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The White House Rose garden

 

.. the blooms mute and disarmed

 

.. nearby the men who plot

 

to millions to do harm

 

*

 

Near the gentle fruit gardens

 

of Michelle

 

strategists plot their

 

bombing hells

 

 *

 

The 'purple mountained majesty' of

 

Nepal

 

Has rhododendron trees 90 feet tall

 

*

 

It is not the Cross of Christ

 

but the crosses of Crassus

 

that warraging crucifiers

 

plot as summer fire.

 

God foil them now.

 

*

 

(Crassus: the richest man in

 

ancient Rome.. who with Julius Caesar crucified

 

Spartacus and 6000 of his

 

revolutionary slave followers.

 

Perhaps it is from the word Crassus

 

that 'crass' comes.)

 

*

 

What is more crass than

 

the nouveau riche?

 

the ancien riche

 

 *

 

Nonagenarian and centenarian atheists..

 

fear to let go

 

... not realizing angel

 

hands wait in the seeming void

 

*

 

In American Greek

 

Orthodox churches

 

priests hide the pacifist words of Christ the Lamb

 

while directing their

 

kitchen servants to

 

prepare murdered lambs,,

 

The chapel's incense

 

mingles with cooking

 

blood stench

 

*

 

(footnote: American Greek and

 

Russian Orthodox

 

churches have been coopted

 

by warmongers while in Greece

 

and Russia there are strong

 

movements for peace and the vegetarian ways of Jesus)

 

*

 

Why is the unelected PM of

 

Canada called Harper?

 

It means: murderer of harp

 

seals.

 

Time to Unharper Canada’s government

 

 *

 

I want to plant

 

vines in a dell

 

and watch the pumpkins swell

 

within their orange shells

 

as crystalline root-rain

 

into bright fruit upwells

 

*

 

Appear new quints

 

on the tree of quince

 

by the sun through

 

branches

 

harlequined

 

 *

 

Danny DeVito was

 

not born tall

 

One of many reasons

 

he fights for

 

the rights of the small

 

 *

 

(Danny DeVito would not let

 

anyone in the production Taxi kill

 

the cockroaches on the set..

 

he convinced Mary Lou Henner

 

to become a vegetarian)

 

 *

 

(The current regime has campaigns

 

of slaughter ongoing in Afghanistan,

 

Pakistan, Iraq, Colombia, Yemen,

 

the Philippines... all of them dictatorial,

 

not approved of by the citizens,, homicidal,

 

expensive, stupid and opposed to the

 

strategic interests of the people of the US)

 

 *

 

It is the dead beings on whom Anna dines

 

who cause her need for frequent anodynes

 

*

 

More likely are animal exterminators

 

to become mercenary terminators

 

*

 

Those who are believers only nominal

 

often reject miracles phenomenal

 

 *

 

Some generals wear their crimson bars

 

each for a million-caused scarlet scars

 

.. heroes who work for 'first do no harm'

 

wear pastel awards from the Avatar

 

*

 

Rainbow-winged fruit flies

 

most pure and small

 

are with rats and roaches the

 

most abused of all

 

*

 

He said he'd made a killing

 

on the stock market. Indeed

 

he had, for only a minuscule

 

fraction of

 

the Wall Street portfolios

 

are not derived from animal slaughter,

 

war profiteering, forest destruction,

 

pharmaceutical toxins, oil company

 

ecocide.

 

*

 

In 'rose red Petra''s dome

 

stars shine to unseen metronome

 

.. their power melts a daughter's heart

 

.. one hears murmurs of Electra's Oms

 

*

 

Their mutual gaze was a laser beam

 

which cut any who attempted to intercept it

 

 *

 

Where once in meadows

 

captive bulls dozed

 

... are now all-

 

crushing bulldozers

 

*

 

Recording angels

 

unweave your karmic tangles

 

and give mercy to all who

 

on agony's ropes now dangle

 

*

 

He said 'overgrown'

 

as if God overdoes His creation own

 

*

 

The animals' birds' and fishes' muscles

 

God has joined together

 

let no human put asunder

 

*

 

while the rain which valleys plumbs

 

turns its plumes to juice of plums

 

Yum Foods owner of Sanders Colonel

 

makes chicken corpses of

 

gold kernels

 

 *

 

http://www.kfccruelty.com/

 

 *

 

(Distilled juice of plums helps those

 

intestinally blocked by corpse food)

 

*

 

Diana as goddess of the hunt in

 

Greek mythology is a bastardization of

 

DayAnna Ishwar, Goddess of the

 

food of compassion ... whose food drops

 

off trees and vines.. and is not carved from

 

slaughter.

 

*

 

Oklahoma's abbreviation is OK..

 

.. that state will be more OK

 

when its slaughterhouse pawns

 

Inhofe and Coburn are dethroned.

 

and grow in that state

 

nonviolence bouquets

 

*

 

It is a noble heroism

 

to work against state terrorism.

 

*

 

After satiety

 

easier is sobriety

 

... experience brings

 

resurrected piety

 

*

 

Never does the thorn attack

 

those who'd molest the rose

 

but only lies in wait to protect

 

that she in freedom grow

 

*

 

A universal Clarification

 

is wished by those who know Clara..

 

that all be made as giving, kind,

 

will-powered, and empathic

 

as this avis rara

 

*

 

warwhore shockjock

 

unequalled in vanity

 

garbed in shed-blood

 

insanity...

 

framed in inanity

 

.. foe to all beings

 

from children to

 

manatees

 

*

 

 

Rejoice seagull and porpoise

 

in the equipoise

 

of the sea's turquoise

 

 *

 

In the thal of Neander

 

the river sweet meanders

 

quenching thirst for

 

plants on the bank

 

and attracting nesting

 

ganders

 

 *

 

(thal: valley)

 

*

 

They might call petunias

 

most impecunious

 

but God supplies mercy's rain

 

and earth and sun most luminous

 

*

 

pink mountain laurel..

 

dogwood shades coral..

 

rosestriped wood sorrel..

 

geranium whorls..

 

none every quarrel..

 

none are immoral..

 

as they play concerts

 

fragrant and aural

 

*

 

Sunrise is a pink band arc

 

before he spreads to sphere.

 

The new moon is a tiny crescent

 

before as a full belle ball she paints

 

the silver sea with light

 

*

 

The Spirit Wind rustles

 

through the eucalyptus tree,

 

setting each leaf to speaking

 

in tongues.

 

*

 

The wind has no shadow

 

but the whitecaps it creates on

 

the sea make its dance visible

 

 *

 

Tower of Babel:

 

I said 'slave culture' and she heard 'clay sculpture'

 

*

 

Beneath the robins

 

on the vine of rose

 

let none be robbing

 

of vine her rose

 

*

 

once a day the starling flew from chimney

 

top to tree...that he not be wreathed in smoke

 

*

 

a tiny cloud was shawl to the bony arms of the winter

 

tree branches.. but seeing spring's advent she moved on

 

*

 

the rain's chrism

 

becomes baptism

 

as she is raising

 

orbs into grapes

 

and then into raisins

 

*

 

he would no birch

 

with carved initials besmirch

 

*

 

buttercup

 

a loving cup

 

chalice of

 

communion dew

 

*

 

dew drapes dahlias in diamond necklaces..

 

but these jewels have no negative karma

 

chaining no souls to compulsory future lives from being complicit in slave labor

 

 *

 

Samaras, maple seeds, twirling helicopters, helicopters with no weapons

 

*

 

grass spires quake as the mower approaches

 

*

 

looking up, cloudwatching, these gurus' slow unfolding .. a meditation teaching peace

 

 *

 

Elena Kagan has argued for

 

illegal prisoner detention

 

and other violations of the

 

Geneva Convention

 

 *

 

(all the Bush-Obama wars have been illegal..

 

illegally held prisoners in illegally killing wars)

 

*

 

Onto the lotus leaf landing strip

 

the dragonfly alights

 

*

 

War widows made paupers

 

visit graves beneath poplars

 

 *

 

In the stream nearby the firs,

 

trappers furtively

 

do bloody skinning

 

for stolen animal fur.

 

 *

 

Most have heard of Visigoth barbarians sacking Rome.

 

Goldman Sacks everyone.

 

 *

 

(The last 3 US Secretaries of the Treasury have been involved with Goldman Sachs.. Rubin and

 

Paulson as executives of the company... and Geithner as an architect of the mass theft of money

 

from US taxpayers diverted to the company.)

 

*

 

A crosssection of lemon sun is half above the pink sky's horizon, its 5 visible chambers

 

spreading rays everywhere.... growing lemons, oranges, olives, mangos, blueberries,

 

and all life.

 

 *

 

As effortlessly as breath flows in and out of the body does energy derived from the air

 

and food flow to the cells. Whether or not we eat, energy flows to our cells.

 

*

 

Below on earth the colors of war.. red blood, black burned flesh of babies, green of gangrene..

 

grey smoke. Above the heavenly colors of sunrise break ... lilac, pink, gold. It is time

 

for angels to end the power to harm of warriors, profiteers, and haters.

 

*

 

Nestled within a circle of stove flames, the lentils are protected from the fire which transfers warmth,

 

like a baby tiger cub, held within the retracted claws of a mother tiger's paw.

 

*

 

Carconscious motorists watch their odometers

 

but none are controlling the runaway Obameter....

 

the trillions spent in killing people, animals and trees

 

bloating war profiteers, despoiling the seas

 

*

 

Many tiered fountains of Rome... the waters

 

spill to the next shell...

 

content to narrowcast... to give to their

 

next nearest frequencies

 

*

 

The dark side of focus: insensitivity

 

to those not considered priorities

 

*

 

the humblest of dandelions and violets

 

survive the scythe's violations

 

*

 

The butcher's knives murder pigs into pork

 

What is the preferred tree of the people?

 

Is it the pine, the peach, pear or pipal?

 

 *

 

(The pipal or fig tree is referred to in the

 

Bhagavad Gita. Krishna says 'Of trees I am the fig."

 

while Jesus' love of figs was mentioned in the Bible as His disappointment in a barren one was recorded.)

 

 *

 

Studies show that insecticide exterminators

 

are more likely to become human terminators

 

*

 

What did Jesus mean when he called people

 

whited sepulchres? (Greek sarcophagus.. literally

 

flesh eaters)... He meant that those who eat

 

the cadavers of murdered animals become

 

portable cemeteries clean on the outside but full of salmonella,

 

colon bacteria and a host of other disease organisms inside.

 

*

 

The August orchard of cherry

 

bursts forth with purple orbs of cheer

 

*

 

Those who silently confess to the sea

 

as they walk on her shores..

 

are by her waves granted absolution

 

as neath her blank easel skies

 

she whispers problem solutions

 

*

 

Every military campaign

 

is made of great pain

 

causing blood rains

 

to fall upon the plains

 

*

 

Even animals in zoos

 

were not safe from the lust of Zeus

 

*

 

A neverpruned pink rose bush..

 

growing up through its apertures

 

many blooms of Queen Anne's Lace...

 

white velvet foils of the pink jewels

 

*

 

The pine tre branches

 

many jade arms extended

 

have become in the rainswell

 

an Italian fountainspill

 

pouring water from shell to shell*

 

 *

 

Snowflakes sift into the sea..

 

millions are received by her

 

great ocean heart...

 

she transmutes them.. taking on

 

the karma of their cold

 

.. making them of Her a part

 

 *

 

In a zoo was confined

 

panda Ling Ling

 

... in another version

 

of notorious Sing Sing

 

 *

 

(Sing Sing: a prison

 

in Ossining NY)

 

*

 

Within the trunk of

 

the fruitbearing asrita

 

flows the sap to

 

become amrita

 

 *

 

(asrita: Sanskrit for tree

 

amrita.. Sanskrit for the nectar of

 

immortality)

 

*

 

God is Omnipresent.

 

Therefore God each being

 

indwells as

 

God simultaneously outdwells.

 

*

 

Mad Cow bone

 

meal

 

on new roses

 

caused in

 

gardeners lethal

 

neuroses

 

*

 

Life is a caravan moving west..

 

sometimes men and women

 

change partners in the journey..

 

ending with a different mate..

 

that is in the nature of things..

 

it is good to provide support

 

for a soul in great rejection

 

pain.. that he or she not

 

end his or her own life violently

 

*

 

Our souls on the tree of life hang pendant..

 

many are more ripe, sweeter, closer to God

 

than I... some are younger fruits.. sour

 

and hard... all will fall into the lap of God

 

*

 

He longed for the Mediterranean's

 

sea-sky easel

 

away from noise and concrete

 

and fumes of gas and diesel

 

*

 

Someone suggested I replace my

 

easily hackable frequently crashing

 

old computer by going to a pawn shop,

 

but I hate to build my wishes on the

 

shards of others' broken dreams

 

*

 

The drops which left the seaward

 

river for the byways were more

 

quickly evaporated by the sun

 

*

 

twilight birds were chirping still

 

and then the violet night was still

 

until dawn rays began to spill

 

over the curtains-parted window sill

 

*

 

touching the paws of an animal

 

one does padnamaskar to God

 

 

 

(padnamaskar: touching the feet

 

of a self realized master, a guru, or

 

Avatar)

 

*

 

the paint of artists funded by

 

loanshark warprofiteer capitalists

 

is tinted by blood

 

*

 

The sweet

 

rat could navigate

 

clogged drains

 

as easily as scripts were realized

 

By Claude Rains 

A rising tide, they say,

lifts all ships

as angelic melody

can lift any lyrics

.. as his laugh

coud lift any joke

and his smile lift

all hearts

(to JCL)