Long Nonbeliever Poems

Various Heresies 2

You
by Michael R. Burch

For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.

For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...

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Various Heresies 5

Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch

July 7,2007 (7-7-7)

Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...

Tonight,...

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Abraham
23  Genesis 24:40 "He said to me, "The LORD before whom I have walked
will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, and you will
take a wife for my son from...

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uniting farcical flocks all over the world,
gregarious garments, talismans & 
little good luck charms required by religions
to ward off “evil spirits,” to separate man
from “god,” or to just protect the fuzzy sheep
from the rest of...

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playing with the young christian’s head

when i was in 6th grade,
i can remember the rumors from a neighboring school spun 
about a young girl around my age
who had gone into the bathroom &
rambled on “bloody...

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Inspired by Psalms 23:1-6 (enjoy, poets!!) :

v. 1-3 

I’m a lost sheep, hoping for a godly sleep 
LONGING for a delightful sleep 
In search of my beloved shepherd… 
I was willing to pray for some...

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oh but how those goddamned Atheists 
would not stop yammering away---
with their Darwin & their Evolution & their
want to live in the reality of a world in which 
human beings take responsibility for the lives...

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growing up, 
s/he had been told that 
“the eyes were the windows to the soul” &
as quickly as these things inevitably happen,
s/he decided for her/himself that this “soul” thing 
was strictly a matter of imagination,
knowing...

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stumbling upon a case of a christian minister or priest
who took his sweet time to violate the innocence of 
one or several little kids who will never be able to wash
themselves clean of the disease...

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my fondest memory of church
had to have been the day that girl from my confirmation class
whom i can’t for the life of me remember the name of now
showed up in a skin tight neon pink...

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Opinionated- And It’s Eyes---


I awoke and flung my mind soul in the heaven
What could there be more purely seven?
'It's that lordship,' I muttered;
And am I the nonbeliever never okaying;
I crave the divine, deponent denominationalism Why?
Death...

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Seek the Creator and then you'll rejoice!
Get alone. Still your mind and you'll hear His voice!
Get a good Bible translation, it will save you some time.
Open it, ask the Father to please open your mind.
The...

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the once-believer in “god”
had been wallowing in the feeling of being all alone
in a world in which every contact that they had
was based on a work of fiction full of characters
on the basis of whom
millions...

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Little church in the middle of nowhere, empty car in the parking lot.
Hundreds of empty souls and their memories have wandered in between halls and pews; teeth gnashing lies, angry hands signing love while simultaneously...

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if there is no God
there is no afterlife

if there is God
there is no afterlife for everyone on average!

because
afterlife only for exclusive souls
where God shall disclose own shape

average souls are not qualified for the afterlife
average souls...

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Upon the shores of the fourth of eight,
Lakes locked in links in a damned river chain,
Lives a wooden edifice upon this straight,
Of mutated water which wades in its own rain.

‘Tis an Inn which watches the...

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Lean Harvests
by Michael R. Burch

for T.M.

the trees are shedding their leaves again:
another summer is over.
the Christians are praising their Maker again,
but not the disconsolate plover:
i hear him berate
the fate
of his mate;
he claims God is no...

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Time can be said to be varying blends of opposites.
Time can also be worn like a kaleidoscopic
-- telltale state -- ring
or as glasses with a mood ring's thermochromatic
lenses to read things, self, and others.

Time is...

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