Poems Of Forgiving 4... 108 Poems

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ICICLES (revised)
*
opponents are
like huge
daggar icicles
hanging up high
.. ready at the
slightest sound
to crack down

Time passed..
they drip
.. they glow
in the morning sun
.. crystal..
exclamation points
of joy
with magic wand drops at the
bottom

.. water no longer
caged by frozen
form
... now the former foes
help trees to grow

CRADLE ROCKED

When the pond was smashed
by his clenched fist..
it became a cradle rocking
for little fish.

Anger is the ore for lovegold.

MAGNIFICAT

Is the painting less beautiful
because it’s a forgery of Van Gogh’s?
Is sunset lakemirrored less awesome
because not originally lake glows
Does the moon deny in the night
that unstolen is her light?

THE RIVER TARRIES NOT

The river tarries not
over the stones of karma.
To seaward joyfully running
is her destiny’s dharma

TECUMSEH MUSEUM ON A HIGH HILL

A Tecumseh museum .. on a high
hill.. full of axes, scalps
and knives..
Someone enters and
walks around opening all
the shutters..
light pours in
One is then
aware.. only of the
supernal radiance.

And from the high hill
distance one sees puffs
from many chimneys.. all
smoking the pipes of peace.

(Native Americans had much
more to forgive than colonists,
in writers's humble opinion)

CONNECT THE DOTS

When I asked my father not to fish
I did not connect to the meat on my plate.
When I saw the film Mondo Kane I did not connect
When I saw the cow on the high school blackboard
marked with dotted lines I did not connect those dots
When I saw the picture magazine with a hyena’s face frozen
in terror right before he was killed by a lion I did not connect
When I met a vegetarian I resisted
The different chambers of my brain did not speak to each other.
I now forgive myself.. for having been unripe fruit..
hard and green…unconscious… unawakened to suffering.

ICICLE POINT

The frozen daggers of
unforgiveness..
icicles..
shine in the light
but it is the orb
of forgiveness
.. the miracle
point at the drip
of the icicle tip
which reflects the sun

INVISIBLE GARLAND

Each of us wears an invisible
garland of skulls.. for all
the souls we have in this
or other lives killed, injured,
neglected, for all those beings
whose hearts we have hurt.

God’s mercy sometimes
instantly, sometimes through
centuries, turns all the skulls
to jewels.

CROATIAN CREATION

Crocuses are blowing
with the news..
cows are crowing it
and frogs are croaking it..

A most sacred place
in all Creation
is the forgiving ground
of Bosnian Serb & Croatian

SEACHANGE IN HEART WATERS

There are signs of the tide’s inrush
as the gulls come closer..
as the sound of waves lapping brings
peace
.. and in the waters of the heart
is a subtle seachange

VIOLET ME

As the sun poured into
her niches and naves
and
her coves and her caves
Mother Earth cried
“You violate me!”

But weeks went by
and she spied
April’s apricot apron
and apple blooms
and then she exclaimed
“You violet me!”

(to a quiet saint, Nita Nickol)

NIAGARA FALLS

Two rock divided branches of the
same river of God
approach a cliff.
They are not waterfall foes.
They do not each other oppose.

As each roars over the cliffside,
unhurt they emerge as one,
some drops rising as mist
to bless riparian trees.
Made of the Mist
are new leaves.

(to the people of the United States and Canada)

TWO NEGATIVES A POSITIVE MADE

As two negatives when multiplied
a positive do make
.. former foes who seek
each others’ good
cause miracles forth to break

BEING KIND

Those who refuse to harm
the hearts of others
with humor involving
ridicule or cruelty
or searing revenge
.. are able to call
on the aid of the guardian
angels and parents
who do not forgive
as quickly as their
human charges.

SILVER SCREEN PROJECTION

She never feels rejection
by others’ projection..
as they describe their
own faces..
found in her soulmirror’s
reflection…
when they cast
their negative movies
upon her luminous silver
screen. Its very purity
invites the process..
as a blank page invites
pen scrawl.
as a sea receives
rivers. Slowly
others learn it is their
own movies on her screen..
their own faces in her mirror.

(to MSC)

BALL TO BALLOON

The ball got lighter and lighter
as she shed more and more
of her past insides....
until she became an invulnerable
balloon.. and soared away
wherever she wished
.. alighting again
whenever she wished

GREAT UNCLE

He was able to forgive
the hunter who shot
his great uncle
in the woods
when angels gave him
a dream.. showing that
the hunter had
let his uncle out
of earth jail…
and ushered him
into the world
of ecstasy.

ALTARS OMNIPRESENT

In doubt or
hesitation
do not falter
at Abba’s
omnipresent altars
where
God forgives
all us knaves,
all defaulters

IF YOU

If you do now
your heart unlock
I promise in the future
I will knock

ICICLES

Our enemies..
they were huge
daggar icicles
hanging up high
.. ready at the
slightest sound
to crack down

Time passed..
they dripped
and grieved
at their own
passing

More time passed
.. they glow
in the morning sun
.. crystal..
exclamation points
of joy
with drops at the
bottom

Now all the ice
is gone
.. water no longer
caged by frozen
form

STAR SHAPED SCARS

As she began to focus
on the grace rather
than the pain

Each little scar
turned to miracle star

BOUGH

God looks upon
a broken vow
as on a river not
clinging to
bough

BRIGHT GOLD FIELDS

Within the husk
are bright seeds
containing future
gold fields of corn

Just so God grows
joy’s bright kernels
inside the husks
of cruel scorn

DIVINE PAINT

The blue paint
of the third eye
cannot be chipped
away..
The blue eraser
of the 3rd eye
cannot be overlaid
It cancels all
mistakes of the past
.. all dark portraits

HEATHER

The falling snow erases
the criminal’s footprint traces
The seas do not record
the weedcleaving swords
of the unknowing oared....
nor does the heather neath
highland mist
seek to remember the
heavy tread
which for wee moments
crushed
her violet head

(to H Schofield)

FORGIVING FOREGIVING

To forgive
is to release
to let go
to fore-give
to give first.

FLOW INTO FOE

When you can flow
into your foe
and witness his
most bright soulglow
love replaces
the wavering
of to and fro

SCARLET LEAVES ORANGE BERRIES

We passed a scarlet leafed
orange berried bush
..crimson leaves anger hued
support the monk- detachment
saffron- colored berries

HE IS CHANGING

You cannot see how he is changing
He is a growing baby eagle
with an unmoving shell
and within him does unseen
the force of Godlove swell.
He is water melting within
the towering iceberg spires
He is coldform becoming formless
through the touch of GodSunFire.
He is the April
leaf ready to unfold
.. which will calyx the fruit
as it turns to gold

CANCELLED STAMPS

God can forgive even
a general’s or president’s
millions of caused deaths
more quickly than Winston
Churchill's
image on a stamp
can be cancelled… once
a heart decides never
again to cause suffering.

TO UNDERSTAND ALL IS TO FORGIVE ALL

He who rescues an ox
from a ditch might
be muddy for a time
as the lake in which
the lion washed his blood
is for a while
crimson with his anger.

VIETNAM

The soul humbling forgiveness
of the Vietnamese
brings our hearts
to our bending knees

OARCLEFT

Birds have oerleapt
the sea oarcleft.
But she has
not been harmed

Bee has petals
of clover cloven
but she has
not been harmed

OARCLEFT

Birds have oerleapt
the sea oarcleft.
But she has
not been harmed

Bee has petals
of clover cloven
but she has
not been harmed

The sea confers her
drops of grace
on oarshafts which
leave without a trace

THE STONED WOMAN

The stones at her thrown
have become the cornerstones
of her Divine Love throne.

CHERISH THE CHERRYSTONES

Cherish the
hard cherrystones
.. inside each is
scarlet lettered code
They are
.. the crimson chariots
of future
cherries
transformed into rubies
by the
sun’s cheer..
for every Chinawoman
and Cherokee
.. every child
young or old
For them.. every year
is a jubilee

(to Patty and Charles D)
(writer was ignorant of
cherrystones as a word
for suffocated clams)

RAM DASS

The Asian Indian Ram Dass
says that good and evil
are a projection of my mind.
Therefore it is myself
I must forgive.

KIND SURGEONS

there are kind surgeons
who stitch up sturgeons
and release them to the open seas
when the high tides are surgin

THE SUN AND THE MUDCLOD

The sun did shine in 360
degrees.. blessing all with her
rays.. one particular clod of
mud.. refused her love.. did
not answer the door to her radiant
silent knock .. did not.. the
gate of his clodheart unlock..
so she held back one of her
infinite rays.. but after a while
realized that it was silly
to waste energy ..
and so let her rays shine
in all directions as before. Letting go
caused more energy to flow:
And the mudclud, the hundredth lamb..
did eventually his heart unlock.

PEACE TEMPLE LIGHTNING

Carved in stone in the Peace Temple
was ‘those who live by the sword
shall perish by the sword’
but the caretaker of that temple
had so learned his lessons that
.. a God-dispatched lightning
bolt.. erased those words
and wrote in their place
“Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

FISHNET FORGIVEN

The fishing net has
straightened out
.. and become a dreamcatcher

(to J Lehman and his work)

ARIZONA RAIN

The feathers of the Phoenix
bird are not always
flakes of fire..
sometimes they are mercy’s
falling waterdrops

NINTH STEP

She was very upset to find that the
woman to whom she wanted to make amends
had died.. Later she found
that by miracle.. a friend
had made amends for her.

BEYOND CRIMSON SCARS

Above earth’s crimson scars
shine the diamond stars
Beyond earth’s greyest clouds
shines the great sunstar
Beneath his angry mouth
beats his peaceful heart
A paradox is it
.. that his angry words
are written with the ink
of love

HATE METASTASIZES

Revenge destroys
the brain with fire
It is terror and cancer
cells’ multiplier
.. the great
metastasizer…
We choose to focus
on the rose rather than
on the thorny briars

FORWARD BUTTERFLY

The butterfly does
not look back
to the cocoon
of caterpillar.
She does not
want to be
a Lot’s wife...
bitter salt pillar

WILL I EVER BE

Will I ever be
like the peony
which responds to storms
heavensent
by gifting all with
her sweet scent?..

LAVA TURNS TO JEWELS

She the sea
.. receives red hot
lava
and transmutes it
into green glass jewels.

She the listening compassionate
ear turns anger into love.

(to Lois Lichty who spoke only
of the good in others)

PRAYER

Thank You
for Your descent
Holy Spirit.. Dove
with Your transforming
Touch of Love
in the heart of each
killing general and
judge
prosecutor and gov
and of each of us
and our loves

PLANTS FORGIVE

Some day
the acacia leaves
will forgive giraffes
and in the presence
of koala bears
bamboo shoots will laugh
.. the cows will
be welcomed by
each blade of grass

SNOWMEN

“Snowmen drop unassembled from the sky” *
some created by sculpting child’s play
.. their life models men frozen into cruelty by
pain

*(said the anonymous email..)

DEWDROP METAMORPHOSIS

The hanging ice daggers
slowly drip drip drip
and one by one they
do drop
until finally the last
one.. melts and plops..
some day .. it will
be dewdrops

BLUEPRINTS AND WIND

Of our past transgressions..
The Divine Wind away blew prints
and the Sun made reality
of wish blue prints

TO UNDERSTAND AN AGENT IS
TO FORGIVE HER OR HIM

Some agents were threatened physically
or their loved ones threatened.
Some were released early from
jail in exchange for services.
Others had hearts’ desires for
money, addictions, a person
etc dangled in front of them

NONDUALISTS
FORGIVING GOD

Nondualists who think that
God is the only Doer..
believe that God is the only one
they need forgive.

SHADOWS SCURRY

Entities who the dark
path represent
do forgiven images
re-present.
They scurry away
when
the Name of God
is present.

GOD IS GUILTY

If God is the only Doer
then..even a killer is an actor
saying his preordained lines

CONNECTING THE SYNAPSES

When Kissinger declines to hunt boar with Brezhnev
but arranges the bombing of Vietnamese.. this is a disconnect
in the chambers of his heart

When Churchill directs a ladybug to be saved
and bombs millions,. this is
a disconnect in the chambers of his heart

When Hitler directs that animals be freed
from the Berlin Zoo during the bombing
but kills millions.. this is a disconnect
in the chambers of his heart

Howard Zinn speaks of the disconnect
of bomber pilots who cannot
hear the screams, smell the blood
nor see the limbs being blown
off .. as they are 30,000 feet up

When people stand in freezing cold
for peace.. and then go home
to dead bodies on the dinner plate
this is a disconnect

When teachers show their
cooking classes graphs
of animals divided into
steaks.. it is a disconnect

All these illustrate the disconnect
of distance.. they cannot kill
whom they know but can
objectify beings they do not know

A soul ripe wil not attack
but only in sweetness attract.
It’s not sin or lapse
but disconnected synapse

GRASS SEED

She often had to plant
grass seed where
her volcanic explosions
had occurred.

TAN

Dracula was running
from the dawn
.. on vines he tripped
and by temple dogs
was trapped
.. and found as the
sun rose
that he too by Sunlove
was tanned

EDITING

It is easier to
edit what is written
on paper than what is
carved in stone.
Easier still to edit
what is written on
sand or water.

RED DRESS

Unforgiving..
a desire for redress
It is good to shed
vengeance' red dress

THUNDERSTORM

His storm
in the fruitladen
tree released
her grace gifts
early.

RADIUS RIVER

The radius river
moved..
fanning into a delta
before becoming
the circle sea

LIGHTNING SWORDS

As swords of lightning
cannot cleave the sky
the personality cannot harm
the God in which it lies

FEMORAL

On pot he looked down
at the chicken bones
femoral
of innocent birds
with lives so ephemeral
and decided from the
moment of that day
to attempt nonviolence
in every way

CHILDREN OF KAISER

When her pluto-ruled
underground springs
upwelled into Sagittarian
joy geysers
she was able to forgive
Nazi children of the Kaiser

TREE TEMPLE ROSEBUSH RIGHTS

To destroy a present tree temple
is akin to pulling down a living tree…
to resurrect old rocks..
…or to a psychopath killing
an ‘illegitimate’ child..

PUPPETEER

Those who believe
God is the only Doer
believe that the Puppeteer
punishes His puppets.

FORGIVING MYSELF FOR UNCONSCIOUSNESS

In the days before 1968
I stood for peace
but sat down to violence
.. vigiled for an end to war
and dined on blood turned juice.

UNIVERSAL

His posts were
usually off topic
and quite misanthropic
but they forgave him
and invited him back
to their paradise in
the tropics

VICTORY OVER TIME

As the physical magnetism
of some can affect wrist watches
so the spiritual magnetism
of the holy
can erase time’s karma

HEART OF THE DEER

A tiny percentage
stalked the deer
to eat their hearts
But billions worked
to guard
the love flowing
from those hearts

(in the US, less than
4% of the population hunt..
hunters are down one third
among those 18 to 24)

DEICIDE IS IMPOSSIBLE

The neonazi changed.
He did decide
that if God is light
noone can commit deicide

NO HARM NO FOUL

A message bottled
within each sparkling sunbeam..
‘no harm, no foul’
because it’s a dream.

WOLLESLEY BEAR

I promise you Wollesley
Bear.. wherever you are
.. that next time I brake
for a butterfly
I’ll make sure you
have your seatbelt
on

(Wollesley Bear, temporarily
in golden retriever form)

SNOWS OF THE MOUNTAIN CRAGS

As mountain crags do
hold the snow
though on it mightily
the sun does glow
so does it longer take
for some souls
to release pain which
long ago froze

FRUIT OF CRITICISM

What is the fruit of criticism?
The receiver’s heart shuts down.
There is an urge to counterattack.
The ego and the heart are intertwined
so both feel judged and begin
to marshal defenses and to attack.

(Thaddeus Golas: “In response to
pain, expand”)

FORGIVE ME LITTLE VIOLETS

Forgive me, little violets,
that in smelling lilacs
I did unconsciously step on
your shy little heads ..
with of sensitivity a lack.

AS MOTHER LOOKS ON A TODDLER’S FALL

God looks on error
as a mother looks on a toddler’s fall*
.. or on her young son making mudballs*
as the sun
gazes upon sour fruit soon to be sweet*
.. or upon a blow which releases
water from ice freezes

God does not send loved ones to hell
for acting on drives from the outer shell

God is more forgiving
than the daily snowfall which
erases
many human footfall traces
.. more forgiving than
the sea
which holds onto no boat wake
.. more forgiving than
the sky..
which forgets the path of clouds
or the fire
which devours the mistakes of
the past

Divine Love made us
.. anything which is not
of Divine Love
.. is not you.. is not me

FLOTILLA OF BIRDS

On the lake float
a flotilla of all direction flying
birds
neath a flotilla of 1 direction
clouds..

Some had landed first on ice
.. others differently upon the
water

.. In February Mother Earth
forgives sooner than
Father Water..but he too
will melt

DEBT ERASED

It had snowed
and the criminal’s
footprints showed
the path to him.

However it was the
same snow.. knowing
he had changed
.. which again fell
erasing the tracks
to a judicial hell

FEBRUARY

A sudden February freeze
arrested the raindrops
on the branch
like a snapshot..
stopped them in their flow
..
but the afternoon sun frees
drops from the morning freeze
… gone the frost
nothing was lost

DIFFERENT RIVER

We are rivers who have changed
in this second..
some of us all has emptied
into the sea..
some is being renewed
in headwaters.

PENTACLES MELT IN THIRD EYE

In meditation he watched
black pentacles
melt in the cobalt blue
of the third eye

and knew someone’s
past karma was being
erased

GOD KEEPS NO FILES

God keeps no files
on reformed pedophiles
.. Spirit
creates learning
situations..
with action’s consequences..
but God sees
all bodies
as Divine Love phials
and can each soul
undefile
as She erases
all prison files

BOUND BY LOVE

2 former competitors
for the same man,
not yet aware of their
eternal spirit love
for each other
were yet bound
by their love for him

FROM ANY POINT ON THE WHEEL

God can catapult someone
from the most fallen states
into liberation.. while
another remains stuck
in orbital shells
not realizing his
complacence is a hell

33 DEGREE WATER

33 degree water
can be colder than 32 degree ice
for it is not barred
from entering the skin

When Cancer forgives
cancer can disappear

PATIENT TREES

Patient trees
receiving the blows
of elephant tusks, lovers’ initialing
knives, ‘pruning’ shears, moose antlers,
lightning bolts, tornado winds,
utility axes, lumbermen’s chain saws

never themselves holding up
branches defensively to fend
off the blows

CLEMENCY

I ask you tenderly
to grant me clemency
as polluted rivers’ tendencies
are purified in clement sea.

COLD GOLD

The people’s land
was given to the mineowners
at firesale prices.
They hired slaves at
less than minimum wage…
and when the fire
at their deathtrap mine
took the lives of many
it refined
the cold gold.

LOVING FOES

God told us to love our
neighbor as ourselves.
Jesus told us to love our
enemies.
Therefore we are told
to love our enemy as ourselves.

RELEASE THE WASTE

The body should not hold onto
toxic waste
nor should the mind or soul
cling to past hates.

ABOVE FREEZING

To frost had firmed the fog
which veiled the cranberry bog
but now iced crystal jewels
melt into Spirit’s drops

LIQUID DECK OF CARDS

Iceberg spires and turrets of
crystallized pain
melt in warm waters
off the coast of Spain.

FOUR ELEMENTS

God’s water washes away transgressions.
God’s fire burns errors to ash.
God’s earth buries mistakes.
God’s air scatters them
into harmless fragments.

GREEDY CATERPILLAR

Eric Carle sees
greed as a hungry caterpillar.
May I see it that way too: a voracious
caterpillar soon to cocoon
himself til his own transmutation
..the devoured sacrificed
green leaves of spring
turned to translucent
feathery invulnerable wings

(sparked by Eric Carle's book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar)

ICEBERG

Paradoxically an iceberg overhang
is more dangerous when melting than
when frozen. As evil is breaking
up it can be more unstable
and threatening. The wise
avoid proximity in such
cases.

PEAR TREE RESPONSE

The dump truck with driveby violence
slapped the pear
tree in her branch face
releasing a shower
of her sweet fruit grace
as a holy one responds
to hate with love
moving onward
in his Godward race

PRAYING FOR FOES

Durga decided to pray for a foe.
That night God came to her in the
form of her foes, giving her an answer
to a riddle upon which she’d been working.

GUZZLING BEE

Embezzled heart, can you forgive the guzzling bee
who has taken all your nectar? “He knew not what he did”,
young little bee.

DESPERATE

Those in despair do desperate things.
Indeed, the word 'desperate' comes
from 'despair'.

MOONLIGHT WHITEWASHING THE SEA

Aboard the ocean liner they see
moonlight whitewashing the sea
as do glances and shadows
of saints
in goldwashing our stains
pour radiant absolution
everywhere

UNIVERSAL AMNESTY

God’s universal verdict
is “Not guilty”
as all blessing as the
late afternoon sun
ever gilding trees

WHO KILLED THE GIANT SNOWMAN?

Who has the giant snowman killed?
he who has all around him chilled?
Was it the one who threw pots of
hot liquid upon him?
or the rainclouds who sacrificed
their being pouring their waters
upon him?
or the sun whose rays
were swords knocking off
different of his parts?

Now he is many drops of water
.. pooling at his former base
.. each drop reflecting
the sun he had hated

COBRA LIBERATOR

The bite of a cobra
awakened him from a nightmare
dream
to an awakened world
through which sunbeams gleam
And he saw
that he was not
a ray of the Sun..
but the Sun itself
and with God One.
Then he was able
to thank the snake.

GREAT BEAR FREE

The sun has melted
a trespassing bear’s pawprints
near a beehive’s honey
storehouse.. frozen
in the snowlace.
Free now the great
bear prince.

LES MISERABLES NO LONGER
MISERABLES

Melt away now Valjean’s pursuers,
who had chased him through Parisian sewers

IGNORANT SWORD

As a sword has the illusion it slices the sun’s beams
so do the unforgiving have the illusion they have been harmed.

MULBERRIES

The bike rolled through the
mulberries on the sidewalk
leaving several purple streaks..
but some of the tree’s babes
fell into the meadow..
and became new mulberry trees

(trees whose silkworms were
protected)

Author notes

33 degree water
above freezing
altars omnipresent
arizona rain
as mother looks on a toddler’s fall
ball to balllooooon
being kind
beyond crimson scars
blueprints and wind
bound by love
bright gold fields
cherish the cherrystones
cobra liberator
cold gold
connect the dots
connecting synapses
cradle rocked
croatian creation
debt erased
deicide is impossible
desperate despair
different river
february
femoral
fishnet forgiven
flotilla of birds
flow into foe
forgive me little violets
forgiving myself
from any point on the wheel
fruit of criticism
four elements
he is changing
god is guilty
god keeps no files
grass seed
great bear free
great uncle
heart of the deer
heather
iceberg
icicles
icicle point
if you
ignorant sword
invisible garland
lava turns to jewels
les miserables no longer miserables
lightning swords
liquid deck of cards
loving foes
magnificat
moonlight whitewashing the sea
mulberry streaks
niagara falls
ninth step
no harm no foul
not leviticus
oarclef
patient trees
peace lightning
pear tree response
pentacles melt in third eye
plants forgive
puppeteer
praying for foes
ram dass
red dress
release
release the waste
sea of clemency
seachange in heart waters
silver screen projection
snowmen
snows of the mountain crags
star shaped scars
sun and mudclod
tan
tecumseh museum
the river tarries not
the stone she has thrown
tecumseh museum on a high hill
to understand all is to forgive all
tree temple rosebush rights
two negatives a positive made
universal
universal amnesty
vietnam
violet me
who killed the giant snowman
wollesley bear

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god looks on sin includes 2 of sai baba’s parables and a dream of j freundschuh stars in “as mother looks on a toddler’s fall” are based on the teachings of sai baba as is the parable that we should be like rivers flowing over sharp rocks tecumseh museum is to all native americans and settlers who have suffered in the past) (years after dreamer had this dream on the early morn of december 7 she heard broadcast on c span a description of a mohican museum.. followed by the song you are my sunshine) mallik arjunan: from any point on the wheel one can be liberated notes on as mother looks on a toddler’s fall .. title based on a quote by saint of shirdi .. mudballs based on a dream by jan f (we are all tecumsehs: look not at our past but at the divine light within each of us as we forgive ourselves)* the stars indicate concepts transmitted to writer by the words of sai baba silver screen projection is to susie m c if you is to t jackson

footnotes:

saint of shirdi: never harm a snake or
a scorpion.. he will only harm you if ordered
to do so by god. if so ordered there is nothing
you can do about it

anne perry: when people are close sooner or later they will hurt
each other.

jan f: i was being told to take my complaint to the playwright, not
the half brain-dead actor on the stage.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

It was Australian Richard St Barbe Baker who convinced Franklin
Roosevelt, US president, to plant billions of trees. Why is the area
of most heat and light, the equator, only 70 degrees
in equatorial rainforest and 130 degrees in temperate zone desert?
Trees. Trees as nature's weather stabilizers, trees, accounting for
a 60 degree difference between rainforest on the equator and
temperate zone desert, have been felled at an unprecedented
rate.
1. plant trees Work for city, state, country and UN tree planting
http://www.freetree.org
2. stop mowing
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow/244
3. eat tree products.. fruits and nuts.. say yes to
orchard growers
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
4. build with stone stucco brick and block not wood.
You will a. prevent termite destruction nonviolently, b save the $,
time, and environmental damage of paint, c have natural
insulation
with its energy savings, d. prevent rotting wood
e. have better insulation in summer & winter f. end the
disease related to living near the mold from rotting wood and g.
reduce
the arsenic in the watersystems, flowing in from pressed
wood factories and h. have
increasing rather than decreasing equity in your home. Use natural
barriers such as bushes, or chain link, rather than wood fencing.
http://www.greenpeace.org
5. cancel daily newspaper..and magazines and newsletters printed
on felled trees, as 72% of the young have
get your news on the web http://www.protest.net
Daily newspapers account for trillions of trees felled
annually
6. print on cotton, recycled or scrap paper in downloading
7. use a water spray instead of toilet paper
8. buy food naturally packaged.. nuts in nut shells
bananas in peels.. buy in bulk. Fruit is nature's most perfectly
packaged food.
http://www.goveg.com/meetmeat.html
9. use canvas bags for shopping.. neither plastic nor
paper
http://www.sierraclub.org
10. stop eating meat, since cutting forests for cattle
grazing is a major cause of deforestation.. animal flesh
yields a maximum of 1000 lbs an acre. Tri level agriculture (fruit
trees, vines and fruit bearing plants) yields over 450,000 lbs. per
acre.) Meat's trioxypurine is more addictive than caffein's
dioxypurine.
11. work for peace.. work for an end to giving 10 million a day
to violent governments, for the outlawing of membership on arms
merchant boards by government officials (Lynne Cheney on the
board of Lockheed which wants to keep a 70 billion dollar plane
contract) and elsewhere radically affecting weather patterns
.. work for an end to CIA, Army and other weather
manipulation. In 1972 Seymour Hersh reported in the NY Times
the CIA's attempts through cloud seeding to cause flooding in
N Vietnam.
12. Save fruit seeds and scatter them in wild places
http://www.ran.org The average evaporation of mature trees is 42
gallons a day..which becomes mist, then clouds, and then rain,
eliminating drought.
13. Buy books and greeting cards published on cotton, rice, or other
nontree paper
14. Purchase furniture which is used and refurbish it
or buy metal furniture with cotton padding. There are many nontree
furniture options. The furniture, lumber, and construction businesses
have lobbied for the cutting down of US forests, whereas the UK, some
cities in Maryland and California require a permit to cut down
old trees.
15. Vote out earth abusers.. Vote out the GOP which sometimes
receives 10 times the political contributions from earth abusers
that any other party receives. Vote in
Democrats or Greens or Libertarians depending on the situation
http://www.truthout.org
http://www.greens.org
16. Avoid fast food places which deforest for their
packaging and create litter which fills dumpsites and requires
labor pickup http://www.vegdining.com
17. visualize sun and green trees everywhere
18. pray
19. Outlaw junk mail (as telemarketers have been). File a form with
the main post office in your area. Return to sender. The GOP & junk
mailers are requiring you to subsidize their treekilling and
invasive practices as your postal rates go from 34 cents to
37 cents, an 8.1 cent inflation rate.
20. Recycle cardboard cartons at commerical establishments. Recycle
your own scrap paper.
21. Replace the purchase of dead Christmas trees which
cause many fires annually.. with artificial trees.. or
living ones planted each year in the year
22. Save seeds of trees, vines, bushes, plants and
scatter them where mowing does not occur
23. Ban the cutting of trees entirely as Thailand has
down.(The United Kingdom has banned the cutting of trees
after they reach a certain width.. while Takoma Park Maryland in
the US and other cities have required a permit to cut older
trees. The United States is still a land of skinny trees, because
of present control of the Forest Svc. and National Park Service
by lumber mining oil and cattle interests) In Mumbai elephants
are threatened by logging, as well as by poaching and war.
24. Stop through lawsuits, networking etc. the 'controlled fires'
deliberately set by the US Park
Service and the Forest Svc... fires which often are made more lethal
by the unpredictable wind.. fires which at their best destroy
trees, animals, insects.
25. Work for workplace, home, library and other printouts
on cotton, recycled, or the back sides of already printed paper.
26. stop the control of national and state executive branch,
legislatures and courts by corporate contractors
27. network with other environmentalists

Father Mother God make the earth warm where it is cold
and cool it down in Indian areas in which it is too
hot. Make earth weather gentle and nonviolent now and forever.
Cause all to obey Your commands not to kill animals.. not to
kill plants. Genesis 1 29

Please download with 100% cotton, rice, recycled, or scrap paper.

In 2002, the world has seen floods, famine, fire,
mudslides, hurricanes, tornados and other disasters created by
the unprecedented destruction of trees around the world. Trees are
nature's weather stabilizers.

50 REASONS TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE MOWING

ISAIAH: "BREAK NOT THE BRUISED REED"
THE FIFTH ANGEL OF REVELATION: " HARM NO
GREEN LIVING BEING"
BUDDHA: MAY ALL THAT HAVE LIFE BE DELIVERED
FROM SUFFERING
BHAGAVAD GITA: OF TREES I AM
THE
FIG
MAHAVIRA OF THE JAINS: KILL NOT CAUSE NO PAIN
TO ANY BEING

.GROW FREE FOOD .PREVENT MOWER ACCIDENTS .PROTECT SAPLING
TREES .CREATE OXYGEN .SAVE TIME . CONSERVE FUEL .SAVE
MONEY .GUARD FREEDOM .INVOKE RAIN. STABILIZE WEATHER
PATTERNS . STOP MUDSLIDES .NOISE BUFFER. DIVERT FLOODS .
FOSTER WILDLIFE HABITAT . FILTER AIR

(not in the order of importance)
In the last few years the EPA has joined the
environmental groups promoting nonmowing. Their site is
http://www.epa.gov .. type in 'natural landscaping' in search to
bring up
many sites. The Green Party http://www.greens.org and many
Libertarians also support nonmowing. In June of 2002, NPR reported
that the Congressional Black Caucus has a better record than
either white Democrats or white Republicans in environmental issues.
(We know of 1 Congressional black Republican).

I: ENVIRONMENTAL (THE REDUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
MANIPULATION)
1. REFORESTATION When one stops mowing, land becomes
meadow and then
thicket and then woods. reforesting the world.
2. OXYGEN CREATION This extra greenery creates oxygen.
The average
tree creates 5 pounds of oxygen daily.
3. AIR PURIFICATION And purifies the air through leaf
filtration a.
particulate matter b.car fumes c.noxious gases d.other
airborn toxins. Removal of carbon dioxide by plants
ameliorates
pollution.
4. TEMPERATURE STABILIZATION Warms the world's winters
and cools the summers. There is a 50 degree difference between 70
degree equatorial rainforest and 120 degree desert. Each blade of
grass
is a little air conditioner. A world without drought, flood,
famine, freezes, and killer heat can be eliminated by literally
covering
the world with trees.
5. RAIN INVOCATION
Greenery calls down rain. Bayard Webster of the NY
Times wrote that each mature tree evaporates 40 gallons of moisture
daily (much greater amounts for older trees.) All
greenery is involved in the raincycle.
The drought and consequent starvation in N. Korea was
related to the cutting of nearly all trees for fuel. (as is present
drought in the NW US). (NPR Sept 98 and other sources)
6. DEW PRESERVATION Preserves dew. Not only do green
spires and leaves act as masts around which dew can gather,
but the more greenery the longer the dew lasts.
7. NOISE BUFFER Weaves a noise buffer which screens
out unpleasant traffic
8. NOISE PREVENTION Ends the peace-fracturing sound of
the lawnmower. Some communities have noise ordinances which
prevent mowing during normal sleeping hours.
9. VISUAL BEAUTY Multiplies the beauty of diversity
10. FRAGRANCE Multiply the fragrance in the air.
11. HEALING GREEN Nonmowing creates optical healing by
creating more greenery. Research has proven that looking on the jade
and forest greens reduces heartbeat and creates peace.
12. LANDFILL ECONOMY Letting lawns grow wild reduces pressure on
landfills..by not adding leaves to overburdened
systems (and saves the fuel and wages of collection
releasing workers for the labor of their hearts). (NPR Sept 1:
methane
gases leach from landfill through water into basements) As the world
evolves away from treekilling, sawdust piles which are a byproduct
of the lumber industry will be removed, making the earth safer for
children.
13. FUEL CONSERVATION Conserves fuel a. unused in
unused mowers
b. As evergreen trees break cold winter winds and
shroud dwellings they are natural insulation.
14. HYDROCARBON REDUCTION Prevents hydrocarbon mower
emission from polluting the air. Many media outlets are passing on
the
EPA recommendation that lawns not be
mowed when there is great humidity and heat. Hydrocarbons create
ozone
alerts.
15. CARBON DIOXIDE Greenery which takes in carbon
dioxide and breathes out oxygen reduces gases toxic to humans.
15a. METHANE GAS and toxic gases are purified by leaf action.
16. TORNADO PREVENTION Unstable heat is the main
factor in tornados. Greenery which reduces the temperature 30 degrees
in forest areas prevents tornados.
17. MUDSLIDE PREVENTION: The roots of living plants
absorb great amounts of water and prevent mudslides.
18. FLOOD PREVENTION:
A. On river banks and everywhere, tree, plant, bush,
and vine roots are flood preventers. As David Kidd of Canton, planter
of
more than a million trees has stated, the bigger and older the tree
the
more work it does. (The 900 year old oaks with their huge diameters
are a lot more precious to Mother Earth than skinny young trees.
http://www.freetree.org
B. Ohio Public Radio David C. Barnett Sept 9th: reported on reduction
of impervious surface by reducing concrete and adding
greenery. (The hard asphalt, concrete, and rooftops create more
runoff and flooding.)
C. Bricks and stones in roads are better for the
environment than are concrete and asphalt. They allow rain through
the
inter-brick space and have less blistering heat. Angel strips not
devil
strips (Planting grape trellises over highways re-greens the
earth and creates food.)
19. PREVENT DESERTIFICATION Only reforestation can
prevent desertification. This is the conclusion of Patrick Velasquez
of US
Agency For International Development and most other
environmentalists. We used to think a pine cone was one seed, but
apparently it is hundreds.
20. REDUCE CHEMICAL POLLUTION: Radio network show
Public Interest October 7 featuring Rodale author: Chemically treated
lawns are grass high on drugs.: Fertilizer has toxic byproducts for
the land and water. Rodale, Emmaus Pennsylvania, USA 18049 is one
leader in the organic movement.
21. FASTEST CLEANUP OF TOXIC DUMPS
Green island sanctuaries of unmolested plants,
insects, and wildlife are a protection against the biotech
manipulations
of the environment.
22. WATERSHED PROTECTION
The more greenery, plants, vines, trees, and bushes..
the more the watershed, reservoirs, and lakes and ponds, brooks and
streams are protected.
a. Arsenic is a byproduct of the pressed wood
industry. Arsenic is poisonous in the waters, and like
other industrial pollutants such as mercury, chromium
and polychlorinated biphenols is concentrated in the flesh of fishes.
http://www.nofishing.net http://www.pcrm.org http://www.ivu.org
23. BIODIVERSITY
Nonmowing or letting God be the landscaper creates
biodiversity and its many benefits (and benefirs) rather than
monoculture. (Loggers last year caused the death of David Chain,
Earth First tree activist. Write efmc@a... or call 707 923 2114
Andy Caffrey)
24. FIRE PREVENTION
In March of 2001, widescale drought in the NW has been
reported. Destruction of greenery is one cause of this. Trees'
evaporation is necessary in cloud formation.
25. FLOOD PREVENTION Nonmowing causes natural
reforestation. Tree roots on river banks prevent floods.
26. WATER CONSERVATION: Unmowed areas do not need
watering.. they are self contained systems. Nor do they need
recycling.
27. INSECTICIDE PREVENTION: Carpet lawn enthusiasts
pollute
the environment with insecticides in some cases.
II HUMAN RIGHTS: (Numbers 19 through 31)
1. FEEDING THE HUNGRY: FOOD CREATION Prevents famine
by giving a cornucopia of free food to the planet Orchards are 450
times as productive per acre as slaughterhouses..Dr. Faust,
former chief of the USDA Fruit Labs, cited centenarian orchards of
apple trees dropping two tons each of food. This is 400,000 lbs per
acre
as compared to 100 to 1000 lbs of food for meat, 10,000 lbs for
dairy, 80,000 lbs. for acre. The 400 to l ratio is only the first
step. Tri
level agriculture.. with bean and other vines around the
tree trunks and other foodyielding plants in the interarboreal
spaces.. yield even more. This also can be multiplied by those areas
which have 2 or 3 growing seasons..e.g. Southern California. Because
certain economic systems promote scarcity based profit, these orchard
systems have been deemphasized.
2. PREVENTION OF DEATH AND INJURY Prevents in the U.S.
alone, 75,000 accidents and some fatalities annually caused by
mowers and harvesters, and around the world millions of accidents
eliminated. NPR reported May 17, 2002 that tractor rollovers are
the leading cause of death among farmers, and that farming in
general is the 2nd most hazardous occupation (after commercial
fishing).
2b. Ravines are generally more protected from mowing,
as there is wider recognition of the danger of mowing.
2c. When grass is mowed on hillsides, when wet or
exceedingly dry it can cause slipping accidents.
3. PREVENTION OF HEART ATTACKS As non shoveling of
snow can prevent winter heart attacks nonmowing can sometimes
prevent
summer heart attacks.
4. FREEDOM Health departments are reducing the forced
crewcutting of lawns and the rending of
Mother Nature's garments . See below for further info.
5. EMPTY JAILS Saves money otherwise spent on jailing people (see
above)
6. PRIVACY Creates a privacy screen. Ways to avoid
grass (a transitional plant unless land is constantly mowed) include
a. pachysandra b. myrtle and other ground cover c. grape vine
trellises d. evergreen trees and shrubs as natural fences e.
berry bushes as natural boundaries.
7. HERBAL REMEDIES Nonmowing allows healing extracts and seeds to
flourish, e.g. milkthistle seeds, which regenerate cirrhosis-
afflicted
livers. The active ingredient is silymarin. (Herbology student
embyrne@s... is a non mower) Work against those who seek to patent
the world's pre-existing seeds. http://www.purefood.org (see Monsanto
file.)
8. KEEPS WASPS FRIENDLY prevents wasp stings and hive
attacks as their homes are destroyed.
9. ECONOMICS
a. saves money otherwise spent on fuel
b. Saves money otherwise spent on young trees.
c. Fruit trees ave money spent on food.
10. TIME ECONOMY frees human time hours for enjoyable
priorities a. no gas procurement time, no mowing time, no raking
time.
11. AMERICAN HERITAGE: The Native American culture
never spent time mowing Mother Earth. Her green cover is her garment.
Lawn mowing is a fairly recent thing. The original lawn mowers were
sheep and other animals later slaughtered for their flesh. The Time
Life
Gardening Yearbook mentions the 'chipped monotypic
layer of bluegrass', the crewcut which is called a
lawn. Other ecologists speak about the hazards of monoculture.
12. FREE CONCERTS Cicadas and crickets will give free
concerts, as will woodpeckers, songbirds whose habitats are restored.
Fireflies will put on silent fireworks. Buttercups
will save chalices of dew for butterflies who in turn will cool
the earth with the slight breeze from their fanning wings.
13. WEED KILLER OR HERBICIDE use (Diane Rehm Show Sept
1) causes childhood and other environmental pollutant based
cancers. Some leaches into the water system. Some is directly smeared
onto skin.
14. INSECTICIDE BASED CANCERS: Insecticides were
developed as weapons in WW 2. At the end of the war, chemical
companies wanted new markets. These insecticides cause cancer. (NPR
Sept 1) Animal products concentrate insecticides at 21 times the
intensity they occur in fruits and vegetables, since a 1000 lb.
cow ate 21,000 lbs. of food with nondegradable insecticides remaining
in the muscle cells.
15. HEALING: Studies of recovering gall bladder
patients reveal that those looking on a garden heal faster than those
not. (BJ 6 6 2000) There are now herbal therapists at Univ of
Kansas, Rutgers, Texas A&M, and Virginia Tech. Those who look on
living green have reduced blood pressure. The plant yarrow makes
children in its proximity less agressive within a few moments.
Lavender increases memory and concentration. An
ancient vedic parable says that to be healed one should look upon
green. Rather than paint the world that color, a sage says
'put on green glasses'. (The best green glasses are living in an
environment of green.)
COTTON PAPER LASTS FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS. TREE
PAPER LASTSSIXY YEARS.
III ANIMAL RIGHTS:
1. WILDLIFE HABITAT Reprovides a home for wildlife,
both those not endangered and those which are.
Keeps birds from flying away when the power motors are started.
2 ANIMAL RIGHTS Protects insects, redwinged blackbirds
and other living creatures nesting in ground cover, and prevents
the mastication deaths of millions of small field
animals chewed up in harvesters.. (Sometimes the tiny feet of these
animals can be seen in cans of food.) In Numbers 22, God causes
a donkey to speak about the beatings of her human 'owner'.
3 PRESERVE WILDLIFE FOOD SUPPLY: Not removing acorns leaves food
for squirrels and other wildlife during the winter as well as
providing
new sapling oaks in the spring. Not removing leaves provides more
thermal shelter for northern animals.
4. SONGBIRDS ATTRACTED TO WILD AREAS
...............
James Marcus: Dandelions: they must be God's favorite
flower for He
plants them everywhere.

IV: PLANT RIGHTS Numbers 33 and 34
1. PLANT RIGHTS Protects the rights of sentient plants whose feelings
have been documented by Dr. Chandra Bose, knighted by the
Queen of England for his laboratory measurement of plant
consciousness. Other scientists who have proven or written of plant
consciousness ares are Clive Baxter, Luther Burbank, The Secret Life
Of
Plants writers,, the owner to whose rights, Isaac Tigrett, sold all
the
Hard Rock Cafes he founded after becoming a vegetarian. (Dandelions
would rather be plucked by 7 year
old boys like Jai Len who consider them bubble blowing
sticks.. than by a machine.) Pachysandra, myrtle, snow on the
mountain,
and camomile are some ground covers which do not offend more
conservative neighbors.
2: WILDFLOWER SANCTUARY Those like Lady Bird Johnson
who have worked to foster protection of wildflowers know the
necessity
of more wild places.
3: ENDING BOTANICAL RACISM E.Woodford is the
first person who has spoken to us of botanical racism. This phrase
means different things to different people. To us it means that weeds
have as much right to exist as do plants with cultivated blooms.
The spirit-filled volunteers called weeds are usually
stronger, more and more prolific than cultivated plants.
V: DIVINE RIGHT:
1. Mother Earth blesses those who abandon controlling
and manipulating her.
2. God does not like lawnmowers.
(Joel 1: The land mourns the destruction of plants.)
(Isaiah: Break not the bruised reed.)\
3. George Bernard Shaw: I love little children, but I don't cut
off their heads and stick them in vases.

IF YOU WILL JOIN THE EVERGREEN NETWORK PLEASE EMAIL US
SO AT freelibrary27@y... There is no financial, action, or
other obligation. In an editorial on March 19, 1977, the Washington
Post
editorialized:
"the tall grass can only benefit the citizens who seek
the beauty of Rock Creek Park". That year the National
Park Service instituted a 'meadows' program to let some areas
return to nature. The Post mentioned the federal court case
victory of an Akron citizen who fought the city's compulsory
lawnmowing ordinance. "Nature is ready to cooperate.
Some citizen cooperation is next." In addition the Post's Richard
Cohen reported on a lawn mowed by a guinea pig named Bijou.
Phil Shenon of the New York Times has covered no-mow activists
such as Alice Herrington, then president of Friends of
Animals. The BBC, NPR, and Australian Broadcasting are some
international networks which have covered the
advantages of nonmowing. The Los Angeles Times also editorialized in
favor of not mowing. The Atlanta Constitution outlined reasons
not to mow in an article by Lewis Regenstein. Omni Magazine, The
Christian Science Monitor, Organic Gardening, Anita
Manning of USA Today, Vegetarian Times, OMNI magazine, German
newspapers, and many other publications have promoted
the idea of nonmowing.

Patrick Velasquez of the US Agency For International
Development studied Senegalese forest. He said the cost of
planting other country exotics there was $25 to $50 per tree,
with 19% survival rate whereas natural regeneration (which occurs
from
nonmowing) is free. The USDA in 1998 has signed onto the National
Wildlife Federation's Backyard Conservation plan.. which
encourages people to let the area behind their homes grow wild for
the
sake of the environment.
Even these corporate media and hunting promotion
groups are promoting the environment. 'Corn on the curb' is an
increasingly visible thing. The Spanish poet Lorca,assassinated by
Franco:
"They cut timber and lioness teats as easily as if they were baking
bread". Sterling North: We are but the ephemera of the moment,
the brief custodians of redwoods which were ancient when Christ was
born. Recently the governor of one of the largest states in the
country
promised to plant l million trees in his state and
said that trees, do indeed, call down rain. (Those areas with the
most
devastation this winter from icestorms, mudslides, flood and tornado
were for the most part places which had cut down
tens of thousands of trees in the last 20 years.)
. The Nicaraguan Network Environmental Task Force
calls on multinationals to stop devastating Atlantic forests.. linked
to
Hurricane Mitch
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The bombing of Afghanistan has been a factor in the drought..
as trees which invoke rain were destroyed and river courses
altered. Napalm burned the trees of Vietnam. At present
herbicides are being dropped in Colombia and Ecuador borders.

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