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BUTTERCUPS TWO OF FOUR VERSIONS
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'The bee's favorite couplet:
a sunup-brimming buttercuplet'
2
The bees come to sup....the liquid sunup....from the brimming buttercup

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ANEMONE

Beauty gives
hegemony...
to the pink blooms of anemone
.. a flock of settled
butterflies..
...with nary an enemy

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PERSIMMON PHILTER

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(to K Hichull and his loved ones)

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NODDING ASSENT TO THE WIND

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Sweet pea vines from buried pods
and bright blooms burst from the sod
from the seeds created by God
In the wind they toss and nod.

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PREMARIN

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Should horses
be enslaved in stalls?
Kept in constant
pregnancy
are 75,000 mares
so that their
urine's hormones
can give women
cancer nightmares?

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Note:
Hormones from other species given to humans through
animal flesh, fish flesh, dairy, eggs, horse urine or
other cause ovarian, cervical, uterine, breast and prostate cancers
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2453911963150&set=o.170564559668040&type=3

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FALSE ADVERTISING

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Life insurance company
ads falsely imply
with subtle threats
that surviving children
are responsible for
their parents' debts.

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REVEILLE

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Nights of boozing revelry
Then a snoring reverie
hid beneath the covers from
daybreak's harsh reveille

Nevertheless, when the sun

called, he answered the phone.

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INSPIRING FRIEND

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I have an inspiring friend.
He needs not even a pen.
He has 1 week's worth of
clothes. All other possessions
he left behind.
He is an unusual combination
of psychic and genius.
When he seems to glance he is
taking in 5 times as much as the
average person.
He loves to laugh and to
make others laugh,
is friendly to all,
and reveres truth,
needs less sleep than most,
can do research on the computer
for 10 hours without taking a break of
any kind.

Perhaps he's an angel

sent as a gift from God.

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LONELY DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT

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A dog parachutes alone
into a fiery war zone

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BALLERINA SKIRT

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The ballerina's translucent skirt
with fabric so soft and slight
spreads out like a butterfly wing
... but it slows down her flightt

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ALWAYS ACQUIESCENT

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Giving up
what she acquires...
always acquiescent:
the sea aquamarine
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UNPLUCKED

Flowers left alone
on the forest floor
growing in
SunFire

or a florist's flower
painted gold
a frozen bee
trapped in her fold

not allowed
to older grow

Which will it be?

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SMOKE SIGNALS

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Is smoking a form
of flatulence?

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ZOO LOTUS

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The lotus lily, already captive
in the pond, does not mind
the confines of the zoo.
But the animals do.

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ENTRAILS

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They were cooking pig entrails
In tracing the pig flesh disease trail
one finds this dish tapeworms entails.
In several countries eaten are
the pig's ears, snout, cheeks
feet and tails.
For most pigs there are only
sad tales.

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Note:

Tapeworms

Cancer caused by a tapeworm
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1505892

Tapeworms in the flesh of cows and pigs
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001391.htm

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GERMAN SHEPHERD MILITARY DOGS IN VIETNAM

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They gave unconditional love
and loyalty.
They were almost all betrayed.
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Note:
In return for unconditional
love and loyalty, nearly all of the
4000 German Shepherds who had served
as sentries, scouts, attack dogs, mine sniffers,

finders of the dead and wounded,
and lie detectors,
were defined at the end of the war
as 'excess equipment. They were forcibly
separated by senior officers from soldiers who held a mutual
love relationship with them, and turned
over to the South Vietnamese Army. Many
were killed and eaten.

In every country, animals are abused and killed.
In every warring country, animals have been kidnapped
and murdered that their bodies be eaten. They have
been bombed, smashed by tanks, starved, parachuted

into warzones, used as bomb carriers, subjected to the

hazards of sniffing for mines,

used in dozens of countries in military
research,

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LILY GILDING

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From lily-gilding

most refrain

It is the sun's daily task

at dawn and dusk

to outline her in light

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500 MILLION FOR 4 OR 5 FIGHTERS

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Corruption, waste,
incompetence....
or immorality of war,
whatever your assessment,
more and more say
what are we in

Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria for?

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Note: Update: As of April 2016 Bush and Obama

(and Hillary Clinton) have involved us in 7 war zones
The Pentagon has spent 500 billion training fighters to
try to overthrow Assad.  Rachel Maddow reports
that there were 4 or 5 fighters on the field as a result
of the program, or 100 million a piece.
Meanwhile, the public is not being told of another
illegal stupid and immoral program... the CIA's
funding of Kurds to fight Assad.

Rachel Maddow says 100 million per fighter while
USA Today says 2 million per fighter
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/4-or-5-in-syria-trained-by-us---500m-spent-527009859993

Note: 15 more poems were added to this thread on Nov 9, 2015
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-saiom shriver-