Christian Irony Poems

Throughout my whole life,
I was taught a white Jesus
Would be my savior.

But Jesus was born 
In a land of a people 
Who have darker skin.

How...

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The Hypocrite


The Doubter hides behind religious guise,
Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies.
His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile,
Espousing,...

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(Poem in honour of the ancient Christian named "Alexamenos" who was mocked with Christ and named in the "Alexamenos graffito" in Rome)

A man who looked...

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Archon of the west, whose spouse was the worldly Sophia
Who blindly abandoned his childhood lamb, to search for unseen light
Though the lamb could have showed...

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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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Where is the love you promised us always? Eternal love is 
cast out of heaven for the angelic it seems—Quote by poet

It burns deeply knowing...

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Unsettled Calm

Why am I writing this, 
when they say... 
really no one cares? 
I don't believe they are right. 
The more "they" try to prove...

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I
We teach others to pray
We show kids how to play
With kindness, another way
Even when they walk away
In immaturity: "Love him? No way!"

II
We meditate on peace,...

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She lit up the guest house one December
I saw that signature smile, vivacity at 40
I returned a few months later; I remember
She brought some dessert,...

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Those who make ethnic boxes on forms we must check.
Who of those, which are Iranian/Mexican, oh heck.
Irk! It's insanity, those who think Jesus loves them...

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Secretly God could choose to convince
All of us of his own existence
If only the ones who would believe
Were made into those who could conceive...

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Perched atop the vaulted arches of Notre Dame
Exquisitely carved spouts are not angelic hosts  
To receive the embattled, sinful souls seeking 
Entrance to the...

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Flyin' along on a ramblin' roll  
Hopin' the day don’t take it’s toll.
Every morning's light anew 
Every evenings kiss, pray end with you.
Days hungry...

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i’m right reverend 
   he’s very right reverend 
       the most reverend 
    somehow...

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Soon.  My Birthday Candles

This last autumn is constantly milky white or drawn gray hanging down between the trees without an intent to reveal any...

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