RELIGION

Design a religion that would actually work.
Seeing one religion kill another over and over again throughout history is DEPRESSING.  No one seems to be able to follow the rules.  
Since this is DEEP UNDERGROUND POETRY...if this offends you...IGNORE IT.....

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Describe the religion in ANY poetic form - even short prose is acceptable
3 submissions old or new
any length
any genre
NO MOCKERY OF CURRENT RELIGIONS...you are making YOUR OWN.....

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Religion is a collection of belief systems, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.[note 1] Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the Universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.[1]
Many religions may have organized behaviors, clergy, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, holy places, and scriptures. The practice of a religion may also include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration of a god, gods or goddesses, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture. Religions may also contain mythology.[2]
The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system; however, in the words of Émile Durkheim, religion differs from private belief in that it is "something eminently social".[3] A global 2012 poll reports that 59% of the world's population is religious, 23% are not religious, and 13% are atheists.[4]
FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion

My personal new religion.....not Patriarchal....deities who are women, life which is commune like, sharing everything, it takes a village to raise a child....all children are OUR responsibility....teach children to love, act only kindly, stay away from those who irritate you...still working on punishments and other ideas....

“Prisms”
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Looking at this creation, you
gotta believe it’s supernatural.
An explosion made this stuff up!?
Suns circling suns, moons circling planets,
suspended animation with comets,
living things surviving in an infinite
sea of starlit blackness.

Prisms of light hiding all colors,
revealing the stark reality,
working genetic magic,
the revelations of the cosmos,
a higher power that might know best,
putting us to the ultimate test or not.
Gambling can be a fine art trapping us betwixt.

Who, what, where, and when is anybody’s guess.
Unless of course, you want less, it’s a choice, I confess.
“Come one, come all” says the prism club,
we will take all comers, free membership,
tall and thin, short and tubby, with or without limbs.
Full, mixed, and half-breeds, we are the same human seed.
A church of colorless humans, there’s no need for bigotry here,
a non-finger pointing utopia, easier said than done,
striving to live in peace, enjoying the
hidden light in each of us,
born lovers.
We’re part of the humble pie,
some know and want it,
some others won’t.
Still, I pray we can
all show it when
the end times come,
we will need each other.

Strider...thank you so much for going first.....

:)

The Mystery School of the Unbridled Inner-Eye

All forms are false gods
of the mind.

All functions are lies
of abstractions
to rationalize each choice.

Delete all dogmas.

Delete all doctrines.

Hold nothing forward.

Bring nothing
from behind.

Unconditional loves is all
that matters.

Integrating each facet
of the diamond
of being,
we become one.

The mysteries all solved,
the schools disappear.

Otherness gone,
the wars all dry up.

Be at peace,
and this is all
that is seen
by the Unbridled Inner-Eye.

runningturtle87

THE WORD

Everything is false
Except the truth
May the truth be spoken

Tied to a cross
Nailed
With iron fences

There are no concepts here
Where everything is as its meant to be
And all sinners are set free

My book
Is Life
It is for living
I strive

No faltered faults
No right or wrong
No weak or strong

Identification of the soul
Broken
Whole

I decline myself a heretic
I decline myself a body
I decline myself a spirit

I
Decline
Myself

Weather I am
Or am not
There is no hell
In which to rot

Born yesterday
Ill awake tomorrow
When the mask of perfection
Falls from their ego

Salvation
Of self
My inner voice

Guides me
I am what I become
(my choice)

Welcome to the world
May each ones ink
Create the word



(AMEN)

Running Turtle and Mourgana....thank you for submitting your poems.....

                                      ~The Poems of Duke Deltree~
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                                               ~Heaven's Gate~
Do you believe in Evils lies, saying your vessel dies.
Your vessel is nothing then dead weight, to big to fit through Heaven's Gate.
 If put in a tomb the vessel's right to life is doomed.
Never to get a chance to wake to live and breathe once more in God's day light,
also lost is God's living night.
Righteousness stands at Heaven's Gate waiting to measure your heart's weight
that will tell you what path you take. If your heart is feather light then you go into the bright.
If it weighs a bit, down you go into the pit, your soul banished into eternal night
held there by God's Holy might. Something here is just not right.
What happened to forgiveness's Holy light? Now seems to burn souls in Holy delight.
How evil had I been to deserve such fiery end. Maybe it's all just pretend.
The living God will take your soul and will not cast you in a hole.
Will not wait till Judgment day and will take your vessel right away.
Something given nothing lost, save your vessel at all cost. You must not throw life's gifts away.
You must pick wisdom's flowers everyday.
Dark wisdom's flower grows in a cave that is where dragons lay.
Some wisdom's flowers grow in meadows in the early light,  you must watch out for snake bite.
In the swamp you might find wisdom's flower a strange design.
Having spent the time smelling life's flowers on the way but this ones fragrance has a strange bouquet.
It's about the lives that grew near to you as you aged, just look at all the love you made.
They will look to you for truth and want to share flowers with you. ~Duke Deltree~    
I have this last to say before more of you go away,
no conditions will be made you just have to show up, Spiritual Pantheism.

Thank you to all who submitted......the competition is still on.....

Dogmatic

Give me happiness
Or give me death
There’s no need to worship false idols
Prayer will only get you so far
Save your breath
Don’t be selfish
Don’t be a liar
Don’t play others
Don’t live for the uncertain
Be now
Be you
Become what you wish for
Live for the new
See what you want to
Breathe in the sky
Abide in the dirt
As long as you live
And no one gets hurt
Value your morals
But don’t thank gods for them
Thank yourself for living how you please
Fight pessimism likes it’s a disease
Know your limits
And help others overcome theirs
Give back what you’ve got
Please your brother before yourself
Returning the smile is your true wealth
Know how material the world can be
Overcome the imperial powers that be
But most of all love
Because love overcomes all
And learn every day
Mistakes are human
So are you

Of blood and ignorance

Bodies dragged to the guardhouse
The more circumstances change the more they stay the same
To coexist is to destroy yourself
Godless resistance groups, heathens, waging the war
Your deviation will not be tolerated here

Forevermore perpetuated myth has gone beyond the core of misery
And in it's wake a path to how it must feel
Heresy, as the creator in the times before creation
The contempt once faced bleakly to the shame of mankind's dawning
Coward, what is your final act of penitence?

Watch your system crumble, see your palaces burning in the night?
Can you hear the masses marching as one towards the final Palace?
Your leader is trembling in his golden glazed boots
He knows his time is short, the Tyrant will fall on this night
Join the new faith, the new age, the age of devastation

As all structures of what was formally held "true" fall
The masses have reached the cowards hiding place
They tear him limb from limb.
Destruction of what has been, hear the endless battle hymn?
Welcome to the new age, the new faith!

Morbid delusions of soul, sole way to protect you from yourself
Obey the fabrication or face imaginary punishment
The new age, my faith, inevitable to rise from the blood and the ignorance
The last wishes of humanity are systematically pushed aside
Your heaven never existed at all, mine is created.

The new age.. My faith, inevitable to rise from the blood and the ignorance
How it must feel to be reborn follow black market peddlers
Can you feel the everlasting vice of our Messiah?
There is no escape, as deviation will never be permitted
Pathetic human, grovel at the feet of me.

With the mandate from Heaven. My new Hierarchy in place!

The lying
The deceit
The hate
It must end
Are we to believe we are alone
Alone on this earth
An earth filled with an unbelievable amount of beauty
Who are we to hate
Who are we to judge
If we were to all believe in love
Make love and justice our leader
Maybe
Just maybe
We could live in harmony

everyone should search for what they believe in themselves,
there should be no religion