{"id":4345,"date":"2023-08-13T06:58:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T10:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2023-08-01T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:02:21","slug":"poem-cat-and-mouse-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/13\/poem-cat-and-mouse-game\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Cat and Mouse Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to view God, or not. This poem plays with deferent weighs to see God. The title, Cat and Mouse Game, refers specifically to a very clever and brave mouse who hides in the cat&#8217;s ear to be the least likely to be discovered. Perhaps God isn&#8217;t precisely inside us or outside of us, or even quite both. Perhaps God&#8217;s veil is a clever part of a game that makes it way more interesting, perhaps safer, and\/or perhaps better in some other weigh. Makes you wonder, hopefully&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cat and Mouse Game<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever herd a cool cat<br \/>\nTalking about a conception<br \/>\nKnot sow immaculate<br \/>\nA bout God<br \/>\nThe aww might he<br \/>\nOr some inside job<br \/>\nPerhaps as some divine bean<br \/>\nWear life courses threw everything<br \/>\nYo soy Dios!<br \/>\nA quest in of incarnation<br \/>\nAs we meat our maker<br \/>\nOr go owed school<br \/>\nGod as some owed man<br \/>\nSitting on an ivory throne<br \/>\nThen again<br \/>\nAnd agin<br \/>\nOr perhaps some forum of love<br \/>\nWhere we just are<br \/>\nDeer to won another<br \/>\nOr just game<br \/>\nCool cats ponder<br \/>\nWeather man or a mouse<br \/>\nAs well as some<br \/>\nCat and mouse match<br \/>\nKnow wear too hide<br \/>\nWhat say you to that<br \/>\nFeline fine in the ear<br \/>\nHere hear<br \/>\nAnd still<br \/>\nGod wresting quietly<br \/>\nIn an unherd-of manor<br \/>\nWhere we least<br \/>\nExpect it<br \/>\nSome say know way<br \/>\nOthers say Yahweh<br \/>\nWe all have different idles<br \/>\nI just say<br \/>\nI don\u2019t no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to view God, or not. 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