Verse by Caleb Mannan

If you like Robert Service, Longfellow, Tolkien, Milton, Robinson Jeffers, Whitman, Poe, The Bible, Tennyson, Ray Bradbury, life, death, Untermeyer, Pound, Donne, joy, sorrow, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, children, beauty, Dante, Tom Waits, then set yourself down beside this fire.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

LXVIII. Nakedness

There is a nakedness between us
That rends a great divide.
In this nakedness I hide.

Though our Father calls out to us
Our nakedness divides.
In this dark divide we hide.

For fear is simple and hope is toil-
Between them is a great divide.
Naked knowledge begs I hide.
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3 comments:

  1. AngelaMarch 9, 2011 at 12:17 PM

    Adam and Eve in Genesis? I love your reference to naked knowledge.

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  2. CalebMarch 9, 2011 at 12:29 PM

    Adam and Eve as applied to myself and my own Adamness, yes. The struggle of 'walking in the light'.

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  3. AngelaMarch 9, 2011 at 12:49 PM

    I like the symbolism.

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