59 Action

Grey sea and grey skies are one... yet does the sudden
crimson sailed boat give hope and perspective.as it defines
the horizon where the sun will be rising.

--
(to the graduates of Ohio State... may the students and alumni
end primate, dog, cat, horse, mouse, cow, pig, sheep and all other
university research and slaughter.. including the course in mice spine
breaking.... see Physicians' Comm. For Responsible Medicine...
and Protect Our Earth Treasures, Poetwill)
(Alex Pacheco, cofounder of PETA, is a graduate of Ohio State,
May this university once again be committed to low tuition as it is
to high standards)

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First The Lightning Then The Rain

First comes her lightning..
then her rain
first her humor
with kindness in its train
First the baptism by fire
and then water's laving
First Uranus
.. the way for Neptune paving

She does not in Uranian ways
laugh in her sacred church
.. but issues lightning bolts
of compassion from the pulpit

Uranus must twice revolve
to equal Neptune's once resolve

*************
(to Dr Ginnie Bourquardez, founder

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Water Never Has To Work

Water never has to work
He runs as he pleases
Pours on under winter ice
when his surface freezes
Merrily over rocks he goes
rocks on which others smash
Joyfully over waterfalls flows
Falls on which others crash.
Through granite faced gorges
None can hope to climb
Through different countries
no passport need he find
and when he reaches the salty sea
He's lifted up by the Sun.

Water through life easily floats
but bears several ton barges and boats
Water detached from every home
but shelters homeless
birds as he roams.

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45 Equity

Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder Sometimes it
was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunder..
and made them beat... empathic in pain.
*
A bee willing to hang upside down in drooping blooms
will harvest more honey. But the converse is not true..
those who work the hardest are not those who make the money.
*
He attempted to live by ten tenets.. he tried to all
to be tender, not to profit off of tenants
*
The puzzle master has an eye to each color splash, every unique
shape. The self realized master sees only the same blazing God in all.

-

Oh Martin is to all who like Martin Luther King have worked
for victories over racism.

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Grey Cloud

There once was a grey cloud
which filled the sky.
Thirsty plants called to her
bounty on high.

She gave and she gave
in response to their call
Trees in her rains of great grace
grew green tall

So much she did give
she became faintly traced
So slight now her cloud
angel wings tiny laced

but a raintree for his
dried grasses cried
She gave of her last and
became nothing at all

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Peach Grove Next To Abbatoir

Next to an abbatoir
grows a peach grove.
The former has screams.
The latter is silent.
The slaughterhouse
stinks of blood and urine
and solid waste.
The peach grove is fragrant.
The slaughterhouse yields
a maximum 1000 pounds an acre of
food.
The peach grove yields in
trilevel agriculture four hundred
fifty thousand pounds an acre.
The slaughterhouse is labor
intensive and causes many worker
injuries and deaths.
The peach tree requires nothing
but a seed beneath dirt. The sun
and rain and mother earth

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Blood Sweat And Tears

We have nothing to offer
you.. say the cows of
their gravy.. but our
blood, sweat, and tears.

How is it that their
tears..
are crystalline and clear
when they are made of
crimson blood and torn
from their broken hearts?

How is it that such tiny
orbs.. can contain
a globe of suffering?

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(to Ingrid Newkirk..
No 2 people in the animal rights movement agree on priorities
or tactics, but Ingrid Newkirk, cofounder of PETA, has with the help

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27 Release

The rising moon ball... tossed by the uncaptive unclubbed Matterhorn seal.
*
Begins to emerge the bubble From the bubble blowing spear
Not til it leaves.. without fear will it be a perfect sphere
*
spider web brothel cannot hold
the fallen petal's fading gold
nor icepalace' freezing chains
longer freed waterdrops hold
*
The most radiant area in a master is the halo around her or
his head. But in an icicle it is the base from which it
slowly drips, each diamond dropp jeweling in the light.
*
Lust, the false love, handed her a hemlockian cuplet
which her heart distilled into a couplet.
*
Before the rumbling thunder comes the crash of lightning...
with light the sky whitening as it is cloudburden lightening
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28 Wind Poems

Wind chimes play not on time... but when the Spirit moves.

The South Wind has for the evening donned jasmine scent*
*
The wind weaves many white caps so quickly for the blue sea
*
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.
*
Will, your winded wings will win.
*
Clouds' whitewaterweave covered the sky.. and yet
everywhere there was a patch of blue.. it was a different
hue... here aqua.. there cerulean... or teal or indigo
*
The east wind blowing westward marries the falling rain
turning her attention elsewhere
*
Crosswinds quilt the Connecticut River ever so slightly

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God Bless All

God bless
the Polish of Chicago
the Puerto Ricans of the Bronx
the Serbians of Cleveland
the Cubans of Miami
the Mexicans of Phoenix
the Lebanese of Detroit
the Irish of Boston
the English of Charleston
the Asian Indians of Washington
the Palestinians of Toledo
the Chinese of San Francisco
the Syrians of Dearborn
the Czechs of Stamford
the Japanese of Hawaii
the Scotch of Burlington
the French Canadians of Portland
the Native Americans everywhere
the Swedes of Minneapolis
the Norwegians of Pierre

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