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Great Poetry
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RE: Great Poetry
Ego Divinely Inspired, By Brian37 (OF RATIONAL RESPONDERS, all rights reserved)



The Twin accordions,

Burned and crumbled like match sticks,

No longer playing the music,

Of the briefcase.



3,000 ways,

To say, "I hate you"

But on that day,

None of the quad-Kamikazes

Shouted "Bonsai"

But Allah had his say.



Yet the burning Bush,

In the Marlboro Mansion,

Prays 1600 times,

To guide the bombs,

That maim and kill,

Creating massive tombs.



Do they think,

They are back in school,

Swinging on monkey bars,

Bragging about the biceps

Of their origins?



Is this what humanity has been reduced to?



I don't remember,

Those accordions,

Ever playing monochromatic music,

Jesus, yet be,

The only Icon,

Displayed in their absence.



That day,

Is not the ulcer of Genesis,

Or the embarrassment of Mohammed,

It is the manifestation of shame,

That humanity doesn't listen,

To the music of the accordions.



One side attacks,

The other points the finger,

But no one listens to the screams,

The screams of history.



Stop!

It is not your day, Christians,

It is not your Jihad, Muslims.

It is your stupidity,

In claiming the monopoly,

Of self-righteousness.



Those accordions,

Played the music of desire,

Of those of the Mosque,

Those in the pew,

The music of the Yammica,

And long earlobes too.



The forecast that day,

Called for morning snow,

Each flake a fragment,

Of invoices, and resumes,

Of proposals, and payrolls.



This was a ticker tape parade,

Where loathing sat in the convertable,

Waving his fist maniacally at the by-standers,

Daring history to repeat itself.

Screaming of divine intervention.



And the burning Bush,

Responded in kind,

And prayed to his absolute,

Screaming for divine inspiration.



The memory of the music,

The accordions used to play,

Should not be lost in selfish idealism.

Demanding only one way.



Jesus was not the only victim,

Nor Bush, nor me,

The attack on the towers,

Was an attack on humanity.



The cross is the only,

Outlined in chalk,

Crime scene investigators,

Step over the corpses,

Of Yahweh and Allah,

Visnu and Buddha too.

The white cards,

Never marked their graves,

Ever to be photographed.



Still today,

We want Moore Religion,

Massive stones marking our territory,

Like a lion pissing on a bush,

And wonder why we are attacked.



You fools,

It's not the book you read,

It is your arrogance,

In loading the 3:57

And praying for divine guidance,

For the bullets to hit their mark,

So you can maintain your selfish status qoe.



I can give you nine hundred and eleven,

Reasons in human history,

Ego divinely inspired,

Will lead to the human pyre.



Or kin of past,

Or so we claim,

Have past discretions,

We're not to blame.



My index,

Is not aimed at you,

It is of lessons not learned,

Wisdom not earned.



Socrates was in those towers,

He too was a victim,

Made to drink the hemlock,

And jump from the accordion,

Grasping at the last notes of life.

Vainly clawing at the sky,

A victim of pantheistic zealots,

Ending in a gruesome thump.



Galileo too,

Crashed into the marble walls,

Numbering in five.

Because of the ego,

Of the cross,

The world is flat,

And I'm the boss.



Yet in modern day,

The accordions play,

Morbid notes of ego's say,

It will continue to our dismay.



Yes, it will continue,

Least religious ego,

Give up it's venue.
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Great Poetry - by Zazzy - October 12, 2013 at 2:46 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by freedomfromforum - October 12, 2013 at 3:04 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Zazzy - October 12, 2013 at 3:08 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by freedomfromforum - October 12, 2013 at 3:31 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - October 12, 2013 at 3:43 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Zazzy - October 12, 2013 at 3:47 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by freedomfromforum - October 12, 2013 at 3:59 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - October 12, 2013 at 4:20 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - December 4, 2014 at 10:19 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Rev. Rye - December 5, 2014 at 12:33 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - January 17, 2015 at 4:42 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by thesummerqueen - January 17, 2015 at 11:13 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - December 3, 2015 at 5:13 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 3, 2015 at 8:05 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - April 14, 2017 at 1:11 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Mr.Obvious - June 6, 2017 at 6:34 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - July 26, 2017 at 10:19 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - July 26, 2017 at 11:09 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - January 15, 2018 at 8:50 am
RE: Great Poetry - by vulcanlogician - January 15, 2018 at 9:15 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - January 15, 2018 at 9:39 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by brewer - January 15, 2018 at 10:01 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - January 15, 2018 at 10:03 am
RE: Great Poetry - by vulcanlogician - January 15, 2018 at 10:08 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - January 15, 2018 at 10:11 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Cod - January 15, 2018 at 10:11 am
RE: Great Poetry - by vulcanlogician - January 15, 2018 at 10:15 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Cod - January 15, 2018 at 10:19 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - January 15, 2018 at 10:20 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Mr.Obvious - March 23, 2018 at 1:03 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Angrboda - March 23, 2018 at 3:26 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by vulcanlogician - March 27, 2018 at 4:28 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Mr.Obvious - June 4, 2018 at 6:35 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by LadyForCamus - June 4, 2018 at 9:08 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 4, 2018 at 7:35 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Mr.Obvious - June 20, 2018 at 5:43 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - June 20, 2018 at 7:28 am
RE: Great Poetry - by vulcanlogician - August 14, 2018 at 10:16 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Mr.Obvious - September 8, 2018 at 6:52 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by vulcanlogician - September 8, 2018 at 9:00 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 9, 2018 at 6:54 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by vulcanlogician - October 10, 2018 at 8:26 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - October 10, 2018 at 9:01 am
RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 10, 2018 at 4:19 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Mr.Obvious - October 15, 2018 at 9:07 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Mr.Obvious - October 22, 2018 at 10:37 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Mr.Obvious - October 26, 2018 at 9:42 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - October 28, 2018 at 8:50 am
RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 28, 2018 at 9:32 am
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - October 30, 2018 at 9:54 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - December 26, 2018 at 8:21 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Mr.Obvious - March 11, 2019 at 10:14 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - March 16, 2019 at 2:33 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - May 8, 2019 at 9:16 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - May 9, 2019 at 8:22 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - May 20, 2019 at 11:02 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 20, 2019 at 11:43 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - May 20, 2019 at 11:59 am
RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 20, 2019 at 12:59 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - May 20, 2019 at 1:04 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 20, 2019 at 3:07 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - May 20, 2019 at 3:20 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 20, 2019 at 3:52 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - May 20, 2019 at 4:06 pm
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - May 20, 2019 at 4:42 pm
RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - May 27, 2019 at 8:26 am
RE: Great Poetry - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 27, 2019 at 9:04 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - July 3, 2019 at 3:28 am
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RE: Great Poetry - by Brian37 - August 15, 2019 at 7:09 pm
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