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Written: March 27, 2022

A Wedding Sonnet

To those true cultivators of Zhen Shen Ren,*
There is no common form we cannot take:
The vows of love said by the finest men
Know of no finer sound than what we make.
We know the greatest love flows as a spring
Does from the Heavens, pouring out with force;
Its harmony’s a song that all can sing
With words straight from compassion’s mighty source.
We know the faith that keeps a love as strong
As walls of stone unmoved by storms that flood
The world and often threaten right with wrong.
We know that we are more than flesh and blood;
And so no matter how life’s cuts may scar
Our love shines brighter than the brightest star.

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Zhen Shen Ren: Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance (the three main principles of Falun Dafa)

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Evan Mantyk teaches literature and history in New York and is President of the Society of Classical Poets.


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3 Responses

  1. Joseph Charles MacKenzie

    Dante’s vision encompasses Hell, Purgatory, Heaven, God, Christ, divine and human history, sin and redemption, Sacred Doctrine, and moral theology.

    And you say, and I quote: “Dante misses Homer’s grander vision.”

    Please excuse me and don’t take this personally, but it occurs to that anti-Catholic bigotry must be truly blinding. Shakespeare is really a Greek and Dante a narcissist.

    And somehow I am the one who needs constant correction.

    I think that just about says it all, doesn’t it.

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