Fumata Bianca

Priests of today

akin to weathermen

boasting all day

of fair weather saviors

being the downfall

of our windfall.

-- Brendan Jeremiah Ryan Newcomb

Mean monster penquins

torture children

while pagan babies

take their nickels

-- Elizabeth Jean Norvell

We lift up god

in our feeble hands

manufactured theology

in these industrial lands.

Our beliefs fall through

the holes in our hearts

and we grasp our painful pleasures,

with which we never will part.

Our doubts roll

like clockwork

with riptides of fear.

We realize in our minds

god never really was here.

-- Taylor Wade

promoting world peace and harmony

while making midnight mass bombing runs

the pope ducks for cover

inside his religious bubble

of the non-reflecting congregation

shielded from the starving

and those that love god differently

-- Maria Elena Mahler

“Alchemy is not anti-religion. It completes Christianity and other religions by bringing the opposites closer together instead of externalizing our shortfalls and taking them to confession without observing their messages, meaning, and challenge for personal growth.”

-- Louise-Marie von Franz