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:
- Омар Хайям – До коих пор униженный позор терпеть
- Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service by T. S. Eliot
- Юнна Мориц – Вместо сноски
- Parliament Hill Fields by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d poem – John Keats poems
- Adam’s Curse by William Butler Yeats
- Olney Hymn 59: A Living And A Dead Faith by William Cowper
- Олег Бундур – Шляпа
- A Boy by Sara Teasdale
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On “Wee Johnie”: Hic Jacet wee Johnie.
- The Passing Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Новые ясли
- Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
- Naighbour Pla Meätes by William Barnes
- Adieu…, adieu…. by Vladimir Marku
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
