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GAUTAMA CHRIST

GAUTAMA CHRIST.

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GAUTAMA CHRIST

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  1. GAUTAMA CHRIST

  2. The names of God and especially those of His representative  Who is called Jesus or Christ according to holy books and       someone's mouth  These names have been used, worn out and left  On the shores of rivers of of human lives  Like the empty shells of a mollusk.  However when we touch these sacred but exhausted  Names, these wounded scattered petals  Which have come out of the oceans of love and fear  Something still remains, a sip of water,  A rainbow footprint that still shimmers in the light.  While the names of God were used  By the best and the worst, by the clean and the dirty  By the white and the black, by bloody murderers  And by victims flaming gold with napalm  While Nixon with his hands  Of Cain blessed those whom he condemned to death,  While fewer and fewer divine footprints were found       on the beach  People began to study colors,  The future of honey, the sign of uranium  They looked with anxiety and hope for the possibilities  Of killing themselves or not killing themselves, of organizing       themselves into a fabric  Of going further on, of breaking through limits without stopping  What we came across in these blood thirsty times  With their smoke of burning trash, their dead ashes  As we weren't able to stop looking  We often stopped to look at the names of God  We lifted them with tenderness because they reminded us  Of our ancestors, of the first people, those who said the prayers  Those who discovered the hymn that united them in misfortune  And now seeing the empty fragments which sheltered those       ancient people  We feel those smooth substances,  Worn out and used up by good and by evil. • The Poem is divided into three stanzas… possibly symbolic of the trinity. • The 1st and 3rd stanzas are 1 lines each, while the 2nd stanza is 14 lines each. 4 is a significant number in Buddhism- 14 Precepts of Buddhism, which are moral guidelines.

  3. The names of God and especially those of His representative  Who is called Jesus or Christ according to holy books and       someone's mouth  These names have been used, worn out and left  On the shores of rivers of of human lives  Like the empty shells of amollusk.  However when we touch these sacred but exhausted  Names, these wounded scattered petals  Which have come out of the oceans of love and fear  Something still remains, a sip of water,  A rainbow footprint that still shimmers in the light.  Comparing Religion to the Empty Shell of a Mollusk All that religion holds, is a small amount of nourishment that is used up too quickly

  4. While the names of God were used  By the best and the worst, by the clean and the dirtyBy the white and the black, by bloody murderers  And by victims flaming gold with napalmWhile Nixon with his hands  Of Cainblessed those whom he condemned to death,  While fewer and fewer divine footprints were found       on the beach  Racism? Listing the negatives and then the positives. Appears to be an allusion to the Vietnam War. Mentions Napalm, and Nixon who sent soldiers to their deaths, and many politicians to the end of their careers.

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