poem - Peace Party

...band names
children, recipes, guitar,
reading and travel stapled and taped together

Fight fabulously for freedom, or against terror -ism

a soldier said she missed the orange juice

please play politely impassioned parents intoned

she likes orange juice too

too long en-toured soldiers missed

too long lips un-kissed

and upon returning, families finding

mental health un-wound

impassioned freedom against terror fighters

finding mental health and care without

and pittance for pay within

the nation's notices of terror narrated

noisily, unnecessarily,

now unneeded (not unheeded) the place for speech as

“from within. Do not seek it without.”

Famous faces narrate needs for fighting

not re-counting families uniting

worrying about paying the lighting

and having orange juice

when, or if, they are coming home.

The quote is from Sakyamuni Buddha who is speaking about peace.

Written for the 2008 Weekend of Peace

T-shirt sayings #643

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children
recipes, mandolin,
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I thought of a new saying today:

"It'll come, it'll come.

'Til then, income."

What d'ya think, catchy, huh?

poem - 8 hands

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guitar, children,
recipes, mandolin,
reading and travel stapled and taped

8 hands

I leave eight hands at home, not just six

I do take two with me.

I leave eight eyes at home, not only six

I take two with me.

Eight legs, eight ears, and four hearts

beating softly before dawn

I steal this from my slumber time,

so that I might better play laugh sing,

during the many hours of parenting

relating, and conferring.

I can barely recall, a time

Having ten hands, ten eyes and ears

five hearts beating softly before dawn,

in which these limbs and senses

were not part of my waking thoughts

and also the time from which

I wake.

Eight hands, eight eyes, four hearts,

ten, ten, and five I take along

softly before dawn.

published in Poets Espresso

poem - what the big hill taught 1

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religion, children
reading,
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What the Big Hill Taught 1

Running without brakes

rushing over grass and driveways

leaping across bumps

all the way down

is a thrill

and sometimes

you crash...

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religion, children
recipes, mandolin,
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Mostly immersed in classroom prep and
anti-fear bow stringing in order
to shoot ed-arrows faster and further

next year I'll try a compound bow

Ten Words on Democracy

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Ten Words...

(((beat box)))

I say in democracy we

are all about how we

elect, select,

protect, respect, not invect, but in

honesty, our citizenry, got a place to be,

in my country, where everybody sees

me...

(((rhythm track, up the bass)))

Mary Oliver

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recipes, mandolin,
reading and travel stapled and taped

Hecate: Moccasin Flowers by Mary Oliver

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