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Ned Carter Jan 4
The Binary Prayer
In pews where sermons drone on repeat,
Two genders march in binary beat.
“Male or female,” the pastor asserts,
While the platypus smirks beneath his quirks.

The peacocks flaunt, the seahorses dance,
Nature's kaleidoscope shatters their stance.
Yet in Sunday’s bulletin, all is confined,
To dolls for daughters and trucks for their kind.

Oh, to see an androgynous angel sway,
Would surely ruin a righteous day.
But look to the skies, where seraphim spin—
Wheels of fire care not for sin.

The Pronoun Patrol
With grammar books clutched and verses in tow,
The Pronoun Patrol strikes a puritan blow.
“They/them is a heresy!” their leaders implore,
“Stick to he or she—nothing more!”

In coffee shops and hymnals alike,
They rewrite songs with fervent spike.
"God Rest Ye Merry, Cis-Men," they sing,
Missing the gospel in the joy it could bring.

For Trinity lovers, oh what a twist,
The paradox they cannot resist.
But "they" for a neighbor? A bridge too far.
How small their heavens and shrinking star.

The Gay Agenda (A Stationery Set)
Beware the binders, the glitter, the cheer,
The "gay agenda" they say, draws near!
With brunch as its weapon and joy as its creed,
It threatens their world with unstoppable speed.

Pastors decry this rainbowed parade,
While envying the sparkles their sermons evade.
“Why can't our Easters have this much pizzazz?”
They mutter while clinging to their tarnished brass.

The gay agenda’s truth, if you dare peek,
Is rights, acceptance, and brunch once a week.
A life filled with love, not casseroles wed,
Is the fear that keeps their dogma fed.

Fear and Flexibility
Downward Dog is a slippery *****,
To promiscuity and losing all hope.
Yoga mats lead to the Devil’s abyss—
Who knew Pilates could spawn such bliss?

Their temples are holy, or so they preach,
Yet under renovation, with signs: “Do not breach.”
No touching, no joy, no exploring your shrine,
For freedom in Christ must walk a fine line.

Abstinence rings gleam like halos above,
But guilt and repression sour young love.
The irony burns, a puritan plight,
That their rules breed the chaos they seek to fight.

Love the Sinner, Hate the Rainbow
“Love the sinner,” they say with a grin,
While barring the doors and fencing the sin.
Rainbows reduced to two lonely hues,
As God shakes His head, bemused by their views.

Yet even in stained-glass exclusion they stay,
LGBTQ+ saints find another way.
Prayer circles bloom with love unrestrained,
A spectrum of faith unshackled, unchained.

The spectrum’s beauty lies in its blend,
Infinite colors that never end.
A covenant crafted in radiant hue,
A reminder that God’s love is ever new.

The Gospel According to Glitter
Oh, rigid faithful, with black-and-white creed,
Your rules cannot bind love’s vibrant seed.
For God’s light refracts in myriad rays,
Beyond the confines of your binary gaze.

So wave the flag, and lift your voice,
In a faith unshackled, let all rejoice.
For in the spectrum, there’s space for all,
A love that’s boundless, a divine call.

Amen to the glitter, the joy, and the jest,
May satire’s spark ignite hearts at rest.
For the gospel of love, in all its hues,
Is brighter than fear, and always renews.
Klausyuer Oct 2024
"
The light we dread on the path we tread,
Scorched by the morals we misuse.
Misread the darkness, our hearts distressed,
Mocked by the values we choose,
Led astray by the prophecies of disharmony.

Heralds of the Righteous, deaf to hideous cries,
Sombre pleas linger, unseen in the abyss.
Angels seek refuge in hell from our treachery,
Watching disdainfully the absurdity we create,
While Demons, now praying for salvation,
Witness the tragic fall of humanity.

Instruments of war masquerade as peace,
Tormenting the innocent’s fragile ease.
A nation built on unity’s roar,
Now silenced by the lies of the false majority,
As citizens, evicted by leaders once upheld,
Fall victim to the very mother they served.

The tranquil ocean of individuals,
Swept away by the puddle of atrocities.
The gavel of justice hammers the innocent,
While the illustrious clowns, adorned in lustrous lies, roam free.
As avatars of Themis fall to Eris' tempting kiss,
Our heroes, once righteous, now stab us in the back with monarchic bliss.

While the poor laugh abundantly at their chains,
The rich weep for sovereignty that wanes.
Failure is the epitome of success,
While schools terrify us to death,
Teaching the race between ending a valuable life
And the finish line of a hollow diploma.

Yet in hallowed halls, they preach dismay,
As arguments and debates suffocate the air,
In this world already choked by toxic despair.

The masks of leadership conceal deceit,
As false ideals march beneath victory's flag.
And when the hands that build also destroy,
Philosophy, once pure and guiding,
Now teaches Angels the art of demonology.
"
-Klausyuer: The ****** Poet
Showing the absurdity and irony of the issues we are currently facing right now
Anais Vionet Jun 2022
The idea that our founding fathers intended anyone over 18 to possess enough firepower to destroy the entire continental army of 1776 is absurd, arrogate and dangerous.

#repealthe2ndamendment
BLT Marriam Webster word of the day challenge: Arrogate: to take or claim an illegal right.
dilshé Aug 2021
We're wordsmiths forging a masterpiece
Perception's the brush to our mastery
Phrases sculpted like chiseled marble
with Michelangelo's dexterity

times' thoughts struggle to translate to poetry
& ideologies unleash your inner lunatic
But as Picasso proved, with his absurd canvas
Even confusion could be artistry!

The world's preposterous afterall
Its Interpretations come from the cardiac
& psychosis is better than normalcy
I'm fine sounding like
             A dyslexic graphomaniac.
I'm not dyslexic btw, at least not to my knowledge :)
annh Apr 2021
FLUFF:
Frequently, I discover words with hidden meaning, shining like coins in a handful of fluff, apple seeds and other down-the-back-of-the-sofa leavings. Some are too precious to share and I secrete them away. Others I spend cheaply on rigged slot machine verbiage. Mostly they sit waiting to be written usefully. Adding insight, lending moment to my day.

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NONSENSE:
Foraging amongst the dahlias
For Cinderella’s lost slipper,
I am Barbie magic made manifest,
I am Germaine (sodding) Greer’s antifem,
I am Super Mum with gumboots on.


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ABSURDITY:
The best nonsense is always spoken in the middle of the afternoon while heading north on a train bound for a smallish beige town, and so it was that the occupants of second-class carriage BG1754 found themselves gripped by a kind of eloquent hysteria as they rattled around the final bend in the tracks before the steep descent to the weatherboard station at Claggy Peat.
‘The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners.’
- Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
john Dec 2020
so last night i was kicking rocks at reality-
trying to flip the entire universe like a pancake
but the moon laughed at my fruitless toil
for the universe exists in paradox-
and in my night watch
i dug into the soil
and ended up on the shoulders
of our planet
watching
her inhabitants try to make sense
of imperceptible subjects
such as why
who has sealed
all things within her palms
to bar philosophers
who have made gods of reason
i dare to worship
existence-
to be smothered in the
beauty of what is
and is
with or without description.
and so i look inward to quest(ions)
which are themselves, answers-
as i am a universe.
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