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:
- Ode to My Guitar by William Wright Harris
- Duncan Gray by Robert Burns
- A Wold Friend by William Barnes
- Listen Beloved
- Hades’ Pitch by Rita Dove
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищ! Поищи дома (Главполитпросвет №95)
- The Song of the Women by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Высоцкий – У профессиональных игроков
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи, за труд!.. (Главполитпросвет №146)
- Love and Burgers: Compatible or Incompatible Relationship?
- Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Братство РОСТА БН
- Reveille by Primo Levi
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
- Владимир Костров – До чего нестерпимо и жёстко подуло
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
