Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 18.116.239.11
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
I go to church each Sunday, God warns ‘there’s much to fear, the world is decomposing, the final end is near’. I go to church each Sunday and taste the wine and bread, though elsewhere on our globus raw hunger reigns instead. I go to church each Sunday, hear preachers’ words rebuff repentant pauper’s pleading ‘enough is not enough’. I go to church each Sunday, watch candles burning bright although they don’t enlighten the demons of the night. I go to church each Sunday to wash away my sin, while prophets make their profits with wars that do us in. I go to church each Sunday, think thoughts incessantly of all our planet’s peoples denied equality. I go to church each Sunday, sit peacefully in the nave while folks afar seek, grieving, throughout a boundless grave. I go to church each Sunday to view iconic forms alive in lancet windows that hide unholy storms. I go to church each Sunday, discharge the weekly tithe, while others pay the piper when Reaper whets his scythe. I go to church each Sunday regard the holy bell, reflecting on the wastelands where day and night they knell. I go to church each Sunday, hear persons of the cloth disguise the hell hereafter with wartime victory froth. I go to church each Sunday, half perched upon a pew; with everything so hopeless, what else can one but do? I go to church each Sunday, and gaze upon the steeple, majestic as the rockets that plunge on placid people. I go to church each Sunday to hear the choir’s song keep time with banshees shrieking within a world gone wrong. I go to church each Sunday (above, doves fly in flocks), while far flung realms are flattened beneath the wings of hawks. I go to church each Sunday and pray so oft for peace, but still the death continues, it never seems to cease. I go to church each Sunday to sing sad psalms of praise, while distant drones are humming o’er bodies burnt, ablaze. I go to church each Sunday, a quest to save my soul ’gainst warfare’s pride and plunder - prayer never plays a role. I go to church each Sunday my errors to confess, while countries keep on killing and suffer no redress. I go to church each Sunday the future for to see - a man-made Armageddon that ends humanity.
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required