Adam, Cain and Abel

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                    “we are laid asleep

          In body, and become a living soul” ~ William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

          “And man became a living soul” ~ Genesis 27

          “Dreams are the eliminators of sleep, disturbing psychic stimuli by way of hallucinated satisfaction”

           ~ Sigmund Freud

The dust of Adam turned to living soul.

His body wasn’t soul.  The spirit filled

The dust and so the man became a whole

Created being.  Spirit thus was thrilled

Because injected in male throbbing flesh.

What happened then when Eve was built from rib,

The scripture does not say.  It says no fresh

Result from that, implying that the crib

Was what the woman had been fashioned for.

No soul is mentioned when her life began.

Flesh, flesh, flesh, flesh is mentioned.  That’s the score

For her.  Her state is flesh, not so for man.

  The man is soul and in his sleep and dreams

    He is a soul with nightmares as he screams.

That “poetry” that does not at least nod at the whole realm of thinking and feeling is not poetry.  Such “poetry” is a waste of time and timelessness.  That “poetry” ignores our mortal concerns.  It is not immortal.”  ~ Phillip Whidden

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