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Near the hickory there's skyblue chicory. Beneath the grey cloud cover,
   gold grain fields radiate. Sky and earth reversed

Discarded pieces of a quartered baby lamb are thrown into the lambsquarters

How did the words of the Peaceful Master
become the tirades of warmonger pastors?

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The sunset dyed red cloud like Jesus' Turin shroud
rinsed by night of blood in purity shines outloud.

With the most leaks the boat
of democracy best floats

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Hurricane Kate forced proud palms to take padnamaskar of the humble ocean.

As the sea everywhere has feet it's not hard for the trees to show devotion.

In World War II, did God select a thorn to remove a thorn?
Churchill the bulldog to remove Hitler the attack dog?

(Neither country was a true democracy. Both leaders were
involved in the bombing of millions of civilians)

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ECONOMY OF ACTION
The way of yielding water.. flowing.. being ...never preaching
is the teaching of the ancient ..I Ching
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Some cherrypick. Some plumpluck but Newton was given
an apple windfall
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What are the jobs of appletrees? To breathe and to be
.. while apples come automatically.
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The daybreak sun in a state of ever-rest faster than
any mountain climber has scaled Everest
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Gently opens the lake lotus the sun with his long fingers
.. and whether He sets or rises ...His light forever lingers

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FIDELITY

Mother Earth has knitted strong knots in the faithful blue
forget me nots.
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From your infinite eyes we drink Stars within skies of
blackest ink
Please don't eclipse us when you wink.. but hold us in
your eyes, Black Sphinx
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He remembered that pricks of the branches of the mistletoe tree can
draw blood.
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As fragile Queen Anne's Lace stretches in the sun among
rocks, she lived happily with her husband and his parents.
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Redwoods: faithful silent sentries.. standing for millennia
not centuries
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Oh womanizer or manizer most polygamous... try as you might
  you won't be milligamous
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Serial womanizer Jack Frost had his face pressed to their windows.. asking them to come out and play.. before he disappeared again.
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That God is Universal Love.. is it a license to
be promiscuous, polyamorous, polygamous, polyandrous?

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* POEMS FLOWERS TREES PLANTS
Four Flowers...: The Sun arose in Morning Glory, with His Goldenrod
wanding Violet to Rose
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The bees' favorite couplet.. sunup brimming buttercuplet
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When God greengrows it's rarely in rows... awry the rye rises...unruly
the rose
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How awesome How sublime That out of muck and mud and slime....God
makes lemons God makes limes.
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The sun arrays the skies in rose as He arises and rouses the rose
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April is aproned with apricot blooms.
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They called the wind lackadaisical
but because she in freedom blows
the world will never...........lack for daisies
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Dawndrawn, dandelions summoned by the sun... spread gold parasols
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Little Tree, Little Tree, I wonder where you are
to thank you for the sweet pink fruit you did weave
from distant star.
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Each night the tree of nut out of naught knits neat nuts
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The bee Hector needs no lector to read him the sector
where blooms of great nectar pour fragrance in vectors
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Weeding, whispered the Great Spirit...is plant racism
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Ivy and violets vy not with the violent.
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Why is the rose encircled by thorns? That she not be plucked
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In the predawn violet... as they wake the violets... of the unsung..
birds sing...
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Bursting blooms of bluebonnet to the sun sing silent sonnets
A beetlebored bamboo flute.. Yonder wind plays upon it
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Hawaiian breadfruit... shed your Joseph's coat of many colors..
your 1000 panes of stained glass mosaic.. and become 10,000 breadfruit
trees
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From the shore.. one looks upward
to the sanddune grass..10,000 green brush blades
trying to paint the blue sky jade*
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Enpine the cone! Enoak acorn! Enpear the seed that inner
sun be freed!
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Held the dew the buttercup better than the butternut
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For every tree and wildflower He has willed the power
as He flows through all an effortless willpower
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Delilah's lilac'd fields Lilliputian the Lord of Love has many lilies
put in
He is one with every Obama, Blair, every Chavez, Castro and Putin.
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As birds helped Cinderella to dress for the dance,
the peony made her debut because of kind ants
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The peony sphere has no perfume.. until she opens the petals
of her heart
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He no longer daisy petals shreds to ask if her love for him has been shed
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Into the daisy the sun has spun his gold
and his rays has rolled into the marigold
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May and Mother Earth has
gone under cover
hiding herself neath fields
of daisy and clover
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Impatiens always show patience as they weave new blooms from
the sun and cloud looms
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The meadows are asterisked by asters. Though they
seem randomly sprayed, not a single one has gone astray.
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Clover lamps with their curved necks hang over the cobbles
of a London sidewalk shedding purple light in their tiny world
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The glistening spider filament fluttered in the wind, spangled
with dandelion spores...a magic wand with not one
but many stars
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God needs no chain or buckle to link the roots of honeysuckle.
Her herald fragrance runs ahead as her seamless threads delve in new beds.
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above its jade velvet carpet,
the moss sends shoots
of tiny lime stars..
shooting stars  20 plus 33   53

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(God indwells all beings, every green, libertarian,
socialist, communist, labour and conservative. democrat,
and republican
4 Flowers is to Rosita and Charlie Davis
Awry the rye rises is to Rosalie Cohen Quine and to Sharan Freundschuh
Little Tree Little Tree is to Tattva of Moundsville
Tree of Nut is to Nat Altman, Nate Slocum, Natalie Ryder, Knute Larson
Enpine the Cone is to Wm Barr
Hawaiian Breadfruit is to all those working to end the USDA exclusion
of Hawaiian and other country fruits and plants from the US mainland

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* POEMS FORGIVING
*1*
Embezzled heart, can you forgive the guzzling bee
who has taken all your nectar? "He knew not what he did",
young little bee.
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*2*
If you do now your heart unlock I promise in the future
I will knock
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*3*
The bikes rolled through the mulberries on the sidewalk
leaving several purple streaks.. but some of the tree's
children fell into the meadow.. and became trees*
*4*
A river has changed in this second..
some of him has emptied into the sea..
some is being renewed in headwaters.
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*5*
As a sword has the illusion it slices the sun's beams
so do the unforgiving have the illusion they have been harmed.
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*6*
Melt away now Valjean's pursuers,
who had chased him through Parisian sewers
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*7*
Two branches of the same river of God approach
a cliff. Rocks cause the foes each other diametrically to oppose. As they roar over its side, unhurt they emerge as one,
some drops rising as mist to bless riparian trees.
*8*
He forgave all when
he realized that all lines
of every human being actor
were written by the
Divine Playwright
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*9*
God's universal verdict
is "Not guilty"
as all blessing as the sun
ever gilding trees
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*10
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   53 plus 10   63

FREEDOM

They called the wind lackadaisical
but because she in freedom blows
the world will never ...........lack for daisies
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They thought the moon needed cloudwings to fly but the next night they
saw her soar alone in the sky.
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Herr heron no longer the freed herring hearing
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Watching raindrop beads spark seeds into weeds..
was his creed.. and not what any other had decreed
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One said that marriage is a tree.. do not break its boughs
Another said: as a river flows beyond banks, the past's vows.. to the
present bow..

Spring melts snowflakes. Joy pops balloons. Roots burst
the vase. Love breaks the cage.
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Dracula was free to think God's gladiolas gaudy.. and to dislike
the morning luster.. of a seabubble cluster.
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Some like earthworms eat dirt and die.
Others like caterpillars become butterflies.
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Bell tongs chime... bird flight time
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If there were left 1 sheet
of Shakespeare's original words
Picasso would it erase that he could ink the space.
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Those who ordained that a fork goes to plateleft
are the ones who use it as a fleshspear. Their rules bind
none.
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Free are the butterflies who as babies feasted on the leaves of
the trees round Cherry Blossom Bay
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A Dragonfly on daffodil alights.. having donned a more dazzling dress
as well as the gift of flight
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Some like earthworms eat dirt and die.
Others like caterpillars become butterflies.
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Bell tongs chime... bird flight time
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If there were left 1 sheet
of Shakespeare's original words
Picasso would it erase that he could ink the space.
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Those who ordained that a fork goes to plateleft
are the ones who use it as a fleshspear. Their rules bind
none.
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Free are the butterflies who as babies feasted on the leaves of
the trees round Cherry Blossom Bay
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A Dragonfly on daffodil alights.. having donned a more dazzling dress
as well as the gift of flight  63 and 18   81
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GRACE

*1*
JUNE 21ST: .......... NIGHT'S REQUIEM IS WARBLED BY THE ROBIN'S REVEILLE
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*2*
EACH SOUL OF GOD A RAY EACH WITH LIGHT HE ARRAYS NEVER A SINGLE SOUL
FOREVER GOES ASTRAY.
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*3*
CATTAILS WEAVE ESCAPE LADDERS FOR DROWNING BUGS
WHILE A FRIEND'S SAFETY NET OF WORDS.WAS ENOUGH TO CATCH A FALLING STAR
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*4*
SNOW SILENT SWIFT...AS SKYDOWN SOFTLY SIFTS.... AND TURNS CLOUD
GIFTS... INTO EARTHBLANKET DRIFTS.
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*5*
THROUGH THE NIGHT...MIRACLES WE DID NOT SEE
.. ICEBERGS OF RESISTANCE SLIPPED SILENT INTO THE SEA
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*6*
DO RAIN ARROWS COME FROM THE RAIN BOW?
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*7*
AS ANGELS' INSPIRATION DESCENDS IT BECOMES CLAD IN WORDS.
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*8*
THE LOW RIVER FROM AFAR IS INVISIBLE
BUT ITS GREEN LINE OF DISCIPLE WILLOWS IS VISIBLE
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*9*
THE WOODPECKER WAS ABLE TO MAKE IN THE TREE A NAVE
.. BUT ONLY THE SEA'S WAVES CAN CARVE SEA CAVES
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*10*
JESUS SAID TO 'CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD.. THEY TOIL NOT NOR
SPIN'. IT IS THE SUN WHICH THEM SPUN.
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*11*
THE LIMEHUED SILK OF THE CORN.. EACH STRAND WAND CATCHES
THE DEW OF THE MORN.
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*12*
AT THE END OF THE SEASON CORNFIELDS ARE DOWNMOWN
THE RAINTREE REMAINS SECURE IN HIS THRONE.
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*13*
AS THE RIVER ROARED THROUGH THE GRANITE CHUTE, IT
FELL ONTO 7 GRANITE BOWLS...7 POOLS BELOW 7 FALLS..
AS SHAKTI FLOWS INTO THE CROWN AND THEN EVERY OTHER CHAKRA
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*14*
IN EARTH'S THEATRE, WAITING IN THE WINGS
AS HE SLOWLY SHEDS HIS ANGEL'S WINGS
SACRIFICING FREEDOM, A GREAT SOUL..
BECOMES A LOVECHILD GOD YOU TO BRING
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*15*
THE RAINDROP SLIDES DOWN THE LILY LEAVES, TAKING NONE
OF THE JADE FROM THEIR GREEN SLEEVES
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*16*
TO PARCHED PEACH TREE ROOTS UNBIDDEN
COME SILENT STREAMS.. UNDERGROUND, HIDDEN
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*17*
ALMIGHTY IS HE WHO IGNITED THE LUSTER IN EACH AND EVERY
GRAPED CLUSTER.*
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*18*
HE HAD A HARVARD MBA DEGREE AND DEGREE BY DEGREE
OVERCOME BY GREED HE HAD BECOME LEGREE'D. YET ONE SUDDEN
DAY HE SAW.... THAT HE AND GOD WERE WE'D.
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*19*
RAINBLESSED, AFOOT! IS A ROOT.. THE AILANTHUS GROWN A FOOT!
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*20*
ARUN AROSE AWASH IN ROSE.. SPREADING HIS RAYS OER AARON ROSEN
ALL BEINGS HIS CHOSEN
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*21*
INTO THE STREAM FELL A SAMARA SHOWER, A FLOTILLA OF LIFEBOATS
IN TIME FOR THE STRUGGLING BUG
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*22*
IT IS GOOD LUCK TO FEED BIRDS IN FLIGHT
THAT THEY NEED NOT SLOW DOWN NOR ALIGHT
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*23*
THE GRACE RAIN FOLLOWS DRY RIVER BED HOLLOWS.
SOON ARE NEW SHALLOWS.. THEN DEEPS DO ALL HALLOW
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*24*
A GATHERING OF GREY CLOUD MASS.. COMMUNION RAIN FOR
ANIMALS BIRDS BUGS TREES AND GRASS
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*25*
AS DESERT SHADOWS ARE MORE DEFINED THAN THOSE OF THE WOODS
SO THE SEPARATION BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL IS GREATER THERE
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*26*
RAINCLOUD FLOTILLA, FLOAT NOT IDLY BY, BUT REND YOURSELF
WITH LIGHTNING... THAT YOUR GRACE FALL FROM THE SKY
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*27*
PAST LIFE LESSONS BECAME WHISPERS WHICH TURNED TO BUTTONS KEEPING
MY CLOTHES ON ME.
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*28*
THOUGH A SEEMING PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY,
THE ARK OF EACH HEART
CONTAINS EVERY CREATURE.
SOME DO NOT YET KNOW IT.
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*29*
THE SEA ASSAILS THE SMALL SCHIFF SAILS BUT BY GOD'S GRACE
THE BOAT PREVAILS
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*30*
GOD'S MERCY IS MADE MANIFEST
IN MANIFOLD MANGO AND MANNA FEASTS

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JUNE 21 IS TO MSC

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MAYNARD

The wind is balmy and
blooms fragrance
Mayward
and the sun shines mightily
to ape his mentor: Maynard

FIRST DO NO HARM

to purloin the pearl
they rip apart the oyster
to steal the gold
they destroy tree cloisters   121 plus 2    123

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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 mower Crickets make a final peep Fireflies' lanterns snuffed beneath the skies Bumblebees' pollination stop Caterpillars do not
become butterflies
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Weeding whispered the Great Spirit...is plant racism
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Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth.. for she magnetizes to your home those who love every heart
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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 of hate mobs' 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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Pigs Have No Spare Ribs
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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 ice sculpture of the
eagle drips water from his melting beak. Frozen form
becomes all form. The waters of peace are flexible.  123 and 14

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JOY

She no longer feels sad that her body is bound by gravity .. as she wings the hearts of millions.
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Icicle rows dripping in the light.. lines of exclamation points!!!!!translucent with sun joy
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Spring willow streamers... the tree cheerleads the birds in branch bleachers
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Into shards the dreams have shattered.. the pain
in the dream... has not mattered.
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From the chalice of his heart I drink love and joy. It is
the only draught which quenches my soulthirst. 137 plus 5   142

RESURRECTION

Reborn... Sappho... wears monks' saffron.
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How awesome How sublime That out of muck and mud and slime God makes lemons God makes limes.
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Glass shatters.. neath sunfire.. each shard reflecting his orb entire
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He was baptized by his brother's tears
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The Great Lord can behind him twirl... vast universe' gyrating swirl... that his rebellious insurection
.... become his glorious resurrection
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No lid for the cups of sunlemony buttercups..
they just infold to escape night cold..
but in the morn... once again unrolled... their cheery gold
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One upright pier pillar after another yields in the night to the hegemony of the tide.
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Those who took opposition roles...
were midwives of her strengthened soul  142 plus 8   150

WIND

The South Wind has for the evening donned jasmine scent
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The wind weaves many white caps so quickly for the blue sea
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Mother Wind moves the water rocker
to and fro on the stormy sound's deeps. On the boatcradle by lapping waves she is softly lulled to sleep. 150 plus 3  153

BEAUTY

From the Bubble Blower, the moon rises and floats
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Foamwake disappearsfrom the whale tail.. dries up.. the snailtrail
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Hawaiian breadfruit... shed your Joseph's coat of many colors..
your 1000 panes of stained glass mosaic.. and become 10,000 breadfruit trees
*
10,000 brush strokes of the master artist... equal not the perfect paintings of the pure mirror
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Fall's leafless orange berried bush foiled by blue sky.. a pointilist painting
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The goddess of the sun retires for the night through clouds spreading her fan made of rays of light
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Cut the Diamond river swords through the whiteblanketed greensward
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The fragrance of a rose does enthrall
every Rao, Smith, Ali and Rosenthal   153 plus 8   161

PEACE

61 died that day in the 1st infantry in Vietnam. Rows of bodybags,the fruit of war.. drying in noonday sun.
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Oh God to You we give thanks... that in time Polish horses... defeatNazi tanks (to Alex Hershaft)
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How many have been frozen bombed starved or blown apart by Hitler, Bush, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or Bonaparte?
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weary ants rest on the pillows of soft pussywillows while a family of ducks floats on seabillows
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Pansies fringe the rusting panzers
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A battle grey with smoke and crimson with blood...above it breaks the pastel palate of sunrise   161 plus 6  167.

PRAYER MEDITATION

Out of the sea the sun aborning Not adorned but all adorning
With His awesome light of morning Says to you "Come! My Mavoorning!" (to Ethel Lynch)
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O God Dweller in the Heart of Every Being, release now and forever the joy latent in all
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Jack in the Pulpit has taken up silence.. to his new sermon 1 says 'ahem' while another says 'amen!'
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Pen chisel carves tunnel out of feelings' mine cavein
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Held the dew the concave butternut better than the convex buttercup
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Dawn's dandelions summoned by the sun... spread gold parasols
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From all eyes shines God's light ... from every human, bird, fish and mite
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The mind of a genius is a sky piled high with lightning
forked thunderclouds. The mind of a master is blue with nary
a cloud.  167 plus 8  175

GRACE

Arun arose awash in rose.. spreading His rays oer Aaron Rosen
All Beings His chosen
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A spiral swirl of windwed weed Each tiniest wheat-huedneedle
caught a globe of dew.. a crystal rosary
of 59 beads already goldchained inside
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Tree of Olive... Altar of Allah.. on it He has grown... olives for all
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In kind Budapest.. the small and powerless are safe... for
in the eyes of Buddha.. none is a pest
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Cattails weave escape ladders for drowning bugs
while a friend's safety net of words.. enough to catch a falling star
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Of an eve, the glowing church tower clock both hands at 6..
in the rain slowly drips on thirsty flowers below
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Snow silent swift ...as skydown softly sifts.... and turns cloud gifts... into earthblanket drifts.
*

Through the night...miracles we did not see
.. icebergs of resistance slipped silent into the sea  175 plus 8 is

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FREEDOM

They called the wind lackadaisical but because she in freedom blows
the world will never ...........lack for daisies
*
They thought the moon needed cloudwings to fly but the next night they saw her soar alone in the sky.
*
Herr heron no longer the free herring hearing
*
Begins to emerge the bubble From the bubble blowing spear but not til it leaves.. without fear will it be a perfect sphere.
*
Watching raindrop beads spark seeds into weeds..
was his creed.. and not what any other had decreed  183 plus 5

  is 188

PAIN

a child's cries
disappearing with a cruel parent ....the cries remain in the heart
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Humane slaughter.. an oxymoron.. from those who don't
know.. oxen aren't morons  188 plus 2   190

GIVING

Shelter workers.. so patient.. elephants in folding their tents.. take a little longer
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Oh Clara T.. a mind of perfect clarity.. heartfont of pouring charity .. as in the woods of Cherokee.. grows
allfruit giving cherry tree  190 plus 2  192

METAMORPHOSIS

Four Flowers: The sun in morning glory arose with his goldenrod wanding violet to rose
*
You dwell where dreams immortal are ushered through
reality's portal   192 plus 2  194

COURAGE

Ominous night has silenced the mourning dove but not the nightingale  194 plus 1  195

MOTHERING

You are the nectar the hummingbird the clover. You are the bloom,
thebee,the Oerhoverer.
You are the beloved the Love and the Lover.   195 plus 1 196