TheHumanist.com is pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual Haiku Contest, this year held in conjunction with World Humanist Day, June 21. Established in the 1980s, World Humanist Day is an opportunity for... Read More

THEHUMANIST.COM is pleased to announce the winners of the Annual Haiku Contest, which was held in April in honor of National Poetry Month. The Contest requested entries of haikus about humanism and humanist values. Submissions... Read More

Just to Say How We Managed after one year in isolation/Feb 2021 We often rose before the light, Mornings after a dream-adorned sleep had calmed the day’s swelter, or the hushed world became encased in... Read More

Gone Tomorrow We venture out in the morning The two of us Venture into traffic Start towards work At home here Not because we vote as our neighbors Not because we know them Or root... Read More

  I need patience today, so I Google it to find patience comes from patientia, meaning sufferance, submissiveness, passiveness, enduring—all of this without complaining. Patience, an old-fashioned name the Puritans borrow from the Bible and... Read More

Stimulated Economy High above and in between the tropics on the darker continents ignored or mostly ignored in the places where the latte’s poured, the coffee cherries, picked and sorted, prepped to dry, lie on... Read More

They want me to be nonviolent, And surround me with violence. They want me to make better choices, And remove all meaningful choice. They want me to respect the law, And entangle me in petty... Read More