144 Jesus Poems None of Which Will Save Your Life

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By David M. Teeter

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These poems explore David's relationship to Jesus through a variety of angles. They touch on the central matters of Christianity from suffering and forgiveness to lighter and even whimsical considerations: Would Jesus enjoy a cigarette, for example? Or play football? The full array of poems weaves the God-Man into the idiosyncratic bounds of a single human heart. Most of the poems are short, no more than two or three stanzas, that throw a spotlight from a singular direction to then move on to another vantage point just as unique, or peculiar, as the case

may be. Contemporary political matters are broached somewhat as well, reflective of Jesus' critical outsider status in his own day. The poems are grouped into 12 batches of 12, all sealed by a common theme, Innocence say, or Wholeness. Each reader will not agree with all the sentiments expressed, nor likely disagree with all of them either.

144 Jesus Poems None of Which Will Save Your Life