CRUCIFIXION

Posted by Admin on 25 May 2006, 12:00 am

The scene as oft depicted
was but a truth half told,
for death by crucifixion
was nauseant to behold.

Far wiser ’twere, as Dali knew,
as from a high point placed,
to give a much foreshortened view
with bowed head hiding waist.

His focal point the widespread arms,
the chin to chest depressed,
with deltoids and trapezia
intolerably stressed.

To let imagination’s lens
in each beholder see
the moment ere the soul ascends,
the death throes agony.

And so the painting hangs, unique,
an artist’s tour de force,
there proving that St. John’s mystique
the Gospels message may endorse.

N.B. The crucifixion of the Christian in St. John of the Cross’s greatest work, The Dark Night Of The Soul.

T. C. Hudson

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