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, 
beneath the bold flying buttresses, 
people felt tiny--
yet when they cast their eyes upward, 
they  thought: This is where...

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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 to learn,
Or have need of reputation and fidelity?

Let's consume, every way, our limited stay
Not caring the consequence to others.
Let's ruthlessly...

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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 limits,
yet free within these interdependent limits
to play ecopolitical WinWin healthywealth all day
every day and night
each in our own sacredly native...

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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 at such wise thoughts,
having little regard 
or respect for its laws, and so disobedience
grows at an alarming rate, 
to set...

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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 growing up in a secular state
Of parents belonging to different race
Unsure of its faith, unsure of its fate
In the end,...

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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 her plan
She is blind to the peace she can not understand
On the outside others think she has it all and...

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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 in the form of
Secular Mnemonics


Extroverted passivity, a purposeful and comprehended essence
Can’t look in the mirror now, brainstorming anew
Embracing this way...

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

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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 bravely sit.
Looking at the different shapes, you display.
Amazes those who truly see beyond simplicity,
Realms of possibilities you appear hidden in...

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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 predicted
as a return on investment
for such deep enlightening listening
and learning
intention,
integrity
of compassionate purpose.

Back in the day,
religious
and warm spring breeze
front porch Sunday...

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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 grows win/win principles
of nature/spirit indigenous integrity

We speak of blue empowerment
through green cooperative enlightenment,

Yet shun the rightwing dominant
red patriarchs
we only find...

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