Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Love's Sacrifices...(Prayers Of A Fox Whisperer) #IamSamson


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*  Dedicated to #IamSamson

+------Love's Sacrifices...(Prayers Of A Fox Whisperer); Samson's Words To 300 Foxes After Losing His Wife To The Philistines 

Foxes, proselytes in 150 fated
pairs, tails knit together (as lovers,
I hope) torch-lit. Into their ears
I whisper “we have known love universal,”
“its abode within the soul, a
lasting blaze”. I ask them to rise….
as metaphors, mourning conflagration
-ambassadors for those not
yet born who’ll one day cherish
romance too. “On fox-altars for fox
gods please take offerings of grain,
wine, olives”…The black smoke,
the blood, the charred wheat, the
crazed fur of immolation, grapes seething
of wrath: “Send the Philistines a
stark message- this is the stench,
of your greatest loss, of a (Hebrew
man’s) heart broken.” 

------Judges 15:1-8
Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, “I’m going to my wife’s room.” But her father would not let him go in. “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.” Samson said to them, “This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them.” So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails, lit the torches and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves. When the Philistines asked, “Who did this?” they were told, “Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.  Samson said to them, “Since you’ve acted like this, I swear that I won’t stop until I get my revenge on you.” He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.

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