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Seasons

By goingtothedogs

26 June 2007

It can be hard to express a good relationship

To everything there is a season

And a time to every purpose under Heaven

A time to touch, And a time to be touched

A time for Lust and a time for Love

A time to sleep, And a time waking, to reach for the one loved,

A time to smile, And a time, smiling, to be loved.

A time to speak, And a time, in silence, to let the eyes speak.

A time to laugh, A time for joy

A time for thought And a time for play.

A time for words. And a time when, distanced, words must suffice

A time to embrace, for bodies to be close

A time for the shining passion of the physical,

And a time for the lust of the body to express the heart’s cry

A time to be apart, A time to be together

And that time, for some perhaps, is to come

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Written by Phil (7001 comments posted) 26th June 2007

Nice thought GTTDs.

Problem is, although I'm not a believer, there's some beautiful language in the Bible - this being version of a pretty well known verse. It's it little like trying to rewrite Yeats or Arnold or whoever rings your bell in the poetic world. It will always be pale by comparison.

Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Phil.

Written by goingtothedogs (58 comments posted) 26th June 2007

Can't argue with that, but it never hurts to try to catch the mood....

:-)

Written by Fledermaus (3506 comments posted) 27th June 2007

Never knew this was based upon the bible. It's a nice thing, with a clear message, but I guess it's a matter of taste wether one likes such a mantra-like poem. For me it grew a bit to repetitive (is that a word?), although I liked the content.

Written by goingtothedogs (58 comments posted) 27th June 2007

Yep, the original is biblical. Here's the text. And yes, repetitive is a wod :-)

To everything there is a season,
a time for every purpose under the sun.
A time to be born and a time to die;
a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
a time to kill and a time to heal ...
a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance ...
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to lose and a time to seek;
a time to rend and a time to sew;
a time to keep silent and a time to speak;
a time to love and a time to hate;
a time for war and a time for peace.

ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Written by Talisker (1336 comments posted) 27th June 2007

Biblical hokum, made famous by Pete Seeger (Turn, Turn, Turn) - being a confirmed atheist, religious broth reheated makes an unsavoury dish.

Oli

Written by goingtothedogs (58 comments posted) 27th June 2007

If you don't like my "interpretation", then fair enough, that's your privilege. :-)

But why say that the original is "hokum"? Because it's Biblical?

I'm a pretty convinced aetheist myself, but that's beside the point. There's a lot of truth in this particular bit of wordage, even if the Bible as a whole does contain a lot of "hokum".

Why condemn this piece? In what way do you consider it to be "hokum"?

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