Vol IV: 123 Brief Poems


1 Love in light glows to all...compassion in water flows to all... kindness in wind blows to all... the giving  earth grows for all
2 A bike goes through the fallen mulberries, leaving a purple trail
3 Mother Earth is wildrosing the rye

4 Magawa is an awardwinning minesniffing rat.  But why not robots?

Once again innocent beings are sent to be blown apart

by the newest generation of Bonapartes.
5 Countless mammals and birds freed from the barnyard by the tireless work of physician Neal Barnard
6 Sunwands and raingrace aummon open the sesame seeds The divine in all need say no 'Open Sesame' but  simply affirms "Open, says me"

7  All life is sacred, but if one has to choose, the Japanese beetle

is greater than the rose.

8  The best way to serve fish... is to let them be.  to swim in the sea

9  Some theists believe in an eternal hell designed by a God who is omniscient and has all foreknowledge. God is Love, and not a punishing sadist.

10  The noun 'weed' has been made a verb as well.  Weed as a verb means the killing of sentient plants called weeds. 

11  Pigs don't fly until after they are murdered.  Then their souls soar to God.

12 Torture is termed 'enhanced interrogation techniques', kidnapping 'rendition'. Violent governments in the world  justify murders under phrases such as 'national security'.

13 The lawnmower blades are smeared with butterfly wings.  Landscape crews find fragmented frogs or the severed leg of a baby rabbit.

14 Is a rabbit's foot unlucky unless attached to its living owner.

That part of an innocent turkey's body someone once named a wishbone can't grant desires.

15 Japanese beetles turn lilacs into lilace

Honeybees come, unbidden bibbers of all blooms

16  The Audubon Society birdwatchers then go to a restaurant and dine on birds not considered rare or beautiful.. the most massacred ones.... chickens

17  A rosebud is not sinful because it is not yet fullblown nor is a peach bad because it is not yet ripe and sweet.

18  "Pearls before swine" they say. But pearls obtained by ripping apart
oysters are anathema... while sweet pigs have an inherent right to life and a natural death

19 Time for the Green Bay Packers to change their name and
disassociate from the animal slaughterhouse processing after
which they were named.

20  Ashes contain phoenix birds

21  For the very first time , I saw a seed in a lime.

(Some make seedless grapes and watermelons etc, wanting to save

time.. but are actually removing orbs of immortality.)

22   Re wishbones... rather than pull apart a murdered turkey's bones,

    he picked up a fallen pine needle and broke it in two.

23 Melted by forgiving is the fallen snowflake., sufficient to be accepted into Snowdrop Lake

24 For their flesh and pearls From their hidden cloisters ripped apart are oysters. Scattered are their shells where there is no moisture

25 A pink butterfly resting on a pink bloom. One cannot tell them apart until flight..

26 Your love is proof of God

27 Animals on whom people dine... all died without an anodyne

28 Soldiers and civilians on that day died in Vietnam  Rows of body bags, the fruit of war,

   drying in the sun

29 The monk lay weak on his deathbed. Numberless times his servant the Wind turned
his prayer wheel.

30  Before they ever touched each other their auras and shadows merged.

31

That which is infinite, eternal, love, divine is beyond scientists' power to define, beyond every frequency, beyond what humans can hear or see

32 Why eat a hotdog cadaver in its coffin bun

33 The many needle fingers of the pine,each dripping with rain grace

34 Sand castles disappear in tides Clouds rain their shapes away.Mist melts in the light of morn.
Ice sculptures lose their form.

35 Mark Shawcross said "I think. Therefore I eat no ham"... nor do we eat spam or clams or baby lambs

36 Eat not of death  Eat no beings deprived of breath.

37 A land of milk and honey is a land of cow and bee slavery

38 Was that umpire blind, booze impaired, biased or bribed?

39 Spring apple blossoms because of the sun's eternal applause give way to fall's applesauce...

40 When those calling themselves followers of Christ stop eating the lambs of God they will be honoring the Lamb of God  
41 stop using guinea pigs as guinea pigs

42 Romeo and Juliet in that life were starcrossed.. but in their next, starkissed.. they ignited more blazing light than merged comets

43 Dogs are more sensitive than humans to loud noises. It is hard for them to cover their ears in blasting music

44 Kind refined Appalachians care not for the hillbilly appellation.

45 Si vis pacem, para pacem  If you want peace, prepare for peace.

46 Every bush is a Burning Bush afire with God

47 Conchshells, abandoned by departed conches, yet they resound wity seasound

48 Hurricane Katrina  an octogenarian woman in 3 feet of water, holds onto a walker with 3 plastic bags tied to it

49 God is not affected by the evil done by those God indwells as the sun is not impacted
by his rays' merging with Mother Earth.

50 Colonial occupiers regarded the bodies of fallen foes as the rubble of rebel rabble

51 Dead fur coats attract fleas

52 The sun takes no lunch break

53 Who decided that roosters crow while crows caw

54 Out of the blue, 'the ship on horizon' Out of the gloom, the meadowlark trills  Out of the dark, the sun is a risin Out of despair, unexpected love chills

55 Merciful Wind, leave the baby birds safe in their nests

56  Little trichinella worms remain in the sinless pig's pork chop remains

57 Excess water: floods of wealth  Little rain: drought of poverty

58 He said that it was maya to be concerned about human and animal suffering.  Yet his own pain was very real to him.

59  Neither love nor lust can be compelled

60  Blackeyed Susans seduce the bees.. but are forced to their queen them to free

61  Into an ice palace, Pluto Winter kidnapped Persephone River, but now has let her onward flow.

62  A trail of sand footprints ends as she enters the sea. Water stores no trace of her swim.

63 There is an appointed time for the melting of each snowflake, the forgiving of every pain.

64  Windbroom sweeps through dandelions lifting aloft only grey ripe seeds

65 It is not alleged learned owls with victims in their claws but birdbrains who draw dawn with their song.

66  Bands of gold and rose poured from rainbows into climbing vines of rose

67 Ominous night has silenced the mourning dove but not the nightingale

68 The river encountered a boulder of will. In flowing around it she has changed her destiny.

69 It is not a shark fin but the triangular sail of a toy boat.

70 Watching the brave films of Oliver Stone one is reminded that inside each soft olive is a hard stone of immortality which can fill the world with olive trees..

71  Night it seems makes misty steam over the onward flowing stream.

72  No one grows beef. Captive animals are murdered into the toxic food.

73  Is it not fascinating that government murders are called execution or war or assassinating

74  Rivers end in the sea. Sun-evaporated they return as rain.

Most souls die with remaining desire. Its gravity makes them return again.

75 A star is a cluster of luster

76 The sun does not night banish nor vanquish. His presence simply makes night vanish.

77 God bless you each way and all ways

God give you a painless path today and always

78 The mystic fog over the bog stars the lotus with dewdrops

79 In peppers' chambered belfries hang silent bells

Red, orange, yellow, green but not blue are their hues,

80 Once he mailed out 2300 press releases and got no nibble for the cause. Another time he made 4 phone calls to wire services who sent it around the world, reminding of Robert Shuller's line "Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count the apples in a seed"

81 Not all Christians or Jews believe another name for God is Allah

Not all Muslims respect Tibetan prayer wheels or a Hindu japamala

82 Into the breach the seed of beech and the hardstoned seed of peach wanting to be impeached
to be impeached

83 Many candles burning together become one flame

85 Defense contractor luncheon  The ice sculpture eagle beak begins to drip. From one function ice of arms it becomes all pointed water..

86 Every black in America born is given at birth a crown of thorns

87 Water never has to work. It runs where it pleases. But it is the sun which does the heavy lifting.

88  156 years ago crossing north the River Ohio with uncommon bravery meant the unlocking of the chains of slavery

89  Is Martin Sheen's aura ultraviolet, standing for peace, ever nonviolent. With rare courage, 66 times arrested. Through the years he's seldom rested.

90 The wind has all over dandelions sown. The sun has spun and in the meadows a splatter of daisies she has sewn near the bluebell clusters she has strewn.

91 Like arrows in quivers the sun's silver slivers in rippling rivers do glow and shiver

92 Under the light of the Southern Cross it is the cows, sheep,and kangaroos of Australia and New Zealand that are crucified

93 Equally without judging, on all, does the sun's light fall

94 The falling rain has become the rising river

95 The defense attorney for the cockroaches said.. they are better luck than a cricket

upon the hearth for they magnetize to a home those who love every heart

96 Those who focused on the shock of shards as the phoenix bird burst from his shell nearly missed the sight of his awesome first flight as he soared up and away and out of sight

97 He invested in cattle futures knowing that they have none. Ranchers give them no names, only numbers.

98
 Wasps build nests. Bees build honeycombs. Now robot masons save trees by building brick homes.

99  From Wichita and Des Moines to Chicago and Schenectady pigs are murdered and renamed pork bellies, chops, loins and bacon in a bloody and cruel synecdoche

 100

lost immigrant children, to many it is apparent should never have been separated

from their lost loving parents

101

The changeling full moon Inconstant compass... wandering Some prefer the North Star

102 

So many skeletons in Supreme Court closets they could not the doors close And the sharp points of bony fingers were ripping up their clothes

103

Sadness sinks. Laughter rises.

104

There are underdogs  and then there are underpigs. Nearly every pig is an underpig.

105

A warmonger leader says 'the US' when he means "I"

 am initiating an illegal bombing.

Whether it's Los Angeles, Miami,

Chicago or Schenectady

the peaceloving American people

dislike such synecdoches

106

Where eagles gather they often fight over cadavers.

107

"Ecoterrorists" is what euphemism busters might from now on call 'cropdusters'.And those who drop fire on civilians
animals birds trees from the air..
are they not suicide but polycidal bombers?

108
How did the sweet rain
transubstantiate to juice of pear

109

What her omnipotent heart ordained her obedient will obtained

110

How awesome. How sublime
that out of mud and muck and slime
God makes lemons and God makes limes.
111
On music's majestic pinions
lifted are all lyrics opinions.

112

Giving creates a space, a vacuum, into which angels pour higher gifts.

113

The Sea: Rocking cradle of the world. Sunset stairway

to the stars. Only by great masters trod. Only written on

by God.

114. It snows at sea. Quiet falls in flakes. Melting designs leave form for all.

115. Buddha was a Hindu. Jesus was a Jew. The same God who them indwelt lives always inside me and you.

116. Each night the tree of nut out of naught knits neat

     nuts.

117. God's lightning cleaved the heaven's asunder.. and out of them He spake in thunder... There should be no such thing as a Jewish hunter!

118. The olive is the altar of Allah. On it He has placed

olive for all.

119. Jesus' Fig Tree: He did belittle you..but soon he'll bebig you. In the spring with blooms he will wig you..
With summer summon a jade garb to resprig you..
and in the fall on new twigs he'll refig you.

120. Purple eve drops. Gentle rain from eaves drops.

 Audience on post-rain birdchoirs eavesdrops.

Sudden rain on the roof claps its applause.

121. She is my beloved assister.. of all in need

the giving assister.

122.
Gene Kelly dances in the rain but birds usually sing only before or after.

123. It's hard to tell time on my clock. The hour and

minute hands are the same length, like a saint who is present but beyond time.. seeing all as equally divine.



Footnote:

109 is to Marguerite Brunner, mother of Sally and Jesca

 





 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 



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pudnsis1's picture

I like this little ditty very much. i miss the smellof apple blossoms and the taste of homemade apple everything. As for apricots, no other way than au natural. Thanks for sharing. Linda

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Thank you Linda

 

Thanks very much for taking the time. I'm grateful.



 

 

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Hi SN I agree with Deborah: This is a gem and it seems as if Sun is vegetarian! (SMILES) Myra

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  Much appreciated Myra

 

Much appreciated Myra



 

 

Deborah Russell's picture

I liked this a lot...I'm smiling.

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  Deborah thank you very

 

Deborah thank you very much.