Is there water in heaven?

[PrinceMyshkin]

Is it cool?
Is it wet?

Or how do the sainted
refresh themselves?

Is there love in heaven?
Is there regret?

Or what do the sainted
converse about?

Are the saints
razor-close in their saintliness,

or are there medals
for the nicest and the best?

Is there water in heaven?
Is it cool?
Is it wet?

[Dark Muse]

Quite intersting, and yet at the same time a bit humurous. I really enjoyed this.

[Lumiere]

What a question!
My mind is spinning from it.
As always, Prince, I appreciate the cleanliness of the language.
And the bit about the medals for the nicest and the best is thought provoking.

[MorpheusSandman]

A nice, refreshing little musing about a few of the great many ideas about what paradise would possibly be and contain. I'm not sure about the repetition of the first stanza at the end, though.

[Hawkman]

Synchronicity or morphic resonance? Now that's the question. The line, "Is there love in heaven" was buzzing around in my head yesterday. It didn't take me anywhere though but you seem to have found a good home for it. In fact this poem seems to have found a good home for quite a few lines, and with unerring skill you have put them all in the right order. Cracking poem PM.

[hillwalker]

I have it on good authority they have 'Stella Artois' - a wonderful idea, skilfully relayed as ever.

I particularly enjoyed the couplet

Are the saints
razor-close in their saintliness,

Much food for thought, Prince. Thanks for asking the question.

[blank|verse]

A characteristically thoughtful poem, Prince, to which one is tempted cheekily to reply 'what do you think clouds are made from?'!

I think I'm with Morpheus in finding the repetition at the end a bit unnecessary; I suppose it's a bit unusual for one of your poems as they often contain - never answers as such - but certainly suggestions; here, one can sense the circularity of thought still undecided but wanting to find a suitable response. Maybe one will appear in a future poem?

And hillwalker -
I have it on good authority they have 'Stella Artois'
Have you been watching Derek Acorah (sp?) again?

[PrinceMyshkin]

Many thanks Morpheus, Hillwalker & Hawkman; and as for you,


A characteristically thoughtful poem, Prince, to which one is tempted cheekily to reply 'what do you think clouds are made from?'!


Mr Smart|*ss, clouds, I'm informed, are made of precipitation that rises from the earth. By Heaven, I meant, well... consult whichever Testament you subscribe to...

[lallison]

Great poem, your seemingly child-like questions make one ponders one's much bigger and deeper. Whether or not there could be a heaven among them. The innocent questions of children often uncover much deeper truths. Wonderful!

[Cunninglinguist]

Is there meat in heaven? I mean, if we kill a cow she goes to heaven, right? But to get meat in heaven we can't just kill the cow again, can we?

[lallison]

thanks for proving my point

[PrinceMyshkin]

Great poem, your seemingly child-like questions make one ponders one's much bigger and deeper. Whether or not there could be a heaven among them. The innocent questions of children often uncover much deeper truths. Wonderful!

Many thanks, esp. for this point. It seems to me that before the great theological assertions we all to some degree respond as children: bemused, gratified, scared, naive - and skeptical.

[Jesterhead]

this was too simple and childish for me

[PrinceMyshkin]

this was too simple and childish for me

I was writing from a deliberately naive frame of mind but, for you and perhaps a few others, I may have overshot the mark. Thanks for commenting.

[qimissung]

Ah, I was thirsty and didn't know it. Thank you for this refreshing bit of whimsical philosophy, Prince.

[krymsonkyng]

Reminds me of The Songs of Innocence, but less wordy. I like this, but I think I dug too deep into it the first time I read through. Anyone else ever apply metaphors where they don't (read as 'might not') exist?

[Bar22do]

Is there at all heaven,
an after death thirst?
perception, ethics,
or quest?

Are not all
sainted here, on earth?
and the beyond silent,
un-conversed?

How can we ask
about what to us
is like thought to an ant
or, nothingness?

[qimissung]

I love the irony of your quest~tion! Marvelous! And your little poem~quite beautiful and somber~loved it, too, bar.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Ah, I was thirsty and didn't know it. Thank you for this refreshing bit of whimsical philosophy, Prince.

If there were water in heaven & you were thirsty, I would gladly share mine with you.

And, Bar, thank you for your poem in response and the provocative analogy

"about what to us
is like thought to an ant

[hack]

Is there meat in heaven? I mean, if we kill a cow she goes to heaven, right? But to get meat in heaven we can't just kill the cow again, can we?


If there are vegetables in Heaven,
I'm going...

Maybe it is the little things that we
will miss most, like corn dogs.

Good on ya, My Prince, good on ya!

[Bar22do]

If there are vegetables in Heaven,
I'm going...

Maybe it is the little things that we
will miss most, like corn dogs.

Good on ya, My Prince, good on ya!

I've just read what a corn dog is... dear me, that can damage one's brain (impossible to digest!) and reduce one to a vegetable... who then goes to heaven... don't go, please don't go...

[PrinceMyshkin]

If there are vegetables in Heaven,
I'm going...

Maybe it is the little things that we
will miss most, like corn dogs.

Good on ya, My Prince, good on ya!



Is there poetry in heaven?
And does it have to have meter and rhyme?

[krymsonkyng]

Only if Blake made the cut.

[Beautifull]

Intrigued me...I like the little reptitition you did. Very interesting...
Makes someone wonder whether life in heaven will be like Life on earth.

[qimissung]

I'm pretty sure we will have wings and harps. :D

[PrinceMyshkin]

I'm pretty sure we will have wings and harps. :D

Which reminds me of a question put to Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio as to how he imagined heaven: "The angels all play Bach," he said, and paused dramatically, "but after hours, they play Mozart!"

[AuntShecky]

Remember that old polka?
"In heaven there is no beer --
that's why we drink it here."

But seriously, your verse was a nice introduction to philosophical arguments about this place called "Heaven."
Is it really a "place," or rather a state -- (of being)?

I particularly liked Bar22's poem as it took the premise
even further.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Many thanks Hack, Bar, Krymsonkyng, and of course, Aunty:


Remember that old polka?
"In heaven there is no beer --
that's why we drink it here."

But seriously, your verse was a nice introduction to philosophical arguments about this place called "Heaven."
Is it really a "place," or rather a state -- (of being)?

I particularly liked Bar22's poem as it took the premise
even further.

Your quotation from that old polka couldn't help but remind me of that old chestnut, "Oleanna" and therefrom "The Big Rock Candy Mountain"!