Imagine Poem by Suzanne Hayasaki
Imagine
Imagine if we imagined God
In the image of a woman
Instead of an angry man
Demanding vengeance and allegiance and strength.
Imagine if we imagined God
In the image of someone we loved
Instead of someone we feared.
Maybe we would project mercy and wisdom and trust.
Imagine God the Mother as the Creator
And maybe we could see the earth as a haven,
Its inhabitants as our siblings instead of our slaves
Maybe we would make more of an effort to save it.
Imagine the universe as a womb
Instead of an empty void filled with lifeless dust
And maybe death wouldn't seem so final
And life wouldn't seem so futile.
We become what we imagine we must:
Warriors, liars, murderers, thieves.
But we could stop the mutual destruction
If we could only reimagine our humanity.
Suzanne, as in my response to your Poem of the Day, in this one I wonder about your understanding of a word. This time it’s imagine. Imagine like invent? Or what we allow to fill our inner screen? Or what we hold there? What we choose to dwell on certainly shapes us as you assert here. On divinity, Jesus says the divine is spirit. Being personal as well as infinite, we want to use a personal pronoun. But we should remember, yes? , that whichever one we use, it’s metaphor. -Glen
Glen, having to keep this under 300 characters, I will simply say that I am not claiming to understand the Divine. But as a poet, I am interested in the storyteller's ability to shape our understanding of the world and the way this affects the actions we take.
If we wont be imagining like this we will not be able to enjoy life, love or respect that is the cause of fear, will never be enjoyable.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/25/2024 10:42:53 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Hey, Suzanne! Got on the exercycle and have been roaming, this time, through your recent postings and came on this one again. Yes, may we imagine or embrace what tradtions have passed down to us. In the biblical we are told God made humankind in the image of God—male and female God created them—only with both is the image complete. With you imagining, holding, a truer picture, Glen
I wrote this as I was reading Paradise Lost, which like Dante's Inferno, has become part of Christian mythology. Just like most people don't know that all the visions of that have been painted on church walls don't come from the Bible but from a poem. Most people get their idea of Lucifer, the fallen angel, from Milton, and I did not like the way Milton portrayed Jesus Christ as a warrior leading his father's army against his father's rebellious creations (the angels) .