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JESUS PETER ISAIAH AND GOD

Jesus told stoners to put down their stones
Jesus told Peter to put down his sword.
Turn them to plowshares.. were Isaiah's words.
Thou Shalt Not Kill.. to Moses told Lord

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PLATTSBURGH MIRACLE

1970, the Fifth of May
One day after
the Kent State Four.
The Plattsburgh students
decide to act
from their very heartcores.
They say that in league
with those at Kent State
They will march to
the SAC Air Forc eGate..
to witness that they
want peace evermore.
The SAC commander now decrees
that any who touch
the Air Force gate
will be summarily shot..
This is he says
for security's sake.
And as the students file by
what a miracle is in store.
Out of base homes come
the Air Force wives.
Holding their babes
they offer their lives
and stand between
the young and the armed
and by their courage
is peace reborn.

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BLOSSOM MARTIAL

At Blossom Center,
they will be playing martial
music..
as if one were
to arm blooms
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HIGHER FIRE

He was not drafted to warships
but summoned to worship..
not to soldiers' gassing
by 'friendly fire'
or corporate hire and fire

but called to the
Higher Fire

For His God whispered to him:
I have said you cannot have
2 masters. Pledge
allegiance only to My Voice..
I have not asterisked with
exceptions My command
not to kill.
I told Peter to put down his
courageous
sword and the executing
mob to put down
their stones.
I have told you to transmute
anger into love.. that
is the meaning of "Turn
the other cheek".
You are the Ocean of Spirit
which all rivers hallows..
no matter how polluted
.. no matter how shallow.

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3000 MILES

The Peace Pilgrim..
and Dick Gregory
and Doris Haddock
have walked and run
across America
..with each foot
step.. on the loom
of America
weaving peace.

IVY LEAGUE

Hidden in buildings
behind the quad
lurk vivisectors
.. and spy squads

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DOVES AND FLAGS

Four doves riding
on the wings of true
eagles.. flew down
and picked up in
their beaks the American
flag out of the mud
and out of the blood
and took it to
the shrines of peace.

PEACEMAKER

If 5% of Muslims
think all Christians infidels
and 5% of Christians
think all Muslims go to hell
.. are there 90% in between
.. peacemakers..
non ideologues?

PEACE OFFICER

As you walk with
a tear gas cannister,
a stun gun, handcuffs,
a club, a gun, bullets
.. do you convey
that you are an
officer of peace?

(inspired by the following drawing)

http://www.drawingresistance.org/new_page_20.htm

HOLY GROUND

Moses took off his sandals
and put down his rod
as he tred on
the sacred sod:
the Burning Bush
of God

The Poor Clares became discalced..
to follow the Poverty
path of their
founder..

Ramakrishna went oer the sod
with feet unshod
because he did not want
to harm the goldenrod.

Barefoot Buddhist monks
sweep forest paths
with feather brooms..
that they disturb..
no bug or bloom.

The brilliant boy
with the headache found
when he removed his socks
Mother Earth had healed him
by absorbing
his excess energy

Now have the
metal tank shoes
been removed
from the sacred ground of Bethlehem.

It is time for all outsiders
to remove metal tank shoes
from the sacred soil of Iraq
and everywhere else
that armed men from another
country are not welcome.

MOSS SKIN

The roots of the tree
are at the surface..
hands covered with
green moss skin..
like spring reaching out
tentatively.. tendrils
of peace
..

GOING HOME

15 soldiers on the Chinook
helicopter thought they
were going home
and found of a sudden
that
they were going
Home

(as they left their bodies
for God evicted by a shoulder fired
missile)

WOODPECKER SCULPTOR

the woodpecker wooed the woods with his whittling

sculpture. How ironic that the sound of

his pecking is strangely relaxing.

CALIGULA

Caligula sent the army
to the shore
to collect
seashells

***
Cartel bosses sent the US army
beyond its shores
to collect
oil for BP & Shell

FRUIT OF WAR 2

Babies armless, legless come to the
orphanage.. their mothers and
fathers
bombed...

NOTE OF THRUSH

In the forest so plush
In the forest so lush
near the cataract's gush
near the waterfalls' rush
where none are frightened
by hunters' ambush..
and squirrels never
do one another push
...in the deepening quiet
.. in the gathering hush
.. by the birded bush
near the sacred ground
of the Burning Bush
comes the trill of the thrush
and peace encircling
does everyone brush

CRIMSON DROPS

It is ordained that
young red rose petals
fall..
in summer and in the fall
but it is not ordained
that crimson blood drop
from the bodies of soldiers

ONE NOTE

The icicle was melting
and its drip drip drip
sounded with one note
only.. like the
mantra of peace
not of songs of the whippoorwill
but of the woodpecker's will

POOL PEACE

A pool is a piece
of far distant seas
A pool is the peace
of far distant seas.

MANY FLAGGED PEACE

the meadow's diverse blooms ...
the flags of the small unweaponed
nations in the UN
prayer's candleflags lit before
the sanctuary

BLUEBIRDS AND BLUEBELLS

Bluebirds and bluebells
are not listed as casus belli

UPSIDE DOWN EXCLAMATION

Over the obelisk of the
Washington Monument,
a star of peace..
the two together:
an upside down exclamation point !
.. the surrender of ego,
a perception from different
angles.. catalysts
to the end of war

PENTAGONY

"The Pentagon has 5 faces..
but Pentagony has 100 million ... paraplegics.. widows..
orphans....children footless from land mines..
vets dying of depleted uranium cancer.. the blinded.. the deaf..
bloated war profiteers inside fancy restaurants while the hungry are outside.. bulldozed cardbox villages for the homeless... green trees bombed
into grey ash... primates in despair in military labs...

DEER ARE NOT VENISON

Those who glory in war
as did Alfred Tennyson
more often have
been deerslayers
who turned beings into venison

THE MOWER OF WAR

As the mower untimely cuts
down the flowers
.. with their multicolored
unfurled flags of all nations
so do the tanks and bombs
cut down
the beauty and lives of the young.

FOILED BY SHRIEKS OF GULLS

ocean waves are asterisked by the shrieks of gulls
peace is foiled by the screams of the slaughterhouse
Dawn's silent pastels
are foiled by... exploding bombs from hell

NINE NATIONS: KNEEL TO GOD

The bullies of nuclear nonproliferation say
nine nations can have their nukes.. but none else.
Let them disarm now.

CONNECT THE RIGHT AND LEFT
BRAIN.. THE MIND AND THE HEART

the
general shed tears
when the fabric of the
flag was
set aflame
but not when thousands
were by bombs
set afire

DADDIES

Countless Iraqi Mommies and Daddies
have been killed as
F16's and cluster bombs
bombed Baghdaddies

UNABOMBER AND POLYBOMBER

Ted Kaczynski is called a Unabomber.
Everyone who votes for war money
or writes briefs for war
is a polybomber.

Some Muslims and some undercover
Jews, some Christians
are suicide bombers
Every pilot who drops
bombs is a homicide bomber.

SHANTISH

In the world's most sacred language, Sanskrit, the word for peace is Shanti. When shanti is repeated over and over it becomes Shantish or Shantishwar, Divinity whose form is peace. To repeat shanti is to summon God as Peace.

FLAG SHROUDS

Those coffin shroud flags
.. how many given to
shattered widows and mothers
children sisters and brothers
before the ears can hear?

ON BEHALF OF A GRATEFUL NATION

"On behalf of a grateful
nation we present this
flag to you", shroud on
the coffin of your baby boy
... wrapping for a box
of broken dreams

but while you grieve
at his grave
over you his soul
into the land of love streams

ABHIMANYU

Abhimanyu, Qusay and Uday,
Absalom..
beloved sons die
.. tearing out hearts
.. it is time for Salem, Shalom

GARDENS BUCKYMYRNAL

war profiteers
bombed fruited fields
into mud infernal
and slew on hatred's
altars
babes and privates
elders and colonels
but looming time. with
lime looms
vernal
knit triple shifts
nocturnal and diurnal
has with free gifts
shown way eternal:
apples nuts grapes
and gold corn kernels
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PEACE IN THE AIR

butterflies and bees
as they alight
from winged flight
do not oer blooming
feasts of delight
push or pull or fight

UNBLOODY MARBLE

The white marble statues
of conquering generals
.. do not contain the blood
of innocents

ONE GREEN CANDLE AT A TIME

He found himself in Vietnam
... and saw the
devastation to the palms
done by the bomb and
by napalm
and came back to his home
state
.. and coordinated the planting
of over 1 million trees,
lighting the world, 1 green
candle at a time

(to D Kidd)

WHERE EAGLES GATHER

Where eagles gather
they're often fighting
over cadavers.

Theirs has not yet
been the way of peace.***

NIIGATA OVERCAST

He was alive
because on that day
in Niigata
the skies were gray
**

(Because of the overcast,
Hiroshima replaced Niigata
as the target for the 1st
atom bomb dropped on a civilian
population)

RUSSIAN SHRINE

One walks into the
shrine of the Russian
World War II
war memorial..

erected for the
27 million war dead

It is humbling

One kneels
to the sea of sacrifice
of the Russian people

One kneels
to the hearts
of the Russian people
beating as one

TERRIBLE DEATH

Hitler's officers*
on meat hooks were hanging
Hitler's generals
by piano wire were strangling
We pray for those
whose spirits
left behind
bodies dangling

(*those who had tried to kill him)

FDR'S WAR MEMORIAL

The Arizona, metal grave
of the 900 men drowned
in the bombing
in Pearl Harbor...
deliberately sacrificed
by their Commander in Chief

VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL

Carved in the marble charcoal grey
of the Vietnam War Memorial..
we saw that day
the names of 58,000 Americans
known to have died..

Their names are supported
by the uncarved marble
of the 4 million Vietnamese
who died.

CARPE DIEM

Carpe Diem
they said
as they carpe'd Diem

(Diem of Vietnam, murdered
in a coup).

WHO KILLED WOODROW

Who killed Woodrow Wilson?

His own heart after seeing
120,000 crosses on
unnecessary graves of
American wardead in France.

CAESAR'S SEIZURES

The boundaries of political
worlds used to be
determined by
angry seizures
of would be Caesars

DRYING IN THE SUN

61 died that day
in the 1st infantry..
in Vietnam

2? rows of body bags..
the fruit of war
drying in the sun

THEIR LIGHT IGNITES

It is their light
which our hearts ignites
.. and not the might
which bombs ignites.

The victories won by
military might
sometimes do not
last the night.

As violence begets
violence,
violets beget violets
and
nonviolence begets
nonviolence

(to Jesus Buddha Ananda Mayee Ma Martin Luther King Susan B Anthony Sadako Kim Phuc)

INABILITY TO DELEGATE

You have an inability
to delegate
said the general
to the major
.. the general
who abstracted
the lower ranks
of his men
into extinction

CHICKENHAWK CHEERLEADER

Cheerleader chickenhawk of the
charnelhouses of War
.. flails Afghan skullcymbals
.. and his diverting pom poms..
taking the attention of the public
from the stadium owners

Several times he has been invited
onto the field
and declined

his meat and armaments
and lumber and mining and oil
and other paymasters lurk in
the alleys behind the fan stands

He sings songs to send others'
children to the slaughter
.. the children of the poor
to the blood altars
but safe are
his own daughters

while presidential preaching pastor
who has forgotten the words of the
Peaceful Master
gripping missiles in his pastor fists
a blasphemy against the Great Pacifist
mouths prayers for the success
of bloodshed.. as tanks
pollute Bethlehem and Palestine

cheerleader did enter a field of battle
himself.. against unarmed pheasants
in a woods.. birds who could
not shoot back.

DOVER

When distant chimes
rang fast
and peeled
it was of joy they told
When distant bells
rang slow
it was a story of grief
they tolled

LIGHT OF GOD SHINES FROM ALL EYES

The light of God shines out of all eyes..
the eyes of every
human, animal, bird, fish, insect..
even the eyes of serial killers and unelected warwagers

HIT MAN OR BIG GAME HUNTER

Why does a hit man kill?
For money
Why does a biggame hunter kill?
For pleasure.
Why does a barroom brawler kill?
In rage
Why do some generals kill?
For power
Why do some spouses kill?
Out of jealousy
Why do fundamentalist Christians
Muslims Jews Buddhists Hindus kill?
Out of hatred or ignorance.
God by all names called, You who indwell all,
send grace to all.

GETTYSBURG

The Address at Gettysburg
.. was stonecarved
by gore
... horses so brutally
gored.. McClellan
could not harm them..
to win the war...
.. the lifeblood
of disemboweled teenagers..
.. legs cut off without
anesthesia..
.. blinded eyes..
widows.. fatherless children
... burned orchards..
eaten dogs.. pets commandeered
and butchered..
the people pooer and poorer
.. war profiteers richer and
richer

and more..
and more
and more

(to Gore Vidal and Al Gore, workers for peace)

ARCH

An archer is very different from the peaceful rainbow arch.
Armed marchers are very different from the daffodils of March.

. 3 shimmering rainbarrels
. 3000 miles
. 9 nations.. kneel to God
. abhimanyu
. advent of the light
. african hearts polish horses
. arch
. blossom martial
. blue chalk crosses
. caesar's seizures
. caligula
. cannon fodder no more
. chickenhawk cheerleader
. connect the right and left brain
. crimson drops
. crop dusters are ecoterrorists
. daddies
. deer are not venison
. divine love's canons
. dover
. doves and flags
. drying in the sun
. fdr's war memorial
. federal building flowers
. flag shrouds
. foiled by shrieks of gulls
. gardens buckymyrnal
. gettysburg
. gettysburg granite tear
. goming home
. higher fire
. hit man or big game hunter
. how maury dropped the a
. holy ground
. ice sculpture eagle drips
. infidels
. ivy
. kim phuc
. light of God shines in all eyes
. manyflagged peace
. midwest governor
. moss skin
. mower of war
. no bombing of the babies of Baghdad
. note of thrush
. old men in vietnam
. olive branch
. olive branch grasped
by doves, arrows by eagle
. on behalf of a grateful nation
. one green candle at a time
. one note
. peace in the air
. peaceful master
. peaceward
. peas appeasement
. physics not miracle
. peacemakers
. peaceofficer
. pentagony
. pool peace
. remorse
. shantish
. springing forth
. tolstoy's children
. unabomber and polybomber
. unbloody marble
. upside down exclamation

. woodpecker
. work for peace

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Author's Notes/Comments:

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Ben Franklin did not want a carnivore
as the national bird. He ate no meat
til later in life when he wrote of Paris
that venison and venery had defeated him.
He wanted the turkey as a national bird.
Since those innocents have been
butchered in the billions.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html

the Jesus poem was inspired by a conversation with Winnie D. Hope

JR told writer of the firebombs. Father Mother God we ask special grace for all who have used the tools of violence. We ask that they be taken off their warhorses and shown the way of peace. to Wolf\ http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html Noam Chomsky is asking for a boycott of businesses which do business with Israel as long as their govt continues to keep Palestinians in concentration camps and invades Palestine with illegal settlements. Other Jewish peace activists: Barbra Streisand Jerry Springer Rob Reiner Norman Finkelstein http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org Deceased Jewish peace activists: Jesus Christ, Albert Einstein Yehudi Menuhin It is said that St Francis wore bells on his toes to warn the insects of his advent

Footnote to Polish Horses, African Hearts: Cecil Rhodes' imperialist
racism was continued by Winston Churchill.
Rhodes' diamond empire DeBeers once controlled 95% of the world's
diamond market... a market built on the suffocation deaths of mine
workers, their brutal exploitation, a monopoly of supply control, the
use of force to wrest mineral rights (mineral rights still granted to
capitalist billionaires through e.g. a 19th Cent. American law giving
the rich mineral rights at $5 an acre).. Countless tens of thousands
died in a Boer War started by Rhodes. Even today a Rhodes Scholarship
goes to those expected to continue capitalist empire. The United
Nations still reflects the naked racist force of the past, as 4 white
nations and 1 Asian nation (no African.. no Arab, no Hispanic) have
veto power over billions of people. (to Alex Hershaft, whose
reparations money as a child concentration camp victim has been used
for his Great American Meatout) http://www.meatout.com

Footnote to FDR's War Memorial: It is said that FDR was forewarned of
the attack on Pearl Harbor, but felt the populace would support the
war only after an atrocity.

Footnote to Kum Phuc:
Kim Phuc's message to us all is 'first do no harm' Kim Phuc, 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. To listen to her