Composed 9/1/17
Description: This is a dance concrete poem for all the lovers gamers. Inspired by today’s Daily Prompt: Critical.
with
every breath and
every step I blow on the dice
and pray as I make this attempt for I
an unrefined commoner with only modest
qualities make it at great disadvantage
I gamble but yet I am not the
one I just rolled that
way
Composed 1/20/15
Description: This came from a discussion I had with a friend.
He was talking about how some people believe Dungeons & Dragons (which I’ve recently started playing) is anti-religious/Christian. It made me think of several years ago when people were saying the same thing about Harry Potter. In both cases, these thoughts are not only untrue but completely backwards. You can create very holy/religious characters in D&D (which could symbolically represent Christians), and Harry Potter has wonderful moral and spiritual themes.
People just need to stop treating “magic” like a bad word. Isn’t the Narnia series, the most beloved Christian-allegorical series, chock full of magic? Isn’t the whole idea of God alone… well, magical?
You say I’m playing Satan’s games
But I see golden stags through the trees
Distant realms between their borders
I see magic in the stars
And that seems like heaven to me
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