Short Adherents Poems

THE WACKY WORLD OF WEIRD
Dr. James E. Martin
©October, 2013

The wacky world of weird,
Has never disappeared.
It remains today,
It won’t go away,
Its adherents are loudly cheered....

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Institutions

Attempt to define

What is not definable

So that adherents

Might own a set

Of concepts..

Which when believed

May be idolatrous to

That which can't be

Defined......

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Be it good or then bad…
defined after the fact

Acceptance—rejection,
a dog or a cat

The goals of Centurions,
or those of a Priest

Different agendas,
a moveable feast

Be it virtue or vice,
their adherents will claim

Then shout from the rafters,
 to freely rename

But in for a penny,
or out for a pound

A lasting consensus
—will never be found

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: October, 2020)...

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Conversations on this message
Are exchanges of meaning about
A message with no meaning..
In this manner religious seeds are
Planted which distort the
Full-on simplicity by placement
Of word fences and adherents..
Departure from conversations 
May be a healthful antidote..
Another may be an expansive
Stance of welcome to all
Conversations as already not 
Excluded..which Poetry Soup
Would likely prefer.....

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Intrepid damsel,
a heroine unsung.
A willing martyr
with courage
unrivalled.
Unransomed captive
with a ransom
infinite.
She gladly faces
death with eternity
in view.
Like her lover before her,
she chooses to be
a sacrificial lamb
to the slaughter.
Leah Sharibu,
the heroine unsung.
She that chooses to mortify
her passions
for timeless paradise.
Hardly daunted by
Kalashnikovs and
thunderous explosives,
she inherits a world
deemed abstract by
unfaithful adherents....

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