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Started by Solomon Zorn, September 15, 2013, 02:32:56 AM

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Brian37

T- Boned, By Brian37



Someone texting

Someone smoking

Someone eating

While they are driving



Some one speeding

Someone drunk

Runs the red light

Hitting another



I have detractors

Who don't like me

What would they do

If  I was the perp



What if I

Was the innocent  victim

Would politics or religion

Prevent them from helping?



I certianly know

What I would do

When someone is helpless

And I could lend aid



I would not at all

Pass them by

Just because

I hate what they say



I am fine with the frey

With those who are lucid

Yet all of us

Are still the same species



"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers." Obama
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Nam

Carroll's Field

in Carroll's Field where pecans sleep
and the days become cool as the night
there are dreams vibrant in hours we keep
rippling in ponds filled within the light

echoes of a past turned to a present
and life becomes the knot untied
the stars appear in a spiral descent
graciously upon those who have died

and in Carroll's Field where tree limbs felt
like the rain from emptying clouds
we gather in prayer where worn tongues knelt
upon breaths deepened beneath the shrouds

we cannot falter in this life of greater solitude
just happen upon that light in air
having not wrenched in sunpour attitude
it's only the love that whispers fair. . .


David Garrett Arnold
April 09 2013

--

[Spoiler]
Tijuana Tequila 


hairy legs
        and saggy tits
wet tongue
     pressed
against a dirty wall
tryin' to hear
the thump of a heart
      broken in pieces
in the spittoon on a
floor where shit wipes
         the asses of
the tender behind the
      grave of the bar

it's all business
   the seeing eye-dogs
straddling the throat
    of pussies
'tween legs
          where hard dicks
go limp in the shine
          of the moon

it could've been the tequila
  swallowed by semen
and worms that become
        drunk in
the orgasm of a whore

or the donkey

who knows...



David Garrett Arnold
July 08 2012[/spoiler]

--

river green

I could not hope more to breathe
in each luminescent aura
where wind carries leaves beyond
each silhouette of your form

It could be the happiness growing
like the leaf to the root
or the touch of a lip upon a lip
upon the single wave salted in
             rivergreen eyes
like tears wiped from the face
   gazing upon the autumn sun
gently slipping into the womb
   of the earth

I could not hope more to breathe
in each whisper you echo in my heart
where the wind carries us beyond
the silhouette of the moon



David Garrett Arnold
May 08 2013


-Nam
Mad cow disease...it's not just for cows, or the mad!

Shiranu

Drawn into this maze I find
A world quite unlike any in my mind.
With each intricate twist and twirl
I watch the minds unwrap and unfurl.

A voice cries out,
"By god's, I've seen the light!"
I see a man in stained whites,
and a broken halo around his head.
He believes himself to be high above,
transcending, flying above all these walls.
I watch as through the maze he blindly crawls.

Another walks past, his eyes blank and dull.
He is a slave to his routine; a broken, deprogrammed machine.
What life he had has gone black and cold,
And the music of his soul is a quiet, lonesome note.
The walls will guide his every move, and till his end their path he stays glued.
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

Brian37

Omnibenevolent, By Brian37

They all claim peace
Their goal so true
Here are some verses
For each of you

Hebrews first
And from the OT
From the book
Of Exodus

"2:11 And it came to pass
In those days,
When Moses was grown,
That he went out
Unto his brethren,

And looked on their burdens:
And he spied an Egyptian
Smiting an Hebrew,
One of his brethren."

"2:12 And he looked this way
And that way,
And when he saw
That there was no man,

He slew
The Egyptian,
And hid him
In the sand."

Street justice
Sanctioned by God
No civil court
Was involved

Now to that
Of the NT
Lets see what that
Has to say

In John 3
Verse 36
Here is what
It really says

"He that believeth on the Son
Hath everlasting life: And he that believeth
Not the Son shall not see life
But but the wrath of God abideth on him."

Tough luck Muslims
Atheists and Hindus
And even tough luck
To most Jews

I'd be remiss
If I forgot Islam
With all it's peace
And all it's charm

So lets take a look
At Allah's love
For the outsiders
Who don't subscribe

In book two
Named "The Cow"
Unbelievers fate
Under Allah's brow

Verse 161
And 162
Tell tells the unbelievers
Where they will go

"Lo! Those who disbelieve
And die while they are disbelievers;
And them is the curse of Allah
And of angels and of men combined.........

They ever dwell therein.
The doom
Will not be lightened for them,
Neither will they be reprieved"

Now I know
Others of these three
Others will claim
"Out of context"

But that is precisely
The same problem
Even with in the same religion
All do fight

Orthodox Jews
Do not like it when
Liberal Jews
Of Muslims befriend

Baptists think Catholics
Are not real Christians
German Christians
Once killed Jews

Sunnis kill Shiites
And their enemies still
Are Jews, Christians and atheists
They burn in hell

But all read the same
Exact books
Look for justifications
For what they do

And all the same god
All three have
How can this god
Sit up above

And watch us all fight
Like children with knives
Stabbing each other
To win a prize

You point to kindness
All of you do
But the kindess ends
When challenges arise

To take these books
Word for word
You all become monsters
In the name of your God

"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers." Obama
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Solomon Zorn

Quote from: Brian37 on June 30, 2014, 06:28:38 PM
...I'd be remiss
If I forgot Islam
With all it's peace
And all it's charm...
:rotflmao:
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Solomon Zorn

Quote from: Nam on June 24, 2014, 03:23:23 AM
river green

I could not hope more to breathe
in each luminescent aura
where wind carries leaves beyond
each silhouette of your form

It could be the happiness growing
like the leaf to the root
or the touch of a lip upon a lip
upon the single wave salted in
             rivergreen eyes
like tears wiped from the face
   gazing upon the autumn sun
gently slipping into the womb
   of the earth

I could not hope more to breathe
in each whisper you echo in my heart
where the wind carries us beyond
the silhouette of the moon



David Garrett Arnold
May 08 2013


-Nam

Interesting work, Nam. Please use a larger font, so I don't have to mess with my settings in order to read it. My eyesight is terrible these days.  :biggrin:
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Nam

Best I could do is probably bold it next time.

-Nam
Mad cow disease...it's not just for cows, or the mad!

Solomon Zorn

#112
I wrote this one yesterday morning. Appreciate any feedback.

“Humans”
http://www.solomonzorn.com/humans.html
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Applooza

Wow, I like all your poems Solomon Zorn. They are really good.

Mr.Obvious

#114
My hands are tied

Picture a suffering world reminiscent of a pit,
with horrors more intense the deeper you traverse.
I'm repulsed by my own cowardice as I do sit
idly by staring and allow it to grow worse.

I am, as a Roman poet 'n guide once said;
'che visser sanza ‘nfamia e sanza lodo'.
Should Dante know what awaits the dead
I'd expect a warm place due to my motto.

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As metaphore, christian-based mythology and literature still has it's use. (Though that's about it.) Inspired by Dante's inferno.
"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, requesting 69.

Atheist Mantis does not pray.

Nam

hate

there isn't a "we", there is just an...


lacking the architectural structure of the mind
where visions bre ak like waves in the sea
    it isn't just the regrettable lies
where each breadth becomes farther to breathe

it's the noise that becomes deafening
where lights flicker like the star of the moon
    voices echo in coloseums that tremble
hands clasping hands and the sweat falls expectantly

why haven't we murdered our brothers   ?
  why haven't we raped our mothers    ?
     why haven't we sung our songs    ?

is this not our treading breath    ?
is this not our deepening grave    ?
  is this not our trampled flags    ?

there isn't a "we", there is just an...

another lynching has taken place
bullets bitten by the hands that feed
    the homeless become the wealthy
and gold turns into the mud beneath

our feet

children are weeping for their fathers
who have gone off to a war they'll lose
   the aborted are weeping for their mothers
to a hell they'll forever burn

because

the Christianâ,,¢ is impeaching the world
for all the sins they commit
   they blame the president for not being

white enough

Earth may survive
  but where will we be   ?

the animals may survive
  perhaps that's how it should be   ?


there isn't a "we", there is just an...



US





David Garrett Arnold
July 06 2014


-Nam
Mad cow disease...it's not just for cows, or the mad!

Shiranu

Crashing to my right,
sea mist reaches the sky.
The seawall holds firm.


"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

Brian37

#117
"Identity" By Brian37(also posted at Rationalresponders.com)

I am a Muslim
I am a Jew
I am a German
I am a Hindu

I am from India
I am from Mexico
I am from America
I am from Morocco

I am Japanese
I am Chinese
I am Native American
I am Aborigine

I am the universe
I am much older
I'll be around
After the smolder

Of this planet
When it dies
There will be no record
Of our species tribes

What is important
Is here and now
And the only "Identity"
That I value

Is that of human
We are all
On one planet
Our only home
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers." Obama
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Nam

You need to edit it. "Idinia" for example. That's the only spelling error but...

-Nam
Mad cow disease...it's not just for cows, or the mad!

Brian37

My word pad doesn't have spellcheck, and my keyboard is fucked up so I like to hit submit before I lose something.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers." Obama
Poetry By Brian37 Like my poetry on Facebook Under BrianJames Rational Poet and also at twitter under Brianrrs37