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NONVIOLENCE UNIVERSAL VOLUME 1

*1
A gentle cow reading Leviticus found that cloven hoofed animals
are forbidden for food. And so she did cleave each of her four.
*2
Above.. the starstrewn sky Below.. a landmine-sown earth lies.
Above the pastel spray of breaking day... below the battlefield's crimson and gray
*3
At a defense contractor luncheon, the eagle ice sculpture drips water
from his melting beak. Frozen form
becomes all form. The waters of peace are flexible.
*4
May no illegitimate
leader's illegal wars hasten any 'til death us do part'
*5
Babe issued a press release.. "they tell fibs..
.. I have no ribs to spare.. no spare ribs"
*6
Because of her the world will sooner bring.. a world of no more
suffering.. where none are swallowing....a chicken's or a swallow's wing
*7
Butchers unthinkingly smash the hour glasses of mammals' lives.
*8
Do plants have feelings? said one and the other replied:
Wallflowers must have broken hearts.
*9
Emma Wood said 'animals love vegetarians'... It's also true that
plants love fruitarians.
*10
Factory farmed hens: unloved they are born.. nameless they
live... innominate they die... ungrieved in stomachs they are buried
*11
He stopped fishing for reasons of mercy
and saved himself from radiation, worms, lead and mercury.
*12
How do the words of the Peaceful Master become the tirades of
warmonger pastors?
*13
How many daisies does a daisy cutter bomb cut?
*14
In India the bloody footprint of Alexander's throne
lasted as long as a twig cleaves the sea into which it is thrown.
*15
It is not recorded in the words of Tennyson
that Ben Franklin got sick when he ate venison
*16
Kneeling to God, all weapons' Wielder, he became a
weapons yielder.
*17
Lambs go more quietly to their murder than pigs. Pigs fight
hard against the knife wielders.
*18
Less likely to suffocate fishes or cause their suffering
are suffragettes and meditative Sufi rings.
*19
Little chick fertilized within the eggshell basket
.. Of Thee God he asked it... that none turn the little shell into a marble casket
*20
Many are the harshly shod footprints which have trod smashing little ones between the booted and the sod
*21
Neither the barbs of the blackberry bush nor the thorns protecting the rose act aggressively.
*22
NASA secreted hundreds of mice into the hold of the shuttle. Each was a
spacemouse.. each was a scapemouse.
*23
Neath obsolescent mower it used to be that crickets make a final peep.
Fireflies' lanterns snuffed beneath the skies. Bumblebees' pollination
stops Caterpillars do not become butterflies
Seldom are birdwatchers seen... in factory farms
*24
Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth.. for
she magnetizes to your home those who love every heart
*25
That general bombed so many into bodiless realms stygian. Now his stone statue has
new epaulets... the droppings of the pigeons
*26
Robins need not squabble over a stick for their 2 nests.. for there are dead sticks everywhere.
*27
Spaniards are ending the waving of red flags toward crucified bulls, as everywhere the white flags of mutual surrender to God flap, and the wind rustles the pink flags of thyme......
all flags of earth peaceful in time
*28
She defends not only underdogs but undercats, undercows, and underpigs, underchickens and underfishes.
*29
The boats which to their slaughter ship sheep are never shipshape.
*30
The fire in the mob's hate torches does not always color within the lines.
*31
The God indwelt beetle sanctifies the holy rose.
*32
The trash truck comes around, its treeslapping height
leaving a mobile of severed spring leaves in its wake... its mechanized pickup
not knowing what living tiny mice or human corpses might be inside
*33
They cleave off innocent pigs' cloven hooves
... yet the scarlet blood does not crimson
the purple fields of clover
*34
If his heart is a bud.. not yet fullblown will he understand the iris' unfolding sermon
or care about how they freeze the tongues of captured ermine... will they know yet
that rats and mice are not vermin
*35
Trillions of animals' agonized cries through the years echoing in our ears....
in agony beseeching God "When will you hear?"
*36
Up peep and pop the poppy pods.
Does their scotching and scorching please Papa God?
Can not heroin be controlled without harm
to Mother Nature's plants and sod?
*37
We have nothing to offer you say the cows of their gravy
but our blood sweat and tears.
*38
Weeding whispered the Great Spirit...is plant racism
*39
A bee willing to hang upside down in drooping blooms
will harvest more honey. But the converse is not true..
those who work the hardest are not those who make the money.
*40
The horse has run her heart out for her 'owner''s bank
account.. and her reward? the slavery of a stall
*41
Ralph Nader works for consumers, Casey Kasem for consum-ees
*42
Angels please make more clever plants of clover... that they hide from cleaving mowers
*43
Once when a riverflood had created many beyondbank pools in which thousands of fish were trapped as waters slowly receded..he spent 3 nights and days\ bucketing them back to the mainstream..and to life.
*44
The hound was haunted by the hind he had hunted. Over the months God to him hinted he should no longer hurt any harts nor harm any hinds.. Now he, the hound, no longer hunts and so by hinds is no longer haunted.
*45
"Straighten up and fly right" said his father..but his son misheard it as 'fly rights' and sallied forth to organize the untouchable maggots of the world
*46
The portable dairy of the mother dromedary..Is it meant for humans or the baby dromedary?
*47
That baby boy squirrel eats the apple peels.. turning them round and
round with his tiny hands..like someone chewing on a new thoughtfrom all angles.... but
he eats pine cones like corn on the cob
*48
When a horse is hanging upside down in an abbatoir, is the building called a slaughterhorse?
*49
The bright orange wings of the Baltimore Oriole are not as radiant as his spirit's aureole
*50
Chanel Number 5 had ambergris from sperm whales, civet from the civet cat, musk, (38 musk oxen castrated for 1 oz of musk oil), and castor from the Canadian beaver.
Should it have been called Chanel Number 41?
*51
She picked up only vacant seashells on the shores of the Seychelles...
for chambered nautili hollow were minnow castles in the shallows
*52
Some of the chores of the scullery maid..... to throw tiny birds' skulls into the trash
and then to store the marmelade
*53
Little parachute samaras.. maple seedlings.. gather in the gutters of homes and streets. Little treasure troves.. who will become groves.. if left alone in places unmowed. Those who give them a nod.. let them burst from the sod.. let them break from their podsfor they've been sent by God
*54
A. asked "Which fork is used in proper etiquette
to spear the animal's flesh?" B replied: "Not one... not a single one"
*55
Pearls are sphered articles.. mucus covered sand particles
'untimely ripped' from coprophagous oysters
.. themselves torn from their gentle cloisters
*56
What is a quadrapus? An octopus after run over
and vacuumed up by a suffocating fish trawler
*57
Human cannibals eating castrated bulls’ canned balls hoping to
become hard cannon balls merely cause themselves prostate cancer
*58
He needed no special logic to intuit how to raise the low life expectancy of Inuit
*59
Tolstoy was monogamous..Gandhi .. nonzoophagous. Maybe a rhinoceros or hippopotamus
are polygamous Maybe most lions and tigers carnivorous but human beings are designed
to be monogamous... Humans designed frugivorous
*60
Every pork loin is from an innocent pig purloined. Every pork chop from a little pig painfully chopped
*61
In the sea, a zillion strong singing his own song, each sweet sponge
*62
Noah was saved on the ark from the quandary of accepting sharks.
For they could swim in the seas and not harm those inside the barque.
*63
God has put a 'do not disturb' sign over the green shelled limpets cozily nesting in lime waters limpid
*64
The semantics of human chauvinism.... verbs and a noun to obscure the murder of animals..
scotch, dispatch, cull, harvest, euthanize*, thin, bag, sticking
*65
It is dormancy and not hypocrisy to eat cows and object to hippophagy.
*66
The frightened calf Harriet saw the cowboy as Iscariot mounted on a slavehorse chariot
twirling his neckbreaking noose lariat.
*67
For their fur coats men murdered ermine
A little mouse whose name is Herman they called by the most cruel name vermin
*68
Out of each creature's eyes in each being's body shrine do light and love divine for every being shine
*69
Some day the acacia leaves will forgive giraffes and in the presence of koala bears
bamboo shoots will laugh.. while the cows will be welcomed by each blade of grass
*70
Does God prefer to see caterpillars eat to create their wings.. rather than fiight snuffing humans
eating others creatures' wings
*71
Croquet balls near wickets, golf balls in thickets, are seldom respecters of the rights of crickets
*72
The sound of the raptor wings of the kestrel is not to other birds music orchestral
*73
Was he a suicide bomber bee.. protecting his hivefellows from the heavy tread of human boots
and the polycidal insecticide planes? Was he a David bee taking on a Goliath 10,000 times his size? Yet he flew away without being killed.. nor did he kill the man he stung
*74
Caged the yellow winged cockatiel. Crushed for redcoats the cochineal.
*75
Millions more do not fish.. (a verb made from killing the noun)
They're not suffocating creatures.. no beings strangling... no longer angling... not causing
panicked beings' dangling in deathlines entangling
*76
Re factory farms Californian to Carolinian and Virginian, puppet pastors with paid for opinions say humans over animals have dominion, as butcher minions chain saw bird pinions.
*77
He thought it better to have canneries for cranberries than canneries for canaries

NONVIOLENCE V2

*1
Dawn's pastels are stirring among silent star-rings.. each day's birth ever sun-starring,,
.. with His quiet ways startling no sparrow or starling
*2
Water does not impose its will upon the banks or the walls of well
unless it in flood swells...unless it in outrage upwells.
*3
The mother cow appealed to human judges that her baby had been murdered... but
they were biased, having themselves devoured the evidence.
*4
Eternal chain of kindness: From a stranger the hunter peasant received a heartfelt
surprise gift most pleasant and so to the trapped and frightened pheasant
he granted life as a present
*5
Hidden mad cow incidence... their bones murdered into.. gelatin of marshmallows. Some restaurant french fries cooked in lard. From murdered sheep it is called tallow. Cast off shells of assassinated clams... gather in the cemetery shallows. Trillions of pigs have been
electroshocked or pitchforked as they fought against the gallows. How many humans follow the God Who all His creation hallows.
*6
November: that avicidal time of year.. a time of utter depravity
when some will gut the murdered bird and stuff the resulting cavity
*7
Voiceless powerless clams cannot for protection from fishermen clamor
*8
Captive camels carry their humans.. but not to an oasis Camelot
They arrive at an auction.. a camel lot
After years of service to be sold or eaten... that is the camel's lot.
*9
Descartes has gone down in history as a great philosopher who said
"I think.. therefore I am". In that life he nailed dogs' paws to the table so that they could not escape his knife in his 'research' lab.
Descartes.. may have thought but had no heart.
*10
The war of the roses is over. The daisies grow by the clover.
In all the land.. marsh, field, woods and sand..Angelswords of Passover
fly oer Cliffs of Dover while the red roses in peace grow by white.
*11
I was pulled by the light of the stars into a kinder way of eating. It took the combined
efforts of pluto, uranus, jupiter and venus to drag this recalcitrant one into not devouring
animal flesh.
*12
Is calling a commercial or animal research facility housing kidnapped confined dolphins
a dolphinarium like naming the solitary confinement cell in a maximum security prison
a humanarium?
*13
Chicago cattle futures.. oxymoron? Do we give them a future?
*14
After being murdered and subdivided their lots were divided...bull horns were sent to the East
pig hooves to the dog food plant, cat entrails to makers of violins, horse hair to chairmakers
sheep flesh to the canneries, cows' skins to the tanneries
*15
Each enslaved farm animal being fattened up for the kill is a Hansel or Gretel

-saiom shriver-
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