Sunday Musings, featuring Cherie Sumner's poem titled " My Curse " , appreciated by Williamsji Maveli

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Sunday Musings, featuring Cherie Sumner's poem titled "My Curse     ", appreciated by Williamsji Maveli

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SYNOPSIS: This is my weekend writing column for a review of a poem from a selected author. This Column is being titled as "Sunday Musings" with a view to feature an in-depth analysis of any one of the poems from the previous week's postings, selected by me at random to avoid the elaborate review or comment postings by me in the usual comments column. Poetess Cherie Sumner's almost all poems are great success, and have won much appreciations and comments from COSMO viewers.  Hence it was very difficult to choose the best one for my review. However, I shall plan this column in such a way to accommodate almost all style of poems by all poets and poetess of COSMOFUNNEL, which I hope will give more room for encouragement and inspirations to write. The poems selected are purely from my own liking and discretion and has nothing to do with the ratings, voting and favorite aspects. Hope, readers will understand my view point and enjoy my writing. My views and interpretations in this column are purely my own observations, and it has nothing to do with the personal life of the author of the poem. I am eager to read your feed-backs.  The poem which I have taken-up for this Sunday Musings is Cherie Sumner's   poem titled "   My Curse    "

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My Curse
By
Cherie Sumner

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In the Garden of Eden,
The fall entered in sin and shame
The ever lasting effects lead promptly
To my estranged name
Sometimes, I feel so lost
In this world’s discarded purity
Uncomfortable with my nakedness,
A familiar insecurity

(Garden of Eden referred by the honorable Poetess is this life itself, the fall is the sin and shame, sin is an evil act we all have committed with full knowledge of what we have done. A sin is a thought or action that is known by the sinner (We all were born as sinners according to Christianity) not to be consistent with moral law. Purity in earthly life is nudity since from the birth of a human till death embraces, nude is beauty and love is always connected with physical nakedness rather than the purity of the mind, this is a lovely theme by Poetess Cherie Sumner)

I turn away from the mirror,
To avoid a glimpse of my skin
My exposed nudity awakens
Intense shame of great sin
Not a sin I willfully committed,
But one forced upon me
The creepy feelings rise up
Of what he did quite evilly

(It is easy to spread light in two different ways; one is to become a candle or a mirror that reflects the candle light. Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the mind)

Something wicked whispers to me,
“You are unworthy to be held.”
The feeling of attainted disgrace
Is never quite dispelled
Yet, I crave love and affection,
To be released from this curse
To accept the truth in Love’s eyes,
Without reactions so adverse

(When Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge, the evil inclination became a part of them. No longer did they need an external tempter to incite them to sin—now, that tempter resided within their psyches)

One dear soul recognizes
My instinctive response to hide
Where unwarranted shame
Dictates subconscious hurt’s betide
There is a passion in my heart
That yearns full expression
Without the past’s haunting memories
Causing insurrection

(The nude human body is a gorgeous thing. Unfortunately, we spend so much of our time clothed and covered up that we’re unused to what our own bodies look like so natural. What a shame it is to neglect your own naked glory. It is our own body, and getting in tune with our nudity self is an important component for eternal happiness)

He approaches me out of love,
With caressing eyes and hands
He studies all my features, thoroughly,
Trying to understand
The fears I conjure in my mind,
Doubts surmount at their worst
Love’s truth reflects in his gaze,
But I recoil, victim to my curse

(Lust is the after affect of sin on your soul and mental well-being. Shame lowers your self-esteem because of your inability to make the correct decisions and makes it easier to sin over and over)

BETWEEN THE LINES

Love is not just an emotion, and can be justified or not justified. For example, you can feel love about a sin, this justified or you could feel love about having made a genuine mistake that ended up hurting someone, which is  unjustified.. Shame and guilt are the worst feelings because they can totally control you and blind you from God. The greater the sin the greater shame will play a role in everybody’s life.According to Genesis, Adam and Eve were both originally naked, "but they were not ashamed." After they ate of the Tree of Knowledge, we are told that "the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked."

Was the act of being naked a sinful thing? Why would God have allowed them to walk around naked to start with if it was sinful? And if it was originally fine, how did their disobedience cause their nakedness to not be so good?. prior to their sin, Adam and Eve knew good from bad, right from wrong, but they had not internalized an evil inclination. So they could choose to do right and wrong, and were held responsible for their choices, but the urge to do evil did not come from within. This urge was represented by the serpent—the external tempter. Since the evil did not reside within them, they were "naturally" good, and their nakedness was innocent and in no way sinful. They saw no difference between a hand, whose purpose was to give charity and to do good deeds, a mouth with which one praises God and says kind words to others, and the parts of the body which are used to "be fruitful and multiply." With every organ they could fulfill the will of God or vice versa, so no organ was shameful, nor did anything need to be covered.

When they ate of the Tree of Knowledge, the evil inclination became a part of them. No longer did they need an external tempter to incite them to sin—now, that tempter resided within their psyches. And specifically, sexual passion – a passion which is much stronger than the desire to give charity or praise God, a passion which is much more encompassing and has the potential to be seriously misused – became a part of them as well.

Dear honorable Poetess Cherie Sumner, please accept my congratulation for sharing this fabulous poem with us, we expect more from you as always, keep writing more and more. May God bless you,

Regards & Love

WILLIAMSJI MAVELI

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