Category Archives: Religion



Religion, Yet Again!

Learned a new god yesterday: Ayyappan.1
I’ll tellya, it’s hard to keep up—Hindus
Got a lotta them! Spawn of myriad views,
Crowded canvas of the superhuman. Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, Today's News

Opium? Not!

It wouldn’t be so bad if religion
Was, in fact, the opium of people
That drug, after all, provides regions
Of serenity, as do church steeples. Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, War

Paradise: The Tankas

What a world we own.
Jihadis blow themselves up!
For holy Koran—
Or seventy-two virgins? Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, Several Short Poems

The Big Bang

Cosmologists, driven to explain things,
Frequently confuse theories with facts.
From carvings on cave walls, they moved to wings
Of angels, discovered math, grew abstract. Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, Wisdom

Ceremonies

The ceremony must be found
Traditional, with all its symbols
Ancient as the metaphors in dreams;
“Speaking of Poetry,” John Peale Bishop Continue reading →

Posted in Inspiration, Religion

God: The Villanelle

The formal villanelle is really odd.
It forces climaxes before the end—
Reveals too soon the human horror: god.

Imagination pushes, gleams, and prods Continue reading →

Posted in Religion