poetry (you didn't write) that rocks your world.

[christa lynn]

"In the name of God"

Hear the crack of a bullet
Down on 7th avenue tonight
A man lies bleeding on the floor
Hear the cry of a cop car
As the streets are filled with blue and white
They all rush into the clinic door

And I'm never gonna know how
You ever get to sleep at night
And justify the things you do
With your hand upon the Bible
You say you killed a killing man
Well mister what does that make you

And it's all in the name of God
And it's all in the name of God

See the crosses burning
Lighting up the southern sky
You feel the hatred in the air
Slip into your white robs
To cover up your blackened heart
You don't become that cross you wear

And it's all in the name of God
And it's all in the name of God

Hear the newsman talking
But that don't help me understand
No I can't claim to comprehend
See the builing tumbling
So I drop a knee and say a prayer
For the city that will never ever sleep again

And it's all in the name of God
And it's all in the name of God

We all got our ways
To justify the things we hate
And we all got our ways
Of throwing the first stone
But if you want to hate
Then please leave God alone

And it's all in the name of God
And it's all in the name of God

-Dakona

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I thought this was beautiful simply because it's so true. Religion is so misused sometimes. I really dispise the hypocrites that say their religious people then hate so vehemently.

[liam]

[One-Eye]

[One-Eye]

[Narbus]

[Narbus]

If
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

[Clumsy7Thief]

[emily]

[Narbus]

[liam]

[Candy-coated Fake]

Taken from "the Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien:

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadow shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

"Nothing Gold can Stay" by Robert Frost:

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

I have a lot more...maybe I'll post some more eventually.

Edit: I just realized both those poems menitoned "gold." Purely coincidence.(sp?) Oh...someone else posted "Nothing Gold can Stay." Yay!

[Clumsy7Thief]

[emily]

[Clumsy7Thief]