Myriads thronged seclusions to proclaim passion,
Endless breath, of Life words acts and desires,
Weary mortals seeking hopes,
From troubled vanities of passing vanities,
Countless hearts, seekers of all kinds,
From all religions of man's invention.
From idolatry, traditionalism,
Cultures of hoods and voods
To Christianity, Islam, Maoism, Judaism,
Shintoism, Eckanker, Atheism, Moralism,
And nameless isms of unequal translations
All in throng seeking truth in isms here and more
One, and only one knows the truth
He lives in hearts of human seekers
He lives.
i've tread
the ground
around the
world in
whirled wind
adventures
but not
always
following the
star but usually
the moon so that
i've become a lunatic
but today
shut up
in my
room
for five
days i
didn't
even
go outside
to see the
sun even
when it
once came
out i still
stayed
in and
haven't
since
came
out
he was a theist
who became an atheist
you figure it out
©11/26/2018
for The atheist Poetry contest
sponsor – Anthony Slausen
In the evening there are two guys
Climbing up the top of two hills
Target on another with their pistols
It’s a duel and only nature is the viewer
Along with the setting sun and open sky.
What will happen, who will die?
Nature is waiting to see eagerly
Probably it forgets to breathe,
They target one another
Keeping finger upon the trigger
One…
Two…
Three…
Both they fire together
Closing their eyes
What happens? Who dies?
Both they cry loudly, opening eyes
‘Damn! Mistake to load the gun
Next day again, ok brother?’
Since last week
They’ve been trying to kill one another.
Looking through the prism
of 'Judgmentalism'
(A brand-new 'ism):
"The End is Near!"
shouts a scruffy beard
~ Nihilism
Trim the beard
and 'presto'
~ Environmentalism
socialism communism fascism despotism
buddhism catholicism hinduism zoroastrianism
territorialism colonialism imperialism expansionism
positivism relativism behaviorism existentialism
adventurism escapism negativism nihilism
puritanism fanaticism extremism terrorism
sexism chauvinism ultra-nationalism jingoism
hedonism epicureanism ~ stoicism asceticism
patriotism heroism altruism idealism
activism idealism individualism exceptionalism
atheism deism monotheism paganism
optimism pessimism cynicism romanticism
atheism secularism humanism utopianism
hypnotism mysticism exorcism surrealism
~ and what if there were a schism in each and every 'ism!'
when everyone has nothing
we will fight for scraps of bread
while the dogs are eating gourmet food
our school kids dine on things long dead
when all of “us” are equal
except the ones on top
we’ll eat the roots and spit the dirt
while “they” consume the crop
when all the words are “numbered”
with a level of “perception”
the talking heads and asses
will use mathematical deception
when the minds of children
are constrained by “liars” truth
and street corner rantings
the lonely voice of youth
there will be a rebellion
not of weapons but of words
refashioned into ploughshares
the uprising - tongues as swords
when everyone has nothing
something must cease to be
when everyone has closed their eyes
only the blind will see
John G. Lawless
©3/14/2018
Those who stretched out their chests like lions
in front of the pipes of guns are now the kings of highways.
Those who died helplessly jumping into the gape of the invading shark
are now alive in the din and bustle of life.
And those who escaped hiding themselves into the darkness
of their cunning are now mere oblivion,
mere broken graveyard surrounded by dreary emptiness.
Actually those who have learnt to contempt the eyes of vulture
have the right of living only.
Only those who have learnt like pincers to uproot the poisonous teeth of cobra have the right of love.
Those who know how to show thumb to the carnivorous animals
have the right of life.
Freedom and sovereignty are only for those who have learnt to play with life like chopper and spear
and who have learnt to shed one river blood
for flowers and poems,
for man and soil.
Behold, those who were alive are now mere ghosts
having died and got rotten utterly.
But those who sacrificed their lives in the inflame of love
are now reigning in the realm of life.
Truly the detestable death of man is in his foolish living;
life is only in war and death.
Worlds great monuments as they stand,
every civilization builds its own.
Pyramids and towers are built so grand,
from the Wall to the Colosseum of Rome.
What drives a mans great desire,
from glass, to steel, to brick.
To build a building, higher and higher
the race seems to get ever more quick.
Unsatisfied and alone,
a want to spend and splurge,
one thinks of madness, he searches to atone.
Cemented ivy, useless solvency,
time passes with recumbency .
Capitalism -
Is every man screwing everyone else.
But communism -
On the other hand, is just the reverse.
Seeds of similitude of things seen , virtually
Icon’s deceive through their image’s
the works of creature’s hands not the creator’s
Prism refracting light.
Colours like the rainbow.
Prism ism ism prism.
Red. Prism.
Orange. Ism ism.
Yellow. Refracting.
Green. Light.
Blue. Ism.
Indigo. Pris
Violet. Mism
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