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POEM: Guise With Guns

Guns don’t kill people; bullets ripping through organs, flesh, and bones do. GUN VIOLENCE = MEANNESS X FEAR Guise With Guns It hit me in a flash Seeing through Guise with guns They are more frayed Than I am In … Continue reading

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POEM: Dwelling on This Earth

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools” –Martin Luther King, Jr. Dwelling on This Earth I reflect up On awe the violence In this whirled And what peers before me As a sore lack … Continue reading

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POEM: Missing an I

I would love to save the world. Fortunately, this does not depend on me alone. I want to join movements with others who savor justice, joy, and love. Here is a poem on this theme: Missing an I Hear I … Continue reading

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POEM: F-16

Sometimes life is a walk in the neighborhood. Sometimes not. F-16 I was strolling in my neighborhood Trying to avoid The usual noise pollution From technological whored A roaring lawnmower hear A gas weed whacker whacking there A whirring leaf … Continue reading

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POEM: No How

This poem is about the tragedy of applying great human know-how to war. No How How fright Fully billed War ships Fighter jets Arms of every sort As craft As fly As crack aims As wreckin’ as kill As wack … Continue reading

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POEM: Genocide Heirs

I can see how people find opposing all wars as problematic, and see situations where they would organize mass killings of their enemies. Frankly, from an international law and human rights perspective, I think that it is impossible in practice … Continue reading

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POEM: Mirror Palestine

The U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza is a horrific failure of humanity and godliness. We must look unflinchingly at what this means for US. Mirror Palestine Mirror, mirror, behind a wall Who is beautiful One and all Helled Up to the … Continue reading

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POEM: At Last Picked

In the era of Team Cruel, life can be in hospitable. At Last Picked There is allot Of blood sports In the schoolyard of life And death Teeming with God’s children A lot Left wanting To be picked Last

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POEM: Seize Fire Wow

Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat has been assassinated by Israel after being openly put on a hit list last October. Hossam is the latest in over 200 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza. In … Continue reading

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POEM: Awe the Answers Hour in Nature

Nature provides lots of answers when we are stuck in our heads and big boxes, we call home. Awe the Answers Hour in Nature I shook my ahead Soully pondering That space between mine years I have Never won An … Continue reading

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POEM: Landing On, Peace for Palestine

Thank you, Ziad, for sharing your father’s story with me. I am inspired by his deep connection to the land and people of Palestine. Drinking a cup of olive oil each morning and valuing the olive trees as more than … Continue reading

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POEM: Bent Knee Walking

I see conflict as an unavoidable aspect of life. Even with my best intentions I end up harming others in various ways. Certainly, I can greatly limit this through effort and attention on my part. Still, there is a chasm … Continue reading

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POEM: Meat Our Future

It’s a bout the bought ensouled. We are not merely bouncing meat. Meat Our Future Violence is unacceptable Accept when we do it That soul exception As we meat Our future

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POEM: The Biggest Flail Ever

War is a failure of humanity at so many levels. Certainly, mass violence favors authoritarians and constricts and degrades all things progressive in the body politic. The Biggest Flail Ever With ravenous waist Warmongers Gut it out A triumph of … Continue reading

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POEM: Mystic Ink 2.0 (to point: oh!)

As I have moved into retirement, I noticed on my facebook profile that my “employment” was outmoded. So, I have created a new busyness: Mystic Ink 2.0 (to point: oh!). As a little background, in 2011, I decided to write … Continue reading

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POEM: Courting Civil Disobedience

One of the things that I would like to do in this new year is organize my life in such as way that I can commit civil disobedience and risk jail time while minimizing the destructive effect on other parts … Continue reading

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POEM: The Problem with Violence

Violence begets violence. Violence begs violence. Violence gets violence. The Problem with Violence To every axing There is an equal And opposite axing It only takes A wile

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POEM: Unentitle Fight

Today is another good day to end the U.S.-Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. This poem goes out to the Palestinian people. Unentitle Fight U.S.-Israeli genocide Round nein! The bell He of the beast Verses people of awe … Continue reading

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POEM: Fratricide

In case you didn’t no, fratricide is the killing of one’s brother, or sister, or any member of  won’s own, such as children of God. O Israel, do not bring a bout a hollowed future echoing with grief. Fratricide We … Continue reading

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POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late

Israel has embraced 1984 doublespeak with it’s “de-escalation through escalation.” Our addiction to violence as the only response to violence spawns absurd levels of destruction. We need to inject nonviolence into confrontations, or be drug to war. Needle-less to Say: … Continue reading

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