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   SE RUEGA NO TOCAR LA IMAGEN

   Poetical Portrayal of Crucifixion

 

   Crucifixion in Granada Cathedral

   outlining natural death in holes and blood of heart and chest

   and brown and glittering spirituality in ribs and bones

   as body is that strong in muscles of trunk and arms

   that it seems to hinder a free fall of tissue

   from wood and nails as only the head hangs down

   to the left just above the imprint of soldiers’ spear.

 

   Mouth slightly open and eyes invisible in dark and dust

   of winter night which is celebrated by Mass going on

   some ten meters farther where believers meet amidst

   four giant pillars like a colonnade

   of some eight Corinthian columns in relief

   to four sides of shaft--

   uniting heaven and earth like circle and square do

   after Christ’s example by His death to the Cross.

 

   Against the mental suffering of Siddhartha

   Christ exemplifies a physical torture

   in clothes and punishment of poverty;

   loincloth sole dress to naked body

   as it is nude to specimen of art’s rule,

 

   Draped carelessly around the hips

   as a lost gesture of ignorance by Roman law

   the loincloth is wider than many Spanish ones

   and the often-abused masculinity is presence

   in glimmering strength of belly rolls

   whereby they nearly near to nowadays fashions,

 

   And seems to underline how spirit conquers flesh

   both in this wor’dly life and the Afterlife,

   an Afterlife that hasnot been entered upon yet;

 

   Some believers approach to pray

   Le Padre Mondo

   and step back to keep on worshipping

   in the shade of a next pillar

   designed like ancient temple’s.

 

   In darkness of suffering and night and color

   it now evokes a cry from Africa and Latin America

   whose reminiscence echoes the crucifixion

   torture and punishment has reduced Him too.

 

   GRACIAS

 

   Xanadu (Ofvaticanfame) for Blogspot.Com (June 2006)

   (Thanks to Granada Cathedral Andalusia

   and No Thanks to Da Vinci Code)

 

 

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