The End Of Suffering
“Danger” The innocent fear not!
Choosing instead life’s wonders
Without remorse or afterthought
‘Tho they may be prone to blunder
Youth are programmed to believe
By media, religion, academia
“You live and then you die”
So from the cradle they do grieve
Impending death and Satan’s lies
They know not;
“You get what you expect”
“Reap what you sow”
To claim “self respect”
To “Just go with the flow”
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Time
Why do you measure time when time is measureless?
Why do you adjust your conduct and direct,
The course of your spirit according to hours and seasons?
You’ve made time a stream upon whose bank you sit and watch flowing.
The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness,
And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and
Tomorrow is but today’s dream.
That which sings and contemplates in you still,
Dwells within the bounds of the first moment which
Scattered the stars into space.
If you must measure time into seasons, let each
Season encircle all the other seasons.
Indeed, let today embrace the past with remembrance,
And the future with sweet longing.
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Why Do I Love You So?
A rhetorical question to be sure
I love you because;
My heart raced the very first time I met you
There was something strangely familiar in your eyes
A memory from some other time and place
A lightning bolt struck my heart…
My heart etched with your name forever
Our first kiss was sublime and like no other
Alas, we were too young to consummate our love
I left to make my way in life
You stayed behind to continue education
Others came and went for both of us
You with yours, I with mine
Young hearts torn apart by time and distance
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We Are The 99%
People bravely took to city streets
Determined to effect positive change
Occupying parks n’ other public places
Beginning with Wall St. stock exchange
Carrying placards, expressing discontent
They set up tents preparing for “Long term”
Non-violent “Occupiers” did shout n’ vent
Making mayors n’ officials sweat n’ squirm;
After hearing in one-voice “We’re the 99%”
Police n’ agent provocateurs’ would try
To incite the growing crowds to violence
Remaining calm the people refused comply
One flustered cop maced helpless women,
Trapped behind an orange fence
Occupation is but one finger in a leaky dike
‘Til “The 99%” go out on “General strike”
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Schizophrenia
A few lost souls walk our city streets
Talking to beings no one else can see
They visit realms beyond “The five senses”
Alas, these gifted few are scorned for this ability
“Medicate” the ignorant doctors’ say
“Bind n’ gag these strange creatures”
“They’re no good for society anyway”
“They’re an aberration” bleat the preachers
In truth;
When the thin veils to other realities begin to fall
What’s seen as “Madness” may be “Transformation”
Assuming activation of Spirit, “Drugs” do not forestall
One moves to higher consciousness and animation
Judge not those you do not understand or accept
For varied is the path of a “Spiritual Adept”
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“the War On Terror” Is But A Ruse”
The “War on terror” is but a ruse!
Just another in a series of distractions
Designed to instill fear and to confuse,
Or garner sympathetic n’ gullible reactions
“Big brother is watching”, as Orwell foretold;
A time when gone would be all “Civil rights”
A time when precious lives were bought n’ sold
A time when middle class fed greedy appetites
Wake up, get informed n’ get some smarts
‘Fore net surrounds n’ drags you down to hell
Don’t let TSA Agents grope your private parts,
Or hotel clerks from spying on their clientele
Change shall come from peaceful revolution
Envision and thereby manifest;
“One love” “One heart” “One solution”
ROTMS
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Forced Austerity
Gone the days of "Great prosperity"
"Middle Class" has "Gone to seed"
Feds' impose "Forced austerity"
After failing economy atrophied
Poor n' homeless hit the street
Becoming denizens of the night
Burgling cars n' homes to eat
Wrath n' fury of police incite
President n' Congress
Are both deaf n' blind
Criminals!
Ah…but I digress,
Don't wanna be unkind
Future now controlled by "World Banks"
Who care not for what they burn n' crash
They just roll our more troops n' tanks
Create more debt n' steal our cash
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The Lizard Wizard
Known as “Devil, Satan, Beelzebub”
By all world religions far n’ wide
Totems are the goat, owl n’ scarab
His specialties are war n’ genocide
Works black magic behind a curtain
Whilst the unsuspecting romp n’ play
He wants their souls, that’s for certain
First he must lead their minds astray
He bribes weak-minded folks with money
Knows where n’ when to press your buttons
He makes grand promises of milk n’ honey
Whilst minions heat up sooty cauldrons
*“So don't be tempted by the shiny apple
Don't you eat of a bitter fruit
Hunger only for a taste of justice
Hunger only for a world of truth
'Cause all that you have is your soul”
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Rainforest
(Sonnet To Tree Lovers)
How beautiful this place, we named “Cedar Haven”
Nestled in the foothills, on west slope of Mt Hood
A place inhabited by bear, deer, coyote and raven
A place where stands of old growth fir once stood
Should rain, wind or flood, dare come our way
Towering cedar trees surround, protect this land
Silent giants shade below, as happy children play
Come and gone, a hundred generations spanned
Rainforest undisturbed, forever does renew
Contributing to Earth’s health and balance
Reaching for the Sun, through skies of blue
Filters air we breathe, then oxygen enhanced
Protect forest land; take not trees for granted
Rewards abound for every seedling planted
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Slavery
Slavery be a bane to all mankind
As been so throughout the ages
After every invasion, slavery you find
Plain folk confined in rusting cages
Not long ago;
Spanish punished with rods and whips
Friars and Jesuits demanded toil
Later Europeans;
Kidnapped Africans, moved in ships
To waiting hands who did be-spoil
Today debt be the slavers preferred tool
Usury/foreclosure the banker's norm
With trickery and inflation they fool
Complaints met with men in uniform
More misery to come ‘lest more awaken
With "Debt amnesty" quickly declared
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