POETRY

Poems of Spiritual Conflict

These are poems of spiritual conflict and struggle.

Each poem has an associated comment that offers some background on it. You can view the comment when the poem is being displayed by clicking the “View Comments” link at the bottom of the page. In addition, some of the poems also have a “Listen” link where the words of the poem are spoken out loud. Finally, a few of the “Listen” poems also have a “Watch” link where a video version of the poem exists on YouTube.

Title	First Line	Comment
Enlisting	The summer day I finally decided to enlist	Another “it happened just this way”
The Air	This silence existed	This is an attempt to describe
The Power	All night long, dog whistles,	A sleepless night that is
The Prince	The crown prince of nothing	He is not to be feared,
Evolution	Have I indeed regressed that far	God has chosen the foolish
Strong Delusion	This stuff is at least 180 proof.	In a long passage about the Antichrist
Green Men	They probably won't be green.	The premise here is that UFO's are
Space Folk	These space folk are live wires,	Another view of the UFO menace,
The Ransom	There's going to be a ransom	Death is an enemy