{"id":39,"date":"2020-01-27T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-01-11T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:05:54","slug":"what-hatred-was-made-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"What Hatred Was Made For"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I really, really like this one. An Easter poem. Just wrote it yesterday morning and it fills me with holy energy and makes me giggle. I’m calling it by a subtitle here which alludes to a scene in Perelandra <\/em>by C. S. Lewis; the actual title is R-rated and I don’t know my audience so I toned it down a bit haha. The last line is a quote from a movie that if you recognize the scene should also make you chuckle.

The painting above is another one by my friend Steven Moser (see my first poem post “Danforth”<\/a>) … it is called “Resurrection and the Life” from a series of paintings called “I am…” I love it when a poem I write ties with a painting he has done. I think I’d like to try to write some poems just inspired from his paintings — that would be a good exercise for me…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT HATRED WAS MADE FOR<\/strong>
The ground shakes
The stone rolls
And the arms emerge
An eagle on one hand
A dove on the other
The double bird<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the face
Flashing eyes
Explosive grin
The light of a billion suns
It is finished
And can\u2019t be undone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the demon turns
And says
You arrogant ass
You\u2019ve killed us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really, really like this one. An Easter poem. Just wrote it yesterday morning and it fills me with holy energy and makes me giggle. I’m calling it by a subtitle here which alludes to a scene in Perelandra by C. S. Lewis; the actual title is R-rated and I don’t know my audience so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}