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-saiom shriver-
NO GANGRENE
In the Party Green
welcome are all
shades of Green
except for the
green
in the burger's gangrene
(http://www.meangreenies.com
is a website of environment
groups not yet in tune
with universal nonviolence)
A SON'S PRAYER
Father I would
like the chance
to be free
to sing and dance
not to harm my
brother humans
with gun or missile
knife or lance.
THE SMALL CONTAINING ALL
Tiny nut brown
acorn orb
.. may tire wheels
not crush his
world
.. it contains
ten thousand
groves of oak
DAISY PARASOL
A fallen daisy
.. her petals the parasol
for the tiny
little mouse
Demishells of coconut:
new chambers for her
house
(G B Shaw: I love
little children too but I don't
cut off their heads and
stick them in vases)
HICE
Why is it
that many mouses
are mice
while many houses
are not hice
VOW TO ALL BEINGS
to love unconditionally all
forever and always
to love you totally
and in all ways.
VIOLET HEATHER
In all kinds of weather
out of love's ethers
sun spins new feathers
on the violet heather
(to Heather S of
Boston)
NOT ALONE
A fleecy baby lamb
cloud all alone in the sky
.. lo.. there is her
mommy
coming to join her
WINGING FLIGHT
As geese on
a pond do alight
and of a sudden
are winging flight
so is the body entered
by soul
who will someday
return to GOD's lovelight
INEVITABLE FORGIVENESS
the slow slide of
a glacier in to the sea
.. as souls gently
peel layers of
self unforgiveness
ONE SAID
One said
All criticism is
projected self indictment
.. since we can only see
what we are..
and another replied
that God sees only
that we are all made
of divine love
WHEN A VERB
When does a verb
mean killing a noun?
When the verb
is whaling, fishing,
sealing.
(Norway, Japan, Iceland
and USA still slaughtering
whales.
http://www.embassy.org/embassies)
GOD GORE GANDHI AND GASKINS
Ten by ten see
the people of Tennessee
.. and soon 6 million
Tenneseeans see
and choose God, Gore,
Gandhi and Gaskins
http://www.gandhiinstitute.org
WAR PROFITEER POLLSTERS
War profiteer PR
called "pollsters"
their pipers profit
from missiles to holsters
GALLUP, WASHINGTON POST, ABC, CBS ETC
He who pays the piper
calls the tune
He who pays the piper
makes the numbers
SPEARMINT
God does not
inflict pain or
experiment
when healing beings
or growing spearmint.
HIGHEST GATE
When we finally
leave our body shrines
God let our consciousness
permit release
through the highest
temple gate.
BAGHDAD BOMB
A bomb was dropped
on Baghdad..
and left Iraqis and
Americans dead.
Many other bombs
went off.. .. news bombs
shattering the hearts
of victims' loved ones.
VENUS LASTS
In the temple of
The god Mars
divided are the
pillars of war.
POSEIDON TEMPLE
Poseidon temple by the
sea..
2,000 years old..
grey stone.. by the blue water
fixed.. by the flowing
finite.. by the infinite
Yet within it
a pool .. containing
all the attributes
of the sea without
SPOKES OF THE SUNWHEEL
Spokes of the
sunwheel
paint all of the sky
canvas gold with love.
All things of earth
fade into insignificance.
APPLESAUCE
The apple thinks it
not a cross
when he's cored
and made into
applesauce.
Nor does he cry
when made into pie.
But his father
tree..
has feelings
.. and the bees
say leave him
alone to grow
BEES
When blueberry bees
cavort in the breeze
their honey
tastes like blueberries
When peachtree bees
go where they please
their honey tastes
like peaches
When we stop eating honey
we free the bees
to do as they please
footnote:
a British rabbi said many bees are smashed
in the racks.. the wings of the queen bee
are clipped to enslave her
and sometimes whole hives are killed
in the winter that their honey go to humans
SPEARMINT
God does not
inflict pain or
experiment
when healing beings
or growing spearmint.*
*spearmint plants
have a right to live
without being untimely
ripped
WIPE THE CHALICE
I shall wipe
the chalice of
my mind
that it not
pollute the thoughts
of God.
I shall cleanse
the altar of my heart
.. and air
out the shrine
of my soul
that the Divine Lover
indwelling all beings
be able to breathe.
GOLD LIGHT
What is the word
for the radiant lambent
light of evening
which paints
everything
in gold acceptance?
(crepuscular does not sound like the
right word for a different phenomenon:
the parallel bars of light from the sun)
WE LEARN FROM YOU
as a train's light and sound precede
its advent
so you
send light clouds
to melt the cruel
and nets of positive thought
to engulf the violent
DEMOCRATIC ADVENT
When Democrats
are in power
there are fewer
panhandlers
in the panhandle
CHANGE FOR THE GOOD
Replace the
war profiteer
pillagers
who rape
the rural villagers
ALL GOD
He first found power
when authority
he defied
and then found
greater when
all he deified
POTEMKIN SCARECROW
The groundhog
was not dissuaded
by the fierce
scarecrow
not by dog hair
borders
nor by the wire
fence..
and as he crept
into the Godgrown
garden
he ate to his
heart's content
.. left the remains
for the servant
ants to clean up
and with gratitude
in his heart
scurried away
JADE BUDDHA
Does he love more
the carved jade Buddha
.... seated eternally
in cool green meditation
or his infinite compassionate
heart.. confined to no
stone..
no form
EYE OF SHIVA
the moving shakti of high winds
surrounds the immovable eye
of Shiva
Every gust is controlled by Him
He is Mercy Incarnate
.. those freed from the
body by his gusts
exult
PRAYER SHAWL
a wedding veil
does not prevent
a meditation
prayer shawl
CACI, TITAN, BLACKWATER,
SAS, ETC
through torturers'
kicks, sleeplessness,
beatings, intimidation
one can get anyone
into
self incrimination
(Ribs and larynx of tortured victim of Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz-Bushcheney
military have been found in 2 different places: Germany.. autopsy
freezer
and Washington.
the military had contended the evidence was missing.
The crushed larynx and ribs show torture.)
ASKEW
By not polling
younger cellphone users
Even Pew
does toward Bush skew
while Gallup ABC
and Newsweek
respond
to war profiteers' cues
TERESA KERRY
With her energy,
her drive, her discipline,
her universal compassion
.. her Spirit
is it any wonder
they magnetized
to each other.
Her limitless
heart married
to her priority
focused brain
makes her a winning
general in her own
relief agency
She cares not for
money except
as energy to
help empower
the poor,
Mother Earth,
women
She does not believe
that Republican women should be silent
while their husbands
wage violent war,
execute serially,
drop millions of children into poverty,
abandon our veterans' health and food needs,
bulldoze our jade temple forests,
make thicker the glass ceiling for women.
When she speaks,
THE WORLD LISTENS.
KOREAN SLEEVE
A sunrise of
Korean sleeve
parallel bars
each varied hue
Soon sun Himself
gilds
all the leaves
Each day
He arrives
on cue
We are grateful
that he has
not thrown off
his faithful yoke
(to Kim, H & C)
WHAT TO SEE IN AMERICA
the 3000 year old redwoods..jade temples of time
a morning rainbow bridging the Grand Canyon's chasms
Old Faithful geyser in Utah's Yellowstone
the majestic Rocky Mtns of Colorado
parallel bars of sunrise over North Carolina skies
Pennsylvania's blue hills
the wide Mississippi at its mile widest
the stone cliffs of Yosemite in California
the Lincoln Memorial.. even pacifists enter it
as into a church
the Statue of Liberty... visible from parts of NYC now that the WTC
is gone
Philadelphia: home of nonviolent Quakers
Ohio.. where died out the celibate Shakers
Chicago.. where dwell many Polish bakers
Washington.. apples grown by the Maker
the American people
with their aquarian moon
and a heart for all
(to Wali)
FREEDOM
He had developed
strong arm muscles
from being indentured
into the fanning
of the king
..and used them
to climb away
GALLUP AND GALLIPOLI
Please Think Gallipoli
When you hear
Gallup 'Poll'
the amplified lies
of Fox and Gallup and
CNN
erased by 110 million
women, and young,
black red gold and white
Texas Latinos
Chicago Poles
-------------------------------
.
where nearly a million men
died.. based on phony
numbers from Churchill
who lost
his post
as a result. Later as Secretary of War Churchill would be
turned down by the UK cabinet in his request to poison
gas 'the uncivilized tribes' of Iraq and would instead bombmurder
9000. Later still he would direct the bombing of noncombatants
in Dresden as described by Vonnegut in SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE.
Public" Radio Uses GOP PR Masked as pollsters.
Gallup's GOP PR, called 'polling' is not taking into account
20 swing states. North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado
are becoming purple (when blue is added to red)
--------
Gallup Oct 26 through election gave a 7 to 13 point
lead to Bush.. a lie
Gallup.. does not proportionately poll young cellphone users
Gallup: GOP PR, not a pollster
CLELAND AND CLEVELAND
Unbeatable: the coalition
of vets like Max Cleland
and the people of
Memphis, St Louis
and Cleveland
FOUR ELEMENTS
charcoal filters
water purify
but when
burned pollute
the sky
GIRIDHAR AND GARUDA
Beneath the mountain
lifting it up is Giridhar
Soaring above the mountain
is Garuda
EQUITY
An agreement between
two of unequal power
is not a contract
but a submission
DIPLOMACY
those without brakes
drive more cautiously
.. elders in abusive
nursing homes..
become diplomats
PEAPICKERS
Plumpluckers
and Peapickers
Pearplanters
know one can't purloin
from a peachtree
because she gives it
all away
SWORDFISH GRACE
Freed from the net
was the swordfish
not by his own sword
but the grace of the Lord
SEPTEMBER SCEPTRES
September sun
with its rays
grants Peace her
sceptre
as focus turns to
Texas weapons
by world's inspectors
FREEDOM
He was so good
at copy and pasteups
He abandoned
former paystubs
IOWA POLITICS
Charles Grassley
wanted baby chick
females and males
unprotected on load dock
classed as mail
Little acts of kindness
change the world
Example of Art Small
the power of the small
The voters of Iowa
hearken
to the voice
of populist Harkin
CHICKNAPPING
taking an egg out of a nest
a. the way it's always been?
b. theft?
c. kidnapping? from the mother
PLEAS OF THE POWERLESS
North Carolina
baby pigs' Moms
ask for
votes for Tenenbaum.
Iowa baby chicks
with chirps so small
ask for votes
for Dem Art Small.
Ohio's
migratory birds
with feathers
make finger huts
and pray for votes
for Eric Fingerhut.
Oklahoma roosters
are Carlson boosters.
Vote Knowles
Alaskan whales
both females or
males.
Dolphins knifed
near Yokohama
ask you to vote
for Illinois' Obama
The cows of Texas
want no delay
Vote out all GOP
especially Delay.
Missouri rooster
Chanticleers
Vote Nancy Farmer
their chant is clear
Everywhere
every animal
suffering in
a trap
or shocked
and poisoned
as a lab rat
asks that you
vote for kind
winds of change
... vote DEMOCRAT
TEXAS GOVERNOR
A Texas death
room gurney
is the altar
of political
ambition and desire
on which he
proved
himself
to his father as
he sacrificed
150 innocent, juvenile,
unrepresented, black,
international citizen,
reformed or other
Texans. The world
watched in horror
as the altar
became a gurney
on which Texans
were wheeled to
the American Abu
Ghraib rooms of
state sanctioned
murder.
That was the
beginning of the world's
campaign to remove
him from his
stolen throne.
Yet death was
like an overhead
glass ceiling grid..
occasionally
the metal blocked
the sun's rising..
but soon it
appeared in
new glass chambers
filling them
with light amber.
And the altar
the bloodyred stone
promoted by
Sumner Redstone
will melt away like
an iceberg
in the sea's sway.
SPIRIT POUR
The mother's
milk starts
to flow at the
calling of her baby
The spouse's
eyes pour with
love.. at sight
of the beloved
Truth rises
to the throat
as courage
demands speech.
Healing hands
are hot
with heartheat
COLONEL
are wastelage
and dead animals
mixed in with the
corn kernels
fed to the captive
chickens
jammed 9 to a cage
and bought by the
Colonel?
(Factory farms all across
the US are feeding
parts of dead animals
to chickens, generating
Mad Chicken prions)
http://www.madcowboy.com
http://www.kfccruelty.com
SAVANNAH
Not far from
the seas
is Savannah
People there
eat
much less
of savanna
More vegans
who are Flemish
.. they have
less of the phlegmish
and the kind
in Budapest
with the vision
of Buddha
see none as pests.
(Sanskrit:
sava corpse
anna food
corpse food
or flesh)
DIVIDED LOTS
In St Louis and Cleveland
Memphis, Richmond,
and all over America
money meant to lift
the poor is stolen
for war profiteers.
The carless are evicted
and become homeless..
they watch as others
pick through their
belongings and
divide their lots
amongst them.
ABBA SAID
While more soldier
virgin sacrifices for Iraq
volcanoes
are
advocated
by General
John Abizaid
angels of
God
remind us humans
"Thou Shalt Not
Kill" is what
Abba said
(Abba: Aramaic
for God the Father)
INTELLIGENT INVESTOR
She sold McD shares on
advice of
brilliant Warren Buffett
When McD
dropped
market waves did
not her buffet
A vegan
Only nonviolent food
on her buffet
Only uncut flowers
on her table bouquets
PLANTS LOVE FRUITARIANS
plants prefer
one use the sickle
after the frost
has stilled life's tickle
and
pain is quieted
by icicles
NOT SO FAR FROM ANKARA
Off the coast
far from
Ankara
the ship did cast
its anchor
and the slapping
of the waves against the ship
took away the
woman's anger
PRAYER
God, forgive me for any time I have hurt the hearts of
others.. in the past present or future.
As hundreds of square miles of ice shelf fall into the sea
so do our sins drop into Your erasing forgiveness.
O GOD You are at the beginning and end of every path
to You. You answer every name by which You are called.
You are Omnipresent and therefore You Indwell Every Being. No error
of ours is more than a cloud which sooner or later passes on,
revealing Your Light shining in us all.
YOU ARE LOVE INCARNATE
GIVE all beings now the knowledge grace and desire to plug in to Your
currents of LOVE
Bring peace joy love nonviolence supply focus to all beings
now and forever.
Bless the listmembers,
the listmembers' loved ones and all
with joy and victory. Give victory to the peacemakers
in all elections who rely on Your word to pursue
spiritual solutions to conflict.. now and forever.
FAITHFULNESS
Now falling leaves
of many trees
goldstar the pine's
green fidelity
RELEASE
By dawn drawn
..
dandelion down
is falling down
falling down
SETAG
Texas' Setag
.. reverse of Gates
as also
turns round Bill Gates
who won't fund Duke's
abuse of primates
that all may enter
heaven's gates
---------
PYONGYANG
May Pyongyang
find his
Pyongyin
TRUTH WILL OUT
Media and
Flesh companies
battle
to suppress the truth
about Mad Cattle
http://www.madcowboy.com
PROTECTED BRAIN CELLS
Reborn
now Thackeray
avoids all daiquiris
and also any
Atkins whore
quackery
(research has shown
that vegetarians
and vegans have
virtually no alcoholism..
General Boorth of the Salvation
Army treated alcoholics with
vegetarian diet.. to sever
the mutual flesh-booze craving..
one highly yang.. the other
highly yin)
http://groups.msn.com/atkins1.msnw
MELTING ICE
Spring does unroll
her ancient scrolls
yond power of
winter's
cold control
MULBERRIES
Birds love to
cull berries
of the
violet mulberry
SAD
Grateful
are the cattle
that they
did not wear
the saddle
and are not
minesniffers
in the battle
NERUDA WINGS
as Krishna is borne
on the wings of Garuda
so Spirit is borne
on the words of Neruda
OSU: GOD REFORM IT
Ohio State
gives AIDS to cats
Ohio State
paralyzes rats
Ohio State abuses
dogs, horses
primates
State of Ohio
votes DEMOCRAT
GOD BLESS IMELDA
No longer does
Imelda Marcos
buy shoes made
of cattle's carcass
But still does
brutal Nieman Marcus
sell shoes of
animals' murderee carcass
MUCKBUCK
muckrakers now
rake the muck
of GOP factory farms
begun for the bucks
KEEP MIKULSKI
DUMP MURKOWSKI
God bless them both
but keep Mikulski
and dump Murkowski
SEABISCUIT KERRY
Seabiscuit Kerry
.. stronger with each stride
.. closing more powerfully
than a chess master
NO LONGER A SHIELD
the oak tree mourned
that she could no
longer wear
the tiny pot
in which she
as a sapling grew
..
until she saw
the oak tree
next to her
A FEW SECONDS OF FREEDOM
Thousands of pheasants
they cage
and watch them as they
sadly age..
until 1 day they are scooped
up in nets..
suddenly there is release
suddenly a man them frees
.. for a few seconds
before the guns blaze away
.. men their feathers pluck
and their bodies freeze
HOLY AROMA
Wartime dissent:
Divinity sent..
frankincense..
and angels' scents
IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
That one
was a 'born again'
whore of war
but in all holy fora
peace yields new flora
OHIO STATE PROJECTS OF THE GOP TRUSTEES
Meaningless to dogs, horses,
to AIDS injected cats
are Libertarian Republican
Democrat..
they see the paralyzed
spines of their
peer lab rats.
They know democracy
does not include
the voiceless, the
powerless,
the small.
(Nevertheless, Democrats are preferred
.. because they have reduced suffering.
http://forum.johnkerry.com)
http://www.poetwill.org
Kerry has been given 100% rating
by Doris Day Animal League and
many other groups. Ohio State's)
ALMIGHTY'S WINDS
Almighty's winds
.. 9 twisters
freed Smithfield pig
and her sisters
http://www.hogwatch.org
BRAIN FOOD
He found in avoiding
acid flesh's fermentation
his mind was faster
.. strong his mentation
(Jesus, Buddha, Einstein, DaVinci, Ramanujan, Tolstoy, Gandhi
and hundreds of millions of anonymous women have
avoided flesh food.)
http://www.pcrm.org
WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES?
Almost every fax
smells of woodskill ax
A SON'S PRAYER
Father I would
like the chance
to be free
to sing and dance
not to harm my
brother humans
with gun or missile
knife or lance.
THE SMALL CONTAINING ALL
Tiny nut brown
acorn orb
.. may tire wheels
not crush his
world
.. it contains
ten thousand
groves of oak
DAISY PARASOL
A fallen daisy
.. her petals the parasol
for the tiny
little mouse
Demishells of coconut:
new chambers for her
house
(G B Shaw: I love
little children too but I don't
cut off their heads and
stick them in vases)
HICE
Why is it
that many mouses
are mice
while many houses
are not hice
VOW
I love you unconditionally
forever and always
I love you totally
and in all ways.
(to all beings)
VIOLET HEATHER
In all kinds of weather
out of love's ethers
sun spins new feathers
on the violet heather
(to Heather S of
Boston)
NOT ALONE
A fleecy baby lamb
cloud all alone in the sky
.. lo.. there is her
mommy
coming to join her
WINGING FLIGHT
As geese on
a pond do alight
and of a sudden
are winging flight
so is the body entered
by soul
who will someday
return to GOD's lovelight
INEVITABLE FORGIVENESS
the slow slide of
a glacier in to the sea
.. as souls gently
peel layers of
self unforgiveness
ONE SAID
One said
All criticism is
projected self indictment
.. since we can only see
what we are..
and another replied
that God sees only
that we are all made
of divine love
WHEN A VERB
When does a verb
mean killing a noun?
When the verb
is whaling, fishing,
sealing.
(Norway, Japan, Iceland
and USA still slaughtering
whales.
http://www.embassy.org/embassies)
GOD GORE GANDHI AND GASKINS
Ten by ten see
the people of Tennessee
.. and soon 6 million
Tenneseeans see
and choose God, Gore,
Gandhi and Gaskins
over Eli LIlly's indicted Medicare billionaire Frist,
the weaponized anthrax research of
Battelle, the WMD nuke production at Oak Ridge,
the FedEx unionbusters in Memphis
http://www.gandhiinstitute.org
(Leonard Horowitz: The CIA gave 1 billion
to primate abuserBattelle to develop weaponized anthrax)
WAR PROFITEER POLLSTERS
War profiteer PR
called "pollsters"
their pipers profit
from missiles to holsters
GALLUP, WASHINGTON POST, ABC, CBS ETC
He who pays the piper
calls the tune
He who pays the piper
makes the numbers
HIGHEST GATE
When we finally
leave our body shrines
God let our consciousness
permit release
through the highest
temple gate.
BAGHDAD BOMB
A bomb was dropped
on Baghdad..
and left Iraqis and
Americans dead.
Many other bombs
went off.. .. news bombs
shattering the hearts
of victims' loved ones.
ONLY PEACE CAN PREVAIL
In the temple of
The god Mars
divided are the
pillars of war.
SPOKES OF THE SUNWHEEL
Spokes of the
sunwheel
paint all of the sky
canvas gold with love.
All things of earth
fade into insignificance.
PASSING THE WAND
The people of Pennsylvania
are record inspectors
and therefore hand the sceptre
to Hoeffel from Specter.
KERRY COUNTRY
Tennessee
on the ascendant
Ohio rising
Nevada quickening
everywhere Kerry
is on the horizon
HOLY HOLY HOLY
Every path up the
mountain is sacred
All riverpaths down to
the sea are holy
All plants in the
garden
God does love
wholly
JERICHO
Joshua's trumpet
made the walls
of Jericho fall down
Millions' chant of Allah Akbar
made the Shah fall down
BLUEMS
Kelly green leaves
with feathery plumes
.. the sun continues
spinning on these his looms
his gold flowers and
purple blooms
and his each unique bluems.
SAUSAGE FACTORY
The stench of blood
in slaughterhouse-old factories
pierces the Spirit and
offends the olfactories.
IN CAR DO NO HARM
the peace officer in
chasing the speeder
killed 6 animals
and hit a child
HIPPOCRATES HYPOCRISY
For vivisector
MD's
the oath of hippocrates
is hypocrisy
COURAGE TO BE FRANK
Hypocrisy
.. means secret criticism
.. means saying behind
someone's back
what is not said to
his face
DAWN SUNDOWN
Mars at dawn
Venus.. sundown
Alone by choice after bedrise
Together neath even's starskies
JOHN WAYNE MOVIE
They weren't digging a grave
They were trying to find
water
SAMARRA
While some who called
themselves prolife
cheered the GOP
first an arm
then a whole dead child
in Iraq
was removed from
the bombed out rock.
As on trees
grow future samaras*
death found he had
no
appointment on the
Volga's Samara
..instead he was called
to .. the Tigris' Samarra.
(samara maple seedling
Appointment in Samara:
Maugham story about a city
on the Volga)
TREES
They create oxygen..
and filter the air
They evaporate water
which becomes mist
and rain.
They shelter every
bird God sends to them.
They are a parasol
from the sun
and an umbrella from the
rain,
a jade privacy screen.
.. they hold water preventing
floods by their roots
They give away entirely
their fruits
Genesis 1: 29 Behold I have given you herbyielding seed.
To you it shall be for food.
5th Angel: Revelation: Harm no green living being
Bhagavad Gita: Of trees I am the fig.
Isaiah: Break not the bruised reed.
KNIFE TO THE HEART
Canadian fishermen
club baby seals
Elsewhere
a struggling piglet
is tied to an altar stone
His terrorized
squeals
as his life they steal
MAKE USA A PARLIAMENTARY
DEMOCRACY
If you were to vote
Ralph Nader
you would have gotten
Cheney
Darth Vader..
Instead vote with the
archangels
and send away
the slave of
the fallen
dark angel
CRICKET AND JACK FROST
Sometimes it is October
when the crickets' chirps
can be heard
begging for mercy from
Jack Frost.
(the more trees cover
the globe.. the less
violent the weather)
LOVE GREEN FRUIT
Love unripe fruit
but do not expect it
to be soft and sweet.
ORCHARD GIVEAWAY
The flesh of pigs is acid.
The flesh of cows is acrid.
Sweet and fresh
is ripe fruit flesh.
WORDCLOUDS
VEIL REALITY
The box said
free range chicken broth
.. one wondered
how the broth
was experiencing
its free range..
and when the chicken's
movements
abruptly stopped
PUZZLE PIECES
He did not agree
that the puzzle pieces
must fit in a preordained
way..
He did cut and paste
and chisel and paint
.. to fit them together
.. not inside the outline
.. but with tendrils
of life outside the lines
THE WAY OF THE LORD
IS THE SPINE
From morning glory
vine-clamber
The bee hurried
with his pollen amber
back to his
hearthome chambers..
in the morn he
did zigzag and amble
.. but now
straight was his line home.
(Make straight the way
of the Lord)
MT ST HELEN
Tall saintly Helen
in a new greyash cloak
.. it will be a while
before green
grows on her slopes
(to Helen T.. who
left her body for
God this week)
GOP CONTROLLED FDA
IS PAWN OF PHARMACEUTICALS
AND FAILED TO ACT FOR YEARS
ON VIOXX OR ON CHIRON VACCINES
27,000 heart attacks
attributed to just ONE
drug, Vioxx, of just ONE
company: Merck
That's 9 WTC's
That's 27,000 WMD's
(Celebrex.. of same chemical family..
not yet withdrawn)
DON'T BE A WALLFLOWER
She had been a nun
and left the convent
to marry a charismatic
man.. yet she
was not totally
free of her early programming
.. I dreamt a friend said
to her " don't be a wallflower
.. ask God to dance with you"
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Does the mother of the
dead Missourian soldier say
"My baby boy,
you came with no guarantee
My baby boy, you came with
no warranty
that you would not
be sacrificed
on the altar of
George Bush's
vendetta".
(JBO was the source of
the comment to a vengeance
seeking father who held
his daughter's murderer responsible
for her lost life that babies
come with no guarantees)
EAT NO STOLEN FOOD
Eat no honey
stolen from bees
not bees
in the fields of blueberries
.. nor where the pinkpeach orchards
are rustled by the mornign breeze
nor the blackolive groves
but
especially those
bees.. roaming
the fields where
poppy blooms grow.
TARA
It is said that Tara
is the brightest stara
in the nightfoiled tiara
of the Avatara.
(1 line of this from DB)
WAITING NO LONGER
a silent saint
slipped into love's
unembodied sea
.. without funeral
fanfare
... she had when the woods
were with October on
fire..
married her beloved..
and she returned to him
when the woods in October
were on fire
UNIV OF ILLINOIS VETS
The University of Illinois
veterinarians put the pig
on their examination table..
not like Hippocrates to heal
but like Hansel and Gretel's
witch..
to measure
WITCH BROOMS
Witch brooms are harsh
and harm bugs ..
they are not soft
like Buddhist monks' feather brooms
who sweep as they weave chants
on invisibile prayer wheel looms
PARADISE UNFOLDING
With global warming
the fruit trees of Iberia
and the sun of Liberia
are awakening paradise
in Siberia.
MOUNI
They do not to
speakers give ear
It is the words of nonspeakers
they wish to hear.
SCOLDING SQUIRREL
Scolding squirrel..
do not fear..
the oak tree planters
will leave many
acorns for you.
CAMEL APPROACHING EYE
OF NEEDLE
As the church standards
at St Paul's Episcopal
must be lowered
in order to enter
the sanctuary
so the flags kidnapped
by the forces of war profiteering
violence must be lowered
to enter the halls of GOD.
OMNIPRESENCE
When she was a little
girl her father told
her there was no Santa
Claus. When her father died
she for a short time
believed that there was no
Santa Claus..
but as water pours through
many mouths in an Italian
fountain..
so the Spirit of Giving
is omnipresent.
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT
YOU ARE GOD
The choppy seas of
grief had fractured
the reflected sun into
1 million pieces..
but quietness has
stilled the image
and restored the one
peace.
The Sun
is One.
WATER'S PRAYER SHAWLS
Waters' prayer shawls
do cover all
and muffle
the pull of earth..
(for those who like
to meditate at the
seaside or in'
the bathtub)
COLD BENCH
Some kill drug crazed
or
in depressive grays
or in black hate
or in grips of green jealousy
or in redhot hot rage
but judges kill more coldly
than anyone else...
the mind's cloud weave
veiling the inner sun of Love
premeditating with
ambition's
dispassion
and dispatch..
October's white frost
in the pumpkin patch
(poster's family spoke of
dispassion and dispatch
in a positive way.. but in
this poem they are
meant as criticism)
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
He was a profiteer
of prison privatization..
Prison professionals
and parole board parrots
contributed to his
PR propaganda
BRIGHT TRAIL
What is above?
covering the sky!?
It is Kerry's coattails
and their bright trail
... nearly all Democrats
they have drawn
..to
angelprotected
victory's dawn
ANNOYED BY MERCENARIES
When the GOP
a babyboomer rang
it turned out to be
a boomerang
FLIGHT
A feathergowned crane
flies through the forest
like Cinderella
fleeing the ball
CURLED SEA
The sea is curled where
baby waves roll
to the shore
PURPLE NECKLACE
Grape vine weaving
strings of beads
.. purple necklace
.. from Mother's
greenleafed lace
and Sun Father's
grace
(muse: a photo
of grapes by
John Pearson)
QUICKENING QUIVERING
In water's
accepting reflection
the winter branch
quickens and quivers with life
and though the pond
is earthbound
she mirrors
the fire of the sky
on her surface is
a pink path
to a pink full moon..
.. the waves
break it into steps
elsewhere
the waterfalls'
foaming stairs
to the external observer
seem full of crisis
but are in reality
shakti vahini
ananda
..
energy flow
joy
GENEROUS CAMELS
The camels gave some
of their carafes
to the desertcrossing
thirsty giraffes
STOP THE TRAIN
like a 5 year old at the wheel
of a runaway train
Bush must be removed
from power
FLU VACCINE OBSOLESCENCE
like an attender at
a David Bowie concert,
aping his last year's outfits,
flu vaccines
are always obsolete
GODGRANTED PERMISSION
The South Carolina 17
had Godgranted permission
to withdraw
from war profiteers'
suicide mission
NONVIOLENCE
from WW2's
Tora Tora
to the CIA
operation in
Tora Bora
..the nonviolent avoid war
because of the Bible
the Gita the Torah
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HEALED ARTERIES
when he became
a vegan
his arteries carotid
became unclotted
LEAF LOVE LACE
Oh Mr Lovelace
in January felt loveless
yet in spring his love appeared
with April's leafy love lace
COCOONING THE CONES
Grass grows over the
pine babies..
cocooning the cones
with a winter's nest
for their gentle rest
ARM BEARS
the right to bear arms
is sought by
bears whose arms
do not look like
bare arms
as they make plans
to arm bears*
SOMETIMES ONLY GOD AND A FEW
KNOW OF INNOCENCE
the distracted man who had just
kissed his lipsticked wife..
and was not aware
of her imprint..
was presumed to be
a transvestite by
someone who saw him
GIRIDHAR
The hearts of
the people of America
weave the wings
of Garuda
on which
John Kerry is
borne to victory.
BOMBING AND ENBALMING
When children are cremated
by our tax supported bombing
their bodies' ashes do
not require enbalming
CHILDREN OF WAR
In my city I know only 2 of the Vietnamese children injured by US bombs... who came to America and grew up.
One recently gave birth though wheelchair ridden and without legs all her life...
a triumph which brought tears to the eyes of those who
know her.
The 2nd had 1/3 of her jaw blown off and has been trapped in
waitress jobs. I have not asked if she has been able to find
a loving partner.
The third I have not met but listened to on Fresh Air. Her
name is Kim Phuc.
She is the little Vietnamese girl whose clothes were burned
off her body by napalm when she was 9 years old, ran until
pain and thirst stopped her. When she stopped a kind American
soldier poured water on her burns, but the steam only cooked
them further. In the pain, she lost consciousness. She had 14 months in the hospital and 17 operations, with burns over 35% of her body.
FRUIT OF THE VINE
Genesis One Twenty Nine
is God's design
that we eat fruit of the
tree
and the plant and the vine.
WHAT DO YOU CALL
A CHICAGO REPUBLICAN?
Illinoise
OMNIPRESENCE
"The sun is stalking me.."
projected Dracula
onto the omnipresent
Divinity
BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS
God will keep from the woods
those armed with uzzis
so that you may rest outside
in your jacuzzi
THE HELP OF GRANT
In Spirit, Hollywood stars
such as Grant, Cary
are helping Kerry
most states carry.
KIND PEOPLE
Fewer who live in
Duxbury
do in their bellies
dead ducks bury
RIPOSTE TO REPUBLICAN WARMONGER
May birds scatter pumpkin seeds
in your threetoed sloth dungpile..
that it may be transformed into
jade leaved cricket shade
HAMILTON COUNTY
Beware, County
of Hamilton's lords
lest like
the town
of Hamlin
your children
be taken
because of your
cruelty
PEAPODS
Peapickers pluck not
til the peapods
are perfect
THE MIRROR
the mirror shows a different face to
each of 1000 passers by
.. some call her flighty
or fickle
but she shows only
the passing reality
MOTHER'S HANDS
Her toddler
holds the mother's
finger
Her husband
holds her hand.
CONGRESS
They are the center right
and farright
wing of the same bird
of prey, which
is attempting to drive
from the skies the
doves of peace.
However he will not be
able to.. because
sadly imbalanced
by the weight of money
and revenge on his wings.. he
flops around in circles.
CHARM
The general's charm
it doth disarm
and yet it is
a velvet sheath of
the sword
of his bloodied past.
the general's charm
has literally
the poor and babies
and seniors dis-armed
(One mother of an American
soldier blinded in Iraq
by bullets..
said only the sight of an
Iraqi woman legless
crawling on the hospital
floor followed by her
2 year old daughter
gave her more pain
than the sight of her son)
(How many have been both
blinded and made paraplegics?)
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