Scorched Earth, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Scorched earth, in the bunker
In 1945 Berlin, sat the psychopath
Knowing finally that he couldn’t win

Blamed is population for disloyalty
Blamed German civilians for his loss
Refused to let them surrender

Bury them at all costs. Military
Decimated, all that was left was youth
Desperate he forced young and elderly

To fight down to their last tooth
Ignoring all the General’s pleas
To save their remaining population

That evil narcissist was the one
Who convinced the entire nation
To follow him down that dark road

“Compassion was for the weak “
That monster often sold
Bastardizing real evolution

Left empathy out in the cold
This what happens when
You scapegoat and vilify

The bully claims to be the victim
The venom’s battle cry
The truth for these authoritarians

They have no value at all
It is all about lust for power
Blind obedience is the call

It was the abominable notion
The master race should rule over all
I am glad that bastard ate a bullet

That lead to his inevitable downfall.
(end)

I am an atheist. I hate Hitler, I hate Stalin, I hate Po Pot, I hate Mao, I hate Gadaffi, I hate Fidel Castro. I hate Authoritarians.

Any human being selling you a political, religious, or business “plan” where blind loyalty where questioning is not allowed, it is the sign of tyranny and will lead to eventual disaster.

Cult leaders, mafia bosses, dictators and abusive spouses all operate the same way. They convince their followers that they cannot live or function without them. They tell you nobody understands you like they do, and they tell you not to trust anyone. They rely on creating a dependent relationship where they are the only ones that know what is best for you. They demand blind loyalty and any questioning will be met with verbal abuse, mental abuse, physical abuse and even murder. Or they will convince you to commit suicide with them. It is the behavior of a madman.

In normal healthy relationships there is cooperation, communication, no absolute power, but cooperation and compromise. And especially the ability to leave a situation without fear of threat or reprisal.

Hitler never cared about anyone else but himself, and maybe his dog Blondie and his wife Eva Braun. Stalin also never cared about anyone but himself, and lust of power. But both of them were very effective in convincing supporters to do their bidding blindly. And once they rose to enough power, all hope was lost for anyone living under them that saw the problem and knew what was really going on.

Hitler was to blame for the entirety of WW2. He was to blame for starting the war. He was to blame for bastardizing evolution claiming that it was solely about might makes right. He was a bastard for claiming that there was a master race and that Jews deserved to eliminated from the face of the planet.

The problem with humans though is long term. That war is almost 100 years in the past since it’s start. There are very few survivors left to recall the brutality of that monster.

Yet today, humans still scapegoat and vilify minorities. They use one religion against the other to create in groups and out groups. And far too many people get wrapped up in zero sum games they are willing to follow authoritarians down that same dark road.

I don’t want history to repeat itself with any group of people. I want a peaceful pluralistic society that uses democracy and voting and diplomacy and checks on power.

Judge Faith(No relation), By Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X) (Disclaimer: The title means “to judge your faith, question it”, it is no relationship to the TV personality.)

What would you think, what would you say
If in a modern court, it happened this way
In the sentencing phase, a sitting judge

Had this to say, “Not only do I sentence you
Your punishment of such will also include
The murder of your firstborn son

On my authority, from my bench, this will be done
Does this sound fun, does this sound right
To be so arbitrary, to use your might

Because you can, because you have power
I’d think this logic, for the sane would sour
The behavior of a bully, that of a coward

But this is what God does to the Pharoah
In that hideous story of the Passover
Very bad logic you should not gloss over.

‘Militant Atheist’, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

When called to task, they always ask
Why are you being so mean?
For the mere act of questioning

It is not militant to ask for evidence
If you are going to claim divine providence
I can see that you have all the confidence

I’ve seen your script before, in countless flavors
It does you no favors, to contently endeavor
Thinking your logic is perfectly clever

I will not burn down your church
I will not demand your arrest
Don’t call me a militant atheist

For putting your claims to task
I am no fan of Stalin or Hitler
No fan of Castro or Mao

Don’t you accuse me of hating you
For merely asking you how
You came to your conclusion

I seek to reduce confusion
There is no fear to be had
If you can get it in a lab

And get independent peer review
This isn’t at all anything new

You’re Fired, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Of this argument I am really tired
That God judged your time expired
Genocide by drowning he required

From one of his fans who just argued
That we were “employees” God could fire
Only a sick person would desire, that to be true

Tell me what a mere child could do
At such a tender age, to swallow salt water
In their lungs, suffocate from God’s jealous rage

This would have to be the case
If that myth were true, all but 8 on the ark
Drowned by the millions in the gloom

Certainly there had to be
On the other side of the globe
Even innocent adults

Who never heard of this God
To blame the victim for their innocence
Makes you a monster fraud

The boss you have in real work
The boss you have in real life
They cannot shoot you in the head

They cannot stab you with a knife
If you quit and want leave
You are entitled to keep your life

“Employee” was the analogy
This guy had tried to use
To justify that vile story

Of genocide and abuse.
(end)

I seriously just had an idiot on Facebook equate human beings like “employees” that God could fire. No asshole, in real life you don’t get to murder someone for stealing supplies, or cussing the boss out or merely quitting and going to another job.

And according to that book, only 8 people were on the ark. And back when that myth was supposed to have happened, there would have been in reality 14million to 20million humans globally. Millions of those would have had to be kids, toddlers, pregnant women. And even innocent adults who simply had never heard of this Abrahamic God.

Forced, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Do you know of ectopic pregnancy
Do you know a miscarriage
Isn’t always expelled immediately

These politicians aren’t trained medically
All they do is prey upon people emotionally
And these ham fisted laws can end tragically

For many who don’t have the means
To leave the state, theocratic minds seal their fate
The American Taliban are at the gate

They don’t care for females that are raped
Or incest trauma that they negate
They Ignore because of a book of lore

Keep it in your pants or you’re a whore
Your just a factory for the cross company
Forced birth is your only destiny

Here are the words of Susan B:

“I distrust those people who
Know so well what god wants them to do
Because I always notice it coincides with
Their own desires”

Old Christian white men
Did back then, beat her up
Because she dared spoke up

They didn’t want her to vote
To them that chance beyond remote
Despite their misogyny

“Well behaved women
Seldom make history”
This ban on abortion

It is oppression
Nothing short of
It is time for women to take off the gloves.
(end)

Mythology Goggles, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

I know in my rational mind
8 billion humans will not be in line
Of like mind, some are tolerant some are blind

The tooth fairy doesn’t explain dentistry
Alchemy will never replace chemistry
Winter will not be explained by Frosty

Tell a believer they are wrong, they get nasty
And burn you at the stake, 4 jet planes
Did so make missiles, the towers did take

I know in my rational mind
8 billion humans will not all be atheists
Most will always find

The religion of their parents bind
Given to them in youth, it is however
Not proof, of anything but cultural bias

I do not wish to kill, I do not wan to kill
Those who hold a a god, those who have good will
I do however implore logic and science don’t ignore

The Ancient Egyptian gods did die
Despite 3,000 years of Pharoah’s pride
The Aztec gods in ruins now lie

What makes you think your God will survive?
I do not say this to hurt or harm
I do not want to cause any alarm

It is just a thought for you to ponder
Out of the past wonder into reason
Fear of change should be out of season.

Dare to take off your mythology goggles
Of real science the mind boggles
Ditch the fantasy that does not last

Don’t be afraid to leave the past
(end)

A View To A Kill, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

They even want to ban the morning after pill
They think it is all a bronze age diety’s will
This ham fisted barbaric ban will kill

Even those who want the baby, want the kids
This is what those patriarchal bastards did
If the fetus dies in the womb

Sepsis can make it both their tomb
Seal the fate of the female’s doom
All because of politicians in the backroom

Judges with bibles who have no degree
In medicine, obstetrician, gynecology
Control of females is all I see

Ectopic egg in tube pregnancy
If left untreated can be deadly
GOP unleashed barbarity

Trump will pay politically
Women will rise, they will see
Rue the day they messed with thee.
(end)

THE POEM TITLE IS METAPHORE ONLY. It is referring to the real harm in banning abortion, the real killing by people who are not privy to the dangers of pregnancy and stupidly think all abortions are simply unwanted babies. And it will kill the GOP and Trump’s chances of holding power in November.

Sane people and women of America and the world need to stand up to religious bullying.

T.C. T.C, It Was Never Meant To Be, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

T.C. T.C. it was never mean to be
When the bad guys shot at your chopper
When you were trying to flee

And Thomas never ponied up
With your gas money
Higgy baby, Higgy baby

It’s painfully obvious to see
While you meander on
And regale them with glee

Stories of the River Kwai
Burma regiments battle cry
They sit and roll their eyes

Wondering why they asked why

Rick sitting at club
Has Ice Pick on the phone
The lads have trapped Thomas

In the guest house all alone
T.C. T.C. It was never meant to be
Bullet holes in your chopper windows

For everyone to see. Thomas’s tab
Makes you mad, your rides are always free
You know you’ll never see a dime

Of that gas money.
(end)

Anyone who is old enough knows what I am talking about.

Are You Like Me, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James RationalPoet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Are you like me
When you write poetry
Not worried about perfection
But message dedication

Are you like me and don’t worry
About always being fancy
Counting syllables like calories
Castles that stand on simplicity

Oh sure I can get lofty
Upon occasion, but I fear more
Not getting it out at all
My poems are like a dimpled face

My bushy eyebrows
Out of place
The broken nose
On my face

I don’t write at a snail’s pace
If to dwell on every letter
My paralyzation
Wouldn’t get better

If I dwell to much, I get stuck
I run head on into a muck
In mid stanza
My poem has swung

Taken it’s own path, I won’t obstruct
I go with the flow, to construct
A perspective, a brush, a pallete

I hammer them out like a mallet
Sometimes. I will never brag
I will never boast

That all are masterpieces
Everyone must toast
I consider my method

Of getting them out
High speed camera shutter speed
After I shoot, I pick out good steed

I’ve heard the masters humble
They are my breed, indeed
Even they say, not all theirs are hits

Take Plath’s “Mirror”
Or Sexton’s “Wanting To die”
I see no reason for rhyme every time

I worry not, I just try
If anything, it is to to me
My daily refuge, my silent cry

My therapy, to be just me
To be flawed and raw, saw
Out another woodsman whittle

With words, creating worlds
In other’s minds
Frame size different of all kinds

I try to do this every day
I try to always find a way
Not to be scared of putting in view

Not afraid of showing you.
If you don’t like this one
That’s ok too

To every poet I’d advise as well
Never stop writing
Don’t hide in a shell

Just be inviting , living
In the world of poetry
Always insisting

To be yourself.
(end)

It is always good practice to simply pump them out sometimes. Kind of like cleaning your pipes. Sometimes when you don’t overthink it you hit a stride and it flows out.

I’d prefer to default to pumping them out rather that worry about every letter every word. I am certain I have written over 1,000 in 30 years. I am sure in my list here, you will find some you like and some you don’t.

But every poet is like this. If any poet is bragging about all their poems being hits, they are shallow, and self absorbed. Most poets are humble and will never claim everything they do is gold.

Divide As They Say, By Brianrrs37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

X Marx the spot, to Elon and MAGAs
It’s all a liberal conspiracy commie plot,
I am tired of this idiotic mind rot

Hitler was a fascist, Stalin was a Communist
If you idiots would pick up a history book
Or watch a documentary about WW2

You’d know those two despots
Had no love for each other, and Stalin
Took half of Berlin and did Germany in

Your ignorance is exactly what China wants
Your fear, your bigotry, your conspiracy haunts
They want America dumb and divided and angry

They churn out bots to perpetuate Trump’s big lie
China wants our democracy to die, instead
The Republicans cry, about drag queens

And innocent people who eat refried beans
They want the GOP to sell you the idea
That Jeff Bezos, an uber billionaire, will lose his means

And end up broke and in defeat, if he pays a few dollars more.
China wants the GOP, to sell you varnished history
Where slavery never happened, and blacks never die by cop

These blatant lies have to stop. The earth is a globe
It isn’t flat. We need vaccines and that’s a fact
The election was fair, the machines were not hacked

Liberals don’t want to end the private sector
We would love it if the GOP ended it’s rancor
But all they have in congress is childish decor

Lead by a cult leader who wants to be more
Of the strongmen that Stalin and Hitler were
Authoritarians down to their insidious core

I don’t want to hear false accusations of dictatorships
Aimed at the left, when you took away
Female body autonomy. Bigotry falls from your lips

Rolling off your tongue you want gay marriage to be done
Away with. You want a theocracy in our public schools
Bible study dictates all the rules

You want to replace science with mythology
Replace it with theocratic ideology
Replace astronomy with astrology

Don’t tell me you want small government
When you want to stick your nose
In a woman’s crotch, let the politicians/judges watch

You don’t want freedom for all
You want freedom to be the final call
The only arbiter, the only barrister

You cant stand that others exist
White Christian Nationalism
The ‘grand old party” does insist

They say we hate Jews
But that would be news
To us if, and it is not so

Those in Charlottesville with the torches
Those with the cross bar flags on their porches
Have no interest in “Out Of Many One”

There is no low they won’t sink
There is no lie they won’t sell
China loves that party’s smell

The smell of scorched earth
They show their true worth
Loyal to power, only to sour

The checks and balances
That protect our differences
And our openness

If he cant have America
Then no one can
Burn it down, the orange plan

China is watching and planning
And they found a friend
In the the Republican party.
(end)

I am so fucking sick of being accused of loving Marx or Stalin or Hitler. I hate all of them. Liberals can be for and are for the private sector. We simply don’t like the current level of abuse, and monopolies. The government isn’t based on “of the billionaires, for the billionaires, only for the billionaires.”

There is more than one class. I am for the freedom to eat a pizza one day, or a burger the next. I am for the ability to watch things like South Park or Family Guy. But I am also for responsible media that values science and evidence based history, not varnished crap that ignores ugly parts of the past.

I don’t want a dishwasher to make the same as a neurosurgeon. But for someone to argue that if taxes go up on Jeff Bezos or his class, the entire economy will collapse. That is the fear they sell, that is not the reality of tax history since America started the graduated tax code after WW2.

I am an FDR liberal. I see taxes not as tyranny, but an investment. I see deregulating when needed, like when old technology gets replaced with new technology. But I also believe in guard rails that will prevent things like train derailments which have been caused by too much deregulation. I think regulations should exist to prevent coal ash poisoning our rivers, chemical spills, oil spills, industrial accidents in general.

The GOP blames Biden for the bridge collapse, but the truth is it is because of deregulation that that ship was not inspected as well as it could have been under better laws and better regulation.

I am also sick of the right selling the idea that we have the best health care system. We do, if you are rich enough. The GOP policy is “die quickly”.

And for decades the GOP has gone after Medicare and Social Security, and I wouldn’t trust them one bit when they claim they won’t touch it. How do you think they will fund billionaire tax breaks?

And again, all of this rancor and hate coming from the right, all these false accusations of Liberals wanting to become dictators, is exactly what China wants. China wants to prove once and for all that political pluralism doesn’t work. And the GOP is giving them exactly what they want.