no one but us older folks
remembers Father Divine
A self made black preacher
who founded his own church
and declared himself
to be God
and had a flock of believers
mostly white women
who gave up their life savings
to sleep with God
He drove a big white Cadillac
and had a white wife
who didn’t mind sharing him
with other white women
but even if she had
how could she have argued
with the will of God
when he died the newspapers
had a field day
as his congregation gathered
at the grave site
waiting for the promised resurrection
which sadly never came
and the newspapers took great joy
in mocking the flock
writing them up as the
fools they were
but how many women out there
reporters included among them
can lay claim to having fucked
God
Copyright ©: A. D. Winans
A few random poems:
- The Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Алексей Толстой – Уж ласточки, кружась, над крышей щебетали
- Epilogue by Robert Lowell
- Whisper of the Star
- Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – О том, как некие сектантцы зовут рабочего на танцы
- On; On; Poet poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- xai_kou1.html
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
- Incense by Vachel Lindsay
- Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
- Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter by Robert Burns
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc. by Robert Burns
- Fairy Tale by Robert Desnos
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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