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NONVIOLENCE

Animals love vegetarians. Plants love fruitarians.
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How do the words of the Peaceful Master become the tirades of
warmonger pastors?
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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
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Weeding whispered the Great Spirit...is plant racism
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Oh a c-o-c-kroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth.. for
she magnetizes to your home those who love every heart
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Many are the harshly shod footprints which have trod
smashing little ones between the booted and the sod
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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
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The fire in the mob's hate torches does not always color within the lines.
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It is not recorded in the words of Tennyson
that Ben Franklin got sick when he ate venison
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Above.. the starstrewn sky
Below.. a landmine littered earth lies
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A gentle cow reading Leviticus found that cloven hoofed animals
are forbidden for food. She took an ax to each of her four.
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Trillions of animals' agonized cries
through the years echoing in our ears
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Babe issued a press release.. "they tell fibs
.. I have no ribs to spare.. no spare ribs"
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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.
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We have nothing to offer you say the cows of their gravy
but our blood sweat and tears.
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Peregrine falcons have sent pigeons
prematurely into realms stygian
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Kneeling to God, all weapons' Wielder, he becomes a
weapons yielder.
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The boats which to their slaughter ship sheep are never shipshape.
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In India the bloody footprint of Alexander's throne lasted as long as
a twig cleaves the sea into which it is thrown.
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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
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Up peep and pop the poppy pods.
Does their scotching and scorching please Papa God?
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To sweep Buddhist monks use feather brooms
for the bee-abandoned fallen blooms
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Little chick fertilized within the eggshell basket
.. Of Thee God he asked it... that none turn the lettle shell
into a marble casket
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May no illegitimate
leader's illegal wars hasten any 'til death us do part'

Neither the barbs of the blackberry bush nor the thorns
protecting the rose act aggressively.
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Do plants have feelings? said one and the other replied:
Wallflowers must have broken hearts.
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The God indwelled beetle sanctifies the holy rose.
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they cleave off innocent pigs' cloven hooves
... yet the scarlet blood does not crimson
the purple fields of clover
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Factory farmed hens: unloved they are born.. nameless they
live... innominate they die
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Robins need not squabble over a stick for their 2 nests..
for there are dead sticks everywhere.
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Guiltless animals who no longer scream... are oft baked in their own udders' cream

-saiom shriver-