‘We who still labour by the cromlech on the shore,
The grey cairn on the hill, when day sinks drowned in dew,
Being weary of the world’s empires, bow down to you,
Master of the still stars and of the flaming door.’—W.B. Yeats
Praying…Not Praying
Those of us who have lost hope in praying,
pray that there is a special place in hell
for those self-righteous zealots in churches
defending vile monsters high on the hill.
Piously waving tomes filled with fables,
quoting their misplaced contextual creeds,
heaping full judgment on anyone other,
claiming compassion while lowly hearts bleed.
Surely a just god would be disgusted
by vacuous souls who claim him by name,
who pour salt on wounds; hang with abusers,
no tinge of conviction, remorse or shame.
If you are listening god, if you’re out there,
isn’t it time for your rapturous sweep?
Call forth your faithless; send them wherever.
If they’re not here we might actually know peace.
~kat
Another verse From ‘The Valley of the Black Pig’ for Jane Dougherty’s ‘A Month with Yeats – Day Nineteen’ poetry challenge. And it’s those pigs again! My poetry as a result, of late, seems more like rants. But I do find them cathartic. Living in this alternate reality is not for the faint of heart! Peace!
like mercury colliding... 
November 19th, 2017 at 3:50 pm
That’s mighty powerful Kat. Carry on the ranting, it produces lovely work.
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November 19th, 2017 at 4:15 pm
The lack of logic in the stuff that the faithful spew is just mind-boggling. No god could possibly condone it, never mind encourage it!
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November 19th, 2017 at 4:26 pm
A governor recently proclaimed “we would rather have a child molester in the senate than a democrat.” Can you imagine? All to stack the deck so they can appoint Supreme Court justices who will support their dream of unfettered religious freedom. It really makes me ill. 🤢
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November 19th, 2017 at 4:35 pm
Does the ‘unfettered religious freedom’ extend to Muslims? I’m all for religious freedom as long as it stays in the privacy of the home and doesn’t break the law…but it doesn’t. They’re all self-serving hypocrites anyway.
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November 19th, 2017 at 5:49 pm
Of course it does not extend to anyone but those of evangelical ilk. A very scary proposition! 😯
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November 20th, 2017 at 4:58 am
Somehow I thought ‘unfettered’ might not be quite so free and easy as it sounds 🙂
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November 20th, 2017 at 7:11 am
Well just look at the way God acts in the Bible…and we are, according to that tome, made in his image…so what do we expect?
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November 20th, 2017 at 8:02 am
I agree…those pages are filled with persecution, death, misogyny, patriarchy and elitist self-righteousness. It’s not all peace and love. 😢
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November 20th, 2017 at 7:57 am
Amen!
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November 20th, 2017 at 7:59 pm
and another Amen.
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November 20th, 2017 at 2:13 pm
Amen. 😇😇😇😇😇
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November 20th, 2017 at 7:57 pm
and amen! 🙂
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