'Questions for the Limestone Madonna'' -- a poem by John Lane in the USA, with a photo and a translation in French by sci-fi author Yann Quero in France

A photo captioned "The Madonna of Global Warming" by French author Yann Quero who took the picture a few years ago in northwestern France near the coast and who translated the poem below into French. Scroll down.

Questions for

the Limestone

Madonna

A poem by John Lane, 2018

If geology

is gospel, 

will you 

saves us? 

If geology 

is religion,

are you bedrock,

though softer

than granite? 

If geology 

is scripture,

then how 

are we to 

read your 

weathered

surface? 

If geology 

is to Son

as madonna

is to God, 

then are 

you the 

forgiveness 

of time? 

On this

soluble rock

we build.

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'Questions for the Limestone Madonna'' -- a poem by John Lane in the USA, with a photo by sci-fi writer Yann Quero in France who took the photo above. Web-packaged by Dan Bloom in Taiwan.

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Questions pour une Madone de pierre

Si la géologie est un chant de Dieu,

nous sauveras-tu ?

Si la géologie est une religion,

en es-tu le socle, bien que moins dur que le granit ?

Si la géologie est écriture sainte,

alors comment pouvons-nous lire ta face altérée ?

Si la géologie est au Fils, ce que la Vierge est à Dieu,

Alors es-tu le pardon du temps ?

Sur cette pierre friable,

nous batissons.