This week let’s write a judgement poem. Did anyone notice I forgot to post a prompt last Monday? I’m guilty. Pass your sentence in the comments below.
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Monday Poetry Prompt: Judgement
This week let’s write a judgement poem. Did anyone notice I forgot to post a prompt last Monday? I’m guilty. Pass your sentence in the comments below.
Living Poetry 
In ancient Greek ‘kritik’ stood for both
subjective criticism and objective judgement.
‘Krisis’ was a legal term denoting civic order.
In Latin it came to mean the moment before judgement.
Crisis.
Crisis and judgement are connected.
For Aristotle, crisis is perpetual in political society.
For Christianity, worldly crisis deferred
means perpetual crisis of conscience.
Medical ‘crisis’ once included symptoms and diagnosis,
divided between perfect and imperfect (possibility of relapse), acute and chronic. Crisis. Critical. Judgement.
17th century, a fresh application of the medical terminology
to the ‘body politic’
Edmund Burke’s ‘crisis’ closer to medical,
Thomas Paine’s closer to theological.
Similarly, while you see the shift to theological meaning
from 1627-1714 in the form of Rudyerd, Baillie and Steele,
or Parliamentarian, Covenentor and Whig,
the theological tone in Rousseau is countered
by what seems to be a silence
where you might expect to find a predecessor
to Burke – Hobbes.
What was Hobbes’ judgement?
Crisis. Critical. Chronic. Acute.
Body. Polis. Theos. Judgement.
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Posted by Jeremy Ray Jewell | December 17, 2018, 9:41 PMNo 🍷 for you!😈😁
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Posted by JeanMarie | December 17, 2018, 5:49 PMThe leader denied the readers their prompt
Did he forget or with work was he swamped?
What punishment shall fit?
To be fair but also legit?
One week without the grapes that are stomped!
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Posted by JeanMarie | December 17, 2018, 3:43 PMExcellent though the punishment would be counterproductive.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 17, 2018, 5:31 PM