God Meaning Duet

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I feel a poem coming on
Feel is an interesting word to use

here if taken literally from
the Old English felan to touch

or have a sensory experience 
of perceive sense witness

ultimately from the attested
Proto-Indo-European root 

pal- to touch
feel shake strike softly in

late Old English it came
to mean to have a mental

perception of generally
in Germanic languages feel

meaning to perceive by sense of touch
has evolved so as to apply 

to the emotions the abstract
as in I feel a poem coming on also

from this attested root
the Greeks received ψάλλειν 

to pluck to play
a stringed instrument

as in a harp we get psalm
from here a sacred song

or poem used in worship
from the Greek for a song 

sung to a harp or performance
on stringed instrument or a plucking

of the harp the harp
is from the Old English hearpe

by way of the Proto-Germanic harpon- 
source also of Old Saxon

harpa instrument of torture
the harp is not meant 

to be an instrument of torture
although these words are cognates worship

is from the Old English meaning
condition of being worthy of

honor dignity glory renown
worship is used as a way to feel

God’s glory coming
on to feel worthy

before God to feel deserving
of God’s glory when

I feel a poem coming on
I mean I believe I feel 

the poem literally I am touched
by poemness

I perceive it when I feel 
God coming on I mean

I believe I feel God
literally I am touched by

God’s feeling Godness I perceive it poetry
in Ancient Greece

was often accompanied
by a lyre lyre

in Greek λύρα is a loanword
of uncertain origin we get lyric

from the lyre as in lyrics
to a song the words to sing

to music as in lyric poetry
a sometimes ill-regarded

poetic mode considered bloated
with feeling but lacking

argument or meaning
but what is argument

and meaning if not the scaffolding
of feeling God

has a long history
and sounds like good

but God and good are false
cognates God

in the German was at first
a neuter noun

and shifted to the masculine after the coming
of Christianity before Christianity

God was likely ideologically
closer in Old English

to the Latin numen literally
meaning a nod of the head

as in divine approval
as in I believe in God

and God believes
in me cognate

comes from the Latin
for blood relative I like thinking

about words as having blood
relatives I like thinking

about God as having blood
relatives etymologically

God came to us
from a Proto root

meaning that
which is invoked a poem

can be invoked
in the same way

God can be invoked
a poem can be invoked

in order to feel God I like thinking 
about poems they help me

I like thinking about God
God helps me the word

poem comes from the Greek
for creation which itself comes

from a word meaning
to pile up build write layer make

I like writing poems
it’s like making making making

God making feeling
regarding God’s roots

some disagree they think
God is from a different

word meaning to pour
as in water meaning

God please give me 
meaning I’ll take it I’ll drink

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that's why God gave
us distance there was no

where to
fit this