Religion Eve Poems

Every day another mass shooting.
There seems to be no end in sight 
We turn on the TV news.
As we watch the carnage.
Politicians pray.
And do nothing....

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We once did walk amongst the leaves;
Outside of Eden, Adam grieves.

I am thrice Holy, keep away;
Unclean sinners I yearn to save.

To keep My law cannot...

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Various Heresies 10



God to Man, Contra Bataan
by Michael R. Burch

Earth, what-d’ya make of global warming?
Perth is endangered, the high seas storming.
Now all my creatures, from...

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Margin of Error

By Mark D. Stucky
If, statistically, Adam and Eve
hadn’t exceeded Eden’s margin of error,
would lambs now be lounging with lions?
Would toothy T-Rexes have been...

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What am I in the sunlight?
Shadow!
And what am I in the moon's glow?
Sun!
I shine in the night in the pale moonlight
to light the way for...

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Born of man and holy breath 
Heaven’s angel who stops death
Father of the race of Seth...

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As eve descends upon the light land 
blinds and drapes shut none see no one can 
the wind softly howls the streetlights shudder 
inside the...

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Year One -

Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it...

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This purgatory of cash
which turns our humanity from one
to one against the other
a spiritual infection of loves unguarded desire for life
and life, embalmed with economic...

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Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer

Eden
by Michael R. Burch

Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the...

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"She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man."

What shall we make of Genesis 2: 23b
As it is written, it seems preposterous to...

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Adam & Eve 

If a koala bear had been sitting in the apple tree
and Eve had asked Adam to move the animal
to the appropriate tree...

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Husband Adam would brag to wife Eve:
"I have many a trick up my sleeve."
But alas!  He was nude
so — a sleeve-challenged dude.
That's why Eve...

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Adam Lay Ybounden
(anonymous Medieval English Lyric, circa early 15th century AD)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Adam lay bound, bound in a bond;
Four thousand winters, he...

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Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in...

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