First atheist-themed poem that I enjoyed

written by David William Peretiatko

"An Atheist in Love"

This life to hold you
This time to share
moments
cold mountain naps
rushing ocean and
salt scented
sun lazied conversations
dark celestial gazings
lying on barren winter
fields
(hard and dead)
These years to adore you
These days to love you
and
cause your laughter
fill your days with smiles
bright and warm
for I cannot
love you past the grave
nor retain any memory
of the sweetness of your eyes
we will
vanish
all consciousness erased
and that will be the end
of it
There will be no
you
or
I
nor
Heaven
how I pray
there was a heaven
big and empty
waiting for vapourous ships
full of the ghosts of lovers
to dock at its marble harbour
and fills its golden streets
or
Hell

I even wish there was a
Hell
with its weeping
and gnashing of teeth
with its consuming
darkness
and
utter
loneliness

so at least
then
I'd exist enough
to think
of you

written by David William Peretiatko

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Permalink Reply by Hope on February 6, 2011 at 5:08pm

Nice poem!

I enjoyed reading for Elia Abu Madi Lebanese-American poet... he was atheist :)

Smile - Elia Abu Madi
™ ® Translated by: Mahmoud Abbas Masoud :)

He said: Lo, the sky is somber, and frowned.
I said: Smile just the same! Enough frowns in the sky

He said: Youth has left me and fled; I said: Smile!
Sorrow will never bring back your vanished youth

He said: The one whose love was my heaven,
Has tormented my soul
And turned my love into an inferno

She has betrayed my affection,
After I made my heart her sole possession.
So how can I smile

I said: Smile and enjoy yourself;
If you dwell on the hurt she dealt you, you will spend
The rest of your days in pain and suffering

He said: Business is in such turmoil,
As a traveler, almost dying of thirst

Like a consumptive young lass, in dire need of blood;
Wasting her life blood, with each gasp

I said: Smile, you are not the cause of her disease,
Nor will you be able to heal her.
Smile, for a smile may help

If someone else is a culprit,
Must you lose sleep worrying,
As if you yourself were the culprit

He said: The loud cries of my enemies
Are blaring around me,
How can I be happy when enemies are roundabout

I said: Smile, they are not after you
For a crime you have committed;
They would have ought against you if you weren’t
Better and greater than themselves

He said: The sales’ season is upon us,
Yet my merchandise of clothes and toys
Is not selling at all

I have an obligation toward my loved ones,
Yet, I have no single penny in my hand

I said: Smile, it is enough you are still living,
And not lacking in friends and well wishers

He said: The days have forced me to swallow bitter gall.
I said: Smile, even if bitter gall was given to you in strong doses

Perhaps if someone saw you in good spirits
Will discard gloom and rejoice instead

Will complaining ever earn you a penny?
Will you lose anything for being cheerful

There is no danger, friend, in parting your lips;
Your face will not disfigure if you smile

Laugh, for the stars laugh when night is darkest;
It is for this reason we love the stars

He said: Cheerfulness makes no one happy,
People come to this world and leave it against their will

I said: Smile as long as a short span
Separates you from death;
For once dead, you will not smile again

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Permalink Reply by Hope on February 7, 2011 at 11:22am

Also, I like this one with the mask guy in the youtube... very nice poem about Adam and Eve.

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Permalink Reply by Loop Johnny on February 10, 2011 at 2:21pm

EFG

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Permalink Reply by onyango makagutu on December 30, 2012 at 3:18pm

Lovely

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Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on December 30, 2012 at 11:17am

I like this poem Hope, I'm going to keep it.

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Permalink Reply by Gregor Basić on February 7, 2011 at 12:28pm

Call me classical neard but I need structure with my poems, like alliteration, measure and rhyme ;D All in all very nice.

Better question would be 'why are there so few atheistic poets?'. I know many singers (like Bjork), comedians (like Carlin, Seth McFarlane) and musicians like Andy McKee and so on. And by poet I mean a person who writes songs on paper with pen and never sings them :D