butters
High on a Hill
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I began thinking about Masada and the mass suicide of the rebels during the Roman siege. Great poem.
ooh! it's so cool when the interaction between author and reader via the interface of a poem takes us so many places.
and now i'm wondering (i should go look it up but won't right now) if this area doesn't coincide with where Jesus was reportedly tempted by Satan:
in the South District of Israel on top of an isolated rock plateau, or horst, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea.
the reason i bring the Jesus side of things into this is to do with the title - predisposes me up to of the rising in the east, the coming of the sun/son, the new age of christianity v the established religions of the region and the bloodshed that ensued and still does...
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