Hi, call me Lilypop because I am really cool. I am only joking, anyway about this poem. I love the was you have with yout words! Beautiful! Also the way of the format makes it look cool. But may I say one thing. It seems like you want other people and cristions to join your faith. Of course I might be wrong though. I'm just saying if you are, I would like to not, it is wrong to force someone to chose a different faith. Though again i say, I haven't seen feels like that in a poem in a while. I would say that this is a excellent poem. Brovo! Please keep on the good work!

I'm a Pagan as well, but my only problem with this is that you seem to be trying to convert Christians, which Paganism has no need to do, as we see all the Gods as one. It's true that Christian tools can be used as Pagan ones, that was interesting, and the poem's well written, but if we don't want to be converted, we can't force our faith on them.

hey, now its my time to critize you.
first: about wut ur poem wuz saying. personally u cant find mine offensive and then trash me down with this here. talking about how we cant have a messiah and wut not, and how we have to look in ourselves. if i cant 'trash' you ((which honest to God i wasnt)) then why are you us? i'm sorry if u were mislead as to me thinking u all were complete idiots lost in the forever of nothing, b/c thats not wut i said. and: for ur info u dont know who Tommy is and have NO right to speak of him. u have no idea wut has happened to him! so dont even go there! and in any case: dont write this and expect us to go un-harmed, yet you get blown away by me.
and on the writing itsself:
try typing it in a way ppl can actually keep up with the words. it might help...
-mKs

Aww. Very Taliesin-esque, Alyx. *applauds softly*

Interesting formatting — as you know, I adore your poetry.
The lines "But instead look within yourself,
for that is where true grace lies, . . ." particularly grabbed me. The emotion and truth and belief I sense in those words is almost overwhelming. "For true deliverance comes through / love, not hate, through fellowship, not differences" was also a very vivid line for me.
I love this: you're quite right: it's not who or what you pray to, it's the good intention and belief behind the prayer that is most important.
Excellent.
~Swinging from the chandeliers~

Ah, but you have missed the point. I think you may need to rethink this--
if you have followed your own philosophy of "finding the mark of the divine within yourself", then by extention you have failed.
^--Yttera--^

I really love that one. Beautiful words, beautiful meaning - a rare combination.

Well said.

The first few stanzas of this, at least, reminded me a lot of the Da Vinci Code...but that aside, and knowing really nothing of where exactly you're coming from, I'd interpret it as saying something to the effect of all religions being a perversion of the basic truth of the divine universe (goddesses?). Since no religion is completely correct, there should be no discrimination; even the goddesses themselves do not mind if you worship whatever god you have been raised to, as long as you aren't pretentious enough to assume that you alone are right and others are wrong...anywhere close? Probably not. Ah, well. Oh, and the formatting added a lot to the poem/overall effect, and having dabbled in formatting these a bit, I can only imagine exactly how "precise" the html must have been. So kudos for that.
Your email address looks strangely familiar...did you by chance go to Maggie Walker...?
~lyv

Thanks for the reviews and I'm returning the favor now. Your poem's good. I have to admit that. The form's original and your form of writing's quite good. You know I'm a Christian, I know your not. This poem struck me as a bit insulting but hey, no one said all members of Fic Press are Christians. Anyway, I didn't mean to insult you. I'm not saying Christianity's higher than all other religions, cuz I also look at other's perspective. I mean for an atheist, he says: There is no god. We were created by evolution. We don't need any god and so on and so forth. As for a Buddhist, he says, Buddha is god. Did i get that right? For Muslims, they think Allah is god. So basically, we're all different. We tink different, our opinions and beliefs, all different. As for the converting thing, each religion's probably trying to hit on as much people as possible. But I think the best way you can stop insulting people is you don't read poems you think are related to Christianity. That way, you don't get insulted either.

Interesting format of writing. The rhyming was pretty good also. Some of the stuff was a little confusing though, but maybe that's just because my poetry is overly simplistic and unenvolved.
P.S.
Thanks for the lovely review, darling. :-) God bless

I'm sorry, but I cannot agree with you. The poem is lovely, the formatting wonderful, and the word choice exquisite--but the message, that I do not like. Some things are right and others are wrong, and different beliefs CANNOT be mixed, or it dilutes them into what they was never intended to be. I'm sorry if what I'm saying offends you, but this is what I believe.

::whoops!:: Love the casting of the sacred relics. Love the format. Can't say much else without spoilers...

Lovely and grounding, I especially like this like: "It is all one to us; why should it be not so with you?" And especially all of the lines about finding salvation in one's self. Great poem.

Wow that was great! I loved the format you wrote in it too. Its really great, you are an awsome writer.