January Religion Poems

What proclaims
to save our souls
is killing its believers 
Religion worse
than nuclear war …
born again deceivers

Breaking every
moral creed
stealing zero-sum
Ashes left to burn
and rot
—Yahweh on the run

(The...

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Please do not leave me in the ocean of pain and fire
Grave is your angriness, the hell of chain and fire

What I got after crossing...

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religion
ritualistic, judgmental 
kneeling, praying, seeking
fear, shame, compassion, acceptance
connecting, feeling, recognising
childlike, pristine
spirituality

18-January-2023

Delightful Diamante Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger...

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Religion becoming meaningless
when propriety goes away
Nothing to sit atop the lies
nothing to lead astray

Claiming the title to prophecies spun
each figurehead stands tall
To augment the legend...

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brainwashed we float
aimlessly adrift 
in a sinking boat
wasting life’s gift

conditioned belief
in bondage to ritual
how’ll we turn a new leaf
living a life virtual

10-January-2023...

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weak seek middlemen
church, temple, mosques
offering solace to the fearful
who pray and offer penance 
lapped up by hungry ghosts
leading to entity attachment 
reinforcing imaginary shame
thus holding...

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Societies that alienate themselves from God in Lethe's river drown! 







© Demetrios Trifiatis
    02 January 2023...

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To a learned philosopher
Or to a logical thinker
The gesture of this lone lady
Wrapping linens around this tree
Might look like a modern madness
Or drabness rooted on...

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waiting for their turn
for the verdict of their gods ~
birds and blossoms laugh


14 January 2022...

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Muslims build temples
Hindus build mosques for Muslims ~
this is India

14 January 2022...

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Religion
a prison…
to fence and restrain

Spoken
or written…
 it tries to contain

What can’t
be conscripted
or coveted pure

The Presence 
as given
—freely endures

(The First Book Of Prayers: January, 2022)....

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Witness the demise of traditional morality
  in the face of contemporary American morality

The Church's influence declines and slips
  Atheist youth flees a sinking...

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He knows the heart’s core
He guides the soul’s wants
He gives goals for hopes
He wins souls to bliss
He knows who I am

He is my friend
He is...

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Religion in practice…
arms length from God
Close enough to see,
never to touch

Single lens focus,
vision for sale
Dogma as deity
—conscription at birth

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)...

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Of Religion
Ultimate truth is delusional fact
Lie follows lie by hypnotizing tact


-January 14,2020 Chattogram...

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