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:
- YOU ARE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY by Steve Troyanovich
- Straw in the Street poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Степан Щипачев – Жил мальчик в деревне
- Валерий Брюсов – Дрожащие листья на бледные щеки
- The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Тихонов – Ленинград
- “Here have I learnt the little that I know” poem – Alfred Austin
- Duino Elegies: The First Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Robert Burns: Braving Angry Winter’s Storms:
- Cholera Camp by Rudyard Kipling
- Василий Жуковский – Моя богиня
- The Princess: A Medley: Ask me no more poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Fallen Elm poem – Alfred Austin
- Greece Madum…! by Perugu Ramakrishna
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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
