Best Secular Poems

There was a time 
when men built for God 
great houses of stone and glass,
with Gothic towers reaching 
to scratch Heaven's belly....

In the great hall,...

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(A matter of reasoned understanding)

If life's complete term is this earthly sojourn,
What value is to be found in morality?
Why do we yearn for high knowledge...

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We all have emerged from one nutritiously multicultural heart,
one sunlight into
one DNA patterned and structuring rhythm compliance 
with resonant RNA.

Predestined to remain within harmonic restraint...

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Socrates and Cicero
incorporated civility as a powerful, effective tool
in their poetry and dialogues
to smite the unsound ways of the sly fool.
Today our society
snaps with anger...

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A baby born in a secular state
Of parents belonging to different race
It will decide to what faith
It owes its allegiance and its prayers. 

A baby...

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At
the hip-
in God's world
there can be no
split....

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all is relative.
all should like to be a part
of this family.
absolutes just exist in
the mind of the creator....

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Beige brokenness
Invisible 

Trim athletic midwestern news anchor
Flys down south
She needs the heat of the sun
Georgia
Altanta
Yeah that's where she'll land
Where she'll go
She lives her life
She's got...

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Twisted thoughts, carefully secluded in webs
Anticipated plot, not an evolution, just being you
Planned subjects in an unhealthy immobile mind
You’re form of infinite justice, well developed...

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Pleasure
Oh so fleeting,
Monotony routine-
Agony an ever present
constant....

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Secrecy of the brilliance upon the night so broad,
Everyone looks though each does not see your secret.
Circular reflection splendidly gifted from God.
Universe surrounding where you...

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At
the hip-
in God's world
there can be no
split...

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Tourists traipse over sites.
The necropolises
Team with the secular;
Teasing mortality.
Trauma and terror marked,
Tasked with introspection: 
To learn ‘Never Forget’.

2021-04-26
Pleiades T Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman...

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Dancers
and health therapists,
meditators
and educators,
speak of an embodied
listening
and teachable "CORE."

We need,
on bad days,
and want,
on better days,

To exercise,
stretch,
fill and empty,
appreciate
and open
our empowering MindBody Core,

With healthy, resilient outcomes...

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He said,

Your faith community's secularizing problem
is too much dogmatically intolerant rigidity.
You reek of green political correctness.

She replied, indefinitely concluding,

You are undoubtedly right,
our sacred opportunity
too slowly...

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