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*94 Poems; Buffalo Have No Wings, Five Crab Legs And Other Poems
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BUFFALO HAVE NO WINGS
The sign said that buffalo wings were served..
and the Martian thought.. how cruel to rip
off the wings of a buffalo and serve them..
until an earthling told him:
'buffalo have no wings'
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5 CRAB LEGS FOR TWO DOLLARS
said the sign.. and she wondered..
about the 3rd crab.. whose 1 leg
was spared.. and the rabbit whose
feet were severed as good luck symbols
for humans.
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GOLD LIGHT
What is the word
for the radiant lambent
light of evening
which paints
everything
in gold acceptance?
(crepuscular does not sound like the
right word for a different phenomenon:
the parallel bars of light from the sun)
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WE LEARN FROM YOU
as a train's light and sound precede
its advent
so you
send light clouds
to melt the cruel
and nets of positive thought
to engulf the violent
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PROGRESSIVE ADVENT
When progressives
are in power
there are fewer
panhandlers
in the panhandle
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CHANGE FOR THE GOOD
Replace the
war profiteer
pillagers
who rape
the rural villagers
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ALL GOD
He first found power
when authority
he defied
and then found
greater when
all he deified
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POTEMKIN SCARECROW
The groundhog
was not dissuaded
by the fierce
scarecrow
not by dog hair
borders
nor by the wire
fence..
and as he crept
into the Godgrown
garden
he ate to his
heart's content
.. left the remains
for the servant
ants to clean up
and with gratitude
in his heart
scurried away
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JADE BUDDHA
Does he love more
the carved jade Buddha
.... seated eternally
in cool green meditation
or the Buddha's infinite compassionate
heart.. confined to no
stone..
no form
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EYE OF SHIVA
the moving shakti of high winds
surrounds the immovable eye
of Shiva
Every gust is controlled by Him
He is Mercy Incarnate 10
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PRAYER SHAWL
a wedding veil
does not prevent
a meditation
prayer shawl
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ASKEW
By not polling
younger cellphone users
Pew
does the numbers skew
while some pollsters
respond
to war profiteers' cues
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THE WORLD LISTENS.
KOREAN SLEEVE
A sunrise of
Korean sleeve
parallel bars
each varied hue
Soon sun Himself
gilds
all the leaves
Each day
He arrives
on cue
We are grateful
that he has
not thrown off
his faithful yoke
(to Kim, H & C)
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WHAT TO SEE IN AMERICA
the 3000 year old redwoods..jade temples of time
a morning rainbow bridging the Grand Canyon's chasms
Old Faithful geyser in Utah's Yellowstone
the majestic Rocky Mtns of Colorado
parallel bars of sunrise over North Carolina skies
Pennsylvania's blue hills
the wide Mississippi at its mile widest
the stone cliffs of Yosemite in California
the Statue of Liberty...
Philadelphia: home of nonviolent Quakers
the American people
with their aquarian moon
and a heart for all
(to Wali)
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FREEDOM
He had developed
strong arm muscles
from being indentured
into the fanning
of the king
..and used them
to climb away
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GALLUP POLLS AND GALLIPOLI
The American people want no
more war slaughterhouses
GALLIPOLI
where nearly a million men
died.. based on phony
numbers from Churchill
who lost
his post
as a result. Later as Secretary of War Churchill would be
turned down by the UK cabinet in his request to poison
gas 'the uncivilized tribes' of Iraq and would instead bombmurder
9000. Later still he would direct the bombing of noncombatants
in Dresden as described by Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five
Public" Radio Uses GOP PR Masked as pollsters.
Gallup's GOP PR, called 'polling' is not taking into account
20 swing states. North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado
are becoming purple (when blue is added to red)
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CLELAND AND CLEVELAND
Unbeatable: the coalition
of vets like Max Cleland
and the people of
Memphis, St Louis, Detroit,
Philadelphia
and Cleveland
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FOUR ELEMENTS
charcoal filters
water purify
but when
burned pollute
the sky
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EQUITY
An agreement between
two of unequal power
is not a contract
but a submission 20
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DIPLOMACY
those without brakes
drive more cautiously
.. elders in abusive
nursing homes..
become diplomats
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PEAPICKERS
Plumpluckers
and Peapickers
Pearplanters
know one can't purloin
from a peachtree
because she gives it
all away
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SWORDFISH GRACE
Freed from the net
was the swordfish
not by his own sword
but the grace of the Lord
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SEPTEMBER SCEPTRES
September sun
with its rays
grants Peace her
sceptre
as focus turns to
the world's weapons
inspectors
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FREEDOM
He was so good
at copy and pasteups
He abandoned
former paystubs
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IOWA POLITICS
Charles Grassley's law
removed from humane laws
baby chick
females and males
They were reclassified
as commercial mail
and sit on loading docks
crushed in a cardboard box
or dying of heat, cold
hunger or thirst
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CHICKNAPPING
taking an egg out of a nest
a. the way it's always been?
b. theft?
c. kidnapping? from the mother
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DISCONNECT IN THE MIND
The Audubon society had a
chicken dinner... chickens not
considered rare enough birds to be
valued. The prolife group convention
had aborted chicken eggs for
breakfast and a dinner choice of
veal from a butchered
baby calf or lamb
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PLEAS OF THE POWERLESS
Who hears the Iowa baby chicks
with chirps so small
TEXAS GOVERNORS
Texas governors have sacrificed
since 1982 570 innocent, juvenile,
mentally ill, poor,
unrepresented, black,
international citizens, transformed
or other
Texans, citizens of other states and
countries in
state sanctioned
murder. International citizens have
been denied the right to contact
their consulates. Both Texas senators
in the US Senate have been
Texecutioners.
http://tcadp.org
http://deathpenaltyinfo.org 30
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SPIRIT POUR
The mother's
milk starts
to flow at the
calling of her baby
The spouse's
eyes pour with
love.. at sight
of the beloved
Truth rises
to the throat
as courage
demands speech.
Healing hands
are hot
with heartheat
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COLONEL
Are wastelage
(half grain and half
manure)
and dead animals
mixed in with the
corn kernels
fed to the captive
chickens
jammed 9 to a cage
and bought by the
Colonel?
(Factory farms all across
the US are feeding
parts of dead animals
to chickens, generating
Mad Chicken prions)
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SAVANNAH
Not far from
the seas
is Savannah
People there
eat
much less
of savanna*
More vegans
who are Flemish
have
less of the phlegmish
and the kind
in Budapest
with the vision
of Buddha
see none as pests.
(Sanskrit:
sava corpse
anna food
corpse food
or flesh)
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DIVIDED LOTS
The carless are evicted
and become homeless..
they watch as others
pick through their
belongings and
divide their lots
amongst them.
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BORN ON THE SAME DAY
One as pluto and uranus and other
planets went over his planets
became a vegetarian.
The other in Vietnam at that time
lost 2 arms and a leg.
PLANTS LOVE FRUITARIANS
plants prefer
one use the sickle
after the frost
has stilled life's tickle
and
pain is quieted
by icicles
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NOT SO FAR FROM ANKARA
Off the coast
not far from
Ankara
the ship did cast
its anchor
and the slapping
of the waves against the ship
took away the
woman's anger
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PRAYER
God, forgive me for any time I have hurt the hearts of
others.. in the past present or future.
As hundreds of square miles of ice shelf fall into the sea
so do our sins drop into Your erasing forgiving infinitude.
God, You are at the beginning and end of every path
to You. You answer every name by which You are called.
You are Omnipresent and therefore You Indwell Every Being. No error
of ours is more than a cloud which sooner or later passes on,
revealing Your Light shining in us all. You are Love Incarnate.
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YOU ARE LOVE INCARNATE
Give all beings now the knowledge grace and desire to plug in to Your
currents of love.
Bring peace joy love nonviolence supply focus protection to all beings
now and forever.. Give victory to the peacemakers
in all elections who rely on Your word to pursue
spiritual solutions to conflict.. now and forever.
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FAITHFULNESS
Now falling leaves
of many trees
goldstar the pine's
green fidelity
*
RELEASE
By dawn drawn
dandelion down
is falling down
falling down 41
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PYONGYANG
May Pyongyang
find his
Pyongyin
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PROTECTED BRAIN CELLS
Reborn
now Thackeray
avoids all daiquiris
and also any
paleo
quackery
(research has shown
that vegetarians
and vegans have
virtually no alcoholism..
General Boorth of the Salvation
Army treated alcoholics with
vegetarian diet.. to sever
the mutual flesh-booze craving..
one highly yang.. the other
highly yin)
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MELTING ICE
Spring does unroll
her ancient scrolls
yond power of
winter's
cold control
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MULBERRIES
Birds love to
cull berries
of the
violet mulberry
*
SAD
Grateful
are the cattle
that they
did not wear
the saddle
and are not
minesniffers
in the battle
*
NERUDA WINGS
as Krishna is borne
on the wings of Garuda
so Spirit is borne
on the words of Neruda
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OSU: GOD REFORM IT
Ohio State
gives AIDS to cats
Ohio State
paralyzes rats
Ohio State abuses
dogs, horses
primates
State of Ohio
votes Democrat
No longer does
Imelda Marcos
buy shoes made
of cattle's carcass
But still does
brutal Nieman Marcus
sell shoes of
animals' murderee carcass
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MUCKBUCK
muckrakers now
rake the muck
of GOP factory farms
begun for the bucks 50
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SEABISCUIT KERRY
Seabiscuit Kerry
.. stronger with each stride
.. closing more powerfully
than a chess master
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NO LONGER A SHIELD
the oak tree mourned
that she could no
longer wear
the tiny pot
in which she
as a sapling grew
until she saw
the oak tree
next to her
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A FEW SECONDS OF FREEDOM
Thousands of pheasants
they cage
and watch them as they
sadly age..
until 1 day they are scooped
up in nets..
suddenly there is release
suddenly a man them frees
.. for a few seconds
before the guns blaze away
.. men their feathers pluck
and their bodies freeze
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HOLY AROMA
Wartime dissent:
Divinity sent..
frankincense..
and angels' scents
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IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
That one
was a 'born again'
whore of war
but in all holy fora
peace yields new flora
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OHIO STATE PROJECTS OF THE GOP TRUSTEES
Meaningless to dogs, horses,
to AIDS injected cats
are Libertarian Republican
Democrat..
they see the paralyzed
spines of their
peer lab rats.
They know democracy
does not include
the voiceless, the
powerless,
the small.
(Nevertheless, Democrats are preferred
.. because they have reduced suffering.
http://forum.johnkerry.com)
http://www.poetwill.org
Kerry has been given 100% rating
by Doris Day Animal League and
many other groups. Ohio State's)
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ALMIGHTY'S WINDS
Almighty's winds
.. 9 twisters
freed Smithfield pig
and her sisters
http://www.hogwatch.org
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BRAIN FOOD
He found in avoiding
acid flesh's fermentation
his mind was faster
.. strong his mentation
(Jesus, Buddha, Einstein, DaVinci, Ramanujan, Tolstoy, Gandhi
and hundreds of millions of anonymous women have
avoided flesh food.)
http://www.pcrm.org
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WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES?
Almost every fax
smells of woodskill ax
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A SON'S PRAYER
Father I would
like the chance
to be free
to sing and dance
not to harm my
brother humans
with gun or missile
knife or lance. 60
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THE SMALL CONTAINING ALL
Tiny nut brown
acorn orb
.. may tire wheels
not crush his
world
.. it contains
ten thousand
groves of oak
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DAISY PARASOL
A fallen daisy
.. her petals the parasol
for the tiny
little mouse
Demishells of coconut:
new chambers for her
house
(G B Shaw: I love
little children too but I don't
cut off their heads and
stick them in vases)
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PLURAL OF MICE
Why is it
that many mouses
are mice
while many houses
are not hice
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VOW
I love you unconditionally
forever and always
I love you totally
and in all ways.
(to all beings)
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VIOLET HEATHER
In all kinds of weather
out of love's ethers
sun spins new feathers
on the violet heather
(to Heather S of
Boston)
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NOT ALONE
A fleecy baby lamb
cloud all alone in the sky
.. lo.. there is her
mommy
coming to join her
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WINGING FLIGHT
As geese on
a pond do alight
and of a sudden
are winging flight
so is the body entered
by soul
who will someday
return to GOD's lovelight
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INEVITABLE FORGIVENESS
the slow slide of
a glacier in to the sea
.. as souls gently
peel layers of
self unforgiveness
*
ONE SAID
One said
All criticism is
projected self indictment
.. since we can only see
what we are..
and another replied
that God sees only
that we are all made
of divine love
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WHEN A VERB
When does a verb
mean killing a noun?
When the verb
is whaling, fishing,
sealing.
(Norway, Japan, Iceland
and USA still slaughtering
whales.
http://www.embassy.org/embassies) 70
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GOD GORE GANDHI AND GASKINS
Ten by ten see
the people of Tennessee
.. and soon 6 million
Tenneseeans see
and choose God, Gore,
Gandhi and Gaskins
over Eli LIlly's indicted Medicare billionaire Frist,
the weaponized anthrax research of
Battelle, the WMD nuke production at Oak Ridge,
the FedEx unionbusters in Memphis
http://www.gandhiinstitute.org
(Leonard Horowitz: The CIA gave 1 billion
to primate abuserBattelle to develop weaponized anthrax)
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WAR PROFITEER POLLSTERS
War profiteer PR 'prophets'
called "pollsters"
their pipers profit
from missiles to holsters
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POLLSTERS
He who pays the piper
calls the tune
He who pays the piper
makes the numbers
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HIGHEST GATE
When we finally
leave our body shrines
God let our consciousness
permit release
through the highest
temple gate.
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BAGHDAD BOMB
A bomb was dropped
on Baghdad..
and left Iraqis and
Americans dead.
Many other bombs
went off.. .. news bombs
shattering the hearts
of victims' loved ones.
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ONLY PEACE CAN PREVAIL
In the temple of
The god Mars
divided are the
pillars of war.
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SPOKES OF THE SUNWHEEL
Spokes of the
sunwheel
paint all of the sky
canvas gold with love.
All things of earth
fade into insignificance.
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PASSING THE WAND
The people of Pennsylvania
are record inspectors
and therefore hand the sceptre
to Hoeffel from Specter.
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HOLY HOLY HOLY
Every path up the
mountain is sacred
All riverpaths down to
the sea are holy
All plants in the
garden
God does love
wholly
*
JERICHO
Joshua's trumpet
made the walls
of Jericho fall down
Millions' chant of Allah Akbar
made the Shah fall down
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BLUEMS
Kelly green leaves
with feathery plumes
.. the sun continues
spinning on these his looms
his gold flowers and
purple blooms
and his each unique bluems.
*
SAUSAGE FACTORY
The stench of blood
in slaughterhouse-old factories
pierces the Spirit and
offends the olfactories.
*
IN CAR DO NO HARM
the peace officer in
chasing the speeder
killed 6 animals
and hit a child
*
HIPPOCRATES HYPOCRISY
For vivisector
MD's
the oath of hippocrates
is hypocrisy
*
COURAGE TO BE FRANK
Hypocrisy
.. means secret criticism
.. means saying behind
someone's back
what is not said to
his face
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DAWN SUNDOWN
Mars at dawn
Venus.. sundown
Alone by choice after bedrise
Together neath even's starskies
*
JOHN WAYNE MOVIE
They weren't digging a grave
They were trying to find
water
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SAMARRA
While some who called
themselves prolife
cheered the GOP
first an arm
then a whole dead child
in Iraq
was removed from
the bombed out rock.
As on trees
grow future samaras*
death found he had
no
appointment on the
Volga's Samara
..instead he was called
to .. the Tigris' Samarra.
(samara maple seedling
Appointment in Samara:
Maugham story about a city
on the Volga)
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TREES
They create oxygen..
and filter the air
They evaporate water
which becomes mist
and rain.
They shelter every
bird God sends to them.
They are a parasol
from the sun
and an umbrella from the
rain,
a jade privacy screen.
.. they hold water preventing
floods by their roots
They give away entirely
their fruits
Genesis 1: 29 Behold I have given you herbyielding seed.
To you it shall be for food.
5th Angel: Revelation: Harm no green living being
Bhagavad Gita: Of trees I am the fig.
Isaiah: Break not the bruised reed
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KNIFE TO THE HEART
Canadian fishermen
club baby seals
Elsewhere
a struggling piglet
is tied to an altar stone
His terrorized
squeals
as his life they steal
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MAKE USA A PARLIAMENTARY
DEMOCRACY
If you were to vote
Ralph Nader
you would have gotten
Cheney
Darth Vader..
Instead vote with the
archangels
and send away
the slave of
the fallen
dark angel
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CRICKET AND JACK FROST
Sometimes it is October
when the crickets' chirps
can be heard
begging for mercy from
Jack Frost.
(the more trees cover
the globe.. the less
violent the weather)
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LOVE GREEN FRUIT
Love unripe fruit
but do not expect it
to be soft and sweet.
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ORCHARD GIVEAWAY
The flesh of pigs is acid.
The flesh of cows is acrid.
Sweet and fresh
is ripe fruit flesh.
