Would that they were in the world as here on the page Hinduism Jainism Shintoism Judaism Taoism Paganism Confucianism Buddhism Baha’i Christianity Islam existing in peace Poem appeared first in “The Fires of Spring” by Rayn Roberts 2002
Poems ~ Publications
The New, New Colossus
Give me your powerful chairman of boards Your bankers brokers hungry war lords Your lawyers quick to make a deal Judgmental preachers with fiery zeal The loudmouth fat-cat tycoon Your guns for hire: give me your goons Your huddled masses of real estate stars American idols in fancy cars, give me The plotter schemer corporate […]
I Have It All
I am my own self without doubt
Cat without apology or excuse
Wild fields of Siam Tulips in the Pa Hin Ngam National Park / Thailand — by Evan Sawyer
Wild fields of Siam Tulips in the Pa Hin Ngam National Park / Thailand This is a truly remarkable photo of rare beauty in Thailand by Evan Sawyer. Thanks Evan! First Pic is from the same place but, I’m not sure it’s Evan’s or not..
Toward Greater Peace
I set a plate of fish and hide
A Few Bad Apples?
The War on Americans. Attacks on the Free Press. A war is over when hostilities end and people become civil again. The Civil War never ended. Racism in America is due, in part, to the inability of Americans to end the violence of war. So it goes on with talk of a second Civil War […]
Contemplation by Water
This is how I spend the days– nothing is for sure or what it seems in the sacred web as morning flowers into sun– I stand at a window watching herons out to sea the scent of wisteria over water moves in the fine yellow Gobi dust of China trees fill the air ever-green I […]
Gwisin at Seoraksan
An hour in autumn– alone yet not I saw a stretch of centuries, people, forms I’d been that made me what I am today– sad for what fights to spite death but cannot win pushing against a tide of joy and pain— Listen, the last cicada singing in a twisted pine chanting the past and […]
Senior Complaint
I have an underlying health condition cause unknown, like addiction to Aunt Nora or Widow Jane, a thing always just out of reach, yeah seeking either as I’m a dealer, is insane but when deprived I feel something, something is seriously wrong with this ragtag raging world, oh sin oh sympathy, I have that too, […]
After the Paris Accord Disagreement
The head of a white praying mantis manifests on a table it’s a breakfast plate, eat, eat dead meat, aborted chicks cold toast and cow fat, sip your java carefully, the beans are picked by Colombian slaves, you will need strength to cut down another thousand trees, you need toothpicks to pick the human bones […]
