Why A Lifetime Of Suffering?
If you ask me why
good people must
endure a life of suffering
now I could make reply
after so many decades living
with many answers differing
I could truthfully say
in life to all eventually
comes a time of testing
causes for stumbling
Jesus said to his disciples
“It is unavoidable that causes:
for stumbling should come.
Nevertheless, woe to the one
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The Thrower Of Souls
skipping skimming stones
across yesterdays pools
across no longer existent
aberrant causative time...
points of intersection
are stones skipping skimming
bouncing forth into future
possibilities leaping through time...
Adonai Elohoim chose
smooth flat round grey stones
flung forth at precise angles
acute to the adjacent water
skipping skimming kinetic energy
like magic majestic leaps dances
across deep smooth shimmering water
flashing ripples smack rippling forth
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Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman?
Me thinks much ink
has been spilt
over the poem;
‘Phenomenal Woman’
by Maya Angelou.
Me thinks it is time
I stuck my oar in
had my say;
hopefully in a far
less controversial way.
So I ask all these supposedly
expert men who
read read read her poem;
then see red red red
who is Maya Angelou?
A Phenomenal Woman?
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Neoliberalism And The IMF
Who imposed neoliberalism upon
its victims and what is vile agenda?
Neoliberalism revealed road to hell.
As neoliberalism spreads
agenda fed around the world
like a modern day plague
or a Sheriff of Nottingham
coldly counting out gold coins
amassed stolen from serfdom.
We skip merrily to powerhouse
baron modern day bankers
International Monetary Fund.
The serf medieval farmer
of feudal Europe cultivating
land belonging to a knight?
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Burned By The Light
When I was young so young so long ago.
Of an age, teenage, and less, much much less.
I used to say, to myself; repeatedly, to myself.
‘I am a voice crying in the wilderness.
Who am I? Who am I? ’
When I was young so young so long ago.
Of an age, teenage, and less, much much less.
I used to ask this question.
Constantly this question.
‘Words are the tools of my trade.
Who am I? What am I? ’
It was ever an unanswered question.
No one except I, myself, could ever give an answer.
It was only I who saw the lamp.
‘I saw the lamp.’
I saw the lamp shining in the darkness.
I saw the lamp so softly so warmly glowing.
Like mesmerized moth I danced, circling
birthright ring of fire, as I ever tread my mesmeric path,
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Life Light Ecosystem Creates Miracle Vision
eagles soar on high thermals
fly through such wonderous freeborn skies
a multiversality of kaleidoscopic sensual
spiritual ever changing seasons
nest on highest most noble
sun eclipsed inaccessible crags
or vibrant living temples
trees raising towards heaven
growing upwards into host life
giving light range soar
across desolate canyons
holy places where Native Americans
built pueblo adobe houses
care houses upon spiritual sun paths
piercingly beautiful sky images
celebrating auras earth heat
thermal energy fields keen eyes
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Counting Skeletons Maze Masterpiece War
counting skeletons
broken dreams
upon destruction rocks
lost dead souls
who died in revolutions wars
lost grand causes
festering generations
decline in dissent protests battles
paid for in blood baths
wasted lives
rotten corpses
dead heroes
scared or reluctant sacrifice souls
afraid to offend authorities rogue countries
play non-confrontational activities
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Perspective Stand
There are those that pass,
unseeing.
They walk blindly,
seeing only
what they hope to gain.
And for them, emptiness
like a dog on leash
will seldom stray.
Though still many
pass and see the pool.
The pool’s edges
are sparsely lined with damp
moss-covered rocks,
that share the bank with fern
and a profusion
of vine hosting trees.
Small native birds
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Zoe Reno Is Not A Car?
Hey Reno! Get the name right!
Hey Reno! Zoe is not a common noun!
Zoe is a first name! A Christian name!
In Greek Zoe means life, abundant life!
Zoe Reno is a young girl, your car stole her name!
Oh Zoe is not a name you do not believe me?
Your paid judge has ruled Zoe is not a first name!
Ever heard of St. Zoe, a Roman noble woman?
Several notable Christian women were named Zoe!
Two were empresses ruling in the Byzantine empire!
Their recorded rule kinda out rules your judge!
St. Zoe the Roman noble woman was martyred!
Why? For her Christian faith in Emperor Diocletian’s
famous severest last persecution of the Christian church!
What it is not a living word? Ok you do not buy it fine!
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Why Did This Have To Happen To Me Lord?
If you were walking upon the warm sands
of a beautiful spring beach as the sun held
steady midday course in clear blue sky as
kind wind swept as a soft free breeze across...
reflective beauty of beautiful sand dunes
laced with clumps tufts of wild tussock grass
herbfield habitats stop sand blow harbour
insects foods for insects birds small animals...
long grass roots aid dune slope stabilization
erosion control soil porosity sweet water life
hydraulic conductivity of pore spaces ratio
of permeability of material pores compaction...
degree of saturation water movement through
saturated media infiltration process by which
water on the ground surface enters soil through
pores by forces of gravity and capillary action...
behold superlative intricate complexity laws
fixed in descending levels detail even in pore
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