Martin Luther’s Anti-Semitic Legacy—500 Years Later

 

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The 500th anniversary, which numerous conferences, museum exhibits and special events and publications are commemorating throughout 2017, has a much darker significance for Jews. While Martin Luther initially had a relatively positive relationship with German Jews, he eventually adopted vociferously anti-Jewish rhetoric and promoted violence against Jews. His views helped shape centuries of anti-Semitic attitudes in Western Europe, and the Nazis later used his writing to stir up anti-Jewish sentiment.

Now dress is to be gender free at last
And fluidly the boundaries shall run
Wear some leaves like Eve and  smoke the grass

Watch the  legs of maidens as they pass
Eating apples,having lots of fun
Now dress is to be gender free at last

Every rule  is broken and debased
The police are armed and we can smell the guns
Wear some leaves like Eve and  smoke the grass

Let the memory of our loves be not erased
As rapidly the rules melt with sense none
So dress is to be gender free at last

Let not our heart’s love be torn, defaced
Let us live with humour and wisdom
Wear some leaves like Eve and  mow the grass

 

Is our Big Society a con?
Clothes are not important to the Sun
Now dress is to be gender free at last
Wear some leaves like Eve and   break the glass.

 

Ah,did you throw away the ripened fruit
Because inside it hid a hardened stone?
As anything not total does not suit
Love’s ambivalence seems to you a crime.

Confirm yourself by getting a phone text
You cannot live today without that cell
When I was young , the  Bishop confirmed best

Do you wonder if you’re a mite obsessed
Well if you are, perhaps noone else can tell
Confirm you’re me by getting a phone text

Do you think  that I  have passed a test
To prove I’m real and feeling really swell?
Then I was told , the  Bishop confirmed  least

My mother always  seemed inclined to vex
And added further children to our hell.
Confirm yourself by sending you a text

I wonder if we had too many checks
I suffered with my” nerves” when Mother yelled
When lips were cold , the  Bishop  preferred breasts.

Well soon I shall find what cometh next
The priest was absent from my burial
Confirm all first by sending God a text

So then we hear the tolling of the knell
Elegaic music with dark thrills
Confirm yourself by reading holy texts
When I  sung , the  Bishop cried “Arrest.”

 

 

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“Poems are necessary because they honor the unknown, both in us and in the world. They come from an undiscovered country; they are shaped into form by the power of language, and set free to fly with wings of images and metaphor. Imagine a world in which everything is already known. It would be a dead world, no questions, no wonder, no other possibility. That’s what my own world can feel like sometimes when my imagination has gone into retreat. I have discovered that poetry is the phoenix I can fly on to return to that forgotten land.

And yet for all its magic, poetry uses the common currency of our daily speech. It uses words that are known to all of us, but in a sequence and order that surprises us out of our normal speech rhythms and linear thought processes. Its effect is to illuminate our lives and breathe new life, new seeing, new tasting into the world we thought we knew. Poetry bids us eat the apple whole.

To eat the apple of the world whole, we have to learn to pay attention; not only to the inner promptings of the imagination, but to the physical world around us. Poetry is a way of rescuing the world from oblivion by the practice of attention. It is our attention that honors and gives value to living things, that gives them their proper name and particularity; that retrieves them from the obscurity of the general. Poems that galvanize my attention shake me awake. They pass on their attentiveness, their prayerfulness, to me, the reader. And especially when I read them aloud, and shape the sounds on my lips and the rhythms on my breath. This is why poetry can make us more fully human, and more fully engaged in this world.”