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"bibles" poems
I am Christian. I believe in the Trinity of the Holy God, The Son, and The Spirit, I believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of mankind I own more than three Bibles I teach Sunday School every week and I pray every night. I am Christian, And as such I Hate queer.... Phobia. I can not stand intolerance And I cry at hatred, Blood running in the streets, Fear running in veins, Running away from the truth. I am Christian, yet There are bloodstains in my Bible And the prayers on my lips Are for forgiveness for who I am. The entire story of ***** is Crossed out, blacked out angrily In the dead of night In all 4 versions, Leviticus is blurred, Wrinkled with my tears, Soaked with my pain. I am Christian And I am not homophobic. I know my church won't recognize Non cis-het marriages, Leaving entire worlds of rainbows in the dark The higher-ups insist Weddings are white, shiny, husband-and-wife, happily-ever-after affairs That shove me and my friends, my family, my lovers, Into closets of heavenly wrath and Fire and brimstone sermons, Locked into personal hells of shame And confusion. I am Christian And I am not straight. My God doesn't hate me for who I love, He loves me because I try not to hate. So to the homophobic Christians, I ask: Who is your God? Who is your God that supposedly condemns people He has created in his own image? Your rainbow picket signs are nothing but a cruel mockery of a covenant Not truly shared by you. Your tongues are no better than the viper's who called Adam and Eve to sin, You are the vipers of my world. Do you think you avoid judgement When trans teens are killed By the bullets you spit with your words? Who is your God, That tells you to picket the funerals Of those you hate? Who is your God, That refuses to let you open your heart to differentness? I am Christian, And I don't need your permission to Love my God. Take my scars and tear-stained Bibles, Listen to my fervent prayers, Watch my lips tremble when I listen to my pastor. I don't need your permission To love who I want, In fact I don't want it. Take my midnight screaming and fear of coming out, Listen to my frantic pleading for a hand to hold, Watch my eyes linger on her chest. I am Christian. My God doesn't hate me for who I love, He hates you who refuse to love While you carry His name, if Not his blessing. So I ask again Who is your God? Because mine loves all of me, All 5'6" of queer pride. Who is your God?
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Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014 at 12:05 AM UTC
Not A Stereotype
I am Christian. I believe in the Trinity of the Holy God, The Son, and The Spirit, I believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of mankind I own more than three Bibles I teach Sunday School every week and I pray every night. I am Christian, And as such I Hate queer.... Phobia. I can not stand intolerance And I cry at hatred, Blood running in the streets, Fear running in veins, Running away from the truth. I am Christian, yet There are bloodstains in my Bible And the prayers on my lips Are for forgiveness for who I am. The entire story of ***** is Crossed out, blacked out angrily In the dead of night In all 4 versions, Leviticus is blurred, Wrinkled with my tears, Soaked with my pain. I am Christian And I am not homophobic. I know my church won't recognize Non cis-het marriages, Leaving entire worlds of rainbows in the dark The higher-ups insist Weddings are white, shiny, husband-and-wife, happily-ever-after affairs That shove me and my friends, my family, my lovers, Into closets of heavenly wrath and Fire and brimstone sermons, Locked into personal hells of shame And confusion. I am Christian And I am not straight. My God doesn't hate me for who I love, He loves me because I try not to hate. So to the homophobic Christians, I ask: Who is your God? Who is your God that supposedly condemns people He has created in his own image? Your rainbow picket signs are nothing but a cruel mockery of a covenant Not truly shared by you. Your tongues are no better than the viper's who called Adam and Eve to sin, You are the vipers of my world. Do you think you avoid judgement When trans teens are killed By the bullets you spit with your words? Who is your God, That tells you to picket the funerals Of those you hate? Who is your God, That refuses to let you open your heart to differentness? I am Christian, And I don't need your permission to Love my God. Take my scars and tear-stained Bibles, Listen to my fervent prayers, Watch my lips tremble when I listen to my pastor. I don't need your permission To love who I want, In fact I don't want it. Take my midnight screaming and fear of coming out, Listen to my frantic pleading for a hand to hold, Watch my eyes linger on her chest. I am Christian. My God doesn't hate me for who I love, He hates you who refuse to love While you carry His name, if Not his blessing. So I ask again Who is your God? Because mine loves all of me, All 5'6" of queer pride. Who is your God?
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Just a wicked peacenik’n quick draw from the Paw Game of Thrones’n the Shah, cRussian bones of the law And still spewing the news like the red dragon’s maw When the baby-skull splitters want nuclear winter Ideal New Cold steel and send Chernobyl shivers Down Roman Republicans’ severed headlines Till there’s no more dead kids on for prophet front lines I’m in exile sharpenin’ [sic]kles in style Pyongyang’n Kuomintang climate denials Erasing their nation-hate racial profiles Outpacing their skinhead disgraces by miles Shell casin’ this place like the Nuremberg trials For Fords sellin’ swastikas stockpile bibles Defiled by Normandy tide genocidals Fresh meat off the boat spreadin’ Plague mercantiles I smile and **** ‘em with kindness Then grind Battle tax in my acid bath Salt Marchin’ prime Because WAR IS THE CRIME I’m the Clown Prince of Rhyme, Level 9 state of mind Like the state of Rakhine The Black Hand before time Runnin’ Africa’s Luciest Sky Diamond mine I’m the ronin alone in The monkey god shrine And my guile’s reprisal’s Versailles treaty signed Strippin’ pride from the Rhine ‘Till your Motherland’s mine Swine
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Apr 8, 2018
Apr 8, 2018 at 2:37 AM UTC
Emissary of the Evil Empire
-This is Nigeria, Where Cattle’s fly their terrorism flag, Stumping on humtydumpty green white green. -This is Nigeria Where corrupt QWERTY and busy ******   Puts food on the table of unemployed youths. -This is Nigeria Where clerics find paradise on earth Lo!  followers live as church rats withal. -This is Nigeria Where Eve plotted against a serpent   Hm! Mrs Philomena and her fairytale animal. -This is Nigeria Where Sundays are full of bibles and Qurans, Yet her body stinks in poo of immorality. -This is Nigeria Where the mace is a mess in her house As senators sleeps and vacate seats in a hearing. -This is Nigeria Where in Nigeria We are looking for Nigeria.
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May 27, 2018
May 27, 2018 at 10:46 AM UTC
THIS IS NIGERIA!!!
We are who we are We love who love us We love who hate us We love our Gender Call us Girls Call us women Call us Ladies We are TransWomen Stop being confused Stop being surprised Stop calling us He or It We hate that pronoun We are females we as others We deserve our rights like others We deserve love and affection We deserve Respect like others We are tired of your nicknames "Is a he or a she", "what is this?" It hurts please stop stop stop! We are fine ladies! Full stop ! You scared our fellow ladies They are crying in closet They are lonely in families Because we are Transgenders! Stop abusing my brothers They men and so proud to be Don't be confused by what you see A transMan is a powerful Man! Respect them now and forever Stop calling them ladies or things They are men **** and classy They are men always and forever See us slaying down town We are lovely and attractive We know who we are friends You can't change us Sit down! Don't be confused by Breast That the **** chest of our brother! He is strong enough to be proud We love our bodies and gender We won't hide because you hate us The more you see us feeling proud The better you understand us We are Proud Transgenders! We ladies need our Freedom Government think about us All women are equal in the country We need all care and attentions! Stop calling us Monsters We are human beings We deserve our Rights We are citizens like others! This ain't western culture This ain't Sodoma and Gomollah This is the gender of Us We are Proud Transgender people! Pastors stop that hate preach That hell you need us to go in That Sodoma you always sing All were from Those Bibles If you accuse all LGBTI people To bring back ***** or Gomollah First remember that bible you read Was brought by Evangelists We had gods and goddesses Africa knew no White God We had Love and respect Read , reread and Rereread! Love wins and will win You are taking us nowhere We are here to stay and slay Ourselves Genger our Pride We are done by your hate Is our time to shine bright! You gonna hate us today And you will love us later! TransWomen are women TransMen are Strong men Transgender is a Gender Respect us we hurt no one! "Transgender Right is Human right TransWomen are women too TransMen are men as well We claim no war but our Freedom We claim no hate but our Respect" Poet : Skylar G Peter Poem: we Are Proud Transgender people
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May 6, 2018
May 6, 2018 at 4:15 AM UTC
We are Proud Transgender People (a poem by a trans refugee)
We are who we are We love who love us We love who hate us We love our Gender Call us Girls Call us women Call us Ladies We are TransWomen Stop being confused Stop being surprised Stop calling us He or It We hate that pronoun We are females we as others We deserve our rights like others We deserve love and affection We deserve Respect like others We are tired of your nicknames "Is a he or a she", "what is this?" It hurts please stop stop stop! We are fine ladies! Full stop ! You scared our fellow ladies They are crying in closet They are lonely in families Because we are Transgenders! Stop abusing my brothers They men and so proud to be Don't be confused by what you see A transMan is a powerful Man! Respect them now and forever Stop calling them ladies or things They are men **** and classy They are men always and forever See us slaying down town We are lovely and attractive We know who we are friends You can't change us Sit down! Don't be confused by Breast That the **** chest of our brother! He is strong enough to be proud We love our bodies and gender We won't hide because you hate us The more you see us feeling proud The better you understand us We are Proud Transgenders! We ladies need our Freedom Government think about us All women are equal in the country We need all care and attentions! Stop calling us Monsters We are human beings We deserve our Rights We are citizens like others! This ain't western culture This ain't Sodoma and Gomollah This is the gender of Us We are Proud Transgender people! Pastors stop that hate preach That hell you need us to go in That Sodoma you always sing All were from Those Bibles If you accuse all LGBTI people To bring back ***** or Gomollah First remember that bible you read Was brought by Evangelists We had gods and goddesses Africa knew no White God We had Love and respect Read , reread and Rereread! Love wins and will win You are taking us nowhere We are here to stay and slay Ourselves Genger our Pride We are done by your hate Is our time to shine bright! You gonna hate us today And you will love us later! TransWomen are women TransMen are Strong men Transgender is a Gender Respect us we hurt no one! "Transgender Right is Human right TransWomen are women too TransMen are men as well We claim no war but our Freedom We claim no hate but our Respect" Poet : Skylar G Peter Poem: we Are Proud Transgender people
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I need to read love poetry For the same reason monks read bibles the irrepressible need to believe That love exists That love is omnipresent, omniscient, all powerful That it is eternal For someone somewhere, at least The emptier I feel, the more I read Let me believe Someone kisses Crusty eye-lids in perfect bliss
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Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 5:20 AM UTC
Unicorns
In school I never understood No, I never could what the point of it was. What is the point? I learned about math and science; Good God, why am I so defiant? So call me lazy. Tell me my IQ is below average. Well here's an image: I'm actually smart I just hate being a slave to the system. I almost missed 'em. But they caught me and now they got me and all that I intended to defend is left on the side of the street. I'm rebelling while they're trying to compel me to stay put in my seat like a ******* robot. Well, I will not. I gotta break outta this prison but where's my bailsman? This is my decision and I've chosen not to be broken. My mind will escape unscathed while yours will continue to be lathed by those mechanical words that they feed to you like birds. And what's worse: Is that you eat it. You accept them. You swallow down that indiscretion. What a burden but I don't feel sorry for you tainted mind because you chose it when I warned you that they'd change you. And now you've become a slave to their holocaust and you're so lost. You can't even think your own thoughts. It's despicable. And it's not permissible. You're stuck in their Utopia and you're praising their allah. Well God knows, it's not right. So you gotta ignite all your original thoughts and morals cause honey they aren't your idols. They are so pretentious and utterly blinded. Stuck under their bibles but they aren't angels. Break free from the system come join my anthem. Let's start a rally and get more allies. Join me in my plea to be all that we can be. To stand for what we choose. I promise we will not loose.
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Oct 25, 2012
Oct 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM UTC
Standing Up
In school I never understood No, I never could what the point of it was. What is the point? I learned about math and science; Good God, why am I so defiant? So call me lazy. Tell me my IQ is below average. Well here's an image: I'm actually smart I just hate being a slave to the system. I almost missed 'em. But they caught me and now they got me and all that I intended to defend is left on the side of the street. I'm rebelling while they're trying to compel me to stay put in my seat like a ******* robot. Well, I will not. I gotta break outta this prison but where's my bailsman? This is my decision and I've chosen not to be broken. My mind will escape unscathed while yours will continue to be lathed by those mechanical words that they feed to you like birds. And what's worse: Is that you eat it. You accept them. You swallow down that indiscretion. What a burden but I don't feel sorry for you tainted mind because you chose it when I warned you that they'd change you. And now you've become a slave to their holocaust and you're so lost. You can't even think your own thoughts. It's despicable. And it's not permissible. You're stuck in their Utopia and you're praising their allah. Well God knows, it's not right. So you gotta ignite all your original thoughts and morals cause honey they aren't your idols. They are so pretentious and utterly blinded. Stuck under their bibles but they aren't angels. Break free from the system come join my anthem. Let's start a rally and get more allies. Join me in my plea to be all that we can be. To stand for what we choose. I promise we will not loose.
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You see, When you grow up in a place such as I have, And you're a person like me, You start to have a special kind of hatred for small towns. In my town, In the land of the brave, And the home of the free, Things are messed up. Our motto should be- Land of the cowards, And the home of the free (if you're like us). ...They wouldn't even know how to spell you're correctly. In my town, Bibles are thrown, Names are called, Cars are keyed, And people are beat... All because they're different. Its not necessarily the different that you would imagine. If you're red headed, Or anything but Christian, If you're a yank, Or a gay, You're hated on. I can promise you this. At the red heads, They accuse them of witch craft, And being in line with the devil. Some have even went so far, As to burn down ones house. If you're not a Christan, Run as far away from this town as possible. Its not the place for you. On the road I live on, There are 7 Southern Baptist churches, JUST on my road. Southern Baptist are a little crazy, Run boy, Run. If you're a yank.... You'll be excluded, And yelled at. Everything bad that goes on in this **** town, It will all be blamed on you. If you're gay, Oh lord forbid that you're gay. Don't be gay in this town, Just dont. You wont survive. As for me, I am a red headed girl, Who comes from out of town, Who isn't a yank, But is still treated like one. I am a Christan, But not as much as I need to be, And I am not quite straight. I dont like this small town of mine, But its the place I call home.
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Dec 27, 2013
Dec 27, 2013 at 12:34 PM UTC
Small Town
You see, When you grow up in a place such as I have, And you're a person like me, You start to have a special kind of hatred for small towns. In my town, In the land of the brave, And the home of the free, Things are messed up. Our motto should be- Land of the cowards, And the home of the free (if you're like us). ...They wouldn't even know how to spell you're correctly. In my town, Bibles are thrown, Names are called, Cars are keyed, And people are beat... All because they're different. Its not necessarily the different that you would imagine. If you're red headed, Or anything but Christian, If you're a yank, Or a gay, You're hated on. I can promise you this. At the red heads, They accuse them of witch craft, And being in line with the devil. Some have even went so far, As to burn down ones house. If you're not a Christan, Run as far away from this town as possible. Its not the place for you. On the road I live on, There are 7 Southern Baptist churches, JUST on my road. Southern Baptist are a little crazy, Run boy, Run. If you're a yank.... You'll be excluded, And yelled at. Everything bad that goes on in this **** town, It will all be blamed on you. If you're gay, Oh lord forbid that you're gay. Don't be gay in this town, Just dont. You wont survive. As for me, I am a red headed girl, Who comes from out of town, Who isn't a yank, But is still treated like one. I am a Christan, But not as much as I need to be, And I am not quite straight. I dont like this small town of mine, But its the place I call home.
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I have always believed that it is possible to see through the defenses of those who keep secrets tucked into their back pockets like wallets with a little more cash than they are comfortable with, if one is willing to look closely enough. It is apparent in their heavy eyelids, as though the weight of what they are carrying is resting on their eyelashes. It is apparent in the curve of their lips, and the way they are not able to smile to their fullest potential. It is apparent in their hands, and the way they are not able to hold anything, as though their fingers are already full. However, I never realized that it was also possible to notice leaves clutching secrets to their chests like keepsake necklaces passed down by their great-grandmothers until one afternoon when I was walking between two bushes. My feet were carrying me lackadaisically down the sidewalk toward my dormitory when something to my right caught my eye. Among a congregation of green leaves, I noticed one blushing sinner. She sat in the center, as though she was attempting to blend in, but her pink cheeks made her stand out from the rest. When everyone stood in unison, she followed a few seconds behind. When everyone clutched hymns and bibles in their hands, she tied her fingers in knots to appear busy. When everyone partook in communion, she bit her lip quietly. But there was something about the way she held her hands in her lap, with her palms pressed together and her fingers interlocked, and the way she wore her hair behind her shoulders in curls that made me want to get to know her and every secret she kept tucked beneath the belt of her summer dress. But we don’t always get the pleasure of conversing with sinners, and we often are not even willing to have those conversations with ourselves.
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Aug 26, 2013
Aug 26, 2013 at 2:50 PM UTC
Secrets
I have always believed that it is possible to see through the defenses of those who keep secrets tucked into their back pockets like wallets with a little more cash than they are comfortable with, if one is willing to look closely enough. It is apparent in their heavy eyelids, as though the weight of what they are carrying is resting on their eyelashes. It is apparent in the curve of their lips, and the way they are not able to smile to their fullest potential. It is apparent in their hands, and the way they are not able to hold anything, as though their fingers are already full. However, I never realized that it was also possible to notice leaves clutching secrets to their chests like keepsake necklaces passed down by their great-grandmothers until one afternoon when I was walking between two bushes. My feet were carrying me lackadaisically down the sidewalk toward my dormitory when something to my right caught my eye. Among a congregation of green leaves, I noticed one blushing sinner. She sat in the center, as though she was attempting to blend in, but her pink cheeks made her stand out from the rest. When everyone stood in unison, she followed a few seconds behind. When everyone clutched hymns and bibles in their hands, she tied her fingers in knots to appear busy. When everyone partook in communion, she bit her lip quietly. But there was something about the way she held her hands in her lap, with her palms pressed together and her fingers interlocked, and the way she wore her hair behind her shoulders in curls that made me want to get to know her and every secret she kept tucked beneath the belt of her summer dress. But we don’t always get the pleasure of conversing with sinners, and we often are not even willing to have those conversations with ourselves.
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Homecoming body: A grey cardigan strips down, bonding skin to night’s air, penetrating Chevrolet safe havens drowned in lover’s spit. My Mind thanks Google, enabling electronic bibles to leave disciples stifled with religious quotas, an excuse to quote us — “Trouble at the Border, read the former court room reporter working for the, sensationalized, through remnants of blood stains in our eyes.” Midway through Chapter 1 — reeks not only of of *** in the backseat — but of Venezuela’s shorelines. Of her high school hallways. Of the intrigue of the unexplored Mexican neighbor, her freedom amidst constraint, where Visas lease us advertising campaigns for maquiladora made lampshades. Despite their protest, common sense lent comparisons, a consequence of stories told in reverse. They hover over Venezuela’s familiar curves, her long black hair straddling my shoulders.
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Jan 5, 2012
Jan 5, 2012 at 8:00 PM UTC
Playground Love
you are the light at the end of a tendril. a spindle of dread, woven in caustic guile of argyle parallelograms...phantom realms of solid waste. you are the pin in the subject. gating satan through a thimble of crocodile tears, the new symbol. the rude glyph in black bibles and strong drink, en-kindling the dead. rodents ponzi the scheme of hell’s maze, with lies...your lies... you have eyes that lead aside from your heart’s plot you are saboteur. banal. unrestrained waste. you are the fin in the barracuda puppet, grazing the wrist of Dim Henson huffing crystal gorillas in the congo of your foyer you are the black chandelier. teach me your cheap trick striking off ‘ iron-on’ pinkie swears your praline heresies... your ‘ no remorse’ code lay bare to me. better my better angels, to fathom the loathsome **** of your actual mind. keep me abreast of your wretched games... apply the rod of your wrong love, above all.... you must betray. you must know in your fetid rot of a third eye... the phlegm genius of **** blindness.... teach me the rictus of cold hearted. a false god in my lotus ! spare me the chaste suzette flip me the ***** that spits fables. learn me the savage puns to pummel you sustaining your worst done. grant me the lethal beans for my sacred cow trade me the idylls of your forked heart for your crushed null and crossed bones.
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 11:53 PM UTC
The Light At The End Of A Tendril
John Scalla remembers plain–clothed white coiffed nuns in sunday school classes who were the sweetest things you’ve ever seen with a razors edge carried proudly from an emerald isle John Scalla spent his sundays digging through big soft Bibles discovering a father who loved everyone as equally as he was thorough a son born to wear a crown of blood but never lost his most sacred heart and a universal spirit’s open-armed quiet embrace of your trembling frame John Scalla was born to hold a communion with something far more complex or precise then our poor sweaty coils wondering how bread could be body and blood so eagerly consumed John Scalla stole from complex pages buried deep beneath outdated expressions and miscommunicated messages a simple cypher that condenses all the rhetoric down to it’s square root love John Scalla locked the cypher in that secret spot between heart and stomach holding it close dreaming on distant playgrounds where it was slowly worn away by bullies still casting long shadows like limestone sphinxes now noseless John Scalla’s distant playground dreaming of a personal relationship with God are gone because if He was there then that makes him a single string of an infinitely intricate vast woven narrative where he is only aware of adjacent pieces unable to take a firm grasp of the situation continuing to grow John Scalla weaves narratives through his prayers sending them nowhere because they wouldn’t know where to go with so many far-off stars dead and leaving cosmic vibrations both here and everywhere making it hard for them to escape with their best intentions unmolested
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 6:12 PM UTC
Catholic Guilt
John Scalla remembers plain–clothed white coiffed nuns in sunday school classes who were the sweetest things you’ve ever seen with a razors edge carried proudly from an emerald isle John Scalla spent his sundays digging through big soft Bibles discovering a father who loved everyone as equally as he was thorough a son born to wear a crown of blood but never lost his most sacred heart and a universal spirit’s open-armed quiet embrace of your trembling frame John Scalla was born to hold a communion with something far more complex or precise then our poor sweaty coils wondering how bread could be body and blood so eagerly consumed John Scalla stole from complex pages buried deep beneath outdated expressions and miscommunicated messages a simple cypher that condenses all the rhetoric down to it’s square root love John Scalla locked the cypher in that secret spot between heart and stomach holding it close dreaming on distant playgrounds where it was slowly worn away by bullies still casting long shadows like limestone sphinxes now noseless John Scalla’s distant playground dreaming of a personal relationship with God are gone because if He was there then that makes him a single string of an infinitely intricate vast woven narrative where he is only aware of adjacent pieces unable to take a firm grasp of the situation continuing to grow John Scalla weaves narratives through his prayers sending them nowhere because they wouldn’t know where to go with so many far-off stars dead and leaving cosmic vibrations both here and everywhere making it hard for them to escape with their best intentions unmolested
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Many people feel fear When you speak of Evil, Their Bibles clutched dear As their hot hearts chill. A great deal think of Satan With his foul demonic band. Show them a pentagram And most fear their bodies Will be possessed at once By some demonic heathen Looking for his lunch. But I, having lived a hard life, Fear not Satan’s treachery Or his delivery of strife, Nor the fabled imagery The church once did write. I seldom fear going to Hell And basking in flames for eternity Or not getting a farewell Into a kingdom of just divinity. Oh no, my mind is quite filled With the brimstone inferno Caused by the wickedly free-willed. Those very individuals Who say they renounce Evil Have beaten me to a pulp For asking to be their equal. So don’t be naive and let thy name be trod By those who yell "Satan" Only to betray God.
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Jun 11, 2019
Jun 11, 2019 at 5:28 PM UTC
The "Good" People
Burn all the books, bibles, effigies. Halal the deities. Eating never felt this **** filling.
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Sep 14, 2019
Sep 14, 2019 at 11:08 PM UTC
Fox Dye: Strange Deranger
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD ,, And as such ,,, This well could actually be our elementary schooling , In classroom earth we've just not long moved in To start our years of learning~ Others have been here for their time As they for knowledge we are yearning~ We've found a lot of mysteries here Ones that this time we cannot explain~ But we will have the answers when We've done our years of rein~ Its said in scrolls and the many bibles of God Gods day is a thousand years to our day one~ So we've only been here six days yet According to the teachings now of some~ But the ages of this classroom earth Go back before our knowledge and our knowing Many different races , species , and gifts of God Have been in this classroom longer than winds blowing Our past loves ones spent time in classroom earth They learned in their way as we've to do~ Then too moved on to yet another higher class To see the rest of their schooling through~ One by one they've all left this class As one by one we as well eventually will do~ And one by one this time around We like them will go to higher classes too~ We wont need or use our bodies there at all Just our intellect and love~ Lots of positive loving imagination as well And always help from God both around us and above~ Terrence Michael Sutton copyright 1978
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 8:00 AM UTC
CLASSROOM EARTH
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws;—they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow ******* sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears; Without, our shame; within, our consciences; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears: Yet all these fences and their whole array One cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.
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Sin
I shed, Like petals, That floated to the hard earth, And was called words, That dug in, Deeper then the deepest, Of thorns, Because roses hold, the beauty, But shield the pain, In vines like veins, We see there stronger, Then the delicate outlines, We have been accustomed to, But one thing, He didn't care to notice, Her eyes were not blue, Like the violets, Her eyes were a brown, Of coffee stains, And Bibles, Where words really did hurt, Because they oppressed, Telling us it's okay, To be different, If we separate the blue eyed, From the browned, But him not noticing, The color of her eyes, Is like as if Ah wanted him, And every man to point out, That they had different colors, Of skin, That he thought, they were example enough, Of how these word and names, Hurt, But will not be, A belief , For roses are red as violets blue, And I may love you, But you have be stabbed, Bleed red blood, By hateful names, Because brown eyes, aren't blue, But I still loved you.
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May 6, 2015
May 6, 2015 at 11:55 AM UTC
Roses bleed red, eyes not blue, but I still love you.
oh how we worship the pretty people despite them being the source of so much evil and lust to be just like them we find so much ******** believable and think each of them a gem the glamorous, the beautiful, the **** "did you see the new tweet? after the show I hope they text me!" we follow them through the movies into their church steeples hollywood and all it's heights of it's anointed peoples the magazines are their bibles and we hold none of them liable for the lies they've told or the lives they ruin being unreliable with every story they're spinning they want us to believe they're "winning" marriage, divorce, wife number three new baby carriage, move to the golf course, life under palm trees remain calm and know things are always ok if you can sing and be pretty I pity the soulless with hot faces, no social graces but lots of *** in the city and we love their scandals we can't get enough every news stand proving america has more than a crush on the movie stars, on the models, on their cars, on the rush of thinking we could be them if we just got a new nose and a tuck who put Brangelina's kids' new brother on every magazine cover but never the military heroes who live to protect you while they duck for cover? **** the sheep who keep the weakness in our families who want the news filled with the new runways fashion and grammys instead of the problems that need solutions and what real life should mean we need action and my reaction is to lift the small faction of thinkers up to be seen we need a cause to cut loose the famous like weights and hate their ********** ignore the models, shun the actors, pay the teachers, appreciate the surgeons being pretty is a gift not a skill being hot isn't exactly curing cancer or healing the ill but we still want what we can't have, much worse than reality another prada handbag under the disposable christmas tree them or us, I don't know what's a worse diversion I guess I'm just not pretty enough to be a "real" person
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Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 1:03 AM UTC
GLAMOUR
oh how we worship the pretty people despite them being the source of so much evil and lust to be just like them we find so much ******** believable and think each of them a gem the glamorous, the beautiful, the **** "did you see the new tweet? after the show I hope they text me!" we follow them through the movies into their church steeples hollywood and all it's heights of it's anointed peoples the magazines are their bibles and we hold none of them liable for the lies they've told or the lives they ruin being unreliable with every story they're spinning they want us to believe they're "winning" marriage, divorce, wife number three new baby carriage, move to the golf course, life under palm trees remain calm and know things are always ok if you can sing and be pretty I pity the soulless with hot faces, no social graces but lots of *** in the city and we love their scandals we can't get enough every news stand proving america has more than a crush on the movie stars, on the models, on their cars, on the rush of thinking we could be them if we just got a new nose and a tuck who put Brangelina's kids' new brother on every magazine cover but never the military heroes who live to protect you while they duck for cover? **** the sheep who keep the weakness in our families who want the news filled with the new runways fashion and grammys instead of the problems that need solutions and what real life should mean we need action and my reaction is to lift the small faction of thinkers up to be seen we need a cause to cut loose the famous like weights and hate their ********** ignore the models, shun the actors, pay the teachers, appreciate the surgeons being pretty is a gift not a skill being hot isn't exactly curing cancer or healing the ill but we still want what we can't have, much worse than reality another prada handbag under the disposable christmas tree them or us, I don't know what's a worse diversion I guess I'm just not pretty enough to be a "real" person
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I stole myself a keepsake for remembrance of my father, a bracelet made by he that lasted 3 years, no longer I picked me out a souvenir in summertime Muskogee but now they sit so rusted and do of nothing to me I hang old captured memories, tacked into my right wall but they still just stand, a memory, that's all their worth in all I will need no souvenir to remember you I will need no keepsake hung up with a sticky glue I will have your hand to hold, forever and again If I need reminder, I just gaze up past your chin Even all the words I wrote, someday will be just that They may still hold a meaning, but I can never bring it back The pearls pierced through my ears handed down from generation, even they are getting old throughout this newer nation Stories ended with their what if's and could have's are too far passed now, just sit for some good laughs I will need no souvenir to remember you I will need no keepsake hung up with a sticky glue I will have your hand to hold, forever and again If I need reminder, I just gaze up past your chin Why do we need bibles and these holy books to say something once was, and I think again one day I only can remember that one time I landed hospitalized because the get well notes be still on my shelf advised I used to keep a diary when I was just young, to write down all I saw until it wasn't all fun I will need no souvenir to remember you I will need no keepsake hung up with a sticky glue I will have your hand to hold, forever and again If I need reminder, I just gaze up past your chin For you are my souvenir living life with both so near Your hand is just a reminder of the time that we have spent, in you, the meaning finder
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Feb 28, 2016
Feb 28, 2016 at 10:05 PM UTC
meaning finder
I stole myself a keepsake for remembrance of my father, a bracelet made by he that lasted 3 years, no longer I picked me out a souvenir in summertime Muskogee but now they sit so rusted and do of nothing to me I hang old captured memories, tacked into my right wall but they still just stand, a memory, that's all their worth in all I will need no souvenir to remember you I will need no keepsake hung up with a sticky glue I will have your hand to hold, forever and again If I need reminder, I just gaze up past your chin Even all the words I wrote, someday will be just that They may still hold a meaning, but I can never bring it back The pearls pierced through my ears handed down from generation, even they are getting old throughout this newer nation Stories ended with their what if's and could have's are too far passed now, just sit for some good laughs I will need no souvenir to remember you I will need no keepsake hung up with a sticky glue I will have your hand to hold, forever and again If I need reminder, I just gaze up past your chin Why do we need bibles and these holy books to say something once was, and I think again one day I only can remember that one time I landed hospitalized because the get well notes be still on my shelf advised I used to keep a diary when I was just young, to write down all I saw until it wasn't all fun I will need no souvenir to remember you I will need no keepsake hung up with a sticky glue I will have your hand to hold, forever and again If I need reminder, I just gaze up past your chin For you are my souvenir living life with both so near Your hand is just a reminder of the time that we have spent, in you, the meaning finder
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We read “Captain Hook’s collection of psalms, And other songs to sing along to.” Nothing better to do off hand, But revel in our own arrogance. And, we notched holes in leather straps, To expand at the waste. Drive through diets replacing lessons- Of keeping elbows off the table. Of speaking only when spoken to. Twenty-one years plus a little change. And, daddy says- Everything I taught you is replaceable. And, daddy says- Mistake is a just a word. Hasn’t got it figured out either, At least he admits it, Choking down another cigarette, Says: here’s to now. And, don’t break your back if you don’t have to. Technology affords avenues Different rivers to float experience Overalls and baseball caps And the tree house that broke my tibia. Talked through tin cans in this age, Of golden innocence. Now I’m Facebooking and twitting or twittering Or… who the **** cares? No one I care about. Rivers given way to raw sewage. And, even dogs eat their own **** This cat called my computer a *********** box- If the shoe fits, Clichés get the hits. Search: Blonde **** Big ******* 5 million 38 hundred and 2 results. Neon Bibles erupt in the sky. Today I am a believer in the quarter pounder with cheese Tomorrow in gasoline for 2.85 Midas made gold Now he wants to change my oil. They call that economics Or advertising. And, suddenly my sneakers aren’t good enough Voice on the other end reassures- My ideas are manic. Paint a scene of terror. Laying waste to iron giants- Tearing down systems in place to restrict Setting fire to everything- Rack it up to fulfilling. Rack it up to rebuilding. Dismal haze, red glow to ash filled sky, That makes mom clutch the good book- Saying its time to go home. How she knows her redeemer lives. Clarity reigns supreme And, daddy says- Son, you’ve been watching too much TV. And daddy says- You catch more with honey by rule.
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Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 1:37 PM UTC
"Too Much TV"
We read “Captain Hook’s collection of psalms, And other songs to sing along to.” Nothing better to do off hand, But revel in our own arrogance. And, we notched holes in leather straps, To expand at the waste. Drive through diets replacing lessons- Of keeping elbows off the table. Of speaking only when spoken to. Twenty-one years plus a little change. And, daddy says- Everything I taught you is replaceable. And, daddy says- Mistake is a just a word. Hasn’t got it figured out either, At least he admits it, Choking down another cigarette, Says: here’s to now. And, don’t break your back if you don’t have to. Technology affords avenues Different rivers to float experience Overalls and baseball caps And the tree house that broke my tibia. Talked through tin cans in this age, Of golden innocence. Now I’m Facebooking and twitting or twittering Or… who the **** cares? No one I care about. Rivers given way to raw sewage. And, even dogs eat their own **** This cat called my computer a *********** box- If the shoe fits, Clichés get the hits. Search: Blonde **** Big ******* 5 million 38 hundred and 2 results. Neon Bibles erupt in the sky. Today I am a believer in the quarter pounder with cheese Tomorrow in gasoline for 2.85 Midas made gold Now he wants to change my oil. They call that economics Or advertising. And, suddenly my sneakers aren’t good enough Voice on the other end reassures- My ideas are manic. Paint a scene of terror. Laying waste to iron giants- Tearing down systems in place to restrict Setting fire to everything- Rack it up to fulfilling. Rack it up to rebuilding. Dismal haze, red glow to ash filled sky, That makes mom clutch the good book- Saying its time to go home. How she knows her redeemer lives. Clarity reigns supreme And, daddy says- Son, you’ve been watching too much TV. And daddy says- You catch more with honey by rule.
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Her prayers are Breathy I love you's, Warm and pained against your skin. Your body is her altar, Her temple, The cathedral surrounding her In her heartbroken worship As she unravels, Crying, Shaking, Clinging to you with Everything She Has Left. The shattered pieces Of her heart are the broken winged swallows, Flocking in fluttering storms In your bell tower, Nesting in your rafters Alongside the owls you've let be To this point, Content to allow them to roost. Her hands are your bibles, The creases telling a thousand stories Of the girl who weathers the fiercest storms, But falls apart at the seams For love of you. Your laughter serves as her hymns, Ringing through the expanse of you, Singing in her ears. Sometimes she tries Laughing alongside you, But her voice cracks Like an untuned piano Whenever she opens her lips To add her laughter to Your songbooks. You each find a different kind of heaven In the stained glass windows Of the other's eyes. Hers are the ocean, Deep and stormy, Only ever calm Just before lightning shakes her frame, Rain and froth Pounding Against the glass, Breaking it's way through, Trying to flood your halls As the tempest carves new legends In her outstretched hands; New biblical stories to lose yourself in. She finds summer nights in your gaze, Bonfires dappling damp grass, And a boy Laying on the hood of a run down car, Staring too intently at the stars To truly register their fragility, Their mortality, Even as they plummet from the sky, Bursts of white light Reflecting gold through green glass. The comet-light ripples, Climbing to the rafters, Startling the owls from their perches, And you can feel them thrumming, Beating their wings against the ceiling of your ribs. k. f.
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Dec 20, 2013
Dec 20, 2013 at 5:57 PM UTC
Of Swallows and Altar Rafters
Her prayers are Breathy I love you's, Warm and pained against your skin. Your body is her altar, Her temple, The cathedral surrounding her In her heartbroken worship As she unravels, Crying, Shaking, Clinging to you with Everything She Has Left. The shattered pieces Of her heart are the broken winged swallows, Flocking in fluttering storms In your bell tower, Nesting in your rafters Alongside the owls you've let be To this point, Content to allow them to roost. Her hands are your bibles, The creases telling a thousand stories Of the girl who weathers the fiercest storms, But falls apart at the seams For love of you. Your laughter serves as her hymns, Ringing through the expanse of you, Singing in her ears. Sometimes she tries Laughing alongside you, But her voice cracks Like an untuned piano Whenever she opens her lips To add her laughter to Your songbooks. You each find a different kind of heaven In the stained glass windows Of the other's eyes. Hers are the ocean, Deep and stormy, Only ever calm Just before lightning shakes her frame, Rain and froth Pounding Against the glass, Breaking it's way through, Trying to flood your halls As the tempest carves new legends In her outstretched hands; New biblical stories to lose yourself in. She finds summer nights in your gaze, Bonfires dappling damp grass, And a boy Laying on the hood of a run down car, Staring too intently at the stars To truly register their fragility, Their mortality, Even as they plummet from the sky, Bursts of white light Reflecting gold through green glass. The comet-light ripples, Climbing to the rafters, Startling the owls from their perches, And you can feel them thrumming, Beating their wings against the ceiling of your ribs. k. f.
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the world is a machine built of scorpions and wolves, praying for sleep and soft lullabies. the wheels and knobs turn endlessly, recklessly howling at the stars for it's desirable solace, like ghosts stuck on earth preying on others for revenge for being sentient puppets tangled in the strings, thrashing in their thoughts, stuck in a everlasting cycle carrying around burdens like a courier through dense forests and vast wastelands, burning bridges and bibles and throwing gasoline upon the architectures built up and setting them on fire but i feel hands of fear at my ankles, pulling me into the restless ocean with a pulsating ache, wolves howl from the insides of my barren stomach and making them be quiet is difficult, if duct tape worked, it would help these knives for fingers cut through anything, but it can't cut through you - kra
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Dec 21, 2013
Dec 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM UTC
how to get past dying, a novel