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UNDUE BEMOAN

By Solomon Belete Haile (A sequel to ‘My Flower’) A wrong perception of the world, Arising from an upended mind, Produced an elegy derided; A clay spoke up to the potter, Deducing from the actions of its master,  Sound off a lengthy lecture, Screeds polemic insincere;  The molded slandered the molder, Unbeknownst to its fare, Harangued balderdash of despair; A worm confronts a farmer, Insisting for an answer, what a fool it was to utter, Hasty words of despair, laying blame on the Gardner, Said: ‘what have you done to my flower?’ ‘Leave her alone, come on gardener,’ I am the clay, the miserable worm, A doleful creature in a conundrum; Has the potter no right over the clay, To do what he pleases nay my cry?  Who am I to utter those words, Seemingly true but nescience, Against the author of life and death, Who am I to exclaim, A nonsensical voice in humdrum;  As if all along that flower was mine, Misplacing ownership which was thine; Thank God for my second thought, I goggled at the appa

My Flower 'የኔ አበባ'

My Flower    ' የኔ አበባ '   By Solomon Belete Haile I heard the birds singing, Robin, chickadee, and starling, In the fresh air of spring, It was my flower's time too, To flourish and blossom, Under the blue, bright sky's bosom, Beneath a cheerful moon, A canopy of bright stars, Swelling surf and new grass. Alas, my flower, She'd been through rough weather, The wind, the chill, the stormy winter, Leave her alone, come on gardener, It is spring, let her prosper. The gardener planted a flower, Atop Ethiopia's highland 'Wollo meder', Adorned her with beauty and glamour, Nurtured her with aroma and savor. She was gentle, yet strong, Swayed in the wind but never broke, Blossomed for a spell but not for long. Her tall stemmed stature, Flamingo akin splendor, Transplanted up yonder, By the swift action of the gardener. Oh, benevolent, caring gardener, What have you done with my flower? If

CHRISTMAS: A CATHOLIC TRADITION

By Solomon Belete A Response To Greg Koulkl’s Christmas Promoting Article I read an article by Greg Koukl promoting Christmas, posted on brother Tesfaye Robele's Facebook page. Tesfaye Robele's prologue to the paper and Greg Koukl's apologetics for this Catholic tradition prompted my reaction to write a response. Therefore, you'll find Robele's prologue, Koukl's article, and my answer in that order. Tesfaye Robele's prologue to the article reads:  "Jehovah's witnesses do claim that celebrating Christmas (and everything associated with it) is a pagan origin! It is a logical fallacy to judge the truth or falsehood of a proposition on the basis of its source of what motivates someone to believe it (its genesis). In other words, the legitimacy (reliability) of sources or motives does not make a proposition true or false. Thus it is a fallacy to assume or conclude that religious beliefs or practices are false just because they are acquired by psycholo