Blind Faith
by joanie
Posted: Sunday, March 13, 2005 Word Count: 134 Summary: A continuation of an exercise in Poetry Seminar - I took 'Belief's hot mud' and tried to make it into something more. |
Hot mud springs
bubble healing powers
to ease the pains of modern
life, therapeutic minerals
for aching limbs or unsound minds.
Thermal mud regenerates,
makes whole. Immune systems
are restored, lives made clean,
wounds restored. My body
craves this restoration, longs for
therapy.
Those travellers who make the journey
claim healing for their own.
I sit, mantled in my belief
and lie in wait for wholeness.
Version II
Those travellers who make the journey
claim healing for their own.
I sit, mantled in my belief
and lie in wait for wholeness. My body
craves this restoration, longs for
therapy.
Hot mud springs
bubble healing powers
to ease the pains of modern
life, therapeutic minerals
for aching limbs or unsound minds.
Thermal mud regenerates,
makes whole. Immune systems
are restored, lives made clean,
wounds restored.
bubble healing powers
to ease the pains of modern
life, therapeutic minerals
for aching limbs or unsound minds.
Thermal mud regenerates,
makes whole. Immune systems
are restored, lives made clean,
wounds restored. My body
craves this restoration, longs for
therapy.
Those travellers who make the journey
claim healing for their own.
I sit, mantled in my belief
and lie in wait for wholeness.
Version II
Those travellers who make the journey
claim healing for their own.
I sit, mantled in my belief
and lie in wait for wholeness. My body
craves this restoration, longs for
therapy.
Hot mud springs
bubble healing powers
to ease the pains of modern
life, therapeutic minerals
for aching limbs or unsound minds.
Thermal mud regenerates,
makes whole. Immune systems
are restored, lives made clean,
wounds restored.