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

Sunday, the sun god died
No mater it’s faithful
How hard
They tried and tried

Tuesday, Mars the God of war
Nordic god ‘Tyr’ or “Tir”
The truth of his existence
Is relegated now to lore

Wednesday, is Woden’s day
Norse god of runes
And poetry
Magic, luck in war

Thor the god of thunder
Ruler of the skies
Agriculture brings the crops
Nobody longer buys

Friday
Is that of Frigg
Venus may be Freya
Frigg is Odin’s wife

If you think of rings
One of 8 in the sky
Saturn is the name
Latin ‘Dies Saturni ‘

Misplaced is human pride
If you think your God
Will last
Stand the test of time

Think of all the dead gods
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Sometime in the future
Yours will also die.
(end)

Pointing out how tribal and local and narcissistic today’s word religions are. If humans manage not to kill ourselves off, say in about 10,000 or 20,000 years, todays popular religions will morph into something unrecognizable in the future, or die and become the mythologies future generations look at us now.

Grand Scope, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

Most of
13.8 billion years
Humans were not here

Most of
4 billion years
Humans were not here

Hundreds
Of billions of suns
In our Milky Way alone

Billions
Maybe trillions
Of galaxies in our scope

Superstitious fearful
Claim without God
There would be no hope

It seems
A waste to me
To take all that time you see

To bribe
And threaten
Your creation

To get us
To do your bidding
Prostrate gleefully

99 percent
Of life that once lived
Is extinct and now dead

You want me
Full of dread
You want me

Full of fear
You threaten me
With your God

You claim
I cannot hear
That I am deaf

Blind, defiant
Pitchforks in my head
Playing with my neurons

He sat up there
For eons
Watched horrors

With folded arms
Blamed us for
The game he started

Something
He’s not corrected
Such fiction I’ve long rejected

Kids don’t get cancer
Because God
Says it’s a test

If you truly believe this
Your morality
I detest

I do know there’s is good
I do value compassion
I simply will never ever

Assign that
To a super cognition
Especially not one

You claim to be benevolent
All powerful, all knowing
All seeing, yet jealous, angry and violent.

The cosmos is not caused
We are simply a manifestation
Of natural processes, the science is reliant

On process and objective data
Not old mythology
Not the threats or bribes

Of our species insecurities
I am ok with being finite
This is true humility

You go to the movies
Knowing it will end
You may go to a concert

With a close friend
You may curl up with a novel
When you crawl into bed

You don’t fear
The finality
Of any of those events
(end)

Temporary Abyss, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

Their is no
Avoidance
Of life’s tumbles
In falls
The heart
Flutters
The butterflies
Call
An axe comes
Unexpectedly
The breakup
You did not see
Lament to friends
Purge the pain
But grey skies
Will be blue again.
(end)

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

Broken bonds
Last embrace
Last phone call
The dial tone makes
Cold rejection
The body shakes
Empty pillow
Next to you
Sleepless nights
You linger through
Nothing more
You can do
(end)

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

I could not take leave
What would it achieve
I got no relief
I did not believe

You’d be of rose scent
In lavender dress
I couldn’t guess
Your next move

Could it be true
It was you
Who gave me no choice
With your sultry voice

A lure to be sure
I could not ignore
You drew me in
I wanted some more

Bacall stare
You don’t play fair
You told me beware
But I didn’t care

I the mouse
Drawn into your trap
Playdough putty
A dog in your lap

You twist and bind me
Until I give in
I have to admit
You’re under my skin.
(end)

Again, not a single event in my life, but just a general look at initial attraction people have when they first see someone or date.

Self Centered, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

Narcissism
Our species
Insecurity
We think we are
Masters
Of everything
We see
But we run
From tornados
Hurricanes
And even
The victims of
Microscopic viruses
Bacteria, deadly
We will never be
An apex in
Natural history.
(end)

The Giants Never Sleep, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

Underestimated
When misogyny
Patriarchal society
Subjugated
Their uterus
It took all of us
To stand up
To their tyranny
They will not win
In the end
For the giants
Never sleep.
(end)

Poem about if the GOP thinks it is over because of Roe V Wade being overturned, FUCK YOU. Body autonomy is a human right and sane people will never stop fighting for that right.

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

Caution
Is often
The first
Fatality
Passions
Spawned
In the dawn
Pheromones
Aloft in soft
Embrace
Caress of shoulders
Gentile kiss
Awake the flames
That dwell within.
(end)

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

The sparks
Turn into embers
Rising to engulf
Wildfires
Abandon touch
Carful approach
That danced
At first
Delicately
Like a flickering candle
Underestimated
Tipped over
Igniting passion.
(end)

Not a poem about any specific life event, but one about the unexpected romance one didn’t see coming.