November 12, 2009

Finding Religion

By Tony Brown

we cobble
faith
together

from the odd street-Christian tract
comic books
snatches of poems
random lines from TV

slip it into our thin wallets
as if
it could feed us

and starve while we imagine ourselves
well-fed

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4 responses to “Finding Religion”

  • restorel66's avatar restorel66
    November 28th, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    I read several of yours tonight and this is my favorite. I’m thinking of a line something about “you can’t buy a pound of faith and take it home in a paper sack.” I don’t know if I heard that in church, but it makes sense. That’s what I thought of when I read your poem: faith is a gift.

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    • Tony Brown's avatar Tony Brown
      November 29th, 2009 at 9:44 am

      Thanks.

      I’m always intrigued by how people cobble their comfort together these days…and by how little actual comfort some of them find in it.

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  • opoetoo's avatar opoetoo
    November 14th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    I think you are right. Most folks are starving.
    Something for your wallet : )

    one definition of religion:

    Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble ,and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
    James 1:27 NKJV

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