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

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Solitary

An Old Man's Anguish And Self Pity


My mental life is a painful chart, drawn by a black rabbit
Under a glowing moon while she perceived it.

Instrument with brass strings, cheeks like jugs.
And eyes bright as the moon, under illicit drugs.
Here there be love lost, buried in the body slim.

Here is the dark cave eyeless fish swim
About their perfect idol so cold.
He wipes away his eyes both salty and old.
A place like the dark side of the moon.

A deserted counntry harsh too soon.
A country savage as a lunatics fury blind.
A land of black witches out of their mind.

Your mental life is as dark as night.
A crimson branch with its clover white.
A lavender as sweet as your words.

A place where love and honor sing like birds,
Throwing golden coins upon a tragic cloth,
A heavy fate and scorn like a doomed moth,
Strumbing and beats your lovely things.

You are the soul, enchanting me with your glorious wings.
The lonely voice whos scream awakens the dead,
To shake the pride of angels, I have said.


There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Mr.Obvious

Beauty beyond lies


The beauty of the natural world is not bound
to the restrictions of the fantasy of men.

More beyond, rather than within is found
regarding a liar’s or coward’s den.

There is more truth than words can speak
or language can even start to comprehend.

Answers give birth to questions as we seek
the picture in an exploration that can’t end.

But we’ll pass the lit torch none the less;
filled with pride of the works of mankind.

‘Cause though they amount to nothingness,
it’s marvelous what in this world one can find.

"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, requesting 69.

Atheist Mantis does not pray.

Brian37

#182
Eleven, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)



No video of me

When we smashed cars

No video of those

When I witnessed shoplifting



No video of

The fights on my block

In the sports bars

Or frat house parties



No video of

My own parties

Underage drinking

And smoking pot



No video in my young 20s

In the parking lot

Acquaintances

Busted for drinking in public



No video

When  pulled over

I was a passenger in a car

Of a guy in no shape



Staten Island

To Ohio

12 year olds

Or in  a Walmart



Video or not

What is wrong

There are separate rules

Within our deep denial



A disturbed man

Sitting in a chair

Waves his gun

All around



Another man

Shoots at a lawyer

In front of a court house

For all to see



In both cases

They stay alive

Even with a gun

While others unarmed



Prosecutors

Indict a ham sandwich

Cozy with cops

Video or not



I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe



Post #517 "Eleven" about Eric Garner, also posted here. http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771?page=10
"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

Brian37

Strip Mining, (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)


You are not a shovel

You are not a wrench

You are not there

To simply make them rich


It is all a ploy

Make you sweat

Dangle the carrot

You will never get


Then they throw tantrums

Crying robbery

Merely because you want

Human dignity



Tell me how much

You are suffering

In your downtown penthouse

While the pay gap keeps exploding



Masturbating over

Third world cheap labor

Wanting to replicate it here

Throwing crumbs of cheap oil



In a hunderd years

Your extraction market

Will cost our planet more

And hurt our species more



Quit your strip mining

Quit claiming morality

Merely because of your tax bracket

Making excuses for your greed.



We are not your tools

Merely for you to use

We are not shovels

We are not your dirt



Rise up rise up

Workers arround the world

It is no longer about boarders

It is about our global market



We are being pitted

Against each other

By those with the money

Those with the power



Trickel up is golbal

You and I are  shovels

Sold the idea

To be their slave labor



Rise up rise up

Put money it it's place

Not to rid the private sector

Just ot get it to behave



No more strip mining

Humans are not mere numbers

We are not here for you

To simply make you rich.





We are not your tools

Born to make you rich

We are human beings

Who merely want to live
(end)

Also posted at my home poetry thread post #519 here. http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771?page=10
"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

Brian37

#184
Check out my new poem "Shooting Star" post #520 hosted by Rational Responders here.http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771?page=10

Shooting Star, By Brian37 (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37"RationalPoet" on Twitter"



How many here

Reading this

Can name

Every President



How many here

Reading this

Can name

Every Pharaoh



How many here

Reading this

Can name every

Prime minister of China



How many here

Reading this

Can name

Every Caesar



How many here

Reading this

Can name all prior

Leaders of the world



How many here

Can name

All the pop icons

Prior to their birth



How many here

Can name

The leaders

Of the Mayans



Fame is local

Fortune is finite

Powers shift

And life goes on



Trump to Tut

Isis to Jesus

Wealth to poverty

We are still finite.



Sagan

As right as he was

Knows that all this

Is Shakespeare's furry

"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

Brian37

INRI, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)



Introspection

Nowhere to be found

Rational thought

Is forbidden



In to do so

Negates  the norm

Reason the victim

Inquisition



If to ban query

Never to question

Relegate oneself

In submission



In thus they claim

Never to falter

Rebel hero

In written word



In pior mytholgy

Never consider

Reject the truth

It is nothing new



It was Socrates

Not afraid

Reveled  in challenge

In that of authority



In history proir

Not unique

Refused to submit

If those above him



If those above him

Never considered

Reason in question

In introspection



It's not a trope

New to Jesus

Rebels existed

In prior history.
(end)

Also posted at my home thread at Rational Responders post #521 hosted here http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771#comment-414817
"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

Green Bottle

#186
Xmas Haiku....

A merry christmas
You'll eat too much and get drunk
And a  hangover 

World's shortest Xmas poem..

Och Aye
Mince Pie.       :dance:                                                         
God doesnt exist, but if he did id tell him to ''Fuck Off''

Solomon Zorn

Well I just bought a computer, and I'm finally online at home! I plan on getting Dragon Naturally Speaking to use for dictating when I get inspired.

Here's my latest poem. It's a follow-up to the last one.

"Fingers 2: Tell the Good News"
http://www.solomonzorn.com/fingers-2.html
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Mr.Obvious

A great poem. I especially liked The last few lines.
"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, requesting 69.

Atheist Mantis does not pray.

Solomon Zorn

I don't know if it's a great poem - I did use both girl and child as two syllable words, after all (because that's the way they sound to my ear), when technically they are both one syllable words. But it does have a more difficult meter than I usually use. It was a much longer poem, but I deleted four stanzas for being weak. I spent probably three weeks on it, all told.
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Brian37

Hayhaoya Ishishdo, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

Kenji Kenji

What have they done

Kenji Kenji

They've taken your son


Mother Ishishido

Is everyone

Crying from

The rising sun


He carried no weapon

He will rise above

No matter how many

They needlessly murder


Kenji Kenji

No parent wants

To survive the death

Of their children


Ichiban

To the world you are

Kenji Kenji

The real hero


Kenji Kenji

Junko knows

The pain of the loss

Hahaoya Ishido

(end)


"Hahaoya" means "Mother". Ishido is Junko Ishido the mother of the murdered reporter Kenji Goto.

Also posted at my home thread listed in my signature post #553 hosted by Rational Responders.http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771?page=11
"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

dtq123

I've kept this poem for a while since I didn't like it, but ironically it's the only one I found worth sharing. Hope you enjoy it!

"Seven"

Your body grows from life,
How can you not love yourself?
Born from the best kind

Green eyes they wander.
Searching to be the best ones,
Wandering they go.

Sans rest you wither,
Repose is what you must seek,
Even at alert times.

The man and woman,
Adam and Even copulate.
Harlots seem quite close.

Food and Drink welcome,
How else one enjoy surplus?
Ichors and Nectars

Mammon oh wise one.
Aid me plan many days time.
Everlasting toys.

Wrath the core of us.
As spark to revolution,
For better or for worse.
A dark cloud looms over.
Festive cheer does not help much.
What is this, "Justice?"

Jmpty

#192
Why do you even bother?
Why do you waste your time and mine with rhymes imagining yourself sublime while using and abusing words that have been spewed and spit a thousand million times
before you were even born.

What have you to say
exactly?
What have you that none gone before has already discarded?
as worthless

Is it worthwhile to compile a vile and tepid profile
of mediocrity?
or more so to remain silent and aloof appearing the fool
or the faceless everyman.

All the while
knowing what is
and what is not
???  ??

Solomon Zorn

#193
QuoteWhy do you even bother?
Why do you waste your time and mine with rhymes imagining yourself sublime while using and abusing words that have been spewed and spit a thousand million times
before you were even born.

What have you to say
exactly?
What have you that none gone before has already discarded?
as worthless

Is it worthwhile to compile a vile and tepid profile
of mediocrity?
or more so to remain silent and aloof appearing the fool
or the faceless everyman.

All the while
knowing what is
and what is not
Mmmm...irony...I wonder if it's intentional...
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Jmpty

Mmmm...irony...I wonder if it's intentional...
Both poet and poem seem sadly one dimensional
with a meter that's predictable, and a measure so conventional
though the effort is commendable, the result is

unexceptional.
???  ??