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Welcome to Brian James Rational Poet’s poetry blog
Welcome to my poetry blog. I love reading Plath and Sexton and Dickenson and Maya. But to me, the best poets I have read are the unknows. The giants are great for sure, but the friends and locals and groups are a joy to participate in. I encourage everyone who writes poetry to be themselves. It is ok to have influences, but you should always in the end be yourself. There is only one them, and only one you.
Let words be your canvas, show them the raw you, in all your happiness and sadness. Show them your love of nature, and empathy and kindness, but also make them think, provoke, even blaspheme. The poet’s job to me, is to never be shy or timid, but use every word in your vocabulary to paint the best pictures you can. Paint your sunrises, your sunsets, your romance, your fears. Paint your insecurities, your addictions, your successes, your tears.
This blog is dedicated to my late mother Jane. She was my biggest supporter and never let me fall through the cracks. While she was a bit of an authoritarian growing up, that all melted away in her late years, and we grew as close as any parent child could. We had so much fun with our silly car games and rubber duckies, and counting the trees. And our wordplay games, and our thumb wrestling. And forget Yahtzee and backgammon, she always kicked my…… at that. I love you mom. I miss you horribly.
And also my late best friend ever, Bob. He unfortunately passed away in 2017. He lived in Australia, he was a science geek, and he taught me a lot about debate, and some science. I can only grasp overall concepts, not real nitty gritty details. But he most importantly made me feel comfortable in my own skin. I miss you too Bob.
Then there is this annoying guy from Okleeee homa, who says “tators”, and “videeeaaaa” instead of “video”. And don’t get John started on banjos. He is my best friend and he is always there for me, and I love that redneck.
And also Dwayne, Stacey and Vicki. You saved my life all of you. Thank you.
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A Special thanks to Brian Sapient of Rational Responders http://www.rationalresponders.com for hosting my poetry thread for so long. Thank you.
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A special thanks to Zaylen of “Okay Atheists” on the Discord app, for allowing me to guest host this poetry reading available on their YouTube channel originally aired 5/22/23. Here is the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ikCkc7lWEIf you want to leave a comment to any poem, click on the BOLD title of the poem first, scroll to the bottom of the poem, and you should see a field to leave the comment in.
UPDATE EDIT AS OF 11/13/2024. I have a new account at Bluesky Soical under the handle @rationalpoet37.bsky.social . -
Zyklon B,
Zyklon B, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
Chugging down the track, they’ won’t come back
Zyklon B, “Arbeit Macht Frei, Work Sets You Free”
Barracks blanketless, torture blocks , execution walls
Screaming down the halls, the crematorium callsClickity clack, the luggage stacked, tossed aside
Marked with their names, and whence they came
Their shoes as well, a mountain swell, fate befell
Barking Shepherds, shouting guards, line them up
In the muddy yards, shuffling out of boxcars
Tattooed numbers, become their lifetime scars
Shaved heads, slave labor, for the lucky ones
For the elderly, children, sickly, they were done
Zyklon B, “Arbeit Macht Frei”, it can never be
Repeated, ever again, in our history
We must always, and forever see
We are the same species, all part of humanity
Soon the last victims will see their final night
But all the world’s children , must keep their fire bright
That iron slogan over that gate, the propaganda of hate
We must not take the bait, and let it become our fate
The ghosts are rising to haunt, and taunt and scare
They want to reconstruct that horrible nightmare
They want you to fear, the authoritarian rule
They have learned the evils of that vicious tool
Chugging down the track, we won’t come back
We will not survive, if we don’t keep this alive
For decency to survive, for dignity to be the norm
We must quell the storm, we must be a swarm
Of bullhorns, loud enough to be heard
For generations to come, remember
The chemicals that killed them, that will kill
The chemical of scapegoating, vilifying
The toxic lexicon, masked as patriotism
Nationalism, wrapped in a flag, and holy book
Take a look, what one man did, 6 million dead
And all he said, was, “I alone can save you.”
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Tennis Match
Tennis Match, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
Remember how epically long the volleys would be
Borg of Bjorn , Graf of the legend Steffie
An advantage and a joy for all to see
But this poem isn’t about that, it is about a flea
Or should I call it a fly? My cat’s heads
Would sway back and forth as it flew by
Outstretched paw, like a racket serving the ball
Waiting for the judges call, was it in, was it an ace?
That fly was buzzing all over the place
My cats scatter , scrambling all over
Like the ball girls and ball boys
Tossing another to the players
They’ll never know Venus and Serena
They just care about their Purina
But when they are in the stadium arena
Of my home it is a pleasure , a treasure
To watch my pair turn their heads
Right to left, left to right
Dart all day, dart all night
I should buy them a trophy case
Or a racket newly laced?
French, U.S. or Wimbledon
There’ll be more sets to be won
I love watching them have fun. -
Construction Workers
Construction Workers, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
Put your hard hat on, have a good time
Let me tell you about these amazing enzymes
Let me start off, let me make a case
For that snipper that they call helicase
Unzips the DNA two separate halves
Now in play, the leading strand, and lagging strand
Now the builder, polymerase, is in command
It builds in opposite directions, for each band
3 prime to 5 prime, inverted, opposite spanned
Here comes primase primer just in time
To show the builder where to start
Oh what an art, but how to mend gaps in part
Of the lagging strand, Elmer’s glue, I’m a fan
Ligase patches the Okazaki fragments scanned
DNA replication ends up in the new strand
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This video is a cartoon just giving you the basics.
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Un Imaginable
Un Imaginable, by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
The masses sing of his prowess
Aways does everything seamless
Does no wrong, always blameless
On the green he’s on the scene
Drives the wood, great not good
In the cup, off the tee, hole in one
Can it be? 11 in a row, how is that so?
Don’t you know, he always wins
He’s the master in his head
DPRK, the family is on it’s way
To make their daddy God
Outside the cult he’s a fraud
He walks on air, eclipsing mighty Mike
Jumping higher than Jordan’s spike
His minions fall for the phony hype
Not the 38th parallel, not the DMZ
It is the compound in Palm Beach Florida
The criminal that all can see
Boxes in the bathroom, deniability
Falsely playing victim, zero credibility
Un Imaginable, is this fantasy
He is the messiah, that will save humanity
Obsesses over crowd size, not a surprise
Fungus in his pants, always telling lies
This Pied Piper smoking PCP
Praises Kim Jong Un
For it’s what he wants to be
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The Kim family in North Kora, are always depicted as having super human abilities, in battle but also willing to brag about the mundane, like the time the state media said that Kim Jong Un made 11 holes in 1 with a 38 under.
Seems similar to Trump bragging about his golf tournaments he always wins. And just like North Korea, he and his camp always brags about how big crowd size is and how everyone loves him.
Believe Trump when he says he wants to be a dictator.
Disclaimer: The part about him smoking PCP is metaphor for how fucked in the head he is and how delusional and petty and narcissistic he is. But I am dead serious in saying he wants to be a dictator. -
Ether
Ether, by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
I speak to air, when nobody is there
Impotent soundwaves that go nowhere
I have nothing profound at all to share
My walls and ceiling have no ears to spare
They bring no comfort they cannot care
Out of my window I gaze a blank stare
The sunshine is bright, crisp is the air
Will I venture out, I do not dare
I speak to the air, when nobody is there
Important words that carry no weight
In my head a mundane fruitless debate
No race to be had, not out of the gate
Fleeting afternoon, it’s getting so late
Clock on my toolbar knows not of my fate
I’ve accomplished nothing on today’s slate
I speak to the air, when nobody is there
The bric-a-brac on my bookcase
Collecting dust, it has no face
After I am gone, it will be given away
Or end in a landfill where it will decay
My voice will be silenced as it is today
I talk to myself, and that is always okay
It is my therapy, helps me find my way
I may not know if these words will sway
So into the ether, the flight with no plan
It doesn’t matter if I am not in command
Sometimes there’s nothing to understand
Live in the moment, look out the window
Somewhere a butterfly flutters in the shadow
Of a weeping willow, no need to stress
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Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
You prattle on call me unwise
All the sciences are all lies
Then prove your claim
Win a Nobel Prize
You can cut me, down to size
If you think evolution is a lie
I dare you, please go and try
Your dirt man magic, will get fried
Creationist hypothesis has been tried
It is pseudo science, and is betrayed
By fossil records, strata layers that are made
Prove the Grand Canyon was not made
In a mythological 40 days, 4 billion years old
Our planet has aged, 5 mass extinctions
Earth has been through, but you are
More than welcome to, write your hypothesis
Collect your data, conduct your experiments
Repeat this process sufficiently, consistently
Over and over, then maybe, just maybe
Real scientists would take you seriously
Peer review it, publish it professionally
Rejoice at your groundbreaking discovery
Adopt your methodology, and put you in
A category, of Nobel Prize winner
But we all know you’re just a spinner
Of fairy tales of bronze age men
“Abracadabra” are your answers when
You don’t like what science says.
I would choke to death, if I were to hold my breath
Waiting for you to prove creationism true
But this is nothing new, the same silly song
You are wrong, evolution is strong, good luck to you
You know it’s not true, but you stew and brew
Concoct claptrap and your face turns blue
Abiogenesis, macro and micro, buzz words you use
Twist them, bend them, without understanding them
Only to point to a book that creates the sun and moon
More than once, and even then, treats them
Like separate sources of light, one for day, one for night
When we know now, the sun is the only source of course
And the moon simply bounces the photons of it’s surface
And what is the purpose, of claiming an adult woman
Magically popped out of a man’s rib, call me glib
But you need the bib, because the bible was written
By ignorant men, who had no way to know
What DNA was, or what cell division does
They had no clue what fallopian tubes do
Stone the virgin, is what ancient men knew
If she accidently broke her hymen , she was through
You think that book, fits modern day
You think that destroys what science has to say
Then get it in a lab, pave the way, show us you’re wise
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Out Of Many One
Out Of Many One, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
Out of many, one, unless you are one
Of us, at best, I’ll let you live as a guest
But equal you will never be
Out of many, one, I am never done
Making arguments that I am the one
Who is chosen, you’ll always be frozen
In second class status, if I am being generous
Yet that is erroneous, I am full of hate
I want to eradicate, anyone not like me
Out of many, one, by point of gun
I’ll make you run, diversity I shun
My God said this land belongs to me
By Providence decree, I look up to see
The voice in my head, wants you dead
Fear my wrath and live in dread
Out of many, one, must not arise
I will not tolerate or compromise
I am deaf and I hear no cries
Cries lost in fog, the vicious dog
Breaks my flesh, kills your kin
With rabid bite, say goodnight
Compassion dies, cruelty wins
The seeds of hate are where it begins
If you drink my poison all life ends
We must resist, and always fight
The venom voices hijack the night
Out of many, one, defend the light
Out of many, one, that person unknown
For the unfounded hate that you have shown
Shedding ignorance shows that you’ve grown
Out of many one, this one planet we share
We must take heed and always beware
Of those who want to divide us
You are not different than us
We are all the same, food, shelter
Especially love, never live in shame
It is easy to point the finger
To cast aspersions and blame
That leads us all to maim
And kill the nasty shrill
Thinking we can bludgeon
Those who don’t agree
Don’t let this be our history
Don’t let this be our final page
Don’t let our species die in rage
From the festering self inflicted
Wound of hate, because that hate
Is the mirror we look into
Out of many, one, it’s overdue
To return to that spirit of pluralism
And end that pustular schism. -
Waralda,
Waralda, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
The question about the inferior people
The solution to the undesirables
The extermination on an industrial scale
The Fuhrer, blind loyalty all must hail
Their justification an epic fail
Himmler’s unmasking the monster’s veil
“The ancient one, the one mightier
Than we are” furnace bodies charr
Ashes ashes scattered wide and far
Winds of hate flakes of bone
Stole all property not their own
All the corpses they did dispone
By the might of providence
Brute force of bullies arrogance
Born out of blatant ignorance
Master master as white as can be
Blizzard of blood that cover’s thee
Race to unimaginable atrocities
Never again should the world ever see
Never again should it come to be
Never repeat the horrors of history.
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On top of Hitler mentioning God several times in Mein Kampf. And calling the Nazis a “Christian movement”, and the Nazi belt buckles that read “Gott Mit Uns”, I ran across yet another vile disgusting quote from Heinrich Himmler who was basically the architect of the “death squads” and the “Final Solution.”
“I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the S.S. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called “Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are.” Heinrich Himmler.
This quote is from this YouTube Documentary “Heinrich Himmler, Architect Of The Final Solution” link here, time stamp 34 minutes in is this quote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmV1ehLK9sI
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Here’s The Kicker
Here’s The Kicker, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
This chief lines up, to kick the ball
“Bamboozled” he claims women are all
Their only lot is to spread their legs
Make babies for men, and fry some eggs
You wasted you your money on a degree
You’re only alive to serve idiots like me
I wear this beard to mask my insecurity
Handmaids Tale for all to see
Laura Thatcher Ulrich, would not agree
With your blatant stench of misogyny
The only lot for females to be
“Well behaved women rarely make history”
It is because of inventor Hedy Lemarr
That wi fi today, is global by far
Marry Anderson set a high bar
Put that windshield wiper on your car
Photo 51, her deed was done
Rosalind Franklin was the one
Who discovered the shape of DNA
The Double Helix was the way
Are you jealous of swift women
That are more successful than you
Take this claptrap of which you balk
You missed wide right with your sexist talk.
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Religiously conservative kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs Harrison Butker says that the female’s job is to be bun ovens and house maids.
I am so sick of religious misogyny. That same book of mythology has Lot offering his daughters up for rape Genesis 19:1-11. It has Moses saying telling his followers to murder all females captured in war who have slept with a man, but keep the virgins for yourselves, Numbers 31:14-18. It puts the penalty for rape at a mere 50 Shekels, no jail time, and the fine is to be paid to the father, not the victim, and the father can even force the victim to marry their rapist.
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Falling Down
Falling Down, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)
The bloated Basilisk, spins his tales of woes
Blaming all of his foes, on middle school grounds
His fist he petulantly pounds, incoherent sounds
Hopscotch he plays, cheats in various ways
Mar A Lago monkey bars, paying off porn stars
Grifter, rapist, con, incompetent mafia don
Marionette, sleeps in a bassinet
Lindsey is his pet, Putin pulls his strings
“Victim” he falsely sings, wife buried on golf green
Lexicon is obscene, baby bottle needs
Eloquent he’ll never be, worst in history
Soiled presidency, will kill democracy
It should have been the end
When his first campaign began
“They’re rapists” he once said
It should have been lights out
When the words came out of his mouth
“McCain is no hero”, but he is the real zero
Scapegoats, vilifies, the sane know, it’s all lies
Lord Of The Flies in disguise, fascism on the rise
Our Republic compromised, despot he wants to be
Only the blind cannot see, he will bring just misery
Sycophants his company, purging all dissent
The Basilisk is hell bent, he never will repent
Spineless slithering, slimy blithering dimwit
Constitution under threat, throats he will slit
That would be it, if we don’t take command
If we don’t make our stand, burry him in the sand
On the Jersey shore, no choice but to win this war
Down to the wire, put out this dumpster fire
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