Category: poetry

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According to wilstar.com – “To save lives, the missionaries
cleverly decided spread their religious message by allowing
converts to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so
in a Christian manner.”

No. It was Constantine who understood the power
of symbols over illiterate peoples and hijacked them
to create Christian soldiers, marching off to war.

14 centuries later, along came literacy and the
information highway and enlightened evangelicals
aware of the paganness of their holidays, now would sacrifice
the Easter Bunny for political reasons, the same as Jesus
was sacrificed for political reasons.

The stolen, fertile Bunny of innocence,
became the stuffed beloved toy of our children,
and the promise of new life – the Egg,
became a game of hide and seek for the poor —
for the rich – chocolate covered with gold leaves.

Poor clever Constantine was not clever enough
to destroy symbols of Nature, nor the joys of springtime;
when every breeze breathes love, where every heart feels
the spring birds’ song, or the beauty in springflowers
peeking thru…….surprise!

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how strong does a symbol have

to get before it’s noticed?

did Christian hearts

expect it to be a Bible

that saved the soldier

that got shot in the chest

as they listened

to yesterday’s news unfold…

what did they get

when the object

that took the bullet

turned out to be

an Ipod?

Pelosi goes to Syria.
McCain, Pence – go to Iraq.

And who among us trashes Pelosi
for opening dialog with Syria
and praises McCain and Pence
for telling us shopping in Baghdad
is like shopping in Indiana.

Robert Gates: In Iraq it is
sectarian violence not ethnic cleansing.

It is both Mr. Gates! Just like it is both
a civil war and a war of vengeance.

Conehead Walmart thinking
if they monitor all communication
between employees and inspectors
they will keep Walmart shoppers from knowing
their cheap cheap cheap EVERYTHING
is produced by cheap, cheep…mostly child
LABOR.

Yes I am MAD!
Mad as a Hatter in River’s woods.
It’s getting harder to hold on
after professing to be
every grandchild’s grandmother…

Where the hell are you tobacco?
Ok, found, hiding behind the candle
hiding behind the water
hiding behind my pen
then coffee cup.

The blessings of great grandmother hood is
babies full of giggles.
The curse is getting to close to the edge
of hearing/seeing/feeling
all their collective pain —
the Abyss of Hell
and the Bliss of the Divine
having learned
the permanence on either ledge
immobilizes the brain
the body
the spirit
to get up and function!

Play it again Sam!

“Listen to the children what they say…”

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on 9/11 Rumsfield had an Iraq attack

on April 5 Sgt. John Bruhs of VoteVets.org
gives C-SPAN viewers a Truth attack

the head of the spear is pointed at Iraq
it is covered in rusht
ergo
it was not sent from God,
and it is NOT American Foreign policy
that is so hated it is the Policy
carried out in secret by our government
Secret Government
got it?
it is not whether our media is “left” or “right”
it is what they do that counts
4 years they were cheer leaders of this war
for 1 year they have not
in spite of advertising dollars
and Murdock’s dollars
Poor Ol’ Kaliga’s drive for super power
mistook the robe for the Man
mistook the pen for the Rod

Sgt. John Bruhns reminds us
of Bush’s opening volley with all the pomp
and circumstance of inauguration
“I will not pass Saddam on to the next watch.”
like…Cheney wrote Rumsfield’s speech for Bush.

Sgt. John Bruhns informs us
of the circumstances in Iraq…
Creating well armed tribes
and “well trained Iraqi military” with
one week training and handing out the guns.

Poor Ol’ Kaliga, never really kissed.

Even Pope John Paul II may have attoned
for the chemicals he sold Hitler
when John was just a young Polish man
by proclaiming that the Catholic Church
teachings could allow for the science of evolution.

When God destroyed himself and created the Big Bang
and every partical contained the essence of
his’en or her’en self
and some of those particals grew into
the caution of never taking an oathe, followed by
military, marriage etcetra oaths
and some of those particals grew into
oath takers who would understand/or come to understand
and oath is for a LIFETIME and freedom lies within
the necessity of breaking a taken oath i.e.
when boots are on the ground/or
when ensuing particals became truthseekers
revealing false hearted daytime heros’
in duplicity of words
leave with a Big Bang
knocking down doors, invading private homes,
first it was the Iraqi’s doors
then it was their own.

David Gergen. Do you really want the American people
to give Bush “just 6 more months”?

When Saddam said there would be a Blood Bath
if Bush invaded Iraq in 48 hours
he did not mean a blood bath of US troops.
Did Cheney have an Iraq attack too?

(no, silly, not wigs)
how much oil did McCain burn to buy
5 Iraqi rugs for $5
to report to Americans
“Things are improving in Iraq”
McCain proved it it
only took 100 US military guards
and three overhead helicopters
to keep him safe to fly and shop
$1 per rug
per rug equals how many gnarled fingers
weaving how many days?
How many gnarled fingers, after weaving,
became “collateral” damage?
Too numerous to mention,
of course. Imagine that.
Persian rugs in Iraq.
In another time line Mr. McCain
you may be searching in vain
for the weavers of these rugs,
to pay them their honest due.

at the stroke of your veto pen
every ensuing US military death
will become solely yours
it will no longer matter if
you are someone’s puppet(s)
who’s threat is death,
or in the least exile,
on your life and/or loved ones
Today the Washington Post quotes you saying,
“the American people will know who to hold responsible
if funding for the war stalls, the Democrats.”
“This war without end has gone on far too long,”
Pelosi said, “and we are here to end it.”
it is Their Power that checks Your Power
handed to you by known elements of
American Corporate Power
with the temptation of The World’s Super Power
amen(.)
p.s. courage and compassion are common sense
senses
p.p.s we all get as many birthdays
as learning from eurekas we allow
ourselves and others

yrs sincerely,
Marilyn Monroe

when today the Queen of England can apologize
for her country’s involvement in the slave trade
and the benefit to England from it

succeeding in producing peace in Israel/Palestine,
George W. Bush will have atoned, somewhat,
maybe a lot…tomorrow will evidence enough…

Evangelists are screeching now
for doomsday between America and China
or was it Russia, oh no…that is those Evans’ history

Please Heavenly Mother and Heavenly Father
help them Evan’ies not emulate themselves
in their fervor to be “right” without evidence

Lead us away from prophets for profit
into the message of the Messenger
(always crucified).

41 cents guaranteed to be good forever
cheap sugar guaranteed on the backs
of the Haitian sugarcane cutter
guaranteed fear of Muslim’s flying
com’on Women Voters
ANY woman is not better than NO woman
when given only a Hillary to chose from
ignoring Nancy Pelosi’s with no monetary controllers
com’on Voters of Charisma
what is it you do not understand
of the symbol of the Apple…and American Apple Pie
give me the innocent intelligent candidate
and i’ll give you the road to freedom
the facing the fears implanted upon US
lead US not into the temptation
of lazy summer time
and deliver US from all slick snake clicking tongues
there is an antidote for poison
Take down those Walls, Congress
those controllers are building that do not
keep out the “undesirables” but do keep in
US citizens … locked in fear
giving up their freedom for security
of which they recieve not —
later, if not sooner, we all die…
get over it.
The more we consume in this slave-filled world
the dirtier we get!

Oh my Nancy Oh Pelosi
give us back our habeas
corpus. The Patriot Act
is unAmerican give us back
our shining light…
and they call it ’84…come a’Boar’d
2001 – was it not a Spaced Odd’essy?
When we let go of the pain
others have caused us
we can stop fearing to look
at the pain we caused others
Eli Bear says the bottom “level”
is the fear of dying, to which
Oh my Darling Clementine asks,
How do you explain
a suicide bomber’s
lack of fear of dying?

We are all Americans when it comes to
peace and war and democratic republics.
Will we be the shining Lighthouse on the hill,
giving hope to the oppressed or will we fall?

The whole world is watching…