love of man, love of God

Edit to Add: these were thoughts penned in the middle of The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, which was a good book, really, and very interesting. It wasn’t his fault that I wrote the poem below—I suppose I am fairly ripe, with or without his autobiography, to muse on how humans tend to swirl around [...]

Dr. Seuss Leaves Conservative Christianity

I wrote this poem a year ago.  You can tell I had just read a Dr. Seuss book to the kids, can’t you?  And, yes, the lines are a little bitter.  But it was where I was at, and that’s not in reference to any one particular church or conservative group, actually, especially not the church I grew up [...]

pixie dust messiah

tonight i sit and wait for it,
that magic bullet (push or pull it)
to wave the wand and make the dawn
come now.
no more pain, just lauded gain
and banished fears, wiped-up tears,
lions, lambs and party plans
right now.
so take that wood (as if I could
to nails submit, or any part of it).
i want no cross, i want no cost -
i did [...]