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

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Solomon Zorn

#285
I did this one last night. Just a short one.

“Perpetual Payback”
Solomon Zorn


Revenge is mine, but what's it for?
As you kill mine, so I kill yours.

Lost limbs entwine, to settle scores.
As you kill mine, so I kill yours.

On flesh we dine, and beg for more.
As you kill mine, so I kill yours.

We drink the wine, of endless wars.
As you kill mine, so I kill yours.

(Made a few changes this morning, 9/25.)
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

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Solomon Zorn

Did a substantial rewrite on this one:



“Faith Healer”
Solomon Zorn

He stands before the crowd
With microphone in hand
He's calling someone down
An old disabled man

He grips the wheelchair
The crowd is in a trance
When he invokes a prayer
The man begins to dance

We've all seen him before
The cripple sells the trick
By dancing on the floor
Like he was never sick

An actor aptly paid
A hypocrite for hire
Some simpletons get played
Their fervor is a fire

Donations are the proof
It's easy to deceive
The members of a group
And get them to believe

A spiritual ruse
Manipulating fools
Believers he will use
The gullible are tools

He's putting on a show
Their money he will take
The rational will know
The faith healer is fake
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
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Solomon Zorn

The Sun has been out most of the day, and I was thinking of my elderly neighbor, who seems to have seasonal affective disorder. This poem came to me.

The Invisible Sky
Solomon Zorn

The unseen Sun still shines as bright,
Though days of gray may dim it's light,
Above the clouds, it's hid from sight,
In the invisible sky.

The unseen Sun still shines as bright,
When Earth's own shadow casts the night,
Beneath our feet it climbs it's height,
In the invisible sky.

The unseen Sun still shines as bright,
To know it, gives my heart delight,
And lifts my Sol, to lofty height,
In the invisible sky.
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
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Cavebear

All of the above a very nice.
Choosing fire or choosing ice.
Or an albatross or a snowy woods.
But I prefer Seuss.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Mr.Obvious

#289
Small wonder

A one-trick pony
Performing in our circus
Drew crowds in tonight.

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

Atheist Mantis does not pray.

Mr.Obvious

#290
Contemplating Cannibal

Hidden amongst green,
Atheist Mantis catches wind.
Yet never she prays.
"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, requesting 69.

Atheist Mantis does not pray.

Cavebear

As an atheist
I observed the posts this year.
Most like doves in Wind.

Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Solomon Zorn

Quote from: Cavebear on February 17, 2017, 07:48:41 AM
All of the above a very nice.
Choosing fire or choosing ice.
Or an albatross or a snowy woods.
But I prefer Seuss.
I think I have posted this one before. It's my Seuss:

“Fingers”
Solomon Zorn

Fingers chopped off,
In the shredder,
Little girl
Asks her father,

“Will the Lord,
With his great power,
Make them grow back
In an hour?”

“Will he hear me
When I pray,
Make them grow back
In a day?”

“Tell me father,
Be sincere,
Will they grow back
In a year?”

Father doesn't
Dare reply,
With some
Condescending lie.

As his daughter
Bows to pray,
Father has
No words to say.

God should give
An explanation,
For this
Senseless amputation.

God should tell her
His intention,
When withholding
Intervention.

Leaving fingers
To be severed,
Tell her why
They're gone forever.

Father swallows
Past a lump
Seeing tragic
Little stump

Hand and nub
Are posed in prayer
To a God
That isn't there
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Cavebear

Quote from: Solomon Zorn on March 13, 2017, 03:17:02 AM
I think I have posted this one before. It's my Seuss:

“Fingers”
Solomon Zorn

Fingers chopped off,
In the shredder,
Little girl
Asks her father,

“Will the Lord,
With his great power,
Make them grow back
In an hour?”

“Will he hear me
When I pray,
Make them grow back
In a day?”

“Tell me father,
Be sincere,
Will they grow back
In a year?”

Father doesn't
Dare reply,
With some
Condescending lie.

As his daughter
Bows to pray,
Father has
No words to say.

God should give
An explanation,
For this
Senseless amputation.

God should tell her
His intention,
When withholding
Intervention.

Leaving fingers
To be severed,
Tell her why
They're gone forever.

Father swallows
Past a lump
Seeing tragic
Little stump

Hand and nub
Are posed in prayer
To a God
That isn't there

No reply is possible.   I stand in awe and sadness.  Tipping a hat would be insufficient and weak.  I bow.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Solomon Zorn

Quote from: Cavebear on March 14, 2017, 07:42:25 AM
No reply is possible.   I stand in awe and sadness.  Tipping a hat would be insufficient and weak.  I bow.
Thanks, Brother. The first two people that I read it to, in person, got visibly choked-up, at the end.
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: Cavebear on February 17, 2017, 07:48:41 AM
All of the above a very nice.
Choosing fire or choosing ice.
Or an albatross or a snowy woods.
But I prefer Seuss.
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," is my favorite Robert Frost poem.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42891

My all-time favorite poem, though is this one: "Richard Cory," by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44982
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Solomon Zorn

Here's one I did for the "Dark Parts Micro-Poetry" contest, on AllPoetry. It seemed like a dark treatment of the subject:

"Pleasure Center"
Solomon Zorn

A tiny little dose,
My paradise is close,
When smoking my cocaine.

I kiss the bliss I missed,
An alabaster mist,
That's stroking-off my brain.

But soon the soul atones,
And moans away the jones,
Until the next refrain.
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Solomon Zorn

Okay, nobody liked that last one...

Here's a new one, I whipped up for a thread on another forum:

Behold, how everything God made demonstrates his love:

Like warm summer breezes,
Genetic diseases,
Or encephalitis
From insects that bite us

Like kittens, and babies,
Pneumonia, and rabies,
And victims that howl,
With extruded bowel.

Like big yellow flowers,
And pain-ridden hours,
For third world genius,
Who bleeds from his anus.

Let's hope we go to Heaven, so we can praise His Name forever.
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Cavebear

Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Mike Cl

Quote from: Solomon Zorn on March 28, 2017, 03:30:34 PM
Okay, nobody liked that last one...

Here's a new one, I whipped up for a thread on another forum:

Behold, how everything God made demonstrates his love:

Like warm summer breezes,
Genetic diseases,
Or encephalitis
From insects that bite us

Like kittens, and babies,
Pneumonia, and rabies,
And victims that howl,
With extruded bowel.

Like big yellow flowers,
And pain-ridden hours,
For third world genius,
Who bleeds from his anus.

Let's hope we go to Heaven, so we can praise His Name forever.
^this^

Rod McKuen move over! :)
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?