Every race and creed
Infinite diversity
meets our every need!
A solo thread textures a pulsating fabric.
Fabric warms the community against the biting of the cold.
Cold fluxes when the heart nourishes the inglenook.
Inglenook flames spark in the neighbor's open hand.
Hand embraces the heaviness of the brother who missteps.
Missteps are repaired by the dust of the land.
Land respires as one through the beat of the barrel.
Barrel bangs the cadence that reconciles every humanity.
Humanity's humanness makes us become outgoing creatures.
Poem by Mugisho N.
human
versus ism
you have to believe
in god
to sell your soul
to the devil
***
humanism
noun
an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
Decent life
Pure life
I can’t do that
Psychology destroying the life
Destroys in my life
Parasite science
Plastic
Kills my life.
Why must I accept this science?
This is a mental poison, a mental cancer
Oh, where are the prophets?
Where is the God?
Oh God, why do you give free will to the human?
Can you see it? Can you see it?
Psychology what created in my life?
What? Aggressive science
It’s very good money
Is the communism is humanist?
Is the communism is humanism?
Is the socialism is humanism?
This psychology is fascism
Oh, wise people of the world!
Oh, wise theologians and psycholophers!
You don’see that what I recognized
Psychology is power on the mind
Where is my free life?
Moneymaker psychologists eats my life
I have become a toy,
Human life has no value
Psychology is infection in my life
Harmful mental deluge
I don’t have an ark
I will kill myself
Goodbye life.
Decent life
Pure life
Come here
Come here
My next life
My new life.
Written 27 July 2023
For a Triolet Poetry Contest
Compassionate Souls
Let there be no dearth of compassionate souls
To serve as instruments of the Supreme Lord.
Would He spread His mercy to mankind as a whole,
Bring relief to those in need as their goal,
Allay the yoke of those who live but on the dole
And a decent meal a day cannot afford;
Let there be no dearth of compassionate souls
To serve as instruments of the Supreme Lord.
Sides
Born into sides
Religious and tribal
Learning quite young
To fear and to rival
If we are Catholic
We hate the Jews
If we are white
We do as we do
If we are men
We do as we want
If we are women
We’re told that we can’t
If we are black
We’re told to go back
If we are red…
We’re mostly all dead
If we’re ALL Human
We’re on the same side
No one to fear
No need to hide
I’m a humanist
I love all my tribe
Won’t you come join us
Just take the Human Side.
By Bill MacEachern 03/23/2022
Realm of humankind wheedled in reset,
Homeland beray, lull to beset,
Scrawling the parchment to a keyset,
Xenophobia in callousness,
Dearth to darn the clout concord.
Orness synergy alliance the terrene.
Berth errand the rassle office,
Commissions detach the hassle orifice...
Pensile the ensile spirits,
Circumscissile recoiled resiliency,
Nuanced tensile expansionism...
Normalise a new normal,
Order the prime heart to bloom,
Taper our united dreg to blossom...
Blight in frights,
Dight the twinight against any affright,
Infinity within.
Oh ! man!
Shame to say human!
Birds fly
Hunting for food in day
May be in sea
May be in forest
May be in homes
Return home to rest in the evening
May be in temples,churches,mosques
Gurdwaras and trees
They Proudly say Birds!
But we discriminate ourselves by
Colour,birth,caste,profession
Race and religion!
When’ll we end
hatred and violence?
Unite, avoid terrorism
Make earth a peaceful place for living!
Live as a secular common man!
Oh!man!
Let humanism live long with peace!
A baby was born with carotene skin and left
on a Senator’s doorstep in Washington.
This neonate’s pigment was reddish orange,
bright too, unusually garish.
How will we label it? The lawmakers fretted
when the Senator took it to the Capitol Building
to try and find it a home.
It is not black, not white, not caramel, not pink, not yellow.
It is not an albino, it is carrot-colored.
How will it pay taxes? A Senator married to an I.R.S.
agent wondered. “It will not be able to fill out a W-2 properly.”
What will we label it? The senators all worried, crowding around for a look.
“How about you label her baby?” a visiting four-year-old child suggested.
What did it mean to be human?
What does it mean to be human?
What will it mean to be human?
Humanity has fought and clawed its way to the current.
Wars and superstitions filled our hearts and minds.
King of the mountain was the game we played, knocking down all
who got in the way. Climbing the ladder, success at any costs.
Stepping on and over people was the rule of the day.
Many of these games we still played today. Yet things are evolving.
The masses today have power and influence like never before.
The global community is connected. We communicate instantly around the world. Topography and distances that kept us apart, that had us socially evolve in many different ways, now melting away. Inequalities still exists, that is for sure. Those in power want to hold on and keep it that way; but through technology humanity writ large will begin to hold sway. As the future becomes the now, humanity increasingly will socially and globally interact, our differences will slowly give way. The commonality of humanity will begin to win the day. Humans are equal and should be treated that way.
What do you believe and why do you believe it?
Our world has shaped who we are physically and spiritually.
We are different colors, speak different languages and have different gods based on where we were born. The accident of birth, location and topography determined who we are.
Our differences caused us to war.
Humanity’s social evolution is what we must see, the frictions of difference slowly beginning to fade. Humans being human to each other is how we must go. Humanism beginning to grow. Differences in beliefs can be poison to our cause. My religion is better than your religion is juvenile at best. Wars and mass murders is what we receive when this is how we perceive.
Spirituality is important to the human soul, it nourishes our existence keeps us balanced in so many ways. Would the Great Maker be displeased if our philosophy was to live a spiritual life connected to Gaia respecting who we are and each other; living the golden rule in harmony. Somehow I think not.
Peppa Pig started a Secret Club revolution.
When Poppa Pig asked her what she was up to,
she violated her Secret rule
because she could have no politically fun Club
if her Secret began and ended only within.
Poppa Pig resonantly responded
as did Peppa's entire family
and their extending outward friends of friends,
they had each secretly longed to belong
within some Secret Club
for self-and-other empowering recreation
just among their Secret ruling selves.
Peppa's dilemma, however,
after everyone knew her Secret admission word,
was in what sense could they sustain their Secret Club
with only this one, now shared, Secret
accessible as youtube.
Yet, forced to choose priorities,
she, as fore-shadowing Yintegrity
is polypathically inclined to flow,
instinctively saw and knew
a universally uniting
Best Unkept Secret Club
With one democratic Secret
integrating love
as abundantly happy as a pig
in muddled public puddles
transparently
and vulnerably belonging
inside her peacefully organic,
not so sacredly exclusive,
piggy Club.
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