carpentry.
Together, we crossed all of Galilee,
making repairs on many farms about
the land along my father's favored route.
Some people---most of them self-righteous fools---
remarked that Jesus did not look like me.
But when they say the way he handled tools,
and that his effort always was well done,
they knew that he was very much my Son.
I think he understood whence came their doubt,
but never did he cower to them or pout:
but always gave his best work, undiminished;
and, smiling at job's end, said "It is finished."
Starward
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lovely
yes the story telling is lovely and poetic at the same time really lovely
i really enjoyed reading uit
your coment on my Joseph poem
Thank you for the comment. This is the reproduction (not exact replication) of a series I started several years ago, and then allowed a friend at church to influence me, negatively, to its removal. I think that the presumption of an adolescent, but chaste, love relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene solves both some nagging questions from both Scripture and the apocrypha while also taking a middle way in the debate about the role and importance f Mary Magdalene to Christianity.
Starward
I love your story telling skills about as much as your poetic skills beautiful work Jer...Rae
Hi Rae
Thank you. I owe you a ton of e-mails. I hope you are doing well. I am "re-doing" the Nazareth series, the chaste romance between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. I was foolish to allow a very poorly informed fellow Christian to goad me into the decision to remove it, two years ago, and now, regretting that decision, I am going to rebuild it. I recall that you liked the originals. I hope you will also like the replications, as well. And thanks for the magnificent compliment about telling a story. You made me feel like what Stevens called "the dauntless master who begins the human tale." I know I am not, but your compliments make me feel like I am.
Starward
Very touching poem. Loved it.
your comment on my Nazareth poem
Thank you for your comment. I hope to add some more to it as the summer progresses, and I hope that you wil visit those, or any of my other poems, as well. Thank you for the kind compliment.
Starward