Best Rout Out Poems
All you need is one word,
Erase just one word
from the minds of the people,
Rout out just one idea, one concept,
Eliminate 'Religion' from
the dictionary of mankind--
Man's stupendous and
gravest faux pas!
And, you'll see peace,
happiness, brotherhood;
There won't then be any infidels,
No gentiles, no heathens,
No pagans, no idol worshipers;
No racism, no hatred, no jihad,
No crusades, no inquisition,
No persecution, no repercussion.
No church, no mosque,
No temple, no synagogue,
No holy scriptures,
No words of God,
No places of pilgrimage,
No holy sites, no holy icons;
There won't be a pope or a priest,
Nor any saint or a swami,
No mullah, no imam,
No pundit or any rabbi.
No one to dupe you,
No one to lure you,
No Satan, no sin,
No guilty conscience,
No need for confession
No need for salvation;
And, what the hell,
There won't be any hell!
"I Can't Breathe" contest by Cyndi MacMillan
(political tongue-in-cheek humor) (no political sense of humor...pass this one up)
Artificial Intelligence has been around a long time: before Biden invented the wheel, was first man to step foot on the moon...before he crossed the Delaware to rout out the British, thus saving the colonies. Before Pete Buttigieg made safe the railways of the US. Before Barack Obama ended Racial Injustice. Before my first wife said that I was an experiment failed (what did she know!?) – before my parents hated the electric guitar (hmm...) – before the Natural High of God was replaced by formaldehyde laced weed. Before Clinton invented bleach. Before Harris saved the Southern Border from invasion, and is now headed to our Northern Border by flatulence filled balloon to make her explosive presence felt there as well (reader, please feel free to comment with your own be-fores)....
The Noble Prize-winning American Physicist Steven Weinberg said,
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”
All you need is one word,
Erase just one word
from the minds of the people,
Rout out just one idea, one concept,
Eliminate Religion from the
dictionary of humankind—
Man’s most stupendous and
the gravest faux pas!
And, you’ll see peace,
happiness, brotherhood.
Then there won’t be any infidels,
No gentiles, No heathens,
No pagans, No Idol worshipers.
No racism, no hatred, no jihad,
No crusades, no inquisition,
No persecution, no repercussion.
No church, no mosque,
No temple, no synagogue,
No holy scriptures
No words of God
No places of pilgrimage
No holy sites, no holy icons,
There won’t be a pope or a priest,
Nor any saint or a swami,
No mullah, no imam,
No pundit or any rabbi.
No one to dupe you
No one to lure you
No Satan, no sin,
No guilty conscience,
No need for confession
No need for salvation...
And what the hell,
There won’t be any hell!
~Contest: What I believe
~Sponsor: Angela Tune
Black Gold, French haute cuisine, that is!
Truffles - Black, White and Brown!
These humble amorphous lumps of fungi fruit dung,
are diamonds in the dirt,
much coveted by chefs all over,
for their taste and nice aroma.
But, wild truffles on the loose in the fields,
elude the foibles of weak human nose sniffs.
So, rout out the dogs and pigs!
Blow the horn, rustle them up.
Get the hunting hounds out,
the sniffer pigs, the horses.
The hunt is on!
We're hounding down the truffles,
buried deep, down among
the dead-men roots of oak and hazelnut trees,
hidden subterranean.
Watch the sows, mind their grunts,
for pigs devout, with sniffer snouts,
plough up the soil to root them out.
Beware, look out, watch them!
For sniffer sows also eat what they rout.
They love their truffles, au naturale, dirt and all.
So take care you rein them in,
and muzzle their sneaky snouts,
Dogs are better truffle hunters than pigs,
when the hunt is done and truffles dusted.
For, dogs are sniffers, not snout routers,
pointing paws at truffle lairs,
and not clawing prey out.
Better still, dogs don't like the taste the truffles.
Leaving pigs and human taste buds to
to titillate, salivate,
and devour the truffle hoard.