Polemiad
Surazeus

Mine.
No, Mine.
Doo dada doo.
Clang.
Argh.
Bam.
Ack.
Pow.
Ugh.
Woo hoo.
All mine now.
Spare change?

Polemiad is a million line epic poem
that details every battle ever fought
by mankind over the past million years.

O Come All You Curious
© Surazeus
2013 04 23

O come all you curious,
seekers of true knowledge,
O come to investigate and observe.
Search and investigate to learn the laws of nature.
O search and investigate,
O state and hypothesize,
O test and experiment,
Laws of Nature.

O speak, schools of… Read full post »

Twinkling Stars
© Surazeus 2013 03 26
A hymn for scientists, sung the tune of Silent Night

Twinkling stars, shining moon,
weaving light through our souls.
Round in spirals molecules spin,
flashing infinite spirit of mind.
Dream with celestial light.
Breathe with terrestrial air.

Beaming sun, swirli… Read full post »

I am descended from Anne Bradstreet, the Puritan Poet of Massachusetts. Her father was Thomas Dudley, a descendant of the Sutton-Dudley clan that was prominent during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, most notably Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and Sir Philip Sydney, the poet. Anne notes in several… Read full post »

Seth MacFarlane plays a misogynist like Stephen Colbert plays a conservative -- to mock their attitudes.

Coherent View of Life

I found this excerpt from the Wikipedia article "Modernist Poetry" fascinating in relation to the epic poem I am writing.

"After some heavy editing, "The Waste Land" in the form in which we now know it was published, and Eliot came to be seen as the… Read full post »

I have never taken a poetry class in my life. I taught myself how to write poetry by reading all the works of the greatest poets in many cultures of the world, and studying lots of song lyrics.

Sounds of Silence by Paul Simon inspired me to write poetry in 1984.… Read full post »

Names Of Dead Children
© Surazeus
2012 12 20

Flowers bloom in fields after bloody war,
and sun shines bright after destructive storm.
Voices echo in dark empty classroom
after bullets paint vibrant souls on walls.
I write names of dead children on locked door.

Ten million children who play on lush… Read full post »

Lost
© Surazeus
2012 11 14

My plane crashed on the island of the dead,
now I chase weird dreams in my broken head.
I run through labyrinth of my memories
and stare in mirrors clutching rusted keys.
I am alive because I am a ghost.
Change the channel in my head, I… Read full post »

Business was made to serve needs of people,
while people were not made to slave for business.

Mo Yan
Surazeus
20121011

Frog who dreams on Wei-Shan Lake,
now that Princess Ma-Gu kissed you,
speak more clear your magic tales
so the whole world can hear your song.

Atheist Mantra
© Surazeus
2012 10 06

There is no god except my consciousness.
This body and this world are all we have.
Treat others how you want them to treat you.
Do what you want as long as you harm none.
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Friday Thirteenth Of October
© Surazeus 13 October 2007

In Memoriam 13 October 1307 - 13 October 2012

Seven hundred years ago a grim day of horror
on Friday Thirteenth of October in 1307
our forebrothers Knights Templars of Solomon
serving Holy Grail family from Sang Israal
were arrested and tortur… Read full post »

Lost Summer Daydream
© Surazeus
2012 09 25

Why cold rain drizzling in my open brain
sparks awake jewels that crack and sprout vines
that curl tight around jagged mountain peaks
and pop faces of my mothers and fathers
smiling at me as I eat them and sleep
floating in boat on bobbing… Read full post »

Help Each Other Build
Surazeus 2012 09 24

I stepped into a time machine that whooshed
my soul to an alternate universe
where John Keats lived a ripe eighty-two years
and wrote a sprawling epic about life
that delved into the heart of human truth
and revealed jewels of fantastic beauty
that awed… Read full post »

Still Alive Sonnet
Surazeus 2012 09 24

Now I am forty-eight and still alive,
and I ask myself, how did I survive?
I wandered lost in weird labyrinth of dreams
stumbling in wasteland on quest for fresh streams.
I climbed steep jagged cliff of laughing ice,
seeking long for elusive paradise.
I realized… Read full post »

Let My People Vote
© Surazeus
2012 09 21

When Americans tried to vote,
Let my people vote!
Old regressives snarled and said no,
Let my people vote!
Stand in line on election day,
Let my people vote!
Touch the glass screen to mark your say,
Let my people vote!

Go down, Obama,… Read full post »

My Texas Road
Surazeus
2012 09 19

I was driving on a desolate Texas road
when a Mary Karr song rang on the radio
and all my heart-ache and petty gripes dissolved
as her words gleamed like sunlight in my windshield.
Our world has gone crazy with hate and war
so where can… Read full post »

The actions a man takes during his career reveals his character and what he would do as president.

Clinton taxed rich people and gave everyone else tax cuts and the United States become prosperous and the government paid all its debts.

Bush bankrupted seven companies in a row, then bankrupted the… Read full post »

God does not exist because the word exist is from Latin, ex-stare, meaning to stand out, as in an object that stands out in space and time, and has limitations that define its existence. By definition, God is beyond limitations of time and space, so God cannot exist.

However, one could… Read full post »

Lord Of The Pens
© Surazeus
2012 08 01

The name of philosopher Anaximandros
in Greek means the Lord of the Pens.
Nabu is a great power-hungry wizard
who creates a powerful magic Pen,
and then forges nine other magic pens
and gives them to poets around the world,
but then his hand… Read full post »