Monday, October 4, 2021

Everybody Must Get Stoned

 



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Everybody Must Get Stoned


“Some days are diamonds, and some days

are stones.”--Neal Gaiman.


I spent my

whole youth,

turning over stones;

gathering and

polishing them.


Stones

haunt history.

David slew Goliath

with one.

Sisyphus

rolled one

uphill for an eternity.


Lazarus 

watched

as Jesus moved

that boulder

off his tomb

with two words,

Rise Up!

Say Hallelujah!



Glenn Buttkus


Quadrille


Posted over at d'Verse Poet's Pub


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16 comments:

  1. indybevOctober 4, 2021 at 2:22 PM

    Succinct and spot on!

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  2. Ron. LavaletteOctober 4, 2021 at 2:25 PM

    Perhaps the most famous stones ever, captured succintly here. Well done Glenn.

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  3. De JacksonOctober 4, 2021 at 3:02 PM

    Yes! A wonderful collection of storied stones. I love this.

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  4. Dwight L. RothOctober 4, 2021 at 4:56 PM

    A great Quadrille! A wonderful rock collection you have here Glenn! Such great examples. And perhaps Willie Nelson will have the same fate as Sisyphus and be stoned for eternity!! :>)

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  5. Glenn ButtkusOctober 4, 2021 at 5:41 PM

    Dwight; If not Willie, then maybe Bob Dylan?

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  6. JadeLiOctober 4, 2021 at 5:55 PM

    Stones pepper throughout history, you're so right. In at least Chinese culture they are thought to be imbued with sentient spirit. What throws me about stones is that in the wild they are quiet and unassuming but once humans get ahold of them they want to shine and polish them. They have a boulder of jade at the Field Museum in the hall of gems. It looks so out of place there.

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  7. TruedessaOctober 4, 2021 at 7:08 PM

    You have captured stones through the ages. Of course now I have this looping in my head.

    How does it feel?
    How does it feel?
    To be on your own
    With no direction home
    A complete unknown
    Like a rolling stone?

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  8. Gillena CoxOctober 4, 2021 at 8:45 PM

    Wow what an awe collection of stones you worded here.
    Thanks for dropping by to read mine

    Much💜love

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  9. Dr. Vandana SharmaOctober 4, 2021 at 11:47 PM

    So much history in few words, wonderfully done.

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  10. IngridOctober 5, 2021 at 1:11 AM

    I love the spirit of this, Glenn! Today feels like a stone, but I'm hoping there is still time for it to transform into a diamond...

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  11. ben AlexanderOctober 5, 2021 at 2:55 AM

    leaves me wondering if you still have any of those stones you polished, Glenn...

    -David [ben Alexander]

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  12. Merril D. SmithOctober 5, 2021 at 2:56 AM

    I never thought about stones in history--but now I am, and with Bob Dylan playing in my head. Well done, Glenn!

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  13. KerfeOctober 5, 2021 at 7:17 AM

    Much magic lies within...

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  14. brudbergOctober 5, 2021 at 12:07 PM

    Stones have always been important... you have chosen your examples well.

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  15. purplepeninportland.comOctober 6, 2021 at 5:27 PM

    Well done collection of stones, Glenn!

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  16. lillianthehomepoet.wordpress.comOctober 7, 2021 at 9:15 AM

    WONDERFULLY done! I'm so reminded of the power of Maya Angelou reading those words: Rise Up!
    You'd done well with this prompt!

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