Best Fanaticism Poems

IN  THE  NAME  OF  RELIGION 
WE  LIVE IN OUR OWN MENTAL PRISON
KILLING OUR BROTHRS!
 CURSING EACH OTHERS
 WHO  IS A  HINDU? 
AND WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF...

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socialism  communism  fascism   despotism
  buddhism  catholicism  hinduism  zoroastrianism  
territorialism  colonialism   imperialism  ...

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Among,
The towering mountains 
Of 
menacing fanaticism 
And
In the midst of the shadows 
Of 
Constant fear
Agonizing humanity,         ...

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Rising from the desert sand
was a shimmering mirage
of a thousand shouts
	Heated winds of fanaticism,
	intense and blowing violently loud
Shrill calls to blood prayer seethe,
breathing fiery invocations
of...

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My father was a devoted fly fisherman who couldn’t resist the almost masochistic urge to wake in the quiet predawn hours and stumble, blurry eyed...

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King Vlad Redux – Second Cold War

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s grimy fingerprints on current history
are for him nothing to gloat about—au contraire I say emphatically:
His actions...

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The raging beast of fear in darkness was
Conceived
Its father: Terror  
Its mother: Ignorance, 
With the black milk of hate was it
Breastfed, 
By wrath was...

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Down with pessimism
  Drown not in negativism
Beware of escapism
  Steer clear of cynicism

Keep far from fanaticism
  It only invites antagonism
Too lonely is...

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Yes I will die for her
Yes I will cry for her
But I will not turn my head and look the other way
I will not stand...

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watching anime, she feigns
a high scream of glee, seeing
where a mushroom cloud should be. . . . 
a flower rises


*Kawaii means “Cute.” Japan has become...

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It’s Iron Bowl Time in Alabama

By Elton Camp

Watching football may be okay

Even following it, play-by-play 

However, I say, “Ho, hum”

Don’t care about the outcome

For I...

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Please note this is written in Dactyl Verse and not Double Dactyl

Charlie je suis, Charlie je suis
Je suis Charlie
Freedom is us
Freedom of speech
No to violence...

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Says Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe...

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The Football Game of the Century

By Elton Camp

So now it’s over and Alabama won 
But was it really all that much fun?

How silly it is,...

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Why summon me so soon?
   Undone is one or the other drill
There’s unfinished job’s platoon
    I’ave not been through the...

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