April 27, 2004
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I just have to share this poem I stumbled on by denofearth. It sounds the universal note.
Faith
Jesus
Buddha
and Mohammed
sat in the park
playing
Chinese Checkers
on the lawn.
Mohammed
spread out
a carpet for
them to sit on,
Buddha brought
out a pot of tea,
and Jesus
passed around
a loaf of bread.
People passing
seemed not
to notice, they
only saw
a black man
an oriental man
and a hippie.
The few that
did notice
recognized only
One.
And even then,
each person had
Faith
that it was
just an illusion,
nothing more.
It was only
just a trick
of the light.
Deep Thought: Maybe it’s my imagination, but food seemed to taste better when I was a kid. Also, food would sing and dance and play musical instruments. But that could also have been my imagination.
Today I am grateful for: One
Comments (8)
I love that!! So true too. Hey, thanks for referring to moveon.org. That is quite a reference tool and I so appreciate it. I used it for today’s post. Thanks again.
I love your deep thoughts….I regularly share them with my husband: )
yeah. it was a great poem. my favorite of den’s by far. i love the photo of the quilt (c’est ca?), it’s so lovely. I wonder how Oregon is these days, it’s been many years since I was there. namaste.
THAT is a great poem! I’ve never read anything like it before. Thanks for sharing.
I love that poem. It is awesome.
I just read your entry about the Da’Vinci code. That is utterly fascinating. I can’t get over it. I always wondered what that book was about.
That was lovely.
Superb poem, thanks for sharing it. It reminds me a bit of the stuff Richard Bach wrote.
That is a good poem. An excellent book that is a similar alegory is The Life of PI