Yiu Cao-NEW YEAR, NEW BEGINNING

A new year with a new beginning
reflecting the old position of war, violence, injustice
and death. Time does not change
such matters, simply makes them more,
or less, terrifying!
Adjusting to the murderer's wish, we
are now inured to horror.

the reality of jesus-religion/politics

Jesus, or the Christ figure, was, according to the Gospels, a magician and healer who brought a message of the Apocalypse. It was, for him and his followers, the end of days. He required his followers to reject their families and the temporal. Husbands rejected wives and children. They no longer looked after them.

Like many preachers of the time his  message was supported by widows or bored rich women. In fact, women were central to the message. Jesus would instruct 500 men at a time in the secret knowledge of his cult and send them out to preach and gain converts. Women could also be disciples, as clearly was Mary Magdalen. The Jesus cult was specifically Jewish. He had no interest in the gentiles-calling them dogs. The essential idea was for his disciples to obtain inner and outer perfection for the coming end-perfection of thought and action.

poetry-world's end

World’s End.

A deepening hue, packaging crisp and dry,

Telescoping skies, hard bitten with dust

A sly moon, scarred and half-lit.

It didn’t end with a whimper

After all,

But brightly and loudly like a celebration.

It was proud of its going.

Colour spawned from a devil’s jaw, not

A god’s dull reason. Fire everywhere,

Referencing volcanic insinuations, the afterbirth of a planet.

The last man standing

Was burnt to a crisp.

poem-jad: Kicking the ball

Kicking the ball, the beautiful boy
scored, leaping for joy.

Hey, what's happening and when; why are you crying my child?

At night the old man remembered his youth
and
forgot his coach's zest for truth
in sport, holding that a subtle swivel of the foot
contained a world of physics
and that a dribble into undefended space
meant more than the most self-contained
mathematical symbol.