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1000 LIVES



One thousand male arrows

it takes

to make one maid

dandelion seed ball



After 1000 lives

as husband son and brother

God did trust him

with one lifetime as a mother



(and because of that life

he is now the world's

best father)

(to WHO)



SPEED AND INACTION



The mind is attracted

to speed..

the heart to the slowness

of listening.







FREED FROM FACT



A woman of liberation

without limitation

A woman confident

soaring bov imitation

whose ideas may soar

freed of a cage of facts.



(to Elizabeth Williams

who discovered Mad Deer Disease

25 years ago at a research

station in Colorado)

(Currently many say that

the Colorado Dept of Wildlife

spread Mad Elk Disease)

http://www.mad-cow.org

http://www.maddeer.org





PRIEST AND RED SEA  (VISION)



A priest walked through a huge crowd which parted before

him like the Red Sea as he carried the lidded monstrance which contained within it the Host, the Eucharist, Christ as Bread.

He approached a woman and handed her the chalice. (Of the many possible interpretations one is that

whenever a soul is liberated, she is handed her own

divinity.  Another is that women will inevitably

be priests.



DIEU NHAN



Little baby girl

crawling on the floor

past the toys your

mother placed for you

.. over to the pen..

the pen to women

forbidden..

over and over

to the pen..

as blood flows in

all beings

so the ink waiting

to be written

flows in all women.



(to the first recorded

Buddhist Vietnamese woman

poet)





BEV EYES



Bev's eyes are portals

to realms immortal

which her kindness rules



(to Bev)



BYERS AVENUE



On Byers Avenue in HIGHland

Square in Summit County

in Akron in O Hi O

there lived an abortionist..

He asked a little girl across

the street

and aged six

to weed his garden for

2 bits

She took out all

of a certain blue plant.

He told her to go back

and get the rest.. so she took

out another kind.. a bright

red weaving weed.. He told

her not to finish til all

were gone.. til there was just a muddy

pile.. where once there'd been

green growing life.. that

was the last time she killed

for money.



PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONIST



She saw a partial birth abortionist

on tv.. an American

pilot who had dropped a daisy cutter

bomb on a pregnant woman.





CINDERELLA PUMPKIN



This year an 1100 pound pumpkin

broke previous records..

... perhaps she is

sad to be trapped

in such a big pumpkin

shell

.. where her growers

have 'kept her very well'

but her size has so

blessed others

.. and soon Cinderella

will

burst out of

her private hell.



      





WATER MONUMENT



Next to the monuments to

famous men of action

are often reflecting pools

or lakes:

monuments to their wives..



a place of receiving

not of imposing



the stone in the statue

is inert while the water

continues to empower







It is not known by all that upon Thomas Jefferson's death over 200 of

his slaves were sold on the auction block.. slaves in many cases who

had worked for him their entire lives Jefferson fought to make

Missouri a slave state.. His legacy lives on as both Missouri and

Virginia are in the execution column of states with racist patterns

of imposing the death penalty





FULL MOON PITCHER



The full moon poured

pitcher after pitcher

of coconut milk

into the sea..

and the sea..

the sea silvered it all.



(to Ruth Thomas, peace

educator for 91 years so

far)



MOTHER EARTH GIVES HERSELF AN A



Flaming maple leaves

fall to earth..

and spangle every plant

as Mother Earth decides

to give herself

and all her children

an A in the fall

.. and in the spring

she gives each field

many gold stars..

of sunny smiling

dandy lions





HOW JESUS' SOUL CAME TO MARY



Like falling rain

oer lilyleaf  tripped

       Like pure moon into bright

           cloud slipped

      Like setting sun into

      calm sea dipped

      did Jesus' soul

       come to Mary.



        Like communion

             chalice sipped

                 Like the river oer

          fallsbrim lipped

                 Like dewdrop out

                 of buttercup dripped

               was Jesus' soul

                 born of Mary.



                 (to Nancy M Wilson)











Sally E told us that there is an ocean of deep blue light which

immerses the entire Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington

DC. Nancy left for God in September of 2002.











      

SUN MOON AND STARS



When we were children,

we thought

our father was the gold sun,

and our mother the silver moon.

Not til earth set and

turned away from his sun, did we see

she was all the diamond stars.



(to our mother )









JILL OUT OF BOX



She liked sometimes to go to early morning

mass... when she was not a jack in the box..

told to stand up sit down kneel down

stand up sit down kneel down



And she was brave enough this weekend

to tell a man at the evangelical

gathering.. she no longer wanted

to be part of a flock of female

flamingoes..

or of sheep..

obediently following a hierarchical

male pastor..



She preferred alone

with God to confer

or in a circle of women

and men to concur





HEAD COVERING

  

Is it not odd

     that in the holy temples

            and mosques

     head covering is donned..

            while in churches

                & chapels it is doffed?



  Yet few change their hats

          when they enter

      the sacred ground

                of Mother Earth

       .. in spring greengowned

                .. or in fall

                when her leaves she

                  has offed

...........................

  The Course In Miracles: the holiest ground is that in which

                2 former foes reconcile



   Paul's injunction that women cover their heads in church is still

a  cause of controversy.. though his intention was perhaps that beauty

not distract others from worship





FIRE IN THEIR EYES



She could see

by the new fire

in their eyes

that she had lit

their souls



.. and yet

had not diminished

her own flame



(to Betty Friedan)









A 947 lb. pumpkin had been grown by a Smithville Ohio Carnegie

student 2 years ago and replaced by an 1100 lb. record breaker. God's

fruit yields 450,000 or more lbs. per acre.

http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian

http://www.egroups.com/messages/fruitarians not meant as an

endorsement of male oriented fairy tales but as an affirmation of the

infinite love within and around all beings



WOMEN INHERIT THE EARTH



The meek and women

shall inherit the earth

.. as macho male bodies

lie in the dirt..

while their souls have

gone to meet

the Maker of the Meek





Men live longer on vegan diet Men live longer when doing work they

love. Most heart attacks occur on Monday morning as people go to jobs

they hate.







GOD'S MAJORITY



Though her

inner voice

is only one..

by most a definite

minority

.. because

she is connected

to God

it ever is

God's majority

Though her sisters

around the world

sometimes feel

disempowered..

it is good to

remind each other

.. that we are

God's Majority







EVE RISING



Was it when Adam fell

or Eve fell

that

Eden fell

on a summer's eve?



Who knows?

but this we can tell

..

the bright moon

is on the horizon

and her

goddess Eve is Rising!!!



Fr Ron Lengwin of KDKA Radio: the apple was the heart of the first butchered animal





FELIX HELIX!



Eureka! Felix!

It's a helix!





to Rosalind Franklin whose research along with that of Linus Pauling

gave Watson and Crick crucial clues in their DNA discovery race





JEWISH WOMEN'S CAUCUS BOYCOTT OF MOSES



Before his death, her husband was sitting in the tub

musing one day.. and said "My wife organized the Jewish

Women's Caucus Boycott of Moses"..  a few minutes went

by  then.. "Wait! I am receiving a correction..!  My wife

was the very last woman to join the boycott!"



Years went by.. and she wondered what he meant..

and began to realize that she was a latecomer to the women's rights

movement.. not having considered it as high a priority.. for she had

been saturated in love and empowerment by her parents And then came

the realization that she had wimped out on Vanessa Redgrave.. who was

ostracized for supporting a Palestinian state.







INVISIBLE WOMAN



More subtle is invisible

Unseen greater than the seen

High notes are soft but higher go

Jesus washed His disciples' feet.

Yond ego's pale

she left no tracks

Turned so fast she

seemed not to move.

The child in man

do women feed

for what is it

love has to prove

Who is the prime minister of love?

Who the president of caring?

Who the chief exec of Kind?

Who the highest head of sharing?

Male pyramids melt

in female fire.

Mens' skyscrapers stop

where women's sky begins.

Who advertise

the soul in their eyes?

Who do anonymous saints

immortalize?



Some day master learns

the faithful servant

was his guru..

Male foam wake of ocean liner

riding on a female sea.

Male speech echoes

in mate's silence

Soundless quiet which

holds all beings





©to Constantina Salamone of World Women For Animal Rights in

Brooklyn.. who coined the word speciesism and ecofeminist as she

built a network of 15,000 ecofeminists worldwide.. She passed out in

Manhattan in 1970.. pamphlets on women animals.. the vast majority of

abused animals.. whose milk and eggs are stolen ..She is an artist,

mountainclimber, and uncontainable mystic http://www.eggcruelty.com

http://www.notmilk.com http://www.veganoutreach.org

http://www.wfad.org http://www.meatout.com This poem is not meant as

an attack on the millions of sensitive men in the world.. Those who

believe in reincarnation often believe that we switch from one gender

to another, life after life, as we attempt to reach perfect balance

between our own yin and yang





TOMATO VINE



The tomato stake

was proud that

he was stable

.. upright disciplined

and able

.. but it was the

weak spineless tomato vine

who provided

all the food for the table



**********



Course In Miracles: paraphrased.. At a certain point God will ask you

to abandon rigid schedules.. to be more flexible to the calls of

Spirit







**************()



MOON IN MIDST OF STARS



The harem man was a moon

surrounded by stars..

a moon because constant

preoccupation with the senses

had turned him into

the woman upon whom he focused

.. surrounded by stars.. harem

members

seemingly smaller in stature

but in actuality of much

greater spiritual size and light



PUMPKIN VINE DESCENSIONS



                 Nightly to heaven

                 their souls' ascension

                 To Heart Thrones,

                 heart queens' accessions

                 To lower boughs,

                 laden fruit trees' recessions.

                 To Earth Hearth

                 Pumpkin Vines' decensions



Now comes the Spirit

who frees

all women

from pumpkin shells

Now comes the Spirit

who liberates

women from sexist

Cinderelle.





to C Salamone, coiner of the word ecofeminist and builder of a

network of over 15,000 ecofeminists.. also coiner of the phrase human

chauvinism



KWON YIN



She was Kwon Yin,

a divine mother of mercy

.. but when she had to,

she could also be Kwon Yang.



(to Jan F, Jan B, Jan E

JBO and JP)



EVE



As sun sets and in quiet

eve drops

a gentle rain now from

the eaves drops

Angels unbidden on Eve's soul

eavesdrop

rejoicing as guilt

finally... Eve drops



(the Sanskrit advaita theory of nonduality

as well as the unified theory of physics

.. say that God is the only Doer)









PEWS AND QUEUES



Women sat sheeplike

listening to men from pews

Women as slaves

for men's orders did queue

.. for the jails of pews

and queues

were our minded p's and q's..



Here and there we began

to gather clues

until from millenial

sleep .. out of the blue

we were awakened

by dawning freedom's



trumpet cue



STONE CHURCH



A stone church

of many chambers

in it at night

glow many lights amber

.. like an ossified

hierarchy...

whose laity

brings light



WALLFLOWERS



No more wallflowers..

no more women with quietly

broken hearts..

as they are passed by

at dances..

Women are freed

and women have..

the day seized



BAGLADIES





Why are bagmen

considered money carriers

while against bagladies

are erected barriers?



GODDESS OF THE SUN



The goddess of the sun

says goodnight

slipping away

behind her fan of rays

but in the morn she

comes our way

.. making rainbows of

crashing wave spray



MAGDALENE



No longer involved

in polyandry..

... her aura turned

all into Polyanna's



HEMLOCK



Socrates was killed by

the state with hemlock

... so many Greek men

then

did women's hems lock

.. did consign them

to domestic slavery



COMPLEX



The issues of sex

of gay

or straight

concave or convex

... have millions

of factors..

they're very complex



GOD'S SUN IN SIDE

EVERYONE



God has every

being with sanctity

anointed

not just those

in yoga double jointed

not just those by

male hierarchs

appointed



ARMAGEDDON OF AGAMEMNON



As the Armageddon

of Agamemnon

came through Helen

whom he had ravaged..

so will the Armageddon

of the violent men

who wage war

on this planet..

come from the hands of the billions

of women

they have abused, dominated, silenced.

Women will be more merciful

than the violent men they dethrone.



POWER AND BEAUTY



most statues are of warmongering

old men..

most pornography is of young women..

inflexible ancient stone..

.. rigid power seeking to violate

is beaten by concord

.. now new green ivy leaves

.. have conquered.



ANNE PERRY



As in the hive only the queen

had rights and all the other

women were slaves,

English law was kind to the queen

but  other women had no recourse

when married to knaves.





(to Anne Perry whose book Bethlehem

Road details a litany of horrors

in the law)



NIGHT RESURRECTION



Resurrection is compared

to the sun's morning light

but yin sleep as well

has healed.. throughout the night.



DISTILLATION OF POETRY



While the nights are very still

the vine continues to distil

Then the days makes ripe

  grape thoughts

Soon purple liquid poems outspill.



(to Rita Dove)



. 1000 LIVES

. ANNE PERRY

. ARMAGEDDON OF AGAMEMNON

. BAGLADIES

. BEV'S EYES

. BYERS AVENUE

. CINDERELLA PUMPKIN

. COMPLEX

. DISTILLATION

. EVE RISING

. FELIX HELIX

. FIRE IN THEIR EYES

. FREED FROM FACT

. FULL MOON PITCHER

. GOD'S MAJORITY

. GOD'S SUN INSIDE EVERYONE

. HEAD COVERING

. HEMLOCK

. HOW JESUS' SOUL CAME TO MARY

. INVISIBLE WOMAN

. JEWISH WOMEN'S CAUCUS BOYCOTT OF MOSES

. JILL OUT OF BOX

. KWON YIN

. LAWBREAKERS

. MAGDALENE

. MOON IN MIDST OF STARS

. MOTHER EARTH GIVES HERSELF AN A

. NIGHT RESURRECTION

. PEWS AND QUEUES

. POWER AND BEAUTY

. PUMPKIN VINE DESCENSIONS

. SUN MOON AND STARS

. TOMATO VINE

. VISION OF MONSTRANCE

. WALLFLOWERS

. WATER MONUMENT

. WOMEN INHERIT THE EARTH



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