Oh Galileo! Did you not "make waves?"
The Catholic Church would burn you at the stake.
But you profoundly studied 'til your grave
Though fearful cardinals would your soul to break.
A physicist! The foremost of the times!
You disobeyed, like Paul, and traveled to
Old Tuscany to preach the heavens' rhymes
In concepts blasphemous to monkish "truth."
Those scribes, those pharisees in spirit like
The same who crucified The Son of Man
Could never justify their devilish strike
Against God's great astronomer and stand.
The One whose physics tamed The Galilee*
Displaced the carnal church through Galilei.**
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| Jesus with fishermen ; Raphael Sonnet inspired by: http://tinyurl.com/6m8y5ae |
*Many of Christ's greatest miracles happened at or around the Lake of Galilee: feeding the 5,000, calming the storm that frightened the disciples, walking on the water to Peter who lost faith and was sinking. Here he taught the disciples to be "fishers of men."
**Galileo's last name.
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| Lithograph of the lake and fishermen 1890-1900 |
3 comments:
As always, I enjoy your poetry. I really enjoy this one based on a real person. Maybe you should make this Christian BIOGRAPHY sonnets just to make your life even more complicated and busy. :) HA! Also, it would be cool for you to put on the blog what inspired each sonnet. . .Just a thought.
Actually, you are in sync with me. I was actually going to saunter over to my neglected NYC blog and post a review about the play Galileo that I saw on Thursday and then cross link it to the sonnet as it inspiring it.
Actually, have thought writing sonnets on various individuals and their relationship to God...that I've read about...i.e.C.S. Lewis, whom I adore and others. We'll see.
Finished putting up a guest post on The Fat and the Skinny. I'm still tweaking that blog and not there yet.
Great poem!!!! A poem that does a biography...that's really creative! Keep up the good work!
Jerry
http://poetforjesus1977.blogspot.com/
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