Religious Slaughter

by Jacki   Dec 20, 2004


An apostle of literature sleeps
eyes closed; dreaming of water ways
with a splash of crimson delight.
His eyes flutter; awakened to falling Abremon,

A tumulus ocean branches out grasping
the searing rays; ode to the sun.
Silver riches shine beneath the seas
of parallel complexes; a skull sits
bastardized, fallen from the heat.

But it's not the skull of the trying
hand reaching towards a goal.
Fallen from grace with scorched
wings; abandoned by the ocean breeze.

Servants slaughter sheep to the
howling of the moon strips of wool
starlings moving as they fall.
Beneath of the iridescent river skies.

The air is full and heavy.
Icarus would be proud.
A star lit sparkled sky outlined
in feathers and wax; one for religion dies.

Prayers of Agnostic combated Christian
scrap yard metal wreckages;
tapping on the window to the soul,
the religious caucus pendulum
swaying to and fro...

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  • 19 years ago

    by Jacki

    thank you all so much. This is one of my favorite poems.

  • 19 years ago

    by Michael D Nalley

    wow thats deep I've thought about the pendulum, spiritual highs and lows 5>

  • 20 years ago

    by Jacki

    the poem is not about iraq, iraq was just a good example.......

  • 20 years ago

    by Jacki

    Bob you are 100% correct! This poem it's more of a general outlook on the world right now and state of it. But a good example to this poem would be Iraq and the war, I feel that we are in another holy war whether you believe in god or you don't. That’s ones own personal agenda. But so many die day after day for what they believe in....and what they don't believe in. I guess I wrote this poem more because of inner turmoil about religion right now. How in America I feel that its religion vs. freedom. I don't think it should be that way.......we will fall and when we fall we fall like Iracus in the poem. The religious will believe that their way is the only way.....and so this is why the pendulum sways to and fro.....

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