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God Is Dead
God is Dead?

Hubris, man's nature
A God, self-proclaimed
Nietzsche opined he's dead 
Conceit, we laugh and say, no way

Self-professed with special attributes
Sympathy, love, reciprocity; how divine
Exalting our...

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Categories: god is dead, appreciation, christian, courage, growth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Three Days Prior
Friday, three days prior;
The Son was scourged and bleeding.
Sunday, when He rose again-
A spotless Lamb proceeded.

Friday, three days prior;
The Son had cried: “forsaken?”
Sunday, when He...

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© Tom Valles  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: god is dead, christian, easter, god, good
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Turn and Repent
The innocent criminalized, chased down with pitchforks and torches of fire. Their names dragged through the mire, by the hair, stripped of their humanity.

Meanwhile the...

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Categories: god is dead, christian, fruit,
Form: Didactic
I Can'T Breathe
Pink Floyd said,
'All you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be'
Do you believe it
How can that be

A world in which there
Are...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: god is dead, angst, dream, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Lyric
The Picture of Life
Today I saw thunder leak from the sky,
As if the sky was water and the thunder was dye.
There was no sound there was only red,
I...

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Categories: god is dead, art, blessing, creation, deep,
Form: Verse



Premium Member When God Died
Bold Nietzsche declared, “God is dead,”
Humans have killed him, so he said.
Enlightened men, all widely read,
have purged his being from their head.

God decomposed and left...

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Categories: god is dead, christian, god, humanity, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Still Sees Me
HE STILL SEE’S ME!

The sun follows her shadow
and backlights her aging hair
She emits the warmth of God’s
Justice, wisdom, love, and care.

Her aging eyes light up...

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Categories: god is dead, christian, faith, god, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pig In a Poke
Although gay women are attractive,
Can their love be counted on,
A chemistry that’s non-reactive,
Oligarchs of Amazon?

They face perhaps same traps that we do
Think of men as...

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Categories: god is dead, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surviving Your Own Life
My father and I did not share all that much,
More like passing a truck on the road
Parent’s squabbles I overheard offered me clues
And at times...

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Categories: god is dead, family, father son,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member On Grandma Thora's Farm
I hide in Grandma Thora's room.
A velvet and wood reserve,
forbidden to children.
Grandma's heavy, hunting feet
thunder over hardwood floors toward me.
Curled up tight- like a snake.,
praying...

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Categories: god is dead, childhood, faith
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Comes But Once a Year---
Christmas comes but once a year---

Christmas comes but once a year;
We all must remember why, it's here;
It's not all about gifts and presents;
Yet, there's something...

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Categories: god is dead, appreciation, blessing, caregiving, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Bliss In Her Ignorance
The lone coconut tree that dared

to lean towards the sea,

gave shade to her friends while

playing on the beach.

Running half-naked so natural

to those blossoming teens,

mother's lagoon...

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Categories: god is dead, betrayal, conflict, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Cookie Cutter Culture
This is a cookie cutter culture
We all must think the same
If you're outside the PC box
Talking heads call you insane

You better hold all their values
Zombie...

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© Dave Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: god is dead, christian, culture,
Form: Lyric
Exile
i am lost
in the conflagration of spirit
where no philosophy abounds.
yet i love.

where are the people i crave?
am i a monster?
crafted and bolted
for purposes i can...

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© Sam Toil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: god is dead, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nietzsche
Pain is everywhere
Springing from the crown 
Of the head and like jellyfish 
Expanding proboscis
Cover the whole body
Till the end of the toes
He collapses in epilepsy
And...

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Categories: god is dead, philosophy,
Form: ABC

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