Humanism Poems

Touched by His Noodly Appendage
Touched by His Noodly Appendage by Arne Niklas Jansson, after Michelangelo

How to be godless without being up one’s own fundement, that’s the true meaning of life.

Contents

Death

Family & Community

Inspiration

Realisation

Religion & Belief

        Poems about Death:

Appointments in Samarra

Auto-Eulogy

The Ball-&-Socket Ball

The Ballad of Miss Pickle

Blue Chip, Brown Bread

Catholic Swans

Cemetery Flowers

The Charon Line

Collaterals

Custodia Golgothae

Day of the Dead

Dressed in Morning

Eulogies

Fat Pigeons

Final Calling

Funerary Minimums

A God-Awful Small Affair

God save the Queen (but the Devil take the Plebs)

Godless Devilry

Good News in the Silence of Josephus

Grave Goods

Graven Images

Graves, Worms, & Epitaphs

Heathrow Terminal Ultima

Immortal Remains

Judas Trees

Kosher Slaughter

Listen, Children…

A Locked-Tomb Mystery

Longhold Tenancy

Lying in State

A Meal for One

The Memory of Woods

Menin Gate, 8pm

Mistress Blacklock

More Than a Footnote


Mortal Remains


No Rest for the Blessèd

One Last Rite

Purple Requiem

Rapture Deferred

The Registrar

Requiems Retold

Salient Thoughts

Second-Hand Elegy

Serial Filler

Sleeping with the Armoured Fishes

Telling the Bees

Treasure Trove

The True Cross

The Wages of Sin

The Witherness of the Fig-Tree

Witnesses

        Poems about Family & Community

Advent in November

Anon. Smith, Esq.

Basecamp

Beaver Geezers

…because “s/he” is unpronounceable

The Boston Stomp

Britannias

Catholic Swans

Cecily Census

Doorknocker Blues

Dressed in Morning

England without the English

Eulogies

The Eve of the Eve

The Extra Guest

The First of Logos

Forever Second Place in a Beauty Contest

Gin in the Clockcase

Ghosting

Good Friday, Better Saturday

Ground Control

How Men Part

In the Year of the Lord

Incels

It’s All Good Stuff

It’s Better To Give Than Receive

John Bull Jack

The Knobs Turn Both Ways

Longhold Tenancy

The Memory of Woods

My Almost-Deadbeat Dad

Nala

No Jeopardy But Me

An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse

Old Acquaintances

One Last Rite

Onion Friends

Passing Through

The Pinneal Soul

The Price of Sharps

Regifting

The Registrar

Requiems Retold

Salvation United

Second-Hand Elegy

Silicon Britons

The Singalong Song

Sound Systems

Subscription

Suburban Safari

Telling the Bees

To Have & To Hold-Off

To the Baron

The Vegetable Plot

Unwise in the Ys

Wallpaper

When Saturday Came

Where the Hounds Lie Low

Willow Pattern

        Poems about Inspiration

Binary Error

Confidentity

Credo

Daedalus to Icarus

Death of the Artist

The Devil May Care

Drowning in the Jordan

Duality

Ecce Humanitas

Epiphany in the Rain

For Your Consideration

Four-Four Forever

Free Mulling

Freudenfreude

From Eden to Creation

Godless Devilry

Good Friday, Better Saturday

Goodwill

Grave Goods

The High Road from Envy to Candour

Hypocrites

In-the-Pink Blues

In the Year of the Lord

Innerlogues

Kithdred

Let Our Freak Flags Fly

Lonely Gamut

Losing my Wretchedness

A Love Like Vague

Making Peace with Tinsel

A Nonny Mouse

A Norse Discourse

Not Only Pascal’s Wager

Now When They Heard About the Resurrection, Some Began to Scoff

Once is Never Enough

The Oncoming March

Parallels

Promethian

The Providence Plot

Random Acts of Friendship

Reckless

Scholastic Surgery

Secular Commandments

Sideman

The Slow Comedown

Sonnet for the Goats

Spaghetti

Spasibo

The State of the Nation

Still Got It

Suffering Souls

Thank-You and Goodnight

There is no Canon

To Those I Leave Behind

The Triumph of the Magi

The True Meaning of Christmas

Uh-Oh

The Unnoticed Gift

Verbally Hyperbole

What Have We Learned ?

When Saturday Came

Work in Progress

World Peace

        Poems about Realisation

The Advent Calendar

The Age of Discretion

All the World’s a Soundstage

The Also-Rans of the Human Race

Annus Medius

Armchair Philosophy

Auld Forsooks

Auto-Eulogy

The Battle for Midweek

Binary Error

Blood & Treasure

Bunting in the Rain

Bureaucalypse

Careers Advice

Coming Distractions

Confidentity

Conspiracy of Habit

The Crocks

Cyber-Subs

Dear Diary

Demergence

000

The Drop


Dry January

Ennui Go

Epitaph

Eternal Journal

Existential Differential

False Positives

Fascists

Fashion Police

For-Never Needs

For Your Consideration

The Fork in the Road

The Ghost of Christmas Present

Ghosting

Giving Cynicism a Bad Name

Gotcha Gawkers

Graduation

Greysuits

Hark !  Our Better Angels Sing

Here Today

High C

The High Cost of Living

The High Road from Envy to Candour

Humbug in Excelsus

Incels

Inhumane Resources

The Inner Demon

Jaw-Jaw

John Bull Jack

The Joy of Misery

Kiss-Kiss Boom-Boom

Last Train to Nowhere

The Leaden Sky

Legitimate Bastards

Let’s Do The Show Right Here !

A Life at the Living

Lonely Gamut

The Long Journey to Average

Loonies

The Luxury of Inconsequence

Lying in State

The Makings of an Artist

A Meal for One

Meditation

Menin Gate, 8pm

Moving the Goalposts

Mus laboritorium

Music of the Ancients

The New Victorians

New Year’s Daze

Niggles & Naggles

No Fish Were Harmed

Neural Plasticity

One Last Rite

Panopticon

Passing Glances

People are Stupid (and We are People)

Plastic Horns

Pointless Deaths

Pumpkin Eyes

Reflected Glory

Rivals

Rough Night

Rugged Individualism

Scratch a Lefty, Find a Hippo

Scuttlebutt Scandals

The Sidekick

Sins of the Fathers

Skew Left

Solo Carol

Solo Traveller

Sparkle

Suburban Safari

Sunk

Synapse Error

Tempus Fudge-It

The Testament of Vacuum

There Are Only So Many Words

Tina

Tom, Dick, & Hooray !

Trigger Warning

Uh-Oh

The Uncarved Block

Uncle Charlie, How I Envy You

Undrunk

The Unfeted

Unsolitary Confinement

Unto Those Who Have Shall be Given

Unvictus

The View from the Dock

The Wages of Sin

Walking With Scissors

We Just Don’t Get It

“We’re All In It Together”

We’re Crap, And We Know We Are

What Have We Learned ?

Wonderlust

Yes Virginia, There Is A Conspiracy

The Z-Factor

        Poems about Religion & Belief

Aces Low

The Advent Carol

As the Ghurab Flies

An Atheist in Heaven

The Beckoning

Before Year Zero

Binary Error

Bleaters, Awake !

Bless You, Dammit !

The Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Numbers

Breathless

Bright Satanic Mills

Christmas in the Desert

Circa Circumference

Ecce Humanitas

The Elusive Mister Morningstar

Evangelution

Existential Differential

The First of Logos

Fish on Friday

Free-zoning

Get Up Off Our Knees

Godless, Thank God

Good Friday, Better Saturday

Grasping at Gaps

Halal Hammer

Haram

Hark !  Our Better Angels Sing

Heaven & Earth

The High Cost of Belief

The Holy Grail

Holy Smoke

Holy Trinity, Batman !

How I Wonder What You Are

Hypocrites

I Can See Your House From Here

Kosher Insecta

The Land of Nod

The Land of the Saints

Less Polymath, More Monomath

Lesson

Listen, Children…

Losing my Wretchedness

Lying in State

Middle-Class Voodoo

Midnight Glorious

The Modern Way

Nous Sommes Charlie

No True Scotsmen

Not Only Pascal’s Wager

Now When They Heard About the Resurrection, Some Began to Scoff

Obey in All Things your Masters According to the Flesh

An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse

The Pinneal Soul

Prayer to Self

Psychopomp

The Right to Offend

Righteous & Right

Salisbury Cathedral Vaccination Centre

Salvation United

Sonnet for the Goats

Stirred-Up Eagles

Stubborn & Rebellious

Sunday Best

The Sky is Full of Idols

Sunnis & Cartoonies

The Testament of Vacuum

Their Ears are Dull of Hearing

There Shall the Falcons also be Gathered, Each One with her Mate

Three-Line Poem

Threefold Commandments

The Uncarved Block

Urban Spiritual

Wherefore by their Fruits ye Shall Know Them

A Wilful Child

You Bet Your Life