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BAPTISM BEFORE BATTLE

Some soldiers before battle

approached army chaplains..

asking to be baptized..



Little lambs, placed on the altar of

sacrifice by the rich who control

the government,

you were baptized in water..

and in the blood of Christ..



may your own blood be kept

unspilled

may the blood of those you fought

be kept unspilled



All are baptized in Spirit..



and some chaplains and pastors are courageous

enough to repeat the words of Jesus, Isaiah,

and the Father:



Peter put down your sword.

Blessed are the Peacemakers for they shall be called

  the Children of God

Turn your weapons into plowshares.

They shall study war no more.

Thou shalt not kill.

I de3light not in your blood sacrifice.

Break not the bruised reed.

The lion shall lie down with the lamb.. they shall not

  hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain.



BLACK ORANGE CATERPILLAR



A bikewheel

has crushed

half of the

black orange

fuzzy caterpillar.

Will he die?

Will he be

a one winged butterfly?



APPLE TREE



The apple tree

has no commercials

in the movie of her unfolding

.. she does not make

passes at her friends

.. she does not spill

oil on newfallen snow

.. she does not sign

the fruit she gives entire



VICTIMS' BLOOD TURNS TO SACRED INK



The murders of

Cain and Moses

David and Saul..

were done in jealousy

or anger, or

lust or obedience

to the state.

Their victims' blood scarlet

became the violet ink sacred

of epistles, psalms

and the transcribed

words of GOD.



Writers often metamorphose

pain into ink

and the smell of the rose.



http://www.amnesty.org

http://www.cuadp.org

http://www.tcadp.org

http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/abolish.html

http://www.ccadp.org

http://www.egroups.com/messages/ohioabolition

http://www.state.ga.us to write the Governor of Georgia





ALTER NOT THE ALTAR





They do not

a single plant

alter

which God has placed

on Mother Earth's altar.

For all terra's candles

are Mother Earth's.



They do not alter

a single path of water

for all rivers

are the ocean's daughters.



PRIVATE CAR



When the Pentagon

Petroplutocracy

has been purified

we will again

have wonderful trains..

many free..

perhaps a little more

if you order a private

car..

with your own kitchen

and bed and tv



PURPLE CLUSTERS



Lying in a hammock

beneath the trellis

grapevined

looking at the

hanging purple clusters

and above them shines

the blazing lustre

of cloud clusters



POINTILIST



Orange berried leafless

tree

leafless in fall gainst blue sky

.. a pointilist painting



SUNFAN



The goddess of the sun

retires for the night

through clouds

spreading her fan

of rays of light





MY JESUS



My Jesus is the

Jesus of the 100th lamb..

the prodigal son..

the handicapped man who

sat by the Bethesda Pool

for so many years

the 11th hour worker



Whatsoever we have done

to those we perceive

as the least of His

brethren.. we have done to Him.



GENTLE COW AND BABY JESUS



the gentle cow

made room in her home



when none else did



for the birth of



the Baby Jesus..





yet how do His disciples

repay her..

do they unwittingly

betray her?



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GOD IS IN CONTROL



Indians and Africans

and Yanks

Chinese Canadians

and Manx

to God give humble thanks

that gone is the power of

billionaires' banks

to kill with bombs and

missiles and tanks

BEARERS OF BARRIERS

They claim of God's message of
universal love to be the carriers
yet are the very pastors, rabbis,
mullahs, priests
who are the bearers of barriers.
Because they fail to speak out
against religious wars...
more are employed to
kill blackberry bush berriers
as they soldiers' and civilians' graves..
More are employed as buriers.

-© saiom shriver-


http://www.christianveg.com

http://www.jesusveg.com

http://groups.msn.com/christianveg













© Saiom Shriver



an affirmation prayer that the Army Corps of Engineers will bow to

the people and to Mother Earth