Recipe for life despised as sin
Ingredients revised by religion
Cooked in hell fire seasoned with hate
Served overdone on a priest's plate
Tender hearts stewed and fried
with a sauce of freedom's suicide
Sweet meats are not allowed
Salted treats picked from a cloud
An old cookbook served as the model
nature's wonders to pickle and bottle
Cooked without gas, flame or electric power
Cake for the mass' to devour
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The fear of God taught by the precepts of men:
Thanks 2781 for the read and comment. Could it be the fear of men taught by the precepts of God?
That we must find for ourselves.
Well I'll be blowed .. Nice one sir 🙂
Thanks Neville for the read and comment made me smile.
As I ponder the worlds population….. but many arrived not without the inhibitions, condemnation and rest of the strictures you’ve identified Soren.
‘Shame!
Thank you Dave for the read and comment it is appreciated. Many reasons for sexual control but sad that it is identified as sinful when it should be celebrated as natural and joyful
Hear Hear, Soren.
'Let them eat cake,' as one said!
Thanks Orchi for the read yes I would rather eat cake.
Oohh, not sex - too swoony! lol.
LoL Brilliant and one of the very reasons I could never believe in religion 🌹 expertly done I'm chuckling away.
Thanks for the read and comment and support it is appreciated. Got a little soured on religion look more to spirituality
I always do, loved it
Funny how some people want to turn Nature's most powerful emotion into a sin. We kill each other in wars, but that's O.K. by most religions.
Sorry, your poem is to blame for my little rant, which means it was very powerful. Well done. - Phil A.
Thank you so much for your comment it is most appreciated
Having been a Catholic School girl I can relate. In late grade school and even high school, we were fed a healthy diet of shame and guilt, culminating in paranoia about anything sexual. I'd laugh and say it probably led to PTSD, but actually it's not funny. You hit the provoberial nail on the head with this one.
Thank you so much Bella for the read and comment your visits are always so welcome and appreciated.
Sujata, who is said to have fed Gautama Buddha a bowl of kheer, a milk-rice pudding, ending his six years of asceticism.
Mary Magdalene & Ben Yeshua.
I understand your sentiment. However, I am religious and have no problem with others' opinions or beliefs differing from my own. Within my own family everything exists from paganism, Catholicism, new-age, fundamentalist Christianity, Baha'i, Satanism and non-theism. We get along and love each other because we try to practice the best of what we believe. Enjoyed your poem or should I say thesis? God created sex to be enjoyed.
Thanks for the read and comment. Yes respect your and all others beliefs. Yes it is just my point of view as are all my poems. Don't mean to offend and am only saying that sex is part of nature and that it took man to create restrictions that are artificial to nature. Best wishes
I am not offended. I simply wanted to share. Thank you.
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