tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post639632711726394067..comments2024-03-28T15:32:26.808-04:00Comments on Shay's Word Garden (Poetry & Such Like): CleansingFireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-54659267324582713252018-01-08T16:33:22.639-05:002018-01-08T16:33:22.639-05:00Take the cloth and the sweet-smelling detergent to...Take the cloth and the sweet-smelling detergent to the tabletops<br />of your personal dining room...super advice. I also love the communion, the fry and the Orange soda. This is the Jesus I know, the cool unjudgemental Jesus who says to all, love one another.tonispencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200564195675794747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-24381851324178226562018-01-08T09:39:31.386-05:002018-01-08T09:39:31.386-05:00Take the cloth and the sweet-smelling detergent to...Take the cloth and the sweet-smelling detergent to the tabletops<br />of your personal dining room.<br /><br />Good advice, friend. This is a how-to that is really in touch with the 21st century milieu.<br /><br />Kerry O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00720862912375945249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-72260818457270047372018-01-07T16:06:00.375-05:002018-01-07T16:06:00.375-05:00I love the one-word title, drawing out "Clean...I love the one-word title, drawing out "Clean Sing," as if that's the first directive in how to cleanse yourself. Start with the song you sing. That's good advice.<br /><br />"offering judgement and asbestos underwear" ... Ha. That's awesome.<br /><br />"cleansing should be a private thing" ... So true. It's just not really going to happen if people are watching ... especially if they get off on your repeated failure.<br /><br />I love this: <br /><br />"Lay out the things you'll need:<br />the towel,<br />the candles,<br />the knout and the noise-reducing headphones."<br /><br />I wish: <br /><br />"the curly fry placed upon your tongue,<br />the orange soda in the tiny dixie cup"<br /><br />I'm craving tiny portions of orange soda now.<br /><br />Great line: "Find the kernel of eternity and meaning inside the absurd"<br /><br />"Stop sleeping with everybody who asks." ... That's really as good a place to start as any.<br /><br />"In the end, there is no 'end.'" ... Right on. I like that.<br /><br />I love this:<br /><br />"Jesus stands ready with company protocols and his wonderful crooked grin.<br />His hair is long, he likes the extra crispy sandwich"✿https://www.blogger.com/profile/01044032159371976375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-18686122783911241532018-01-07T16:05:18.003-05:002018-01-07T16:05:18.003-05:00Hands-down the best poem I’ve read today. Don’t ya...Hands-down the best poem I’ve read today. Don’t ya kinda wish life could be as perfect as that one perfectly crunchy curly fry all the time? But from God —to Dolly Parton’s lips (not jugs) “If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain 🌧 🌈 😘😉🎁❤️Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11413074557542736813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-64202060933226664702018-01-07T14:31:32.816-05:002018-01-07T14:31:32.816-05:00I too love this, Shay. One of your best - well, a ...I too love this, Shay. One of your best - well, a NEW best, I'd say. SO many great couplets and wonders - too many to choose 1, or 2, or 3.<br /><br />Incidentally, for others who did not know:<br /><br />"knout <br />noun<br />1.<br />(in imperial Russia) a whip used to inflict punishment, often causing death.<br /><br />verb<br />1.<br />flog (someone) with a knout.Cloudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853753108637831069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-60475606175039439432018-01-07T12:30:04.398-05:002018-01-07T12:30:04.398-05:00Like Joy, I note how your poetry - always brillian...Like Joy, I note how your poetry - always brilliant - has taken on new heights and depths since you retired, and we are the fortunate beneficiaries. I love this poem, especially "his wonderful crooked grin". Love the elevating of daily routines to ritual. Cool.Sherry Blue Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926508656571639801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-2042821208975786302018-01-07T12:17:03.435-05:002018-01-07T12:17:03.435-05:00Shay--Another wonderful poem to welcome in 2018. Y...Shay--Another wonderful poem to welcome in 2018. You made me look up "knout." Thanks for the educational tidbit. ;)Sioux Roslawskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17924021828536277618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-56250420338135269982018-01-07T12:01:57.714-05:002018-01-07T12:01:57.714-05:00I love this Shay, and I am speechless. I am not pe...I love this Shay, and I am speechless. I am not personally attracted to Jesus, but as described here, he can't be all bad. And the ending is wise, indeed. I also love the curly frie. You are on a roll of late, and that's always medicine of the most uplifting and cleansing kind for the rest of us.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.com