OMG Edit 1.001 erthona, fromcancer, leah

[Leah S.]

With ageing sinews strained by days,
hard stretched and sprained beyond repair, a strain or a sprain, or both? How about "torn"?
out from the scream of Munch's night,
comes forth the unexpected prayer.
That god might slip into the gap
between a life of constant pain
and moments only salved by sleep
(and even that, a dreamer's bane), Lose the parenthetical complaint here. Or at least relocate it to somewhere where it does not interrupt the excellent next two lines. It's 'painfully' obvious it's only there to rhyme with 'pain.'
is not enough to pour belief
into the analgesic pot. I did say excellent, didn't I? Also elegant.
Each twinge that twists is small distress.
What hurts us more than faith is not
the forlorn hope that by our prayers
the agonised will be relieved I'm not sure you don't mean 'the agony will be relieved.' Are the prayers for the narrator and his fellow sufferers, or are they for all those other agonized souls?
but that at best, with grimaced grace,
we by forgiveness are reprieved. Just checking....the reprieve is what hurts us more?
Forgiven for the withered claw, Who's doing the forgiving here? I can't tell.
the shake that marks us in a crowd,
the crooked spine, the humped-up back,
the coprolalic curse out loud.
Some claim a deity above who will,
once called, make sick souls well;
distrust though those, the pious few, Awkward! At least write: "distrust though, those, the pious few," although I don't think it will help much.
who love their god then kiss and tell. 'kiss and tell' what? It sounds like you've given the pious the power to embarrass their god.
Create your lord and tailor him,
into a myth so all can see;
for "Oh My God" is sinful pride... I think it would be stronger thus: "your "Oh My God" is sinful pride..."
you made him yours, make one for me. Snarky. I don't really believe that you want one. Also, as a tag line it's a little weak. I want it to say, 'you made one for you, now make one for me', but I can't get it to scan. Best I could do was: 'you made one for you....make one for me,' but that makes it lose the familiar cadence of the phrase, "Now, do it (whatever it is) for me.." and it still has one too many syllables. (Coprolalic curse here.)
tectak
2013

Overall I really like this poem. It makes me laugh at my own suffering, and shake my head and chuckle at the vain internal contortions we all perform to find ways to bear up under the load.

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With ageing sinews strained by days, hard stretched and sprained beyond repair,
out from the scream of Munch's night, comes forth the unexpected prayer.
That god might slip into the gap between a life of constant pain
and moments only salved by sleep (and even that, a dreamer's bane),
is not enough to pour belief into the analgesic pot.
Each twinge that twists is small distress. What hurts us more than faith is not
the forlorn hope that by our prayers, the agonised will be relieved
but that at best, by grimaced grace, we by forgiveness are reprieved.
Forgiven for the withered claw, the shake that marks us in a crowd,
the crooked spine, the humped-up back,the coprolalic curse out loud.
Some claim a deity above who will, once called, make sick souls well;
distrust though those, the pious few, who love their god then kiss and tell.
Create your lord and tailor him, into a myth that all can see;
for OMG is sinful pride...you made him yours, make one for me.
tectak
2013

Hi Leah,
It was just a matter of time...the parentheses are history but the contents retained. I have had many conversations on the dream-state of those with physical and/or psychological anomalies. I particularly enjoyed a 1930's tome...long forgotten source but expect JW. Dunne...on the "waking" experience and the instant linkage of dream to reality at the waking moment. That is old hat now, but more recent divulgences have confrmed what I have long suspected from limited but acute experience...nothing destroys the balm of deep, dreaming sleep like lucid dreams where the dream is opposite to the reality. Man loses leg, dreams he still has leg; man loves his dog, dreams dog is dead;man stops smoking, dreams he is smoking; man wins fortune, dreams he has lost everything. There could be a poem here, somewhere.  
"....I'm not sure you don't mean "...I could not fail to disagree with you less
"distrust though, those, the pious few" is probably the best offer. I am still looking.
"It sounds like you've given the pious the power to embarrass their god" No...not their god....in fact, if I implied a degree of embarrassment-- did I ?-- it is ME who is embarrassed. The "kiss and tell" cliche is the territory of the attention seeking... "and the lord said to me" god-botherers...it is a constant source of irritation to hear the dimwitted pontificate on what they would have you believe is their direct line to their deity...the "I asked and god answered" pious pratts...and now it is slipping in to "common" use with the constant barrage of OMG-ers who squeak and squeal at the slightest theatrical divergence from their mundanely uniform lives....harrrumfffff....but enough of me
Thanks again,
Changes coming. Carry on yourself.
Very best,
tectak

tectak:
Sorry, my associations with "kiss and tell" began in middle school, and the intent was always to embarrass the kissed. Leah