Atheists and Empty Spaces
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Atheists and Empty Spaces

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Atheists and Empty Spaces

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The poems in Atheists and Empty Spaces explore the quintessential aspect of humanity – the need of having something in which to believe. Modern humanity attempts to fill the empty spaces in the psyche with emotional and psychological sustenance that was once provided by communal connections, religion, and the worship of deities or even nature.

These poems explore how, in many ways, people have all become atheists because they no longer know how to connect to natural and supernatural forces, and they simply no longer believe in them. Humanity is now lacking a connection to the impulses that once nurtured human desires.

However, the poems also suggest that art can provide a path back to those vital connections. Some poems are simple explorations of personal pain that cannot be soothed. Others are thorough considerations of how warped or misguided humanity's attempts really are at solving an elusive and unidentified misery. Most of these poems take traditional forms of verse and song, but some find their unique rhythms in contemporary free verse. Others use examples from ancient cultures to comment on contemporary culture while some ideas spring from news headlines of today. Each poem in this collection reflects on the ways that modern humans seek to fill their empty spaces, whether atheist or not.

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Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Year
2022
ISBN
9781649797506
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Religious Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Information ©
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. The Promises That I Keep (A Foreword)
  7. Introduction
  8. Atheists and Empty Spaces
  9. Wedded with My Memory
  10. The Buzz Revisited Again
  11. No Arbiter Needed
  12. Carnalville
  13. The Knowledge of Stone
  14. A 21st-Century Song
  15. What Dreams May Come
  16. Love, Light, and Song
  17. The Message
  18. On Chains
  19. A Carpenter’s Man
  20. Big Maggie McClain
  21. Cupid Warns Psyche About Her Sisters
  22. The Shadow Feeds
  23. A Love Song, or I Am Your Whole World
  24. Learning to Curse
  25. Revelations
  26. The Day Rain Filled Empty Spaces
  27. Shapeless
  28. Admiration
  29. Oh, Happy Days! They Dream but Not of You
  30. To Nature
  31. A Love Song
  32. A Postmodern Poet’s Complaint
  33. Of Gods or Monsters
  34. Emma Jean
  35. No Access to My Pain
  36. My Soul Is Dark
  37. He Said There Is No God
  38. Laocoön
  39. Suicide Notes
  40. The Purple Thistle: (Old #5)
  41. Indifference
  42. Lily
  43. Lover Lost in Time
  44. Not Knowing If You Dream
  45. A Seven-Hour Love Song
  46. The End of Love
  47. The Ghost of Marcellus
  48. A New Woman with No Fear
  49. Youth and Age
  50. Ode on a Lizard and a Lost Tale
  51. No Empty Spaces
  52. My Son, My Poem
  53. Endnotes