Poetry by Brian37 (poems by an atheist)
Offline I post all over the web, but I want a back up in case my computer or one particular website goes down.
I have decided to edit this post because I do not like giving people the wrong impression. I cannot read Shakespeare to save my life. I just remember this one line from act 5 scene 5 and put my own spin on it. I've had to explain this over and over so here I decided to put that in this post so there is no more presuming what I know or don't know. But the plot of MacBeth is the old lesson, you can have everything and nothing at all at the same time. And how did all that cruelty serve you in the end? But I do not like play summeries calling him a Nihisist, because it is possible to not do what he did, and accept life as being finite, and sitll have morals without religion.
NEW EDIT 9/19/22 I got pissed at myself that I was scared to read MacBeth, so tonight, I forced myself to read it online. Now mind you, I did not understand it line for line, but basically Macbeth was an assdhole who murdered his way to the top, and did not believe the 3 witches prophcies. He murdered Duncan and had Banquo murdered. Banquo's ghost haunts Macbeth. And made the grave mistake of attacking McDuff's family and killing them(If I am reading this correctly) But Lady MacBeth has a guilty conscience and kills herself, upon finding out Macbeth basically says that life is not worth living and he should go down with a fight anyway, but refuses to fight Macduff face to face and Macduff kills him as the hero. ( I SERIOUSLY read the entire play every line, tonight. I even know where the famous line "double double, toil and trouble". comes from. The three witches, basically saying "look out Macbeth" your ass is in trouble.
So basically the moral of the play, don't be a fucking asshole when trying to get to the top, or "the bigger they are the harder they fall". Reminds me of the movie Scarface and all the shitty things Tony did to get to the top and all for not. But Sosa in that case was not a good guy either.
QUOTE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MACBETH:"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Here is my spin on that wonderful and profound line:
Out, Out brief candle, By Brian37
To-deities, and to-gods, and to-God
Creeps in this petty tyrant from day to day
Until the extinction of humanity new ones will be invented
And all our yesterday's Gods have been created by fools
The way to tribal death. Out out brief myth
Claims are but a walking shadow, a poor reflection
That struts our narcissism upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by the credulous, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
(END)
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Control Group, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
I survived
My heart attack
I survived
That plane crash
I survived
Breast cancer
I survived
The battle feild
On the table
I floated above
Saw myself
Operated on
I know I know
There is a soul
I know I know
I will go on
Not recomendig it
This experemint
Blow your heads off
With a shotgun
Your brain in motion
Is all you are
Once distroyed
You don't continue
Take a sledghammer
To your computer
Smash it up
Into tiny peices
Try to reboot it
You know you wont
So what makes you think
That souls really exist?
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Rosetta Stone, Brian37(aka, Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Niave humans
Polyglot the pretty lights
Of the nightime skies
Project animal and human shapes
While others
Track them pragmatically
Forgoing anthropomorphism
Seeking understanding
Centuries pass
Copernicus and Galileo
Hubbard and Tyson
NASA to Armstrong
And a decade trek
28 minutes it will take
For the robot communication
To come back to earth
Once viewed with fear
The splintered tail
Ominous doomsday
The end was near
It's a cosmic fossil
Speeding through space
Water abundant
Throughout vast space
To think of the timing
To get them to meet
The cordnation involved
Is no small feat
Science is insight
To past and future
Rosetta's journey
Our species should nurture
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"Ugly" By Brian37(aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Kurdish Christians
In Iraq
Lined up and slaughtered
By barbaric thought
Soldiers captured
In brutal cold
Allies slaughtered
In frozen feilds
Gallows ropes
In Iran
Exucute gays
Is their plan
Iquistions
Of the past
Inoccent mudered
The tyrant's path
Atrocities stem
From bad logic
The lemmings taboos
Utopia promise
Pluralism
Some seek to protect
The ugly tactic
Of censorship
Ugly is
Dismembered limbs
From world leaders
Silencing criticism
Ugly is
That of wars
One party states
And theocracies
Ugly is
Avoiding truth
Protecting one's ego
Is all it is
Rancid and rotting
Insecurity's grip
Berieved be not
Over it's rightful death
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GO GO GO, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Pussy Riot,
Malala, Susan B Anthony
Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou
GO GO GO
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Madam Curie
Billy Jean King
GO GO GO
Hyapatia
Emily Dickenson
Thatcher and Clinton
GO GO GO
If of the other sex
Says you cant or wont
If they try to hold you back
Tell them NO NO NO!
Betty White
Would laugh at them
All their sexism
A complete and utter joke
Any culture or religion
That cant or wont allow
Girls or women their own life choices
Deserves nothing but scorn and contept
GO GO GO!
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Obey Me Or Else, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet also @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
The Mafia boss
Will kill the rats
Keeps them in line
By making threats
Kim Jong Un
Will treat you well
Do his bidding
Do not tell
The frightend spouse
Stays in line
Dares not leave
Fears for her life
No dissent
Is allowed
No questioning
Protect the club
To call this love
To call this kind
To call it a choice
Is out of line
Conveys not love
Nor are you free
To think for yourself
Or dare to leave.
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Periaktoi, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
The spinning triangle
On the post
Allows for changes
Between the acts
The audience would see
Only one side
While the techs backstage
Would change the themes
A costume change
In a stage act
We see all the time
Even today
Our modern billboards
Are ellectronic
Flipping the pictures
Upon command
The "Skene" is where
Our modern word
"Scene" we say
To this day
It may amuse
Or annoy
Many today
The actors would play
Men were
Always on stage
The characters sex
Regarless of script
But without
Media or Rex
Without Antigony
Or the Odesy
Nothing you see
On TV today
None of the drama
We take for granted
Would exist
At all today
Without the Periaktoi
Or Skene
(end)
My understanding of the pronunciation of "Skene" is not "SEEN" as in "Scene" but the historians projected "Skene" as "Skay-Nay"
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One Way Or Another, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
I watch all the dolls
Find out who they call
Lead them to the minion book market
Specials for rat food turn them all into monsters
One way or another
I'll qoute a verse you'll convert
Become a sheep
Cause you're not deep
One day, maybe next week
When you're down and cannot sleep
Fill the gaps because of trauma
You servived it so it must be magic
And when your brain has shut down
That man of the cloth could be an Imam
Or hands you a bible then you are gone
Your reason is done
One way or another
I'll find you, I'll get you
When you're week and you're young
Pretty stories, you'll think it's fun
Then you'll grow up to think
All others must subjugate
To your religious views
If they dont, you'll kill them too
One way, or another
It always dies it cant survive
When when it's questioned
Exposes lies
I watch all all the dolls
Calls to violence in holly malls
Priests and Imams, Rabbis too
Selling their rat food, get lost in the crowd.
One way are another
We'll find Sagan's truth
Waking up
Before we're through
(end)
An Ode to a Blondie song. Campy but still true.
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We're No Different, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet and Brianrrs37 on Twitter0
What do they think
A secret club
Dismembering believers
Drinking blood
We cast spells
On the faithful
We worship satan
And he is grateful
When we find you
We'll infect your kids
Indoctrinate them
We're walking dead
Pentagrams
And goat heads
Razor blades to your flesh
We'll drain all your red
We love Stalin
And worship Hitler too
Kim Jong Un
Is our goal for you
Is this what you are told
Is this what you are sold
Seems so silly to me
To be frightened of disbelief
Tell me do you worry
That others hold no thoughts
Of belief in Apollo
Are you overwrought?
Do your nights lack slumber
When you think of others
With no faith in Osirus
The world has left behind
We are no different
When we go through life
Same events and ups and downs
You experience all the time
But we don't assign
The good or bad in life
To that of magic or divine
For nature explains it fine
We feel joy at weddings
We cry at funerals too
We have friends and pets
We have favorite foods
We hold diverent views
On issues of politics
Different economics
Different favorite music
We are different classes
Different educations
We are in every boarder
In every single nation
It is just the "off"
Just a mere position
It's not a club or moral code
With an evil vision
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Polyglot Ginsu, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and Brianrrs37)
Peter's parents
On tv
Mourning the loss
Of their beheaded son
Secretary of State
John Kerry
Condeming murders
In Synagauges
All while he
Sits above
Selectively chosing
What he does
"Different languages"
Liberals claim
Speaks to all
He is the same
This cosmic parent
Sticks knives in our hands
Watches us stab each other
With out stoping it
And you continue
To think he's real
What I see
Is ignorant zeal
No not just the violence
Yet love of false hope
Despite the evidence
Humans are doing it
Yes the langauge
Is all the same
The lanuage of gaps
Justifying behavior
Our compassion
Our cruelty
Polyglot ficton
From flawed perceptions
What drives the Christian
Muslim and Jew
To either do bad
Or also do good
What drives humans
To feed the poor
What drives humans
To holy war
Its to pretend
To willfully ignore
There is no divine
Magical force
We stab and pray
Hoping some day
That more of the same
Will work in some way
The Lost Ark ghost
At the end of the movie
Starts out an angel
Exposing our nightmare ego
I agree
Different languages it is
The language of gap filling
From human ignorance
(end)
End, "The Lost Ark ghost" is comming from the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" at the end of the movie where the ark is opened and the "sprits" shoot out of it looking pretty like angles at first but turn into evil skeleton spirits.
Our "different langauges" is not one god speaking many different languages. That is our species evolution in our gap filling flawed perceptions. The false perception that we cannot see our evotionary compassion, allows us to hide behind or ignorance, which allows us to ignore our egos, which is really where our god concepts are comming from.
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O Milagre Do Sol, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Chupacabra
Started out green
Lizzard alien
From a B movie
Now religated
To reality
A wolf or dog
Suffering from mange
JFK was assinated
By one disturbed man
No explosives in the towers
That Jews had detinated
In 1917 delusion in mass
70k or so they claim
The sun changed colors
Darted and spun
Astrophysicists
Know it's not true
Phychietry and and evolution
Explain mass delusions
There are no vampires
No ghosts to be found
No oujia boards work
It's all a result
All a result
Of false perceptions
Appeal to emotion
From not understanding
How easily fooled
Our brains can be
How bad ideas
Can spread like weeds
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Under A Microscope, By Brian37(aka Brian James Rational Poet and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
You left the force
Because you are afraid
For your own life
And those around you
You can argue
That you were right
Yet you failed to see
What you did wrong
Under a microscope
Is all the time
Is what the conditions'
Of judgement they face
Under a microscope
Much more than others
Getting pulled over
Harsher punishment by courts
Over your shoulder
You must look
For the rest of your life
Over the actions you took
Jim Crow alive
Rehashed by fear
Its about economic conditions
That affect us all
You lost your job
And righfully so
Not because all cops are bad
But your failure to see
It should not be about race
But your lack of understanding
They live under a microscope
Unequally
Utill all face this
And accept it as fact
It is lack of understanding
And too much judgement
I have seen
The same actions
When I grew up
I did stupid things
I have seen
Bloody fights
Assaulted a cop
Without getting shot
Poor rural whites
And GOP voters
Are all human beings
After resources
The injustice
Isn't about riots
Isn't excusing
Any crime
It is the inequity
They understand
Of living under a microscope
To a higher degree
My hope for you Darren
When someone sees you
And you have to wonder
What they will do
That is what happens
Every day
Look over your shoulder
Needlessly
They know this
And always have
They don't want to be lawless
Just understanding
Open your ears
Be willing to listen
Stop the judgment
Let this be your lesson
Why did you open
That door at all
It was not out of fear
You wanted to be the boss
You assumed the worst
And were trained to dominate
At a seated position
You'd have me believe?
You'd have me believe
At a tactical disadvantage
At a seated position
You were afriad?
No you were not
It makes no sense
To verbally or physically
While seated
To confront Hulk Hogan
That black "demon"
While you are seated
What was the advantage?
You lost your cool
When he didn't respond
Slammed the door into his legs
And you are surprised?
Is it your job
To protect your ego?
Or is it your job
To remain calm?
You can shout "I am the cop"
Till your face is blue
Making an argument
Ignoring the the real issue
Consisder the microscope
You are now under
Think about that
Before you pass judgement
This is what
They are arguing
It isn't your job
It is your lack of understanding
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Have A Hart, By Brian37(aka, Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter.)
A simple sign
We know what to do
Two words
Of innocence
Universal
It could be
The act of compassion
Devonte displayed
And spotted by
A man of law
The viral embrace
Now seen by all
Embrace embrace
I know we can
Embrace embrace
Learn his lesson
That cop got
What Wilson did not
Its about humanity
Not your power or lot
Embrace embrace
Our time is short
Humanity's compassion
Are "Free Hugs".
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Eleven, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
No video of me
When we smashed cars
No video of those
When I witnessed shoplifting
No video of
The fights on my block
In the sports bars
Or frat house parties
No video of
My own parties
Underage drinking
And smoking pot
No video in my young 20s
In the parking lot
Aquaintances
Busted for drinking in public
No video
When pulled over
I was a passenger in a car
Of a guy in no shape
Staten Island
To Ohio
12 year olds
Or in a Walmart
Video or not
What is wrong
There are separate rules
Within our deep denial
A disturbed man
Sitting in a chair
Waves his gun
All arround
Another man
Shoots at a lawyer
In front of a court house
For all to see
In both cases
They stay alive
Even with a gun
While others unarmed
Prosecutors
Indict a ham sandwich
Cozy with cops
Video or not
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
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Face It , By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Tonight,
If the sky is clear
Look upward to
That big white rock
In the morning
If the sky is clear
Feel the sunlight
On your skin
Take a breath
While you think
All of this
Made up of atoms
The sun the moon
The air you breath
You heart your brain
The media you use
On the chair you sit
To your loving pet
A blade of grass
A chess set
A hurricane
A weathervane
The clock on your wall
Dirt under your feet
The ocean, the trees
The tv you watch
Distant galaxies
The telescope sees
Those atoms are older
Than you or me
From the same place
We all came
And far from now
In the future
In billions of years
Things will change
Now tell me about
Your personal club
How special it is
How special you are
You'd have me believe
In ancient stories
And value that
Over nature's glory
You'd have me believe
After accepting fact
Your angry god
Means anything to me?
You can win now
While you are a live
Rattle your fist
Protect blatent lies
Futile this effort
To protect nothing
Pretenging falsely
You are important.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Strip Mining, (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)
You are not a shovel
You are not a wrench
You are not there
To simply make them rich
It is all a ploy
Make you sweat
Dangle the carrot
You will never get
Then they throw tantrums
Crying robbery
Merely because you want
Human dignity
Tell me how much
You are suffering
In your downtown penthouse
While the pay gap keeps exploding
Masturbating over
Third world cheap labor
Wanting to replicate it here
Throwing crumbs of cheap oil
In a hunderd years
Your extraction market
Will cost our planet more
And hurt our species more
Quit your strip mining
Quit claiming morality
Merely because of your tax bracket
Making excuses for your greed.
We are not your tools
Merely for you to use
We are not shovels
We are not your dirt
Rise up rise up
Workers arround the world
It is no longer about boarders
It is about our global market
We are being pitted
Against each other
By those with the money
Those with the power
Trickle up is golbal
You and I are shovels
Sold the idea
To be their slave labor
Rise up rise up
Put money it it's place
Not to rid the private sector
Just ot get it to behave
No more strip mining
Humans are not mere numbers
We are not here for you
To simply make you rich.
We are not your tools
Born to make you rich
We are human beings
Who merely want to live
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Shooting Star, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37"RationalPoet" on Twitter"
How many here
Reading this
Can name
Every President
How many here
Reading this
Can name
Every Pharaoh
How many here
Reading this
Can name every
Prime minister of China
How many here
Reading this
Can name
Every Caesar
How many here
Reading this
Can name all prior
Leaders of the world
How many here
Can name
All the pop icons
Prior to their birth
How many here
Can name
The leaders
Of the Mayans
Fame is local
Fortune is finite
Powers shift
And life goes on
Trump to Tut
Isis to Jesus
Wealth to poverty
We are still finite.
Sagan
As right as he was
Knows that all this
Is Shakespeare's fury
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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INRI, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Introspection
Nowhere to be found
Rational thought
Is forbidden
In to do so
Negates the norm
Reason the victim
Inquisition
If to ban query
Never to question
Relegate oneself
In submission
In thus they claim
Never to falter
Rebel hero
In written word
In pior mytholgy
Never consider
Reject the truth
It is nothing new
It was Socrates
Not afraid
Reveled in challenge
In that of authority
In history proir
Not unique
Refused to submit
If those above him
If those above him
Never considered
Reason in question
In introspection
It's not a trope
New to Jesus
Rebels existed
In prior history.
(end)
I am really flattered Brian Sapient, just a couple hours after I wrote this a famous author PMED me on Twitter asking if I was you. I cant hold a candle to you. I scribble stuff. I really have to thank you Brian Sapient for providing me this venue.
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"Hey Mo", By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
A tattoo'd player
Calls him friend
The despot offended
And we run?
Self censor
South Park did
Turbins with fuses
Because of knives in chests
Of documentery makers
Friends of Ali
Hollywood cowars
Over over a movie?
I will offend you
I will defy you
I will never allow
Fear to stop me
You are the coward
If threats you use
You are the coward
If violence you choose
Despots and prophets
And holy men
Do not control me
I will offend
Un and Mohammed
Priests and Rabbis
Own not my thoughts
Nor will they silence me
You are all stooges
I will mock and ridicule
You do not own me
And never will
Civility is not
Silence of others
There is no right
To be free from offending.
(end)
I must explain that the South Park decision has nothing directly to do with Ali's friend getting stabbed to death, outside saying we do let far too much fear cause us to self censor.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Watch Your Language, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Some insist at all times
Your choice of words
Always reflect
The tone of a library
Quiet as so
Not to disturb
The irrational behavior
Of others in power
When you read this
And lay down tonight
In your bed
With out fear
And still insist
On stagnant silence
To avoid upsetting
Violence and tyrants
Watch your language
When you converse
Even when powers
Abuse all others
Under your blanket
In the glow of your tv
With all the pundits
And late night comics
No matter you politics
Or your position
We are not required
To the other's submission
No I wont
Nor should you
If only to offend
Is all we do
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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What Do You Want Me To Say? By Brian37 (AKA Brian James RationalPoet and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
What do you want me to say
When you claim
Rivers of milk
And 72 virgins?
What do you want me to say
When you claim
Babies can be born
From virgins?
What do you want me to say
When you make dietary claims
About swine
That you cant consume?
8 candles
Or one Christmas tree
An entire month
Without daylight eating?
That our planet
4 billion years old
And our universe
Even much older
That I am to bow
Without question
To an igorant past
You have no evidence
Tyranny
The false claim
When evidence you lack
I am to blame?
I have no want
To silence you
You need to learn
The difference of
The right to claim
And ability to prove
The two are separate
And you cannot use
Cannot use
Your insecurity
To avoid
Scrutiny
I'm no tyrant
For being defiant
In questioning your clear
Lack of evidence
Labels be damned
It's all the same
A myriad of gods
History has claimed
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Au Jus , By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
The vernacular
Of Hitchens lexcion
Impress many
As it did I
I do have to say
As ornate as he was
It can be complicated
That turns many away
One day in the 90s
On the couch
I was enjoying Tv
As my mom went shopping
When she came back
And opend the door
Slammed it behind her
And took it out on me
"Get your feet off the Ottoman"
I had no clue what she meant
Looked back at her
Confused and perplexed
She repeated it
In louder voice
In confustion I responded
"What"?
Pointing she did
As to where my feet were
If she had simply said "footstool"
I would have complied faster
I thought to myself as soon as I got it
"My name is not Biff
I don't date a girl named Mufffy
And I don't go to Harvard"
And as it turned out
After a half an hour
She was not angry at me
But ticked at something prior
When she went shopping
At the grocry store
There was a lady ahead of her
With tons of coupons
That event
I have to say
Is relevant to me
Even today
Is there a way
To sell melted cheese
Do we need a fancy word
For beef au jus
A snail is a snail
A walk is a walk
Even when
You call it a "constitutional"
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Spare No Expense, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Look at you
With your caviar
Your Tuxedo
And fancy car
And you stupidly think
Because of your aquisitions
And your
Fancy possessions
That moral you are
By proxy of wealth
Somehow you are
Automatically better
It is a futile collection
That you obtain
To impress
That feeds no one
It serves you
And ego only
In oder to impress
Everyone else
It is not substanance
It is placation
Of your self
Of one's ego
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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I Cant Pretend, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
I can't pretend
It is true
I've woken up
Unlike you
I can't pretend
That magic is real
That an immovable figure
Is good and moral
I can't pretend
It's patriarchal past
Is relevent today
With it's sexist writing
I cant pretend
It is bigotry free
When it is so divisive
To humanity
I cant pretend
It explains a thing
Outside your ignorance
Blindly buying it
I cant pretend
It is true
I've woken up
Unlike you
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Selection Bias, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Facebook)
There is a saying
In journalism
"If it bleeds it leads"
And and it makes them money
And one word
Seems to be a mandate
Discribing survival
When it seems impossible
"Miracle" is aways used
If someone survives
The seemingly
Impossible
As if the reporter
Would be fired
If they did not turn
The mundane into magic
The plane crash
The car accident
They always survive
Due to magic
The tornado
The kidnapping
The cancer
The hurricane
Sample rate error
And sellection bias
They never face
The numbers that die
If you survive
Or if you die
There is no god
Or divine hand
50 million
Around the word
Meet their death
Every year
From old age
To disease
Famine and war
Accident and crime
If one survives
Or if they die
It is not do to magic
Or that of a god
It happens in nature
All the time
There is no hand
Up in the sky
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Credibilty, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
The outrage displayed
When called out on a claim
Your naked assertion
Is hollow and fake
In short order
You could silence me
With facts and evidence
Without mythology
You have nothing
For if you did
It would be clear to all
No dispute to be had
Rights have nothing
At all to do
With credibility of a claim
On any issue
Skip your fake indignity
Skip your cries of bigotry
Credibilty is the issue
Not your ancient fantasy
Do not expect others
To blindly accept
Anything you claim
Without evidence
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Gogh Fuck Mo, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
You're Allah is a coward
Not all powerful
If he needs moratals
To kill for him
What is worse
You attack the defenseless
Over wanting educations
Or for merely getting offended
If your religon
Teaches you
To murder abortion doctors
FUCK YOU
If your religion
Teaches you
To condemn gays
FUCK YOU
If your religion
Teaches you
To kill for your god
FUCK YOU
If your religion
Cant handle cartoons
Or criticsim on treatement of women
FUCK YOU
Malala and Ayaan
And Nada as well
Susan B, Rosa Parks
Ann Frank too
They are the brave
Not the petty men
With petty gods
Not the theocrats who kill for them
If you think violence
Will silence the west
If your Allah advocates this
FUCK YOU
You are no better
Than the Dark Age Church
Burning witches at stakes
Who tortured dissent.
The west is with Paris
Gogh and cartoonists
You will never
Silence all of us
The wise thing
For the east to do
Is to grow up
And be Enlightened too.
But do not expect
The world to bow
To petty violence
In the name of your god
If you think
You can silence the world
Becuse you got offended
FUCK YOU
The west is willing
To live in peace
With anyone
Of any belief
That does not mean
You get to decide
Who you silence
Out of selfish pride
You act like a brat
A petty gang minion
We will call you out
With any opinion
There are 7 billion
Human beings
Do you reall think
You can silence all of us?
If world dominance
You think you will get
You are nothing but
A fucking idiot
Rushdi and Bill
Sam Harris too
Even Keith Ellison
Will condemn you
Just as Christianity
Escaped it's barbarity
Through secular law
That is what we want for you
It will not happen
Through our submission
If you think that
FUCK YOU
To the non violent
Of any religion
Whereever you live
Do not be silenced by these events.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Charlie Company, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter.)
Bill Donohue
The Catholic Leauge
Defended the violence
Of Islam's extreme
No one died
Over the Piss Christ
No one got murdered
Dipicting the Pope in a fire
Tim Minchin
Sang a song
Basphemed the Pope
Is still arround
Dawkins as well
As been lampooned
In sex acts
In a cartoon
Petty is such
A deity
If it cannot handle
Blasphemy
Je Suis Charlie
You are the company
That bravely stands up
To religious tyranny
If one is more
Concerned with insults
Then actual violence
Over thus
Your priorities are bad
Your morality shallow
You are nothing more
Than a bratty child
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Inspire" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
There is nothing inspiring
About a filthy rag
You use to market
Violence worldwide
The only thing
It is good for
Is wiping your ass
With the wrong hand
I'd love to bomb
Your precious Mecca
With bacon and ham
Just to show you
I'll paint your hero
However I wish
Mohamed the pedeophile
Allah the dictator
And if the best
That you can show
When I have no intent
Of killing you
If you are inspired
To kill me
Over these prose
For offending thee
You are worthless
And provide no value
To those in your ranks
Who understand non violence
Insults have occured
Over Jesus and Yahweh
Yet most of their fans
Do not act that way
You inspire no one
With bombs and guns
You simply perpetuate
More needless violence
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Social Pecking Orders, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB also @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
I include atheists
When I say
We are not better
Than anyone else
I argue with
Those who share
The same label
Of godless ilk
We have to collectively
As a species
To focus on
The truely important
It is not of class
Religion or borders
Not of politics
Or national origin
It is the reality
We have nowhere to go
There is no more
Conquiring to do
The idea
Of a utopia
Where one group
Gets everything it wants
7 billion
Human beings
It's absurd to think
We always agree
Our common core
Is still the same
No matter what
We seek to survive
We all want love
And shelter too
We all like to bitch
And express ourselves
Should it be
More important
To silence others
When they object?
Or should it matter
Far much more
Our common past
Our common existence?
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Why Is It? By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Why is it
You never hear
Stories of violence
Over your favorite band?
Why is it
You never hear
Stories of violence
Over your favorite food?
Why is it
You cannot kill
Someone for blaspheming
Your favorite tv show?
Why is it
If a fight occurs
In an NFL stadium
The parties are arrested?
Why is it
The religious insist
On violence over
That with no evidence?
Ego
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Je Suis" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Our nationalities
Are not physically us
They are merely
Geographically where we live
Our religions
Are not physically us
They are merely
Traditions we get sold
Our politics
Are not physically us
They are merely
Ideas we buy into
We are not
A separate species
No matter our divisions
Or what we believe
We have postions
We have traditions
But those do not trump
Our common evolution
Our predelections
Are mere positions
They are merely
The claims we make
What wins out
Is not silencing others
But the ability to scrutinize
And question others.
Humans have rights
As they should
But claims as ideas
Do not get taboos
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Anti Semitism, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
"In spite of everything
I still believe
That people are
Really good at heart"
Wise words
From Ann
The world should
Remember
The mass graves
The piles of bodies
The public exicutions
No one should forget
In saying that
I would advise
My fellow humans
Who hold the Jewish label
Not to fall for the trap
Of religious tribalism
Which to which
I think they do
You are and do
Set up a socail pecking order
Regardless of
Rightfully holding western values
"Jewish state"
Is still a religious state
The same as "Islamic state"
The same as "Christian Nation"
You lend cover
To your own radicals
Who make land grabs
And claim race or religion
Do not cry bigotry
For pointing out fact
It is still nothing short
Of a social pecking order
It in no way
Justifies Islams reaction
Or their ideas
Of state utopias
It is merely a fellow human
Warning a fellow human
To head the kinder side
Of the words of Ann
She is King
She is Malala
She is the Native
On the Trail of Tears
The compassion
Of those in France
Who offered Muslims
Protection
The compassion
Of the French
In offering Jews
Protection
It is my mere advice
Not to make you leave
Not to get rid of you
Just to remember history
There can be no pluralism
When the state
Basis it's constititution
On holy books
The west has learned
Religion will not go away
But it has also learned
Social pecking orders do not work
It is not Anti Semitism
To say "Freedom of religion"
Is avoiding the trap
Of religious based tribalism
You are more progressive
Than those arround you
But it is not enough
If you want to prove
If you want to prove
You are inclusive
The social pecking orders
Are not the way to do it.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Avenge, By Brian37 (AKA Brain James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
How impressive it is
To murder for a god
Instead of creative
Use of a pen
You're no hero
You're no martyr
Just a criminal
An insecure child
It's your angst
Your testosterone
Wrapped in a holy book
You hide behind
And now you are dead
Can't do it again
So what did you acomplish
Absolutely nothing
200 thousand
Years ago
The gods of Abraham
We not arround
No one killed
In his name
For he didn't exist
In any way
Avenging a god
Is nothing special
It will die too
In the future
Civility
Is not obtained
Through censorship
Or threats of violence
I know what is mighty
I know what is petty
I know you wont win
By threatening me
Certainly you can
Find and kill some
But after I'm dead
My words will live on
Maybe you should
Try the same
Stick to words
Instead of avenging gods
Abraham
The world is tired
We seen too much of this fraud
Of petulant brats avenging gods
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Cure, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
I am the doctor
I'll give you a shot
I'll give you a pill
I'll remove your critical thought
I'll provide you
With a manual
Create a disease
That doesn't exist
The office is packed
Every Sabbath
Friday to Sunday
Providing nothing but death
It fills the morgue
Full of martyrs
A direct result
Of fake doctors
You have no cure
For if you did
We would not see
What we have
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Thought Crime, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Everyone's fine
With blasphemy
Until you pick
On what they believe
Islam attacks
The imperial west
Jews faslely claim
Anti Semitism far too much
Even in Asia
An artist arrested
For dipicting Buddha
With a set of headphones
And so too
Atheists can be
Politically correct
In the same way
Absurd to think
A 7 billion of us
Will only say nice things
About each other
There is not one person
Reading this
That cannot think of something
That will make them upset
The part humans
Always forget
Is the long term issue
"Who gets to decide"
Who gets to decide
What is offensive
What can be silenced
What cannot be said?
Thought Crimes
Are that of fascists
Be that of theocracies
Or dictatorships
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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In Like Flint By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Nothing compairs
To tearing up a picture
In protest
Of a holy man
A man gets shot
Because he got
A white woman and black man
To pose in the nude
The Supreme Court settled it
Long ago
Told Mr Fallwell
He had no case
Hebdo is right
Absurd claims to fight
Getting offended
Gives no one the right
To act out in violence
Because you don't like
Getting picked on
Grow up, that is life
If the worst we get
Is to be called names
That is far better than violence
That ends up in death
The truly oppressed
Are of all labels
The ones who live in fear
From government and neighbors
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Leave At Words, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
I have been
Equated to Stalin
For not believing
In a god
Not just by Christians
But Muslims too
Does that give me the right
To murder you?
The aftermath
Of Charlie
Has pitted religions
Against each other
Muslims attack Jews
Burn down churches
When the the secularists
Should protect both
No not because
We like each other
Not because
Taboos are the answer
We've tried eggshells
And walking on them
To avoid offending
When we all like to bitch
This is no schoolyard
We are all adults
Killing over name calling
Is flat out absurd
We do not
As a species
Always default
To never insulting
If that were the key
I know of many
If I had my way
Would be dead or in prison
To the Pope
And the Imam
And the Rabbi
Here's what is wrong
I get the fact
No one likes
To get insulted
But it will happen
Are we as a species
More concerned
With killing over
Getting offended?
How about this
As a solution
No matter the words
Stop the killing
If if you dont like me
That is fine
If you insult me
Here are my options
I say to you
That is not true
Or protest your bigotry
Without weapon in hand
What I will not do
And no one should
Is kill over insults
For we are adults
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Pissing Contest, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
I am right
I got it right
God spoke to me
You must follow
I am confused
You'd ask me to ignore
The news every day
How you kill in his honor
I know there are
In every camp
Who value non violence
No matter the words
Do us a favor
You violent fucks
Who kill for a god
And make excuses
Leave the rest
Of humanity alone
The ones who don't care
About getting offended
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Civil Weapons, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
We've been around
For a long time
We've tried the tactic
Of brute submission
Our species not honest
About the reality
Be it religion or business
Or nationality
We seek patterns
We think will work
If only the world
To wich would submit
If a gun you use
To avoid scrutiny
If a gun you use
To avoid blasphemy
You are not defending
You or me
You are merely defending
What you want to see
The only weapon
That keeps us civil
Is that of the pen
Which keeps us from murder
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Sate Of The Union, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
You must think
We are stupid Mitt
You must think we are blind
Joni
The day after
His first win
You put out wanted posters
As if he were a serial killer
Now you use the Dem's line
"The rich are getting richer
And the poor are getting
Poorer"?
When Nick talks
About pitchforks
And COSTCO
Shows you can
Then you petulant brats
Need to grow up
Accept that trickle up
Never worked
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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My Sharia, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Cattle and fields
And doweries
Cover them up
They are property
Gender rolls
Allah gave men
Dominion over women
Think again
LDS and
Mormons too
Some sects of Sikh
And Hindu
Pre arranged marriage
Make them wear dresses
Stay in the kitchen
Take care of the babies
Sorry Islam
You are still behind
Far worse treatment
On average to women
We know we cant
Nor should we
Use genocide
To iliminate thee
But if you think
It is ok to silence us
To seat women
At the back of the bus
You will will lose
The times will change
Women will rule
Within your land
You cannot stop
The likes of Malala
You cannot stop Ayaan
Or even Neda
To the women
Of the east
Raise your voices
Take your seats
Men don't own you
They never have
Their antiquated laws
Must be left in the past.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Act Of God" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Snowstorms hurricans
Volcanos tornados
Mudslides and wildfires
Lightening and tsunamis
This tired line
They all use
Explains nothing
Utterly useless
The planet does it
Without any god
The earthquakes
Happend before any human
The only "act"
That leads to bad logic
To the naked assertion
Of "My god did it"
Is your ignorance
Of real science
I am sorry to tell you
Your god did not do it
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Open Up, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on To witter)
To those closed states
On party or one religion
You have to know
You will not win
If you have
Social media
The truth of your fascism
Will always leak in
Women on youtube
Defy sexism
Driving their cars
Despite their men
Hong Kong turned over
To their mainland
Holding protests
Dispite the the rulers
Cuba opening
Even wider
Dispite what Che set up
That lead to Castro
There is no more
Room to expand
There is no monopoly
To be had
Plutocrats
In the states
The same to you
Can be said
We are one species
And have always been
Despite the labels
We hide behind
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Oh and to anyone who thinks I missuesed the reference of "Flint" I didn't think about those stupid enough to accuse me of that. It was merely a take on the old phrase "In like Flynn". The phrase stems from the actor Errol Flynn because of his good looks and seemingly ease of success. I use "Flint" in place of Flynn because freedom seems to be attacked when someone upsets social norms. I added this edit because I have been getting comments about it stupidly.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Liberal Eggshells, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
I love your entent
Of getting along
Yet your tactics
You get wrong
Humans in general
Make the mistake
Of giving cover
To bad claims
You do not help
Those in peril
In danger of mob violence
Or state sanctioned murder
Multiculturalism
You hide behind
Failing to realize
It enables the violence
Both left and right
Use the same books
To justify compassion
And justify violence
The same books
With the same words
True Scottsman fallacy
Thus gets employed
Interpretation
Both sides argue
The sense of entitlement
That leads them to kill
How do we help
Muslims in Burma
How do we help
Kurdish Christians
How do we help
Atheists flogged
In fascist states
Under blasphemy laws
Afllack is wrong
He helps no one
Insisting on eggshells
All of the time
No one likes
Being picked on
I get that part
But not the point
Oppression is not
When you get pissed
At someone picking
On your claims
Opression is
When others arround you
Get threatened by
Your mere existence
Ideas must never
Be given cover
Even with
Our right to utter
It is why
Humans progress
The willingness
To give up the past
Not to forget
Or say get over it
But to realize
We're in it together
As Jeffersson said
So long ago
Still relevant today
To keep fascists at bay
"Ridicule is
The only weapon
Which can be used
Against uninteligible propositions"
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Ohio State, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
You continue to support me
You always love me
Without you
These words would not be
Over the years
We've grown closer
Despite our differences
In politics and neatness
You're a great ear
When I want to vent
You get my sillyness now
Not when I was a kid
Billy Joel
We both sing
"My life" without you
Would be nothing
These words they read
Are because of you
I love you Mom
And the Buckeyes too
(end)
This is for my Mom obviously who graduated from THE Ohio State. We have always loved each other and I want her around as long as possible of course. We didn't get along as well when I was a kid because neither of us really understood it was merely personality differences and her upbringing. But she has really change alot and I am really pleased with that. She still has her moments but I know I bug her too. But we are much closer, and she gets me much more now. I also understand her alot more in that she was tough on me because she wanted me to be tough. But everyone reading these words now needs to know that if it were not for her continued support you would not be reading anything I have written and would not have gotten written. My Mom is awesome.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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I Can't, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
When people argue
Over claims
I am not saying
Don't make them
Yet when anyone
Of any position
Demands taboos
Over labels
I am not trying
To deny
Your right to make
Any claim you want
I can't however
Blindly swallow
What makes you feel good
Because you say so
Say what you want
Insult me
As long as everyone
Does agree
We've nowhere to go
Our differences do not change
In reality
We are all the same
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Ohio State, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
You've make me strong
You support me too
I owe all these words
I write to you
You are the best
Buckeye to me
You've taught me well
You love me no matter
No matter our differences
In neatness or politics
Our favorite Billy Joel song
Since I was a kid
You've changed a lot
And for the better
It has been wonderful
That we have grown closer
I want you around
As long as possible
I cannot imagine
My life without you
You lend me an ear
When I want to vent
You laugh at my jokes
When they are silly
You put food on my table
You give me the ability
To write these prose
For all to see
I hope some day
The world will know
What you allowed
Me to do
I love you mom
You are why
I am who I am
And why I write
These words
Would not be alive
If it were not for you
Helping me survive.
I love you Mom!
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Hayhaoya Ishishdo, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Kenji Kenji
What have they done
Kenji Kenji
They've taken your son
Mother Ishishido
Is everyone
Crying from
The rising sun
He carried no weapon
He will rise above
No matter how many
They needlessly murder
Kenji Kenji
No parent wants
To survive the death
Of their children
Ichiban
To the world you are
Kenji Kenji
The real hero
Kenji Kenji
Junko knows
The pain of the loss
Hahaoya Ishido
(end)
"Hahaoya" means "Mother". Ishido is Junko Ishido the mother of the murdered reporter Kenji Goto.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Capricious, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs on Twitter)
Tempermental
Unpredictable
Erratic
Is your behavor
You beat me
For my own good
Then tell me
You wont do it again
You've promised me
An eternity
If
I do your bidding
And even when
I follow through
Those around me
Those I love
Suffer
Despite my loyalty
I still am at the mercy
Of your unpredictable whims
And how enjoyable
The pain you've wrought
To blame your creation
For what you started
This is no plan
This is no test
This is your own
Selfishness
The act of a madman
Or the insane
To suggest this is moral
Is the real horror
Yes you are real
A real nightmare
Of atrocious logic
Humans self inflict
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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