WHATS YOUR RELIGION?

Do you have any personal beliefs?

Are you religious? Pagan,heretic,naturist,gypsy,do you have any cultural or personal beliefs you follow?
Is life your book
Is love
Is art,or music,or writing?

Tell me about it,any style,max 300 words
one entry per poet

In deep and long, the Pollar night,
When frost set in, to make us hide.
The Sun is gone and field undone,
And Odin`s son has done no gun.
Fehnrir, the Wolf drenched up in fears,
While earth was tremmbling up to ears.
In thunder claps one heared our Thor,
Defending Battle of the World.
But then he fell into the snow,
And wind has covered him upon.
The life consumed this strike in `lbow,
While season`s sleeping being icecrowd.
And now it snows with frozen flakes,
And Nature waits for Gods it makes.
With skies above and hope in heart,
With blood, which once will boil up!
But now she sleeps, she waits for us…
For radiant bringers of her crafts.

That was a great write,Jesper,pure and strong words from within
Nice to meet you here on Deep Underground

"Creating"

Guess it's what I like?
Obsidian is my forte
Sculpt it with a strike

Grinder is a friend of mine
Therapy for me
Rest it in a river stone
Granite rescues me

Whirring of a five inch blade
Diamonds at its edge
Dust, and sparks, and feldspar chips
Always stone to dredge

Egypt and the mighty Rome
Before the man named Christ
Olmec, Inca, Mayan too
Histories of trice

Billion years to make a rock
Beauty you can't see
Locked inside an armored shell
Treasure chest for me

Shaping up a table vase
Roasting in the sun
Silica and stoner-rock
Countless pounds of fun

Carve some hearts made out of quarts
For my little girls
"Daddy, it's so shiny now!"
Send them into twirls

Fancy things and wrecking balls
Provide this medium
Patience is the only way
Master tedium

Other than these rocks and things
Asking what I do
Music, friends, and family
I play a little too















 

"Forever"


In a day, or seven,
From earth, unto heaven,
Each moment spent, as breath unto life,
Breathing into lungs, one creator to thank,

Moments of distraction,
Or observing, carefully picking trustworthy minds,
For some have ran, monetary promises,
The realm, so divine,
Through the ones who talk as through the key,
Stands within their walls, they lie.

Scare not, for promises are often empty,
Only the ones that hide,
Set for a mind to abide,
Have I trusted, a limb of faith,
Tolerance, not apathy,
Carefully selecting philosophy,
And where love does come from.


Breathe easy, a relaxing daze,
Through life turns dark, make it out,
Living life as through every day is one step closer...
To forever.

Thank you DB and Ace for great entries,great word flow....

My Personal Beliefs

I do not feel I need a god
To guide me on my way
To me a god is a fraud
To bribe men not to stray.

I believe that life is fulfilled
By helping other creatures
The life that you should build
Has no aggressive features

Human contact is the key
To a contented life
Friendships grow like a tree
And avoids any strife

Never impose yourself
When you are unwanted
But offer help and life itself
To help those who're daunted

How satisfying is a life
Full of friends and family
Enough contentment to suffice
Replacing heaven amply

Gret entry,Gardenlover, thank you for your participation...

Humanity !

We both breathe in the same breeze,
But we are supposed to be different.
The rose smells sweet to you and me,
But the society forbids us telling it to anybody.
We look at the same morning sun,
Birds singing gives us joy,
The twinkling stars in the night sky
Both of us sit in the same bench,
Searching for beloveds we lost
In the same blue sky.
But we never held our hands together.
We try to build separate houses
Even when we cant help sleeping under
the same roof.
We smile when we are happy and cry when
we are sad,
The blood that runs in our veins are red
And the ultimate desire of our heart is
peace and joy.
Still you fight with me,
And I try to kill you,
You slang me
Calling me a strange name,
"Hindu !"
And I call you even when I musn't
"Muslim !"
Why do we hate each other?
Because we call the same God by names different?
Or is it because of the different colours we wear?
But remember my friend,
Whether you call Mohammad, or you trust Jesus,
Whether you follow Vishnu, or believe in Buddha,
The things they have taught us is just one !
There is a Mother of every faith we follow,
And if we must reach divinity,
One religion there must be - Humanity !

My Religion

We are all imperfect machines,
collecting data with faulty sensors,
processing and analyzing with outdated software,
programmed to always insist we are right.
While we each live in the world in our head
that we create more everyday for ourselves.
I’ve made rules to help us all survive a little better.

Only judge others by their own beliefs,
for a soul is its own, living in its own reality.
It’s unfair to hold them captive to yours.
If somebody genuinely believes in prayer
be grateful when they offer them for you
If they offer to pray but think it is pointless,
always be leery of their lack of sincerity.

Accept every gift in the context it is given.
Never pay too much attention to the content.
Objects are just symbols for the things they represent.
A cheap gift of love will always last longer
than the fanciest gifts given in emptiness.
All things rust and decay except love from the heart.

Never hold anybody else hostage
for the sake of your own happiness.
True fulfillment is found in the pure love of yourself.
Most important in life are those that accentuate,
they make you want to learn and grow to be better
True friends make you a better friend to yourself
and to the world around you.

hey cool comp.

humanist hello world u just cant screw with this
fear of no god hating gays only fear for victems of real evil ways
murder theft selfishness disguised as our god king the only one whos blest
isnt he the best?
a power that tried to run the world just left the place a mess
but now we have logic and now we can stop this and help our community so stressed
i am not a pagan nor a christian... all the gods and prophets damn it im a humanist!

Judi,Sammy and Austin....
Fantastic entries,thank you all

The Line
They say the space between two molecules is
negligible...
the line between love and fear
is as such..
operating within can only happen on..
one side....
there's no in-between...
one side only at one given time...
Fear exists only to hold you..
behind potentially unknown.
Allowing the submissions...
Releases the addictions of crazed emotional turbulences...
Relaizations that even in denial..the reality of joys and pains
are guranteed happenstances...to which..
Learning from...
success, more importantly our failures..
this reactive force.. becomes our legacy
our truth and lies...
no matter how you attempt to blend..
the rainbow of colors in the end
there's black and white
and the choice...
to live and react..
in Love or Fear...

Niknshell,great lines,thanks

I am an atheist and a critic of all religions.

The following 2 posts are really 1 long post broken into two halves as it exceeded the maximum of 8000 words. "THE FLAVII AND THEIR ERA" is a hasty translation (from rhyming verse in modern Greek),containing some of my criticism on Christianity in one crucial era of its development, the 4th century AD.

DISCLAIMER

The aim of the following verses is not to offend the religious feelings of anybody. I consider all religions equally absurd.
My aim is to comment on various historical events and various opinions on them.
All historical persons referred to are well documented in Wikipedia for example, but I do not say this in support of my opinions. I consider most of those Wikipedia articles more or less biased and rather sympathetic to the criminals known as the Flavii family (all except Julian, that is):-)


THE FLAVII AND THEIR ERA

PRELUDE

All our griefs were established,
After the era of PAX ROMANA,
The just were never justified,
Their mothers only were raped.


1. CONSTANTIUS I (CHLORUS)

Rome had lost its Greek based education,
The Tetrarchy declared a civil war,
A new necrolatry was expanding throughout the world,
And still today we remain faithful to its nausea.

From Constantius Chlorus to Constantius II,
The Flavii were all murderers and ruffians,
They seized the whole world with violence and weapons,
They founded Byzantium in blood and in falsity.

Refrain
And in putting very deep foundations,
So that the empire lasts through the times,
You can now admire ala Tourka tsifteteli,
And young damsels in beautiful dances!

Galerius and Diocletian destroyed us,
They did not know how to finish a job once they' ve started it,
They took good aim but in the end they missed,
The tawdry Christians turned their eyes on the state.

The same with Chlorus who was instigated by his concubine,
A god freak, stable owner, snooped into "current affairs",
He did not move a finger to the other's decrees,
He cared only for his own good and his own arse.

Refrain
Fate favoring him with serendipity,
In the end he relegates Helena,
What a mess of an august that was!
But the church lauds praises to the madam.

His son who was a hostage he needed in Gaul,
Galerius released him and the game was sold,
We had it in the cage but the bird now had flown,
Together with his daddy they made preparations for England.

They gave a good whack to the Picts and stayed in York over winter,
In the end Chlorus died assigning him as his successor,
The army been Christian welcomed Constantine,
His Necrolatres and his Mithraists made peace finally.

2 CONSTANTINE I (The "Great")

Refrain
And he says to them, "I saw a dream,
with a cross, saying: In this you conquer",
The clique of the reptiles swaggered,
They did not have another hope but him.

Constantine the "great" prevailed with a bluff,
His necrolatres defeated Maxentius and Licinius,
From both his friends and his enemies, smiling in serenity,
He was taking out the intestines, no god restrained him.

A murderer by birth who was named an "Isapostle",
The Edict of Milan was signed,
Whatever was Greek in this world was destroyed,
A little before he died he was also baptized as a Christian.

Refrain
He made a preemptive move before he died,
By seting for us in Nicaea an absurd Credo,
He also had time to undo Crispus and Fausta,
How do all these things reconcile? But what am I asking!

Never such a bad dog was borne into this world,
Without qualms he annihilated his son and his wife,
How did he do it to a woman who adored him,
And to a son on whom the whole victory was depended.

And if their love affair was true, what was it introducing?
They were ordinary mortals, not blood relatives,
He was jealous of Crispus for the glory of his acclaim,
Maybe he could not get a stiff anymore and thus he was not fucking Fausta.

And if that was only a pretext for Crispus' extermination?
We don’t know if Fausta alone has all the responsibility,
Was his honour offended or he was just pretending?
He was well suited by the smear in Crispus' standing.

But Fausta also paid if that was only her tale,
A sizzling bath reaches its asphyxiation point,
Again the "Isapostle" shows his character value,
And his dark era its bloodthirsty ethics.

Refrain
I can make a thousand hypothesis,
Like the historians make them,
I criticize the dispositions from my angle,
In current century's morality.

3 CONSTANTIUS II

A little after he died the battle started again,
Three brothers Flavii divided the world between them,
Constantine (II) and Constans destroyed each other,
In the end Constantius alone dominated.

He had murdered much before his uncles and his cousins,
Julian was saved, very young in age,
Gallus was destroyed by his own stupidity,
He was torturing the Heathens in his perverted frolics.

Constantius proved himself a more devious pretender,
He was more moderate than his killer father,
He ruled as an authoritarian by his nonchalant threat,
But to the Christians he never showed himself as an opponent.

Refrain
The "Trinity" doctrine does not persuade him,
But he supports their beliefs,
He does not determine which is more correct,
The myths of Arius or those of Nicaea?

In the gospel according to John and in Paul's letter to the Colossians,
Arius, the Archeretic, appears to be more correct,
Nicaea's dogma favors the ignorant,
And Constantius shows himself a cunning politician.

He does not oppose them, he pushes them into darkness,
Basil and Gregory fanaticize the populace,
With nails and with teeth each one tries,
So that the Greeks accept the god of the Jews.

This is the lowdown of his times' proceedings,
He was completely indifferent to everyone's opinion,
But Christian pessimism was suiting him very well:
Darkness, source of power, and so, let's go to what follows.

Been afraid of the Germans, he appoints Gallus as a Cesar,
And he campaigns westwards, camping in Milan,
Gallus on his back was tormenting the Greeks,
That was another prick, a fiend walking on all fours.

From Constantius Chlorus to Constantius II,
Flavii considered crime as their duty,
A human being amongst them was only the last one of them,
But how could he save Byzantium from the lunatics?