Fast Food Chains Of FaithSomeone has said to me:
Brother, if God is everywhere,
Why should I go to church?
And I said to him:
Brother, the atmosphere is full of water
If you get thirsty, you just don't drink right away
You have to go to the source of water or a well
In order to quench your thirst.
Same with our spiritual life
Your soul...
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Categories:
faith, life, religion, spiritual,
Form: Prose
I Took Satan's ThroneI strolled into Hell like a VIP/
Satan said, "what's this nonsense I see"/
"Bro, I out evil you", I smirked with glee/
Then he rage-quit chess, forfeiting to me/
God gasped, his jaw hit the floor/
"I designed Satan, what is this lore"/
I shrugged, "he misplayed the Sicilian once more"/
"Then fell for a joke about the grocery store"/
He plotted...
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Categories:
religion, character, crazy, cute, fun,
Form: Rhyme
GOD'S MEEK ONESWe are the innocent ones who were verbally and
physically eviscerated by heathens who deemed us weak.
The evil ones punished our hearts, souls and minds
leaving us in an internal pool of blood.
We endured the ruthlessness and brutality from all whom
wrongly believed they were somehow above us.
There were so many...
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Categories:
religion, angst, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse
The QliphothThrough twilight veils, where echoes rise/
The hollow spheres in shadow thrive/
Unholy husks, where echoes moan/
A broken mirror, void and throne/
1) Thaumiel: Twin God's Divide
A realm where power splits its core/
Opposing forces wage war/
Not unity but sundered might/
A dance of fire and endless night/
2) Chaigidel: Confusion's Crown
A tangled mind, a frenzied tide/
Where reason bends and fears...
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Categories:
religion, corruption, courage, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
COMPLATATIVE GUIDANCEIt is prophesied that
“Wisdom dwells
In contemplation;
There we must seek her...”
After...
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Categories:
religion, allegory, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Good and FaithfulI've never seen an angel.
I seldom hear your voice.
But I know you sent Jesus
to offer us all a choice.
I know I've felt your glory.
I've felt your mercy and peace.
I know you're writing a story
about how much you love me.
I've never seen an angel.
I don't have to to know you're real,
because I can feel you beside...
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Categories:
happy, hope, religion, religious,
Form: Rhyme
The SacramentBliss as words like wine pour over a pure slate,
staining it with their meaning
and reddening it with their tones.
Fervor takes over;
the scene unfolds like something already decided
as one letter follows another
like drops from a chalice,
dripping until it overflows.
My neck is craned from fatigue
and out of reverence
as ideas become flesh before my eyes.
Each word is holy—
each...
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Categories:
religion, 12th grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
World ReligionsJudaism
The Mitzvah—God blesses every good deed
Thousands of years old
God Yahweh made a covenant with Abraham
that if Abraham and his people the Hebrews
Obey Him,
He'd consider 'em,
His chosen people, watch over 'em
God sent the Hebrew to kill their enemies
sparing not man, woman, child
or even the suckling babe
On the other hand,
God said He...
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Categories:
god, religion, world,
Form: Free verse
In the Name of God
Since the beginning of time wars have
been fought in the name of men’s gods
crusades against evil and injustice
but too often a case of “we’re right - you’re wrong”
with each side both judge and jury
I’ve stopped wondering if there’s a god
and decided long ago to live my life
assuming there’d be a day of reckoning
when...
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Categories:
god, integrity, journey, religion,
Form: Free verse
RightWing UnWokenIt's not enough to say,
with however much great might,
America's Religious Right
is wrong
to flap fight wings
and even bite
against Earth's spirit natured Left.
All sacred EarthTribe's
could cooperatively respect
in more resonantly wealthy faith
and resiliently healthy humor
re-membering
re-collecting
re-cognizing re-connection
peak passionMind/pleasureBody
unconditional re-ligioning
warm after-glow communion
omnipresently expand-theistic
win/win opportunity.
Radically irreligious RightWing monotheism,
an anthro-supremacist SunFather cult,
is wrong LeftBrain pulpit dominance
oppressing
depressing
suppressing
repressing healthy...
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Categories:
religion, america, faith, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
ETERNAL QUESTIONETERNAL QUESTION
We all live in a world full of belief
Yet often with little understanding
And sciences too, deep at its roots
Religious compliance when it suits
Yet with a loyalty to the branding
And for some, can still offer relief
Ready-made answers for unknowns
Especially if there’s to be no analysis
A link to God doesn’t need religion
Yet faith still does require...
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Categories:
atheist, bible, faith, religion,
Form: Rhyme
The Jewel Of Jesus
A polytheist would argue
just one God
That there are endless guards
and many rods
given these wards
With many temperaments and aims
devotion for a supreme being
Compassionate gods spread
charity, clarity’s
light and goodwill
Whereas others spread hate,
blood still spills
Relates—mayhem and darkness
The God of the Old Testament
unforsaken is the nakedness
not ever to turn the other cheek
not even for the meek
He portrays...
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Categories:
jesus, religion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Memento on the MoonMemento on the moon, our existence based on what we cannot see.
Subjective logic we measure by mere senses within our body
A penny lay I law on moon’s largest crater saying, ‘In God We Trust’
Nay a picture of God found on this coin, rather a man once worshipped
Proving our everlasting toil of higher power on earth...
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Categories:
religion,
Form: Free verse
The Distant SongPerhaps you heard a distant song
That mortals cannot sing;
Perhaps it made your heartbeat long
For such a pretty thing.
Perhaps you saw beyond your eyes
What dirt and clay can’t form;
Perhaps you know what beauty lies
Beyond the mortal storm.
Why then, pursue it, as you must,
One cannot let it go;
But gold is not akin to rust,
We can but little...
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Categories:
art, beauty, desire, religion,
Form: Rhyme
The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe GodSometimes I fear I've
never known you
Like a leaf might feel
It knows its mother tree
Until she sheds its crispy remains,
Only to let its pieces wither
Into the same substance
That gave them both life
I wonder
Is this life?
To live,
Only to languish;
To love,
Only to lament;
To long,
Only to lose?
To render,
Only to revoke?
This is what I...
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Categories:
religion, faith, god, jesus, journey,
Form: Lyric
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