An Easter poem

I would actually like to do this. I do enjoy longer poems too, like The Hunting of the Snark, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and The Lay of Leithian (a book long poem Tolkien did of one of his Silmarilian stories). I'll try read it over the holidays.

Thanks Cinnabar Wing, I'm not usually a poetry fan, but there are a few I like, apart from the Anglo-Saxon ones, which interest me more from an historical perspective about how they thought about the world.

I'm also a big fan of The Emporors Babe, by Bernadine Evaristo and Sekhment by Margaret Attwood..

Back from walking the kids and being made to scramble up muddy banks in the wood, so a sit down with a cuppa and reading it was just right. 

I'm not religious, so I hope I don't offend anyone, but know it all from school. I found it really interesting that the poem centers around the tree, the cross and it's part in the crucifixion story. The melding of the differing views of it, from the gilded and jewel bedecked to the simple bloodied base wood of the tree. The idea and symbolism of the tree itself was an interesting take on a story people have heard many times and gives space for different ways of thinking about it I think.

As a pantheist I can easily see how Jesus could be seen as just another God, a pantheist headspace and way of thinking is totally different to a monotheism and even though I wasn't brought up in any religion, it still took me some years to stop thinking in terms of monetheism.

If you look at the similarities between some of the Odin stories, of his hanging on a tree to gain wisdom, I think this might explain some of why Jesus could be viewed as just another god.

I wonder if the author of the poem had been to Rome or some of the richer churches in Europe? It would seem that richly decorated churches didn't come along until a bit later in Britain, the Columban church was quite austere from my reading of it.

There's quite a lot of things that come from Pagan beliefs in Western Christianity in general, even the word Easter comes from the Goddess Ostara, the Goddess of spring, it's where the tradition of easter eggs comes from. Christmas is the most obvious Christian takeover, but then a midwinter festival is common across ancient Western cultures, particularly the further north you go.

As a pantheist I can easily see how Jesus could be seen as just another God, a pantheist headspace and way of thinking is totally different to a monotheism and even though I wasn't brought up in any religion, it still took me some years to stop thinking in terms of monetheism.

If you look at the similarities between some of the Odin stories, of his hanging on a tree to gain wisdom, I think this might explain some of why Jesus could be viewed as just another god.

I wonder if the author of the poem had been to Rome or some of the richer churches in Europe? It would seem that richly decorated churches didn't come along until a bit later in Britain, the Columban church was quite austere from my reading of it.

There's quite a lot of things that come from Pagan beliefs in Western Christianity in general, even the word Easter comes from the Goddess Ostara, the Goddess of spring, it's where the tradition of easter eggs comes from. Christmas is the most obvious Christian takeover, but then a midwinter festival is common across ancient Western cultures, particularly the further north you go.