Best Adherents Poems

As the moon smiles down on the sparkling Mediterranean
The gentle rolling hills
Reach bejeweled fingers into the sea
Spilling the overflow of sparkling lights
Onto fishing boats that dot the horizon
The irregular coastline, encrusted with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires, flirts with lovers in parked cars who melt into...

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At times we’re forced to grin and bare it, 
                           but then again if the shoe fits, wear it—Quote...

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Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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Is, it, to be called classi?cation?
Or is it a destruction of paci?cation ?
Or are humans still to undergo humanization ?
In which being humane is considered main quali?cation
Which is not being achieved due to illusional mesmerization,
Should we call it misconception ?
Or is it a fanatic deviation?...

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Virtue, thou art old wine of vague value
Admired even by vintners nary more,
Nor by the adherents taking time’s cue,
Ye decorate archaic ancient lore.

Watch new high-fliers that surface from shores—
Go-getters getting tonnes in rare offers,
Tiger stripes, leopard’s spots of goodly roars,
Decibels made louder by fat coffers!...

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The usurpation of the annual right of solstice
by a quarrelsome religious upstart,
Lead to the re-designation of the celebration
due to its now newly designated Holy part.

In order for a connection to be formed
between the Lord and a party that was pagan,
The symbolism had to be reworked
until...

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Brothers and Sisters

 Let us do as Jesus commanded: 
Show the world that we are His disciples by
loving one another, loving our neighbors as ourselves, 
doing unto others as we want
others to do unto us, forgiving those who have sinned against us, 
praying for, doing...

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After July abdicates, august August arrives,
and the year advances, as annually agreed. 
After assessing alternative alternatives and accords,
as anticipated, no other affirmative alternative is advanced. 
Actually August is always an annual actuality, affably accepted
as amicable and always awaited ardently, as July avidly absconds!
Anxiously active actions...

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“Religion” and “spirituality” are hot-button terms.

Religion and spirituality 
can’t thrive in one mind—some believe;
will never co-exist in one heart—some contend.
I disagree strenuously.

Some hold that leaders of “organized religion”
use brainwashing tactics to control followers’
words and actions, creating a troop of automatons
who use the Bible to terrorize...

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THE WACKY WORLD OF WEIRD
Dr. James E. Martin
©October, 2013

The wacky world of weird,
Has never disappeared.
It remains today,
It won’t go away,
Its adherents are loudly cheered....

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"Pack the chairs,no souls will be entertained here",
Politics is stealing the future of scholars,
The faith is rather picking blemishes from religious pillars,
Can't make it plain to them of my changed mind,
Grew up along the coast,
Education wasn't a key boast,
Chasing money and abiding to words from...

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Anointed by God to rule the land
Yet brags where he places his molesting hand
Let us love one another, all children of God
Yet puts proxies before a firing squad
The Lord he praised and the Bible he thumped
Yet adherents of the Word neither phased nor stumped
Turn to...

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Opinionated- And It’s Eyes---


I awoke and flung my mind soul in the heaven
What could there be more purely seven?
'It's that lordship,' I muttered;
And am I the nonbeliever never okaying;
I crave the divine, deponent denominationalism Why?
Death shall bring skies;
What could there be more purely otherwise?
And its...

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DAWN LIKE NEVER BEFORE

As I gripped my pen to write
Tears trickled down my cheeks in delight
There is a man with a conscience
As systematic as science
His voice rang clearly as the sound of a gong
And his lyrics as soft as love song
The strive began twelve-years ago
Along...

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He chose to live a simple life,
So important was his mission!
Though around him corruption was rife
He never yielded to temptation!
He would cure a serious ailment
But think of no emolument!

He taught: "You must do unto others
As you would have them do unto you."
Today experts, critics, teachers
And...

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