Two Poems I Wrote About Atheism
Offline Poem #1
I called out in vain,
God wasn't there.
"Take away the pain!"
No sign of him anywhere.
Surely if God was so benevolent and kind,
Evil would not be rampant throughout mankind.
The God of the Jews, so evil and crass,
Can't be the North of man's moral comp-ass.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, he may have been,
But not to follow him, can't possibly lead to eternal sin.
God you have shown, of yourself, no proof,
God you have made, of yourself, a spoof.
What could ever be worse than a supreme dictatorship,
Where the tyrant knows when and how you think, sleep, eat and shit?
Do you think there is an action among man,
That an atheist can't do what a clergy man can?
Yet the converse is much too easily shown,
Pious destruction is all too well known.
If you speak to God, then you are worthy of praise,
If God speaks to you, then you live in a daze.
I have only one father, no Ghost, and maybe a son,
But I know for sure, that when you're done, you're done.
When your telomeres are done no angelic hosts will proclaim,
Of any rebirth ever again.
It may seem sad, this I know,
But think of how you will come back so...
You may not go to heaven, limbo or hell,
But you will become a part of our natural spell!
Your atoms and their partical parts,
Will join the cycle of this world's own art.
To my pious friends I have only one cry,
Believe in no Heaven, and there's no limit past the sky!
Poem #2
If you gaze up at the newborn sky,
Only one thought can catch the eye:
For surely it cannot be
That out beyond the floating sea,
A constrict of some pearly gates
Block the mind and the heart abates.
What is about the vast beyond
Is that a maker with his stalwart hand
Took to making, with eyes so fond
The air, the water, and the far-out land.
To this (and the pious) I must then ask
From whence did this amazing task
And by extensions the Maker, He,
Come from? I confess I cannot see.
Need not see, to this you say
Need not think, or hope or pray.
For his loving hand has decided
By what his creatures have abided.
If there is such a maker then,
Of man, bacteria, the tree and hen
Why to such a fallacious band
Does he guide his ever-guiding hand?
“He loves us all”; then why die we?
“He loves us all”; then why lie we?
A chorus of piety shouts repent,
Do no bad first, so no need for a Lent.
It is said that from original sin
We all came from and all are kin.
Why a God so loving can’t
Learn to forgive and permit recant?
To my questions, as you will now know,
Answers have begun to show.
From the fear of death and the lightning rod,
Alas, we’ve learned, there is no God.
My clerical brothers would sooner die,
Than learn about what they abhor.
Friend, know the truth, and now look at the sky,
And maybe you’ll see a little more.
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Thanks for posting bsport48 , I like that. Makes me think of Khalil Gibran, third best selling poet in history, who loved his god, was a Jesus fan, but hated church dogma religion.
My atheist mom read us kids lots of his cool stuff. His poems, quotes etc are in Google. I was recently checking him out again, tho I don't read much poetry. Do you have any wild favorites ?
From his book, THE PROPHET, KAHLIL GIBRAN. His poem "Good and Evil" here, and few others http://www.math.miami.edu/~jason/gibran/gibran/prophet_ch21.html
Misc ....
http://leb.net/gibran/other/analysis.html
essay ends, ..... he tried to find a balance between his hate for organized religion [...]and his love for his god. As a result, his religious life was able to reflect onto his writing life, which after all was a theme of the poem "Life": that independent lives are able to recognize themselves by witnessing the "island" in others.
http://www.sikhspectrum.com/052004/gibran.htm
Gibran's contribution to his adopted homeland as a prominent literary figure, manifest itself in President John F. Kennedy's famous words, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
Thirty-six years before President Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address; Gibran, in his work The New Frontier (1925), had already prompted his brethren in the Middle East:
"Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert." ~ Gibran
"Love One Another" ~ Kahlil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your soul
Fill each other's cup, but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping;
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together;
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
...... Geezzz, wish I could write .....
Atheism Books.
Breast Feeding on Placebos, By Brian37
Opposite charges
From sky to ground
Flash of light
Intense heat fractures the sky
Myth made it's claim
To reality
Thor be the source
Of nature's fury
Discovery of truth
Wrote it's epitaph
A fairy tale
Lost to the past
Yet the sapient
With modern tools
Computers, medicine
Still squander like fools
Relishing in Dragons
And Dungeons too
Froth with crimson cheer
In want of the end times to be true
Practical matters
Such as Darfur
Climate change
And livable wage
Lost are such these priorities
That should take top seed
Replaced instead
With superstitious greed
The tirbins and Yamicas
And grand phalace hat
Sit in their holy offices
Making their wallets phat
Credulous people
Eager to feed
From the nipples of myth
They cheer lead
Bill had a Sheak
Hit it with a sphere
A flurry of nothing
Is what we are
It frightens them
This mortality
Myth is their placebo
To escape reality
Yet the skeptic
Seeks to find
To extend this ride
Our only life
Without flat earths
Or thinking hearts
We can lose all myths
And still survive
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I will do a spell check later, I wrote this in a hurry and have to go to work right now.
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