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MASSED THUNDER

In the mountains...
God has
massed his thunder
faith can ...
the clouds
burst
asunder

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CANYON RIVER

The river flows in the canyon
like the tongue over teeth
Her liquid carving stone
Love overrides all.
**
Footnote:
Sai Baba: Be like
the tongue living
unharmed amidst
32 soldier teeth

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MIRACLE POINT

The lion skull in the desert
shelters a bee hive.
Sea water through the aeons
has made of rock a rookery.
Suffering has carved new
caves in the heart.
In Tara's empty space
miracles take place.
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(Tara: Sanskrit for the
ethers.. also capital
of ancient Ireland)
(to Tara L B)

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PERFECT MIRROR

when reflection is so perfect
that the sky's waterweave
becomes
lily petal weave
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EXCLAMATION POINT

World War II..
a very powerful story
.. with the bomb
as an ending
.. a point of exclamation
Who can give
a satisfactory explanation

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ARTICHOKE

They did the little boy
turkey named Art... choke
and then served his
dead body with artichokes

http://www.upc-online.org

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LITTLE UMBRELLAS
Dandelions
are little umbrellas
for lady bugs

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OLD FACTORY

The dungeon in which
he had worked
the old steel factory
sickened his soul
through nerves olfactory

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(to P Zagar, leader, animal
sanctuarian, starreader,
tree protector)

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SPARTACUS RISEN

The masts in the harbor
are empty of sails

Spartacus is risen.. the bodies of his many
friends.. have been taken down from the crosses
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HIS NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

 

He aspires to make space
for God through focusing on God
for love by contacting friends and suffering people animals birds and plants
for energy by doing yoga
for living by letting go of some possessions
for beauty by cleaning
for joy by exercising
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VIOLINS FROM THE VIOLENT

Some British farmers have followed
the Gestapo practice ..
of playing music to the
victims of their violence.
Gregorian chant.

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HE PRAYED FOR THE NAMELESS BIRD SITTING AT HIS TABLE

He sat at a table which had a decapitated gutted
defeathered cadaver of an innocent turkey, do you
wonder what his or her name was..where he was from..
whom and what he loved? God bless him.. not only in
his final awful embodied moments.. but his concentration camp
life preceding that.. and now.
*******

Those who have a nonviolent Thanksgiving
1 . avoid the uric acid or pre urine (trioxypurine) in animal
flesh which is correlated to arthritis. Celebrex makers
do not tell us that trioxypurine crystals are needle
like and gather around the joints. http://www.pcrm.org
2. avoid ecoli http://www.meatout.com
3. avoid salmonella http://www.meatstinks.com
4. avoid female hormones given birds.. which are correlated
to prostate, breast, uterine and other cancers
http://www.upc-online.org
5. avoid the unnatural heart excitation caused by adrenalin
(terror and anger hormones) secreted by birds before and during
slaughter.
6. Avoid the anger from meat ingestion. Some of the adrenalin protein
enzyme chain is destroyed by cooking, but enough links remain intact
to recreate biochemical stress.
http://www.egroups.com/messages/teachnonviolence/245
7. avoid the bad karma of causing suffering to innocents
http://www.eggcruelty.com
8. Save energy A pound of meat takes 81 times the production
energy of a pound of fruit.. found Dr D Meyer.
http://www.sierraclub.org
9. Enable efficient systems. Animal flesh yields100 to 1000 lbs an
acre, while fruit yields 250,000 to 456,000 per acre.
http://spot.acorn.net/fruitarian
10. Prevent choking. Meat is the 6th major cause of accidental death.
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MAD DEER
36,000 Ohio deer
in 6 weeks murdered
with cruelly pointed spears.
And the arrows
reach their marrow
.. revealing the revenge
of Mad Deer
*
Footnote:
Cleveland Amory: One deer had 12 arrows sticking out of him.

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WAVEILS

the sea wears
translucent waveils
in her shallows

but in
her depths she shares
her thoughts
only with the God she hallows

(to Sharan F)

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SACRED VOWS TO SACRED COWS

all beings are sacred
not just sacred cows
to eat no creatures
.. make your sacred vow

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BIG BUCKS

God through miracles
cancel the tourist big bucks
in murdering little ducks
or in murderig big bucks

WEST WING

When Martin Sheen
calls
ConAgra Butterball
he gives west wing
a new meaning...
for while morning
fields are dewing
few more than ConAgra
do birds de-wing
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http://www.meatstinks.com http://www.upc-online.org
http://www.ivu.org
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DISARM DOES NOT MEAN BLOW OFF CHILDREN'S ARMS

When God said
.. 'disarm'
and 'first do no harm'
He/She did not mean
.. to blow off the arms
of the children of Iraq
and Palestine
but to keep all
children fed and warm

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APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA

The maple sends peaceful
parachutes..her peace crane
winged samaras
and the pacifist Volga flows
silent
by the roofs of ancient Samara
but the occupation has given
a date with death
to many civilians in
holy Samarra.

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CAROB BEAN

Carob beans
in the Caribbaean
care for every being
**
EMAIL

The married man did
not send chat room email
to any other females

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SUE SUZUKI

Sue Suzuki
was Sue Zookeeper
.. but then she let go
of all control
and let the
waves
of the ocean roll and roll

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POSIES

One said that
the posies
were sham posers
.. ignored him
the posies
and kept on posie-ing.

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DYNASTY

These billionaire
family dynasties
have caused the poor
deaths to die nasty*

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OCEAN ROOM

a red brick 1 lane road leads to a stone castle
by the sea.. which houses an office.. there
is a room overlooking the water.. water on 3 sides.. it is well insulated
glass

when you step into the room it ever so gently becomes a boatroom
and moves away slowly... moving on the borders of a small bay
around which the stores and restaurants of Ocean City Md
curl in an almost total circle.. like an hour glass with
a wider waist is this bay ocean connection

For some reason Ocean City has a Massachusetts 02 zip.

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SHANKARA

Delhi, Johannesburg, and Ankara
many venerate the great saint Shankara
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GUTSUCKERS

Vultures are gut suckers
Maple sugar farmers
are sap suckers.
Of the two, the former
is less violent,
not harming the living.

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LIVING RUSHMORE

With his stone face
and unflappable ways
John Kerry is already
a living walking
Mount Rushmore.

(ask him to promote
immediate
withdrawal

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EMPTINESS

Emptiness
invites order

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SHILOH

Shiloh
Shi....loh
Shi............loh

the crimson soiled
battlefield
.. 2nd bloodiest single
day in American history
....
a father and son visited
the shrine.. and realized
that they had both died
there.. on opposite
sides.. firing at each other
at the same time..

as their bodies did lie low
in the bloodied fields of Shiloh
their souls left
intertwined..

now the ancient hatred
has turned to sacred love

Shiloh

Shi...........loh

Shi......................loh
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RAINBOW WICKET

Like the full moon,
a rainbow
is always
opposite
the sun

the rainbow's light
suspended in
each raindrop

stolen by 1 tiny
cloud
.. bright colors'
shroud

but he soon passed
on

and now through
the rainbow wicket

the full moon
rolls to beloved sun

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EX CALIBER AND EX CATHEDRA

A. took B's rook
with B's own bishop..
.. he was called on it..

similar to those who
have coopted certain
bishops to do the work
of war profiteers..

The bishop was ex cathedra
... and the rook was ex caliber.

now both are back
in the Community of God.

(Ex Cathedra.. from the chair
or out of the cathedral)
(Some Catholics believe
that when the Pope speaks
Ex Cathedra or from the chair
he is infalliblel, while others
believe that there is no
one between an individual's
conscience and his indwelling
GOD.)

(Ex caliber. Arthur's sword..
removed from stone)

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STANDOFFISH

Around the hooks
of angler stranglers
sea creatures are standoffish
.. for those less likely to
be caught
are stand off fish

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HIDING THE SHAME

They hide
the slaughterhouse from view
.. even in name
they call it not the killing
field but
the packing plant.

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REMOVE SCALES AND VEILS

From all eyes drop
ignorance scales
Reveal the sun
behind cloud veils.
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WHERE IS THE HEART OF THE SEA?

Where is the heart of
the ocean?
whose beating
sends her blood to the shore
in constant wavemotion?

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POSEIDON LAND CREATOR

Neptune sends to
shore his
seaweed hair strands
.. they net seashells
and twigs and sand
and soon they create
new fingers of land

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WOVEN WATER

The clouds have woven
water into cloth
and jeweled it with
raindrops which
shine in the sun

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DAYENDRA

Indra's mercy
may on fiery places rain
and with it his
lightning bolts
to cut evil kingdoms
in twain

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SOLAR EXORCISM

The sun has said
no exorcism is necessary..
his light is sufficient
to drive Draculas out
of the government
in November

*

AMERICARRIES

In November
Americarries
into office
Edwards and Kerry

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PENTACRATS
Blood flows from the gavels
of the serially killing judges 5.
It flows from their robes
and down the marble white
halls of the Supreme Court
the crimson continues to flow.
The
Pentacrats' pens
serve
the Pentagon.

The liquid scarlet flowing
from Supreme Court bench
can no living being's
thirsting quench.

(the 5 unelected serial killers
on the Supreme Court)
(Pentagon controls 80% of
the US intelligence budget..
and 2 of the 3 top Pentagon
employees are Wolfowitz
and Fife, neocon Likud
warmongers)

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SHAPE AND COLOR

Picture puzzle solvers
have an eye to shape
and color.
Yogis transcend the
external eye which
records shape and color.

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OXYMORON 9

"Overgrown"..
said the plants..
is a human chauvinist
oxymoron
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OH RUTH T

Oh Ruth T
of 98 suns..a peace educator
for 81 years.. a teacher of
English.. who took care of
her invalid husband her
entire married life....
.. last week she went to see
Fahrenheit 911..
.. the next day she went
to see the empty shoes
of the fallen.. in the
Friends Service Committee
exhibit..
.. she listened on the phone
to friends
... and made lunch for a visitor

*

This poem is about Ruth Z Thomas

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CYNOSURE

as a beloved actor is the cynosure
of all eyes,
so are you the cynosure
of the eyes of heaven.. the
stars.. each of which has a special
and infinite gift for you

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PIG FARMERS

they cut off and eat
the hooved pigs' feet
they throw them slop for
food
and call it pigs' feed

(SBC has a commercial
running mentioning pig farmers..

are they referring to the Smithfield
farmers of hogwatch.org?
the Illinois farmer charged with
felonious animal cruelty?
the Vancouver pig farmer
who fed 50 some dead women
to his captives?)

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STANDOFfFISH

Around the hooks
of angler stranglers
sea creatures are standoffish
.. for those less likely to
be caught
are stand off fish

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HIDING THE SHAME

They hide
the slaughterhouse from view
.. even in name
they call it not the killing
field but
the packing plant.

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REMOVE SCALES AND VEILS

From all eyes drop
ignorance scales
Reveal the sun
behind cloud veils.

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GOVERNMENTS: MOST VIOLENT INSTITUTIONS

A draft is government kidnapping.
An execution is government murder.
Taxing for war is government theft.

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WITHOUT STRIVING

Without striving
rivers flow.
Without effort
flowers grow.
Without sweating
the sun glows.
Without working,
the wind blows.

They all say..
end ever
endeavor

(to John Thaw
who played
Endeavor Morse..
a character like
Columbo who hid
his first name)

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DAISY SURRENDER

The daisies' white petal
flags of surrender
flutter in the breeze
.. so tiny... so powerless
.. asking mercy of
the mower's blades..

What was their crime?
In the sun the flowers
flourish
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DADDIES

Countless Iraqi Mommies and Daddies
have been killed as Bush
bombed Baghdaddies

BAKING

With thermophilic
bacteria it's hard to be bakin
the toxins out of bacon

(ecoli is colon bacteria
... bacteria which ends
in the rear end's orifice

ham is a euphemism
for the rearend of a pig

it is not just trichinosis
worms but bathroom
bacteria which
make the flesh of
pigs their revenge
on human beings..
thermophilic bacteria..
bacteria which survives
300 degrees cooking
temperature for several
hours)

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GODSEND

she happily sunned
her little baby boy Godsend
in the sand on the sound

(to LO)

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RISEN GULL

the horizontal cloud layer so thin it looked like white paint..
seemed to cross the vertical multitiered clouds..
but it was an illusion.. there would be no cross

it passed on, and a gull soaring upwards.. with his head, tail
and 2 wings
made the sign of the risen cross

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WHERE IS THE HEART OF THE SEA?

Where is the heart of
the ocean?
whose beating
sends her blood to the shore
in constant wavemotion?

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TIME TO LOVE

Every second
is Premahurtha,
an auspicious
time to love

(Premathura
is an anagram
of Premahurtha

Prema: Sanskrit for love
Mathura.. a city in which Krishna lived
mahurtha.. a unit of time
Premahurtha.. a time of love)

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POSSESSIONS

Possessions
attract spider webs, dust,
and fear of loss, as they
block sunlight and air.

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HELIOGRAPH

every flower, every fruit,
every leaf is a heliograph
on which the sun
has written
his enkindling laugh

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SO SLOWLY

As shaken snowflakes fall softly
in a child's toy glass sphere
As a delta river's sands
slowly enter the sea
do the clouds colored
the milk of the coconut
slowly spill out into the
blue..
turning it into a radiant
hue
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TREE RESPONSIBILITIES

A said 'you speak of tree rights..
what are tree responsibilities?'
B replied:
to give free shelter to birds
free food to squirrels and you..
to purify the air with their leaves..
to donate oxygen..
provide a jade umbrella of shade

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CORNWALL

Fishnets drying in the sun
.. no longer curtains
to the ocean's stage

a stone home
on a cliff above the sea
where the westwind at dawn
sings her symphony
and the gulls add their tunes
to the wavesongs of Neptune

(to the spirit of Ray Milland)

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TENSION SHATTERING SOUNDS

it is a paradox
that waves' crashing upon the rocks..
that the woodpecker's endless drill
in the woods shaded and still
that the waters gurgling
in the snowmelt brook
that the wind soughing
in the nestjeweled pines
... that these sounds
bring peace

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CROSS HAS VANISHED

The vertical shafts of
sunlight through clouds
which become horizontal
on the sea..
these square have vanished
as the clouds rained away

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JESUS

Some say Jesus was a communist*
and that John Paul was an antiCommunist
----------------------
* early Christians before Constantine
held possessions in common

** The Islamic Jesus:
Jesus saw a man drinking at a stream
from his hand and threw away His cup
Jesus saw a man comb his hair
with his fingers
and thew away His comb

*** SC said that after John Paul
established freedom of worship
in Poland he spoke against
the evils of capitalism

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RED CARPET OF TULIPS

The red tulips.. roll
out their red carpet
.. of welcome
to returning Spring

No longer hidden
by two lips
.. the tongue of the
welcoming
rolls
out the red carpet
.. of words of reunion

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EGG OF NIGHT

The silent fertilized egg of
night
is fractured
by the sharp
rays of the sun
.. bloodred flows
everywhere..
broken claws of rays
broken beaks of light

(almost every egg is120 gallons of production water, 32 hours of
jail for a chicken, and 300 mg of cholesterol)

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WILD STALLIONS

Wild stallions' manes
undulate
.. thundrous drums
of the ungulates

FOILED

The rabbit
the owl was shadowing
but hare was in angels' field
and the shadow of their wings
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NO DIVIDING LINES

30 or 3000 shades
of aqua to purple blue
.. the sea writes with
no dividing lines
from hue to each new hue

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DEWING

when ride on mowers
no longer grasshoppers de-wing
spires remain on which
morn sun is dewing
... peace comes in
being, not in doing

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LEPIDOPTERISTS

Lepidopterists are
the Jeffrey Dahmers
of the insect world

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HOLIEST PLACE

the holiest place
is the isle
in which former foes
did reconcile
and ever after
did walk
together
down the meadows'
flowered aisles

*Course In Miracles
says the most sacred
place is that in which
former enemies
forgive each other

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FOAM LACE TABLE CLOTH

Mother Earth set daisy tables that
upon them bees might sit.

Mother Earth
set buttercups
that from them
bees might sip sunup

Mother Sea.. threw a foamlace
tablecloth over the flat rock
in the bay..
that her fishies might dine..
and when they were finished
she slid it off and sudsed the
rock clean with her surf.

(to Betsy Frost)

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AZURE SKY CLOUDS AQUA SEA SAILS

The aqua sea
reflected the clouds
in the azure sky
so well
that she stepped out
on her own..
and popped up cloudlike
sails

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PAINT SPLATTER SUNRISE

The day breaks
her can of paint
splattering orangegold
on the purple sky
and blue sea

.. the ocean works
and at high noon
there is no taint
of paint

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HALLOW THE SHALLOWS

It is not the sea depths
but the translucent shallows
where the water drops more
the sun mirror and hallow

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LONGFINGERED SUN

As the longfingered sun reaches out to touch a cloistered trillium or a lake trembles in the light of moon and stars so can a poet's long rainbow of words play our heartstrings from afar.

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BLOOD

The chalice was ephemeral. Jesus' blood eternal.

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Author's Notes/Comments:

Jillelamudi Mother:
The mother sees no fault
in any of her children