Atheists and Empty Spaces

<p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;background:white;'>The poems in </span><em><span style='font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;'>Atheists and Empty Spaces</span></em> 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.</p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;background:white;'>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. </span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;background:white;'>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. </span></p>