To a son of God
Viewing comments for Chapter 2 "Babylon The Whore!"Metre ... Freeverse & Quatrain
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Comment from Jean Lutz
"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" Is the beast within? How many will repeat? Words, art and color scheme all work in harmony -- subtle suggestion of that place that was created for Satan and his followers.
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2014
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"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" Is the beast within? How many will repeat? Words, art and color scheme all work in harmony -- subtle suggestion of that place that was created for Satan and his followers.
Comment Written 02-Feb-2014
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2014
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Excellent I think this is a compliment ... much appreciated and glad you could enjoy this one, from what I remember I think it got a kicking on its first day out !
Comment from Maureen's Pen
Hi BicPen,
This is intense work yet you penned it well holding my attention. I'm foggy on the history or significance of this but still you pulled through a work and had me pondering it for awhile after the read.
Excellent writing.
Thanks for sharing.
Maureen
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Hi BicPen,
This is intense work yet you penned it well holding my attention. I'm foggy on the history or significance of this but still you pulled through a work and had me pondering it for awhile after the read.
Excellent writing.
Thanks for sharing.
Maureen
Comment Written 22-Aug-2012
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Thanks Maureen, much appreciate.
Comment from RaymondJohn
I have heard about the whore of babylon for a long time, but have seen little written about it. You have an interesting story about her. Good beat and strong images. Ray.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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I have heard about the whore of babylon for a long time, but have seen little written about it. You have an interesting story about her. Good beat and strong images. Ray.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2012
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Many thanks...
Comment from GWHARGIS
Loved the passion. Your choice of words stirred the emotion of the verses. I enjoyed it very much. The picture was perfect for it as well. Nice job.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Loved the passion. Your choice of words stirred the emotion of the verses. I enjoyed it very much. The picture was perfect for it as well. Nice job.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2012
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Thanks GW...
Comment from SecretSquirrel
It's alright. It has some messages and talks about reasons for things and links them to spiritual destruction in a symapthetic and direct way. There is a lot of soul touching going on. I'm not sure if it is meant to be a song, but this starts to come across to me as a chorus, and not a lead-into line. I guess it works as both, but maybe the chorus could be built up a little either way.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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It's alright. It has some messages and talks about reasons for things and links them to spiritual destruction in a symapthetic and direct way. There is a lot of soul touching going on. I'm not sure if it is meant to be a song, but this starts to come across to me as a chorus, and not a lead-into line. I guess it works as both, but maybe the chorus could be built up a little either way.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2012
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Much appreciated...
Comment from Keyana4Life
Maybe its just me, but I did not understand your poem. Why is the girl suffering? Also your wording is a little weird. Could you explain your poem to me because I really want to understand it?
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Maybe its just me, but I did not understand your poem. Why is the girl suffering? Also your wording is a little weird. Could you explain your poem to me because I really want to understand it?
Comment Written 22-Aug-2012
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Alright seeings as you gave me a three maybe I can change your mind...here goes...!
Babylon is an old spirit of religious idolatory. It was under the guise of a certain cannanite religion, hence, the warring between the Israelites and Cannanites of old. First it was named Bal, then Baal, then Ballim this was just a change of name for the same principality or power as the generations progressed.
Historically, Babylon was a great city known for its wealth and power domination and war like fortifications. They believed that this city would never fall but it did in quite a remarkable way. It had a river which ran into and through it and when the opposing army came up against its fortifications they had to wait for an opportunity.
Babylon had a great feast day and all were invited leaving the twelve feet thick walls ungaurded. The army outside knew the feast was in play and diverted the river from it course and as the water subsided through its enterance into the great city they marched their troops through the six inches of water right to the heart of Babylon central and took control.
Throughout the history of scripture Babylon was an opposition of the true Isralite God and it was prophesied that she would fall, and she did just as it was I have told. The city that is.
Bal I belive was the religious opposition to the Israelites and one of its priests actually tried to curse the army of Israel for profit through this religious system of cursing only to fail and damn his own soul.
Babylon later in the Book of Revelation is interpreted by some, and I say by only some, to be a well known established religious sytem in our modern day history that has its roots within this Bal=Baal=Ballim equation.
The poem is the woe pronounced on the religious power of Babylon as she is discovered for what she really is in light of the Israelite God JAH...or the great "I am" of the Old Testament scriptures.
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Bicpen, thank you, I really apprieciate you taking the time to explain it to me. Now I understand it. I hope I did not offend your work, I was just confused. You are a very wise person.
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No worries...its our privilage to explain and defend our own work...if you want to change the rating just go to the poem and change the star rating on your review and press save, much obliged.
Comment from Ed_Anderson
I really enjoyed this poem, it stirred my creative energies. You do a great job with it and I love the repetition that you use. The fact that we know what she is thinking, and what the crowd thinks of her is wonderful. Great narrative and poem here.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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I really enjoyed this poem, it stirred my creative energies. You do a great job with it and I love the repetition that you use. The fact that we know what she is thinking, and what the crowd thinks of her is wonderful. Great narrative and poem here.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2012
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Thanks ed, much appreciated.
Comment from ScarletClearwater
Good job with this piece. I remember when you first came to the site. You have blossomed. Great job with this passionate write.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Good job with this piece. I remember when you first came to the site. You have blossomed. Great job with this passionate write.
Comment Written 22-Aug-2012
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Excellent, glad to hear your kind appreciation...much obliged.
Comment from juliedickson55
Nice depictation of this image in the poetic presentation.
The graphic is intensely well-chosen.
I was a bit confused about certain words not keeping the same spelling, or perhaps representing different entities?
"Bal", "Baal", and "Ballim"- intentional?
This poem might lend itself to being song lyrics...?
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Nice depictation of this image in the poetic presentation.
The graphic is intensely well-chosen.
I was a bit confused about certain words not keeping the same spelling, or perhaps representing different entities?
"Bal", "Baal", and "Ballim"- intentional?
This poem might lend itself to being song lyrics...?
Comment Written 22-Aug-2012
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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Thenames mentioned are one in the same but different names given to the old power of Babylon through the generations.
Comment from Heaven Bound
I'll call this interesting. I understand the aspect of Babylon as a whore. Ultimately, she (it) is going to get its just rewards. What a different approach to the topic.
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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I'll call this interesting. I understand the aspect of Babylon as a whore. Ultimately, she (it) is going to get its just rewards. What a different approach to the topic.
Comment Written 21-Aug-2012
reply by the author on 22-Aug-2012
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That she will my friend...that she will...
