My contribution to this Christmas
is taken from Joseph's point of view.
As he was not allowed
to father his young
betrothed Mary's son
he probably saw it for himself as
the 'Immaculate Contraception'.
If we can have, 'Good will toward men,'
women too
at Christmas,
why not the whole year through?
For then we may
live to love another day
and all the while the world will smile
as war shall cease
and come to pass...
'On earth peace.'
ALEXANDRIA
I came late to Jesus,
Got cancer before my time,
Watched my husband die,
Found my baby drowned.
What did I do wrong?
Followed His church’s way,
Never missed a Sunday mass,
Confessed my sins religiously.
Refused to hear the call
For contraception—
That was not God’s way.
I made Him a dozen babies.
Why’d he punish me?
My faith wasn’t always strong.
Still, I never strayed,
Took communion regularly.
I prepare myself to meet my Maker.
Doctor says I only have a day or two.
Jesus, come to me—
Save me from eternal void.
Sexuality marooned jellybean pilfered spigot refugees vomit hazelnut in some static plain cloud cupboard.
A stifled hexed harvest, suffer the stagnant taffy contraception,
Oxidized gut-string lyre feeble mast crippled rod.
Shall you be parallel on the naked stem on the shrunken pagan altar?
Penguin whale jackal follicle carriage orgies
I have the cavernous trunk of thirst,
Permanently altered, famines, droughts.
Loosen your sticky grasp upon an evening so slutty bean Venus squaw chubby stone figurines
languid horny speed gutter bunnies.
let down cord straps drop fiddles kneel whip cable ties.
Snickering geriatric hags cupcake outskirts of one
Platypus settlement
the invisible threshold
i shall not hide
i shall not die
in fervors demeanors
mis-contraception
dedicate that grammar
under sheets i halt breads
nervous
nervous is samsara
the apprehension of sorrow
end sowing of silks
cursiffs
i am also finnish
regalitry and conformity
i thee web
backstrokes towards mercy
another strings pluck
without and gaunt
she labeled and i shrunk
guilded rembrandts
dethroned liberation
my carpentry
and my stones
cementing fences
learning tones
all as duty
and none as before
once again known breach
sand shall never relent
the shore is not bright
#civilrightslaws
chandeliers hung by dead feathers
cannon balls of years when time hated fairly
left over promises i'm not friends with
getting lept out
hanging death
to find a friend
running away
marrying the wash out
battling for empty
filling up the old crimes
inside my healing head
to destroy their evidence
useless when its good
too ugly for views
prisons too important
for me, the left overs
i was the addiction
now another contraception
hailing ghosts
tangled in timecards
under hung
and still voting
to take my spots
Western natons lead, womens emancipation duration
Contraception..Anti-creation wealthier relating makimg
Less, so lower fabrication false elation.' House prices
Prized possesions ownership rising 70s 80s 90s got
Into the naugtys, now deflation a dragging serration fraying
Politicans are braying, demographors are playing trying to
Be God, I see its also playing; many billions still dying.'
Starvation intesifiying as with insects as susteance some are vying?
Farm land left lying; fallow..what are they just before us lie-ing?
Italy Japan France Britian Germany Ukraine depopulation decrying
I see, so where is the growth? Is it stable other countries
Can they boast? at the very most ? Is gaslighting? And ghosting? are
Its proponents false hosting ? Claims at odds I would see in the
Glare of reality.'
For the woman having menses
A high demand on her senses.
“I’d better I took no chances
That embarrassment enhances.”
A keeping up with the Joneses
On matters of strict hygiene,
Sometimes mistaking her tenses,
As she helps herself with Flagyl…
Her sincere man unreachable
For taught lessons still teachable;
But much glad who’d feared a baby,
‘Contraception’ wish and hobby…
For whom a child’s cry would face glow;
Bad-news bearing monthly blood flow,
Sees it and again phones Doctor:
A voice polite but could hector!
Men have begun to predict
That I shall self contradict,
Next, in church my interdict,
To be not saved by Edict:
My Governor Soldier friend’s,
Both of us Christ’s truest fiends…
Still say I: Contraception,
A clear wished interception
Of what you’d stop inception,
For what it does Perception,
Minds granting New Conception:
Fluid Baby’s barred reception…
Choice yours and mine to scream “Foul!”
Or think we’d slaughtered a fowl.
Must we each wrong publicize,
When Besought God knows its size?
The effort to turn back the clock,
Has gained some momentum recently.
Where those in judgement, decided against
Women, and their reproductive rights, indecently.
Now some may think that's enough . . . but nooo,
There is much more for the high court to review.
With a stated desire to look at same-sex marriage,
Even contraception, for a Christian nation to renew.
I'm afraid that this nation under God, is
Awfully fundamental to the rest of society.
While the church beckons its beliefs,
Harvesting all sorts of animus towards piety.
This cult-like orthodoxy has become twisted,
To the secular mainstream that's seen today.
Yet this minority has succeeded against a
Majority, leaving me to ask, What does that say?
Because this nation, under God, must include
Whatever God those choose to believe.
Since without that, God is diminished, and
Where freedom and tolerance are left to the naive.
contraception dearth
overpopulated earth
kills infants at birth
By
David Kavanagh
Lord Eternal God
Abortion is the result of contraception
If I abort this child, You said
That “The babies are safe in heaven
You want us to have a chance to go
Finish school
Chance to take care of what needs to be done
Choice whether or not we want to keep this baby
You gave us a choice to continue or not aborting this child
I (we) ask for Your guidance for whatever will happen to me (her)
I return this child to You because I am not (we are not) ready to have a very big responsibility for the rest of my life (our lives)
Please give me (us) perseverance in determining what I (we) need to do, In Father Christ name
I (we) thank You for Your forgiveness
Amen
Prayer to Poem: 6282018
Poetry Form: Sonnet
Copyright © Jacqueline R. Mendoza
Pendulous abdomen.
The term used for
those women who
bear multiple children.
Too many, too soon.
No time for tummy
to reconcile, recoil.
Back into shape.
And so it swings.
Often times limbs are
visable under skin.
Tight like a drum.
Irish Mum.
No contraception
allowed. Poor thing.
Must let it swing.
Pendulous abdomen.
I sat and read a book today,
A horror book with terror and fear.
“Don’t lie with a male as with a female” it said,
You’re an abomination if you are a *****.
Then “Dash the little ones up against a rock”,
Saying killing kids was noble and right.
And it told slaves to “Accept the terms of their master”,
Even if he just wants to fight.
Further in, it said, in clear easy print,
“No woman will have authority over man”.
She shall not be able to teach him either,
She might not have the attention span.
Then the main character had a temper tantrum,
With a barren fig tree, it was just out of season.
He killed it, turned it to dead wood there and then,
I thought this guy was meant to show reason.
This book I read hated on heaps of people,
Oodles of things we take for granted every day.
Contraception, trans-gender, evolution and science,
Especially folks who’re openly gay.
How this horror book got past the censors astounds,
It’s a tragedy where death’s glorified.
Like a Jedi that got resurrected after dying,
The main character returned after being crucified.
A promiscuous lady named Jill
Thought it prudent to go on the pill
She saw her G.P
He said ‘oh dear me’ -
You should have used a condom with Will!
Jill politely asked him what he meant
Contraception was her real intent
The pill’s too late I fear
For you’re pregnant my dear -
It looks like it’s an unplanned event
21ST April 2016
People explosion,
Over population,
Dark on the sun,
How big is too big?
Is it too many figs?
What's your solution
to people explosion?
They bring pollutions,
Over population,
Dark on the sun,
Maybe free contraception,
Some new invention?
Chemical free solutions
to people explosion,
Over population,
Dark on the sun.
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