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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Smoke, By Brian37
Released
After a vote
To indicate
A new Pope
The cardinals
Gather in sequester
To vote on delusion
For a new master
Always late
On the uptake
Denial of science
And reproductive rights
Hiding criminals
Who prey on kids
She was right
For ripping your picture
Now like cowards
You want immunity
You want us to ignore
Your transgressions
So your minions
Gather and watch
That stupid pipe
Which you hide behind
You're not doing anything
But wasting your time
Voting on fantasy
And comic book claims
Formerly Catholic
I am lucky to have escaped
That stupid smoke
You blow in everyone's face
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Good Guys Wear Black, By Brian37
One weekend night
On typical male plight
At a now defunct bar named Rhiannons
While looking for chicks at this dance bar
Twas not my quest
To go home
All by myself
Without a woman
But if you don't score
Then you hang out
And talk to friends
Or meet new people
To the man in the black hat
I had divulged that night
That I wrote down things
In fanciful ways
He said to me
We have a group for that
Poets Anonymous
Is what they called it
But I said to him
I'm not that good
He said to me
No one will judge
So a couple weeks later
With much trepidation
I took what I had
To the meeting
I picked out my best
Read it aloud
To my surprise
A welcoming crowd
So all that you read
In this thread
Is due to a chance meeting
With the man in the black hat
(end)
This poem is dedicated to a guy I met at the titled bar in the poem. I struck out with women that night, but got to hang out with him. The reason you read all this stuff now in this thread, EVERY poem, is because of meeting a guy named Sam Hurst, I met that night at that bar. I mentioned I wrote poetry. He wanted to hear it, I told him I wasn't that good. He insisted I go to the Poets Anonymous meetings in Northern Va where we lived. I did. And quite frankly I was scared shitless. But Sam simply pushed me to read my stuff, and when I did, I found out the truth of life. Some people will like it and some people wont.
The poem is an ode to Sam Hurst, of Poets Anonymous. The guy who pushed me to write and be myself. I met him in the early 90s.
"The Man In The Black Hat" is an ode to one of his poems, and a favorite of those who read it back then.
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Interchangeable, By Brian37
Tis one thing to dismiss
The clearly debunked
It is a must
To advocate for reality.
Yet humans often forget
Once an idea
Is treated as a taboo
That cannot be questioned
Interchangeable become our egos
We are not protecting truth at this point
Rather our strive to protect the ego
Tis the fascist placebo that brings false comfort
We live in narcissism
Relevant to our tribes
Our predilections
Often falling short to open eyes.
Yet generation's progress
And we learn
And grow
Despite nature's flawed existence.
There is a way
To know if one is wrong
And it is not based
In tradition or superstition.
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Masters Of The Scene, By Brian37
We've done it all before
Conquered land and war
Invented new ways
To gain an advantage
But as I traversed
Down the street
I pondered
The troop of emerald centuries
Started as seedlings
Long before me
Unaware of our onslaught
Our pillaging
These soldiers of evolution
Helpless to defend themselves
Mowed down for "progress"
For furniture and fuel
We think we own it
But we dont
When the field is over tilled
It will turn on us
And then where will we be?
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"A Poet's Work" By Brian37 an ode to Salman Rushdie
Starts a line
By an author
Condemned
By zealots
It is
According to him
Our job
"to point at frauds"
The slumber
Of vile complacency
Is a friend
To no one
Cruelty gains roots
When we find comfort
In blindness
To events around us
Rightful is his call
For the bullhorn
To be the provocateur
In the face of absurdity
To be willfully blind
Is to allow suffering
Of intellect
And humanity
(end)
Admittedly I have yet to read Rushdie's Satanic Verses. The poem was inspired by a quote from Christopher Hitchen's autobiography "Hitch22", the chapter on Salman, page 261, paperback, starts out with the following quote,
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep" Baal the Poet "The Satanic Verses".
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Wilde Accusations, By Brian37
Why should awards
Any accolade
Any praise
Be given to unfounded conjecture
"Truth in matters
Of religion
Is simply the opinion
That has survived"
Yet we give an Oscar
To performance
And falsely hail thus
Over substance
Opinions can never substitute
Cannot fill voids in knowledge
They can only remain
Our personal desires
Nothing deserves to survive
Once better data is in
That has shown the whim
To be mere fancy, not fact
(end)
This is an ode to an Oscar Wilde quote I just read. The quote is part of the poem in quotes. Opinions survive not because they are true by proxy of utterance or pragmatic falsification. Opinions survive because of marketing. Consensus based on testable data is the filter that weeds out personal bias.
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Dedicated, By Brian37
If one is dedicated
To a falsehood
And does everthing
To spread it
How is such
A benefit to humanity
How does this
Improve our understanding?
Did it help or hinder
To think the earth to be flat?
Did it help or hinder
To think the sun was a god?
Yes you can be "dedicated"
And you can be dead wrong
To claim this a virtue is a death sentence
To human progress
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Motor City Madness, By Brian37
It town after town
In the mitten state
Voting rights
Are being taken away
Who do they think they are
Thinking they have the right
To take away
Our voting rights?
Who do they think
They are fooling
It is nothing but money
And absolute power
No no this will not be
We will not cave
To corporate interests
And buy their lies
You cannot claim
To be for freedom
And turn around
And deny voting
It is the opposite
Big money wants
To extract from us
And make slaves of us
Take a stand
Don't let this happen
For if we do
Democracy will die.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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If All It Took, By Brian37
The pharaohs are alive
Even after their death
Because all it took
Was their faith
In reincarnation
You graduate or dicline
Because of your actions
In a prior life
The gods of Olympus
Oracles did tell
Played with Roman lives
And all it took was faith
Venus must be real
For she was the god of beauty
And many had faith in her
Saw it as their duty
If all it took
Were pretty thoughts
And all it took
Was want and desire
Then by fiat
Of my feelings
I could think of many things
That would be nice
It would be nice
To think of no strife
It would be nice
To think of no death
It would be nice
But will never be so
If all it took was faith
To cure human ills
Then thee mentioned above
Should be valid and real
And our personal desires
Would always come true
If all it takes is faith
Then why one must ask
Do these hollow pillars
Always come crashing down?
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Willful Ignorance, By Brian37
Many years ago
With my x wife
We shared a tiny
Terrace apartment
It was atop a hill
And the space
Between the front door
And the parking was narrow
And on the other side
Across the parking
Was a sheer drop
Of a hill
When driving through
This narrow strip
The parked cars
Can hide little kids
If they popped out
Quite suddenly
They could get run over
Quite easily
One day
It almost happened
A kid on his big wheel
Popped out suddenly
Fortunately for him
I was slow enough
Got out and advised him
To stick to the sidewalk
But being startled
He ran to his mom
She came out and accused me
Of yelling at him
I could not reason
At all with her
Could not explain
The danger he had been in
And humans treat
Their gods like kids
Never understanding
How dangerous their logic is
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"Sense of Awe" By Brian37
Yes the godless have it too
And the theists often asks
"How can this be
If there is no god?"
Posted on facebook
Just recently
I saw a video
With a feline and dolphin
Gently the mammal
Playfully tapped the cats head
And in return
The cat nuzzled its narrow nose
And the same I find
In telescopes
Pictures of galaxies
Billions in numbers
In all my wonder
I cannot ponder
Human concoctions
Of personal desire
Life as it is
Not how I wish it to be
Has plenty of "awe"
To inspire me
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Kitty Hawk, By Brian37
I am glad
The Wright Brothers
Did not base theory of flight
On Harry Potter
Lucky for us
Our space exploration
Was not based
On War Of the Worlds
On the verge
Of a cure for aids
Would not be accomplished
Through "faith healing"
We've gone from maps
Made of paper
To GPS
On our dashboards
What holds this back
Far too often
Are childish screams
Of ancient tradition
Out side of labels
The downside of humanity
We tend to prefer
A comforting lie over reality
Our Age of Enlightement
And End of slavery
Women voting
And modern technology
Only those who dare to question
Only those who buck superstition
Only those who test and tinker
Are the advocates of human progress
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Clear Choice, By Brian37
If I were to utter
The following cliams
What could you see
And how would you measure them?
I have an invisible
Pink unicorn
In the trunk
Of my car
Or what of
An invisible teapot
A gigantic one
Orbiting Jupiter
Both are there
You just cant see them
Yet in your head
You rightfully reject them
It makes sense
When kids have friends
That are invisible
But what excuse do adults have?
If Allah is invisible
And Yahweh too
And the likes
Of Thor and Vishnu
How are my examples
Any different than claims of gods?
They all hold equal weight
With the same amount of proof
In wanting something
To be real
And merely making
One feel good
The only filter
That weeds out bias
Is not of our desires
But good use of logic and reason.
Otherwise the invisible
Is always true
Merely because
We've dreamed it up.
Do not rightfully reject
The claims of others
And refuse to look
In that mirror with the same logic
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Hitchen's Antidote, By Brian37
When they force
Child brides
When men make women
Walk behind
When they get shot
For going to school
When they cant
Reveal their face
When in politics
They have no voice
When politicians
Claim divine right
Claim divine right
Over a uterus
And attempt to make laws
To curb their rights
When men kill men
For merely being offended
With cries for taboos
Create honor killing
When it attacks
Or delays
Discovery in science
Because they're afraid
It is is more than urgent
We take a page
From the Hitch
And emancipate
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Sic Semper Absolutes, By Brian37
Kike, Heeb, Macaca
Chink, Jap, rag head
Redneck, nigger, atheist
Faggot, Juden, commie
Liberal and conserative
All of thee above
Have been used
As slurs and pejoratives
No one likes to be hated
No one likes to be bullied
No one likes to be oppressed
But PC is not the way to stop it
These words are part of history
To try to bury them
Is to doom humanity
Into future oppression
A woman once complained
About the Huckleberry Finn museum
And it's use of "nigger"
Missing the context of history
It would be to me
Akin to a Jew
Demanding the Nazi symbol
Be removed from the Holocaust museum
Every group as well
Has inside jokes they tell
Using these same words
To display the absurdity of bigotry
And this blanket tactic
Would ruin all satire
Such as South Park and Shapel
Who teach us to laugh at ourselves
PC also has
Despite it's good intent
Something most don't consider
That of government
If we want our right
To complain or dissent
Many fail to think about
Power shifting over time
There are places in the world
Where expressing mere displeasure
Of a majority or government
Can get you jailed or worse
The other issue missed
If one thinks about it
All humans are minorities
To another group in the world
Suffering has always occured
In our evolution
We should not think we are special
Because we have been victims
The only way to fight
Is not to silence others
Or to demand
No one have a sense of humor
The only way to fight
Is to understand
To remember that human suffering
Is not a label issue, but one of conditions
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Parton Ways, By Brian37
Far too often
Humans are guilty
Of guilt by association
On labels, looks, likes and affilation
It is not to say
We should never blaspheme
Or only say nice things
All the time
Only that
I can see
The same compassion
In someone whom I disagree
Dolly and Malala
Gandi and King
Certainly have beliefs
I find absurd
But when our species
Rises above
When our species
Does the right thing
It inspires me
And gives me hope
That despite conflict
We are not different
To be Frank
About Ann
Said it well
"In spite of all this"
Thank you John
My Redneck friend
For proving to me
That good is not label based.
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Worse Things, By Brian37
It is the wolf
Who plays victim
When they are the predator
When others warn the sheep
You are not
The victim
If I say
You are full of shit
You are not oppressed
When I point out
Flaws
In your logic
You are not
The victim
When you promote
Sexism and homophobia
Yes I offended you
And will continue so
For anything you utter
Must be open to scrutiny
And if the worst you suffer
Is blasphemy , that is far better
Than the death caused
By the reaction to such
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Who You Think You Are? By Brian37
It is her body
Not yours
Fuck your excuses
Of "tradition"
Be it in Utah
Or in Afghanistan
Abortion laws
Or issues of Burkas
Women are not property
For men to control
Girls are not things
To boss around
"Any culture or religion
That cant or wont
Allow women to make
Their own life choices
Deserves nothing but
Scorn and contempt
And the likes of me
Wont relent."
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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It's Your Fault, By Brian37
People often ask
Why I blaspheme out loud
Accuse me of being militant
Accuse me of being intolerant
A girl in Morocco
Committed suicide
Rather than face her sentence
To marry her rapist
A woman in Afganistan
Accused of adultry
Shot execution style
At halftime in a soccer match
And another story
I read on the web
100 lashes the sentence
For being raped
"It is your fault"
All these men claim
And to these bottom feeders
Who are nothing short of insane
Your excuse is tradition
Your cop out is religion
Your insecurities
Because you have no reason
It is your fault
Not theirs
To abuse them
And call it justice?
Time will defeat you
The woman's voice will rise
You will have no rock to crawl under
You will have no place to hide
If any man
Of any sect
Thinks it it is moral
To justify a rape
They are the criminals
Not the ones they blame
It is your fault men
For abusing them
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How? By Brian37
How does it affect you?
I cannot understand
Why you think others
Are subject to your fear?
Do you really think
Orgies will break out
On a public bus
If marriage equality exists?
Do you really think
By merely shaking hands
With a gay or lesbian
You will magically switch teams?
Do you really think
If they live next to you
They will invade your home
And force you have sex?
Do you really think
An invisible friend
Gave you license
To discriminate against them?
I am a bit perplexed
As to the TV pundits
Talking about the outcomes
Of the two Supreme Court cases
"It could be split"
As some have suggested
Where discrimination is upheld
And in other places struck down
What is to debate?
I don't understand
They are fellow citizens
Who should have our full support
Prop 8
And DOMA
Are antiquated bullshit
And are laws that need to die!
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Narcissism, By Brian37
When children die
From diarrhea
When babies get shot
In their strollers
When a 5 year old
Loses their hair
Because of chemo
Because of cancer
When children get butchered
In their own schools
When they get molested
By adults in power
Do you really
Think I care
About calling your god names
Or about your narcissism?
This is his priority
To prevent us from blasphemy
To silence criticism
To avoid reality?
This is not your god
This is you
This is your fantasy
Reacting to a bruised ego
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Watch the video and you will understand this following poem.
Ode to Katie, By Brian37
The Rabbis and Imams
Priests and Ministers
And even the laymen
Who insist on roles
You should know
You are doomed
For the superficial
There will be no room
Women of substance
Are growing stronger
Even men
Can see them as heros
They liberate
Not just their sex
But all of humanity
From traditions past
In matters of pretty
Or that of brawn
What matters most
Goes way beyond
"Be a man"
Is equally absurd
If one shows emotion
Or cant play sports
I suffered as she did
With pimples and braces
Was physically weeker
Than the boys on my street
Picked last in sports
And constantly teased
And beaten up
For being sensitive
She is saying
What all can do
What matters more
Than how you look
Don't let others
Define who you are
Don't let image
Be projected on you
Hypatia and Malala
As well as I
As a species
I hold my head high
This is what
Will make progress
Not petty marketing
Of social norms
Thank you Katie
For empowering words
Humanity owes you
Much gratitude
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Fight In the Dog, by Brian37
A typical day
A little girl
Goes out to play
Unaware of the impending ambush
A Pit Bull next door
Unattended to
Managed to get loose
And attacked the poor girl
It bit her face
And could have killed her
But out of the blue
A tiny hero saved her
Honey the Chihuahua
No match for the pitt bull
Took it on anyway
Knowing the danger the girl was in
It barked long enough
For the pitt to release it's grip
Freeing the girl
From possible death
But for believers
Who would assign it to god
You know nothing
Of what you speak of
If morality
Were only of men
If sense of right and wrong
Were the invention of religion
If thus the case
Then why did a mere dog
Do what many humans dont
And got involved
Many times
In our lives
We witness things
And still pass by
This brave dog
Proves to me
No god involved
Just evolution
Morality and survival
Are evolutionary
Othewise Honey
Wouldn't have protected the girl
But in knowing
This reality
Will never negate
My "sense of awe"
Need not of myth
To explain the attack
Need not of myth
To explain honey fighting back
This dog did
What humans do
Protect their own
And had morals too
Far too often
Humans fancy themselves
Separate or above nature
When they are not
Thank you Honey
And thank evolution
For producing you
Who saved that girl
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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When The Light Bulb Turns On, By Brian37
Hitchens said "How happy
We aught to be
At the reflection
That there exists not
.....unalterable celestial despotism
That subjected us to continual surveillance ....
......could convict us of thought crime
who regarded us as it's private property."
But long before those profound words
From the the great horseman
Were the words of Thomas Alva
Edison
"Nature made us
Nature did it all
Religion is all bunk
And all the bibles are man made."
And yet the fans
Of these cosmic despots
Try to kill the messenger
Because they are frightened
Frightened of the message
Frightened that we will
Destroy their illusion
And justly so they should be
Our switch was flipped on
And our eyes are open
We have left our shackles
And realize they never existed.
Now that we have
It is our sincere hope
That many still trapped
Will escape like we did.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Or What? By Brian37
Your petulant tantrums
Impress me not
Your hollow threats
To shut me up
If I don't
Submit to you
If I dare
To question you
I am expected
To value this
That of silence
To placate your insecurities
No I will not
Your lack of evidence
Does not constitute
Rights to suppress reason
I am not your hostage
Nor your property
To question my duty
To free humanity
You will not
Demand my silence
You will not
Quell my thirst
My thirst for knowledge
Wherever it goes
Leaving behind
The fear that grips you
The fear that grips you
And keeps you trapped
And if I refuse to obey
Or what?
If I do not
Fall in line
If I refuse
Or what?
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Impressionable, By Brian37
If I bare a child
And to them I said
"You can fly like a bird
Off that building or cliff"
If I bare a child
And to them I said
"You can bounce bullets
Off your bare chest"
If I bare a child
And to them I said
"You are a mere wretch
And are nothing without me"
If I bare a child
And to them I said
"You have the right
To harm others for being offended"
If I bare a child
And teach them to obey
When they become adults
They will become the gods they claim
They will become jealous
They will become angry
They will become violent
Because they were not taught to think
If I bare a child
The best thing I can do
Not just for them
But the world as a whole
If I bare a child
For all of human kind
Leave out indoctrination
Let them keep their mind
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Cognitive Dissonance, By Brian37
Mental skydiving
Without the parachute
The dead thump
Of reality
Speeding down
The curvy mountain hills
In your sports car
With no breaks
It is the conflict
In your head
When your wishes
Crash into the wall of reason
The mature face it
And give up on bad data
The insecure scream
Bully and threaten violence
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Dirty Deeds, By Brian37
A tad perplexed I am
When fans of God/god/s proclaim
His unlimited power
But still they fight his battles
How could I hurt such a being
Being as finite as I am
With nothing to compare
As close to equal?
Yet the fans rail against dissent
Threaten bloodshed
Over someone they claim
Should not need their help
I am at complete loss
As to how this logic works
Other than the reality
That it is their projection of self
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Dragon Blitzkrieg, By By Brian37
I developed a hunger
For the orient
Decided to walk to
Where I patron it
Most of the time
They are fully staffed
But upon this occasion
They had not enough
The line was long
And I could see in their faces
By a thread they were trying
To keep the pace
I did not complain
Working where I do
Labor costs
Are always why
The panda's ballet
Is what I saw
Making my steamed dumplings
While juggling the rest
Overwhelmed
I knew they were
But did not falter
To get me my order
Others might fret
And blame the worker
But having been on that side
Of the horror
It matters not
What food you serve
It matters not
What nation you're from
If you cut costs
And blame the worker
It is not only you
But your customer suffers
I waited patiently
Knowing full well
They were outnumbered
By their customer swell
I've been on their end
And no matter the food
When you are outnmbered
By the demand in the room
To the owner
Of any business
Give them a break
They make you rich
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Dragon Blitzkrieg, By By Brian37
I developed a hunger
For the orient
Decided to walk to
Where I patron it
Most of the time
They are fully staffed
But upon this occasion
They had not enough
The line was long
And I could see in their faces
By a thread they were trying
To keep the pace
I did not complain
Working where I do
Labor costs
Are always why
The panda's ballet
Is what I saw
Making my steamed dumplings
While juggling the rest
Overwhelmed
I knew they were
But did not falter
To get me my order
Others might fret
And blame the worker
But having been on that side
Of the horror
It matters not
What food you serve
It matters not
What nation you're from
If you cut costs
And blame the worker
It is not only you
But your customer suffers
I waited patiently
Knowing full well
They were outnumbered
By their customer swell
I've been on their end
And no matter the food
When you are outnmbered
By the demand in the room
To the owner
Of any business
Give them a break
They make you rich
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Cut Of The Jib, By Brian37
Broken face bloody fists
Self defense wounds
Cracked skull lying dead
On the uncaring concrete
And what was Rajib Haider's crime?
Not one of theft
Not one of violence
Just the mere act of dissent
Murdered in his native Bangladesh
And still three other atheists
Are now under
Government arrest
They want us value them?
This is what they think
Will get them what they want?
Bullying and violence?
There is no honor in threats
There is no virtue in a "faith"
That demands slavery
And submission
You vile pigs
Murdered Rajib
But you will not
Get us all
History will not take kindly
To these disgusting acts
You will only be reviled
And spit upon
You want to make martyrs
Out of atheists?
You want to make us
Heros?
Rajib is the champion
The champion of reason
You cannot defeat him
With your vile superstition!
To make a crime
Of mere question
Is the ultimate oppression
And you are the oppressor!
We will not bend
We will not break
No matter
The violence you inflict
We will remember
Rajib Haider
We will remember
We will remember
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Pulchritude Of Code, By Brian37
Michael Franks
Used that word "pulchritude"
In a jazz song
I once heard
It was fancy
It was foreign
It it was conflated
Over exaggerated
Do we take "constitutionals"
Or do we take walks
My mom once told me
To take my feet off the "ottoman"
I was perplexed
As to her demand
Why she was offended
To where my feet were resting
In her bluster'd rant
She kept pointing
To where
My feet were resting
"THE OTTOMAN THE OTTOMAN
TAKE YOUR FEET OFF THE OTTOMAN"
Then suddenly I had realized
"You mean the STOOL?"
In my mind while complying
I said to myself
"I'm sorry mom but I am not Biff
I don't date Muffy and I don't go to Harvard"
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Outnumbered, By Brian37
If you care
To take a try
Count the number
Of blades of grass
If you care
To take a try
Count the number
Of trees and bushes
If you don't know already
Cockroaches outnumber us
And so too
That of bacteria
And still through the lips of ignorance
Through the traditions of tribalism
Despite eagles having better eyesight
You think you are special
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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This following poem was inspired by the ignorant, all be it youthful comments of Justin Bieber about Anne Frank.
Here is the story.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/14/justin-bieber-anne-frank-belieber_n_3080547.html
Now here is the poem.
Frankly My Dear Justin, I do Give A Damn, By Brian37
"Hopefully she would
Have been a believer"
The pop icon
Left in her prision
Really Justin?
That is all humans are
Just mere toys
In the war of gods?
I think she got
The Jewish god wrong myself
I don't think
There is any god at all
But what you missed
In her suffering, her terror
Her flight, and catpure
And final death
What you missed
What most Jews of that era accept
What most, including Anne would want
All of humanity to learn
The lesson was not
If only you buy this god or that
If you only do this or that.....
Her lesson was universal
That we should not
Do to each other
What the Germans
Did to her
I am an atheist Justin
And I could argue her death
As to the absurdity
To any all powerful god
But she in one quote
Appealed to our species
Universal capability
Of compassion
"In spite of everything
I still believe
That people
Are really good at heart" Anne Frank
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Hairetikos, By Brian37 (Poem inspired by facebook friend Sheri Smith who posted the original meaning of Heretic, the title is the original greek)
The outsider
Is always the heretic
The one demonized
All the faiths do this
But the original meaning
Is one of freedom
Liberation
"Able to choose"
So go ahead
Insult the atheist
The heritic, the outsider
For being liberated
We are not bound
By mental slavery
We are not shackled
By cosmic dictators
I am a heretic
Because I chose to think
Because facts mean more
Than whims or traditions
It is an insult
To my intellect
To simply buy
Without scrutiny
So yes
Hurl that "insult"
But the real harm
You do to yourself, not us.
(The end)
Thank you Sheri Smith. Least I can do is spell her name correctly. DOH!
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Deadbeat, By Brian37
Somewhere on this planet
News organizations reports
All sorts of death
In all its forms
Yesterday Boston
Where an 8 year old died
Tsunamis in Japan
Tornados in the mid lands
Famine crime desease
He will do as he pleases
On the side of all
He cheers our bloodlust on
How much of a sample rate
Will suffice
To understand
What a deadbeat he is
Would we be allowed
To treat our own kids
Like the toys god
Makes us?
If I had two kids
And stuck knives or guns
In their hands
And said
"Here, have fun
Whomever is left standing
Gets to hang out with me
In heaven"
What if I feed one kid
But not the other
Let one starve
Or infected it with aids?
Not one person reading this
Can point to a point
In our species history
Where death and suffering never happened
The real deadbeat
Is not this fictional character
But humanity
And intellectual laziness
What I am blasting
Is the concept of this claimed god
And how humans end up
Believing such a horrible concept
Our time spent
Praying to the non existent
Could be used in the real world
Finding solutions to reduce suffering
Rid yourself
Of deadbeat thought
It is the only way
To problem solve
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Real Offense, By Brian37
I've heard stories
Of abuse of 9-1-1
Where people call
To complain about cold food
They waste the time
Of emergency workers
And deserve punishment
For doing so
In that same vein
On the internet people complain
About being offended
Over words or pictures
From the insight
Of a Facebook admin
Rightfully annoyed
By petty reports
Unknown to these idiots
Who cry "don't offend me"
The admins see every day
Real cries for help, people trapped in real threats
Reported rapes
And reported molesters
Victims of crime
They see all the time
And outside the web
These childish complainers
Are offended by mere words
Which offends me
You idiots care more
About words
Than real victims
Of crime, war and bloody violence
Please
Shut the fuck up
Losing a limb or your life
Hurts far more than being offended
If what I say
Bothers you that much
Simply don't read it
And move on
You make me sick
Worrying more about words
Than death and crime
The world sees all the time
You are alive
You still breath
I haven't stabbed you
Or demanded your death
So the next time
You get offended
Instead of complaining
Think of the real victims
The child on line
Reaching out for help
Trying to tell others
A predator has hold
Someone in
A foreign land
Who lives in silence
Out of fear of death
Those are the victims
The real offense
Is your sick ignorance
Ignoring this
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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I'm Toast, By Brian37
I had
A feline prior
Who with age
Did expire
My X
Had named him Peyton
After the famous
Quarterback
As time does
With all life
And with age
He did expire
So distressed
As I was
I had lost
A long time friend
My friends and family
Encouraged me
To find another
To comfort me
So one day
I did just that
To an adoption charity
I had gone
In a room
Full of purrs
I found myself surrounded
And could not decide
I wanted to take them
All home with me
With all their different
Personalities
But this one guy
As small as a thimble
Parted the red sea
And ran through all of them
It was a blur
And all the sudden
A hug on my leg
By this tiny thing
He looked up
Then meowed
And I looked down and said
"I'm toast"
(end)
To let you know my current cat basically ran across a sea of cats and he was tiny, ran up to me, hugged my leg and meowed at me. So when I say "I am toast" what I mean is " how can I resist". He has been my best friend.
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Cry Uncle, By Brian 37
Shortly after 9/11
Back in 2001
An unfortunate Sikh
Was mistaken for Muslim
Murdered by Americans
Because of fear
The same knee jerk reaction
The Boston bombers fell for
And this kind uncle
Who knew what was right
Now has to fear
Reprisal by label
If it was
A Muslim
If it was
A Chechen
Those funny voices
Must be wrong
Those outside our boarders
Must be a threat.
Remember this
My fellow Americans
Because we have falsely accused
Richard Jewl
And we seem to forget
That of McVeigh
Or of Rudolph
Who were home made
So before you blast
Another human
Think to yourself
What if accused?
This moral man
Did the right thing
Condemned the violence
Despite his connection.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Ichiban, By Brian37
Against his country's loyalties
In Nazi controled Lithuania
A man defied
The fascist's orders
Forging visas
For fleeing Jews
Who'd otherwise end up
In death camps
This Japanese diplomat
Saved 6,000 lives
From July 31 to August 28
Writing up to 18 hours a day at the consulate.
Our species can show
Horrific cruelty to each other
But Chiune Sugihara
Exemplified the best in humanity
(end)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/chiune-sugihara-japanese--jews-holocaust_n_2528666.html
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Terrified, By Brian37
In our dusk
All bodies falter
As age
Is unavoidable
Five years hence
My mother and I
Found out
She has an aneurysm
Every year it has grown
And every year
The docs put off doing anything
Until now
But the side affects
Of a stint operation
Are as scary
As doing nothing
Stroke, paralyzed
And even death
Are the prospects
She has to face
Helpless I feel
Knowing it is a decision
Only she
Can make
She is healthy otherwise
Out side this issue
The prospects of all this
Are terrifying either way
She is extremely giving
And to this day
Still supports me
And spoils me
To think of her
Diminished capacity
To think of her not being there
Is terrifying
I want to tell her
What to do
I want her
To be ok
But I cant
It is that mortality
And quality of life issue
She must decide for herself
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Talk To Yourself, By Brian37
The passangers
Of the Hudson landing
Should be happy
Sully said "I didn't have time"
In times of stress
Some talk to themselves
Thinking falsely
They talk to a diety
Now as age
Catches up to my mother
Others offered up to me
Prayer
Isn't this supposed to work
Even if you don't tell me?
So why do you
Tell me?
You can talk to yourself
If you wish and do nothing
But my mother's health
I will not put into the hands of superstition
When they put
The stint
In her aorta
I want that doctor focused
As focused
As Sully
When he landed
The plane on the Hudson
Only nature
Explains her aneurysm
Only doctors
Give her some sense of chance
So go talk to yourself
And do nothing
I do not give a fuck about your god
I want my mom to live.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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If Horses Had Gods, By Brian37
Xenophanes once said
The likes of stock
Would be their own predilections
Not ours
I am reminded
At 5:30 am
Every day
How absurd a god concept is
My cat dictates
To me
That he wants
To be fed
Even on
My days off
When
I could sleep in
Does anyone
Seriously think
Jesus or Allah or Yahweh or Vishnu
Are important to my cat?
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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1927, By Brian37
Not many ,if any
Reading these words
Would find the following acceptable
Least they be insane
If I had a spouse
Who had had enough
Who one day
Decided to leave
If I said to them
"If I cant have you
I will
Hunt you down
I will have my loyal friends
Track you
Like Royalty on ribbon horses
With bugles and blood hounds"
And once you are caught
And brought before me
They will skin you
To serve as example
To serve as warning
To never defy me
I am your ruler
You have no say
Point
To the east
All you want
To their barbarty
Yet never forget
That you are Luke
And you are
Their father
(end)
I wrote this after reading a couple of versions of Luke 19:27. The words do very but the motif does not change. "If I cant have you no one can".
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Candy Land, By Brian37
32 a day on average
365 days a year
Succumb
To their use
300 million
On our streets,
In our homes
As if they were Skittles
As if a van with a bell
Riding down summer streets
A piper chiming
Calling the kids
Wayne
Cries about rights
When it is clearly
About sales
They are candy
Sold through fear
Marketed with ease
Bathed in the profit of blood
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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HMS Delusion, By Brian37
How did I
End up on these shores
Under a relentless sun
And only salt water to drink
I worked hard
To buy this boat
To sail these waters
Only to be ship wrecked
And now
Because of a reef
A hole in my hull
Far away from civilization
I am alone
It is lucky for me
No one works
At a GPS factory
Lucky for me
No one made programs
For distress beacons
Or became National Guard rescuers
Because I don't need them
I built the boat myself
I got here by myself
I don't need anyone's help
Fuck it
I'll just fuck myself
Make a baby
Get myself pregnant
And I will start
My own civilization
Right here alone
With no help at all
Humn,
I think this tropical sun
And severe heat
Is making me delusional
But that is ok
I have my volleyball
To talk to
Which labor never made
I can do it
All by myself
Always
With no help ever
I won't bother
Using the rod
I managed to save
Because someone made it
I'll just fish with my hands
And talk
To my friend
Winston, who magically appeared
Damn this sun is hot
I wont use the sunscreen
I ordered online
Someone made that
I certainly wont use
My zippo
Made by labor
To start my fire
I'll simply
Keep talking to Winston
Because
I don't need anyone's help
And the dry cloths
I managed to save
I wont use
Because someone made them
When it gets cold tonight
I'll simply sleep
On the insect infested soil
I wont use the blow up mattress
I wont use the tent
Made by labor
To shelter me from
The monsoon rains
Stop looking at me Winston
I am not crazy
I did it all by myself
I don't need you either
And if someone finds me
Dehydrated
And wants to
Take me to a hospital
I will tell them no
Because no one
Educated them
To treat me
No Winston
I will stay here
Because I dont
Ever need anyone's help
Bring it on hot sun
Beat me down
Make me shrivel
I can handle it
Soon
I will build
A metropolis
Magically, with no help
Out of nothing
Like a god
"Poof"
Just like I made you Winston
Because before I got here
I went to college
And no one taught
The professors who taught me
The information they got
Was through mere osmosis
No one
Educated them
It's ok Winston
You see
I don't need rescue
Because I never get help
I'll just talk to you
And the mosquitos
I wont use my becon
Because someone made that, not me
I can get used to this
No food, burning sun
I cant stand
Tipping room service anyway
This is great Winston
I have all this wet cash
I can dry in the sun
To buy..........
No no I won't
Because that would
Require someone else
To help me with my needs
To get off this Island
I would need
All the labor
That made the technology to find me
No
It is only 50 miles
I can swim it
Even though
I could use this factory made beacon someone else made
I don't need that UPS guy
Who delivered it
On the public road
Labor built
I am all alone
And happy
Why is that rock
Talking to me?
Hey Winston
My watch says
I've been here for 3 days
Some fresh bottled water would help
Nope, nevermind
I'd rather die from dehydration
Than know that
Labor bottled and shipped that water
I'm hearing noises
Like a chopper
Above me
GO AWAY GO AWAY
I dont want your help
You are not a business owner
You are labor
I CAN DO IT MYSELF GO AWAY
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Apophis, By Brian37
I watched a video today
In which the black dwarf Plutofile
Went on to explain
The real "end times"
In a progression
Size by size
He gave a discription
Of the distruction
That most of these cosmic pellets
Burn and break up
Doing little, if any
Harm
Yet if we had a video
Of earth's history
And could fast forward it
What we would see
The one in Russia
Is a fraction
Most of these
Cause little distruction
Yet there is a bowl
That pocks the Yucatan
That explains
The fatal shot
Our orbit
Is like beltway traffic
Most collisions
Are minor , barely scratches
But on this highway
Are tanker trucks
The size of Mt Everest
That will take us out
Such an impact
Will cause a cloud
Creating darkness
Enveloping us
With the blocked out sun
No photosynthesis
Our food source gone
Our extinction certain
There will be
No white horses
No angels
Or chariots
If life however
Gets lucky
Evolution might continue
Even without us
(end)
The following link is of Neil Degrasse Tyson explaining the size of meteors and what the range of destruction would be depending on size. Thank you Neil for inspiring this poem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fUgxmfgIlY If this link does not work, click on my link in my sig, the video is on my timeline.
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Sunday Afternoon, By Brian37
Seurat made paintings
With a unique style
But Sagan had the skinny
All the while
We can fancy
Speculate
Guess
And claim rights
Dot dot dot
George did paint
But Sagan knew
Our importance
Grande Jatte
Sagan knew
An Island we were
And nothing more
Art is important
And abandon we should not
But as a species
We often forget
That the dots of religion
Do not build
And only distroy
And divide us
Sagan would value
What George did
But simply remind us
The most important
That we are a dot
And nothing special
In a hostile universe
With no escape
So enjoy
Sunday in the park
But don't assign it
To a meaningless god
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Using them? By Brian37
It is too personal
We must never
Discuss a tragedy
We must be sensitive
If they want
They can
Pretend
No matter how absurd the logic
But it is ok
For Sylvia Brown
To con victims families
And give them false hope
We are the cruel ones
Who simply say
That triumph and tragedy
Are natural, not of fantasy
And it is ok
For them
To use an event
For their billboard
Damn us atheists
For saying
Neither fortune or missfortune
Are of deities
It sucks
That we know now
That epilepsy is nerological
Not a demon possession
It sucks
That we know now
That the brain does the thinking
And not the heart
It sucks
That we know now
That of our orbit
Around the sun
And for 10 years
3 girls held hostage
Raped and abused
We must not discuss
Even though
The fans of this god
Make claims of his nature
In his omniscience
For a decade
Their cosmic hero
Watched
And did nothing
But we should not
Be so insensitive
And allow them
To find comfort in credulity
Our personal tragedies
Are not special
And to varying degrees
Will always be
To state a fact
Is not advertising
It is the sound
Of reason
Placebos must die
And we must lose our fear
To insure our inquiry
Is the most accurate map
Those poor girls
Were victims of harsh reality
Not to be thought of
As pawns of a sandbox God
This horrible logic
Of mysterious ways
Or that of plans
Demeans human suffering
It reduces humans
To mere property
Mere toys
With no say to how we are treated
So when my critics
Cry foul
I say
Damned right I will
How much
Insidious ignorance
Should we tollerate
In the face of human cruelty
You breed festering boils
That allow their brains
To wallow needlessly
In the shackles of myth
Rape is not the product
Of a devil
Anymore than the vocano
Needs a virgin to placate it
To assume divine intervention
In any escape, or unfortunate death
Is to perpetuate the real cruelty
Of maintaining intellectual dishonesty
It allows humans
To make excuses
To do nothing
Than address our common condition
There is only one thing
That caused their rape
There is only one thing
That lead to their escape
REALITY
Which needs not
The infantile answers
Born out of fear
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Ode To Dr. Seuss, By Brian37
No Jesus for me
Or Allah or Thor,
No Vishnu or Buddha,
I cant take anymore
Give me Jefferson,
Give me Paine,
Give me Dakwins
And Hitchens too
Harris and Dennet,
And Ayaan as well,
For reason makes more sense
Than a fictional hell
(end)
I wrote this after seeing a Cat in the Hat meme with atheist theme words on facebook, and wrote this as a response.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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