RAMBLINGS AND TIRADES OF O ANNA NIEMUS


The rain in Maine falls
mainly on the
main.
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the jadehued pines
don't climb peaks Alpine..
visible the mountain's will..
in her stonemade spine
*
At the mountaintop
God has greened the gray
granite with lichen lime
*
not til one by benefit
of the car's escalation arrives at the
summit's elevation, can he in
grateful exhalation
see from the top
of this exhilaration
... a 360 degree circle of other
mountains stretching away to
the horizon.
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millions of animal rights activists
around the world work together
like a dancing electric school
of fish.. moving mountains daily
*
from the warmth
of the sun's ray tongs
melt glacier tongues
into rivers' tongues
*
Some Asians cook
shrimp without removing
their eyes.. those sweet
little eyes on stalks
can no longer look
at their abusers.
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he said she had the
fidelity
of a firefly
but like a semaphore
blinking on and off
she was true to her own
nature
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it is impossible to unlove..
for love like God is omnipresent,
all encompassing
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the most slender seaslivers
are enough for sandsilver to
catch the sun
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God who did the
seashore scallop
meant bays to protect
His crabs lobsters and scallops
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one felt claustrophobic in the mountains
.. the other was happy no where else
.. so they lived together on mountains
overlooking the sea
*
the seashore zen monastery
has no clutter..
its erased palates help ones
soul and mind to draw anew
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Oceanside, the endless sky and
sea and sun..
where endless water, air and fire
elements draw earth into joy
*
in the sheltered cove the tide
moved 20 feet in 20 minutes..
the sea like God reaching out in
relentless waves of
unconditional love..
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in the conch shells
the sound of om
while the surf sounds in ecstasy
and bluesea curls into waves
which break into sunstarred white foam
.. here by the temple of the sea
gather worshippers of the sun
*

Why is evil sometimes
in the short run popular?
horror shows, objectifying
pornography,
and new wars?
there are many shadows
but only 1 sun
.. there are many shattered
shards.. only 1 whole..
There are many lying
accounts.. only 1 truth
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the womanizer was touched
by God and began to
make amends
for the scalps on his belt,
for the impaled butterflies
under lepidopterist glass,
for the women he turned
into objets d'art
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he was a 300 lb. man
His footprints were
heavier in the sand
.. filled by seasurf
they reflected the stars
*
as a smudge
on his computer screen
caused the 0 to look like an 8
so can violent criminals be caught
by their own trails
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more than a skier looks for snowflakes
or a farmer for rain
or a Ramadan faster for nightfall
or a night watchman for the dawn
the warrior sought for
the shower of a ticker tape parade
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he built with stone stucco
metal clay and rock
and other nontree materials
cement brick and block
*
eating tin saturated
meat and fish he'd
become a tin woodman
.. rigid and weighed down
.. now he would change
*


He saw his first Venus flytraps
and rescued the moths
struggling...
because bugs have more
rights than plants
*
Chuang Tzu says a bare room
is easiest to clean.
The uncluttered seashore
is the most beautiful.
The desireless soul
has the most clarity and purity
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What if the sun wanted
a vacation?
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The goose is ringed
around the throat that
she not be able to expel
her force fed food.
The cormorant is ringed
around the throat
that she not be able
to eat the fish
she caught.. but
must return it to
her captors
.. humans do not allow
the fishing bird
her catch to swallow
*
Is it sacrifice when
the laden fruit tree
drops her fruit?
No.. it is the joy
of release
*
the sun sparkling upon
the sea and in the tidal
pools has created
zillions of electric fish
swimming in schools
*

the pair of windchimes
were sorrowing
until the wind blew
and then they
tinkled in joy

*
what a terrible thing
to project the political
party of war profiteers
and henhawk puppeteers
onto innocent elephants
*

the factory nightshift favorite
caller is dawnpink
*

killing trees is treeson
*
the money to repair Twin Cities bridge went to bomb bridges in Iraq
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sodium nitrate, red dye number 2,
colors the green, grey and brown
of
animal flesh red
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better than linear
rows of machine
harvested peanuts
are refprestomg pecans
to whom the birds sing
a grateful paean

*
forgiving expels
cancer cells
*
The cascade never ceases
its merriment nor its music
*

bathing in the aura of
forgiveness is as healing
as drinking the liquid love
of melted snowwaters
*
in the barren dry desert
more welcome is the cactus rose
which captured the pink
as the sun arose
*

stone does not come from the
murder of sentient trees
and
the squirrels and flightless baby
birds who warble in the breeze

it resists fire
is better insulated to retain coolness in summer and heat in winter
it is termite resistant
painting is unnecessary
it does not rot

it lies around in somewhat dry river beds in the
summer..
*

bug splattered windshields
and leaves splattered with dust
from night driving on byways
He stopped driving at night
on country roads
to stop harming almost unseen
frogs and toads
*

Whitewater and Blackwater..
2 poles of the same monster.
*

Nagasaki reminds us
of the naga in each cup of saki

(naga: snake)
*
Only when the snowdrops of ego
abandon their form can they
combine into the cavecarving river
which cleaves the
highest mountains
with its rapids pools and fountains

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We are all handed peace scrolls
We won't know what hidden
chapters we write
until the scroll unrolls
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growing in their
military rows in the garden
carrot soldiers
untimely ripped
from Mother Earth's womb..
and then decapitated

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all fallen angels will rise again, including
Lucifer, who was once the bearer of blazing light

(lux lucis light
fer.. carrier)

Since God indwells every being, including Satan (as God is
omnipresent) all beings are worthy of reverence, even those
who do the most harm
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Her friend adopted a black cat
and named him Piggy Bear Fat Paw
because he was round and cuddly
and the most loving cat he'd ever
had
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Sometimes peace comes as fresh radoamt and whole
as a robin's egg piece of skybowl
and sometimes arrives peace
from sewn or welded pieces
*

fish oil salesmen are
worse than snake oil salesmen

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God's love is unconditional, universal,
and eternal... in all ways, for always
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waves crash against the shore
clouds crash gainst Himalayan mountains
and when their gauze meets
stony peaks
released are their monsoon fountains
*
everywhere
a drop of watergrace fell
it turned into a
green plant star
*
through my neighbor's
garden I took a walk
and today saw
a plant with purple stalks
*

in the lacy green sleeves
of the sunflower leaves
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negative energies seem stronger than
positive energies because they
are linear.. but the strength
is a shortlived illusion
*
the glacier gingerly put his feet
in the lake... and when he pulled
them out they were gone.. this also
happened to the coal lump near the fire
*
he no longer wanted to celebrate
new love by killing flowers
nor revere a spiritual holiday
with dead baby animals on his
table.
*
the sun scattered a treasure
trove of jewels in the lake..
clouds have come to hide them
from the unknowing
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a rare wildflower in the
mountains.. a sphere made of
individual white daisy like flowers
*
a table rock covered by a jade moss
table cloth... a late December dining
room with a small living fir tree rooted
in moss and stone
*
Let us not choose lettuce
but beans and cucumbers
for vines can climb the lattice
*
winter's sweet sleeping roots
awaken in spring to nurse new shoots
which from the well and rain do swell
to give us juicy fruits
*
it is more difficult for atheist
poets to lift others to joy
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Can a daisy stop a bulldozer?
a groundnesting bird
brake a tanik?
prayers for peace melt
angry warriors' hearts?
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O Lord we ARE worthy to
receive Your communion bread
*
You did not ordain, Jesus
that we have innocent animals' flesh
and shed blood on Your altar,
but bread and the juice of the vine.
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As God's hand upon our crowns
can bring healing, so
can the vitamin C He put in all
fruits order toxins out of the body.
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Hot sewage unfroze the brook it
entered.. saving the lives of fishes
.. "all things work for good"
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a laser when relaxing becomes a rainbow
a rainbow sped up becomes a laser
*
the centenarian had over 100
runs
around the central sun
but they won the race who
sooner slipped their bodies
to return to the central sun
*
the river' flowing
fingers
the banks to flowering

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the scarlet blood of innocents
enters the aqua waters of the
stream by the slaughterhouse..
a river of purple agony

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from being given parts of other animals
cows are mad
from fighting for their lives
in slaughter, cows are sad
*
as a canoe glides through water
soundlessly harming none,
the purest actions create no backlash
and harm none
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Jesus compared the unheeded
Word of God
tp seed among thorns thrown
or seed tossed onto many stones
or the bird gobbled seeds sewn
There is also seed in too dark places
in deserts dry as a bone
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because of the darkness of the night sky, stars
shine more brightly
because of the attacks of warmongers, the path to peace
is more moonlit
*
as waters close over a
coffin buried at sea
so many
are silent
about atrocity
*
her mind played tricks on her..
alphabetizing she put December
after May, going by time rather
than the first letter
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the uncandid
candidate
lied about his answer
while eating candied dates
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murder sometimes ends 1 drop at
a time
1st the UK banned public hangings,
then centuries later, hangings,
then all executions (except those
done by those 'licensed to kill')
In the US, the electric chair
has been banned but not yet murder
by the state
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violence has added a new function
for disappear.. it now has
a noun form called 'the disappeared'
(those who have been murdered
and dumped in a water or dirt
or fire grave)
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Diana's
long white wedding train
has now her innocent
scarlet blood stains
In her bedroom chamber
died love pink and amber
Though there was no
earthly light in the ambulance'd tunnel
she soared to God
through a radiant inverse
spiraling light funnel
*
Jupiter in taurus: loves meditating
in the woods
Jupiter in leo: talks to God in the sun
jupiter in pisces: merges with
God by the sea
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when warriors were expelled from
India for their love of violence
and preference for men over women
they founded Greece and Rome..
and the spherical beauty of Hindu
temples became rectangular buildings
Posted by sb11 on 09-08-2007 08:04 AM:

the beauty of art or nature or spirit
can jumpstart the mind
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possessions block air, light, space,
create safety hazards, block easy movement, create unnecessary cleaning
time
*
the 4 stars on each of Petraeus' shoulders
each for 1000 American soldiers killed in Iraq?
or each for 1 million of the Vietnamese killed in Vietnam
or each for 1 million Iraqis killed since Churchill first bombed
Iraq in 1920?
*
In Cairo, Beijin and Piraeus
we pray he will not betray us
.. the peaceloving world people
ask for truth from General Petraeus
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Paul Gillmor found dead at
base of stairs
after he coauthored with
Barney Frank
bills to regulate the
megathief banks
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the snowflake..takes a first step..
becomes a snowdrop
.. and then joins others in a trickle
.. which becomes a tiny rivulet
and joins others to become a brook
a stream..
and then a river roar
gathering others
in the falls' downpour
until the current of will
is so strong it sweeps
away all resistance in its path
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the stonehearted have contempt
for those whom lust can tempt..
for the sick, the retarded, the poor,
the fat or those unkempt
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He had such fear of loss of
independence.. such a terror of death
he could not visit the sick or the sad
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A zhubin, a Persian spear, in the time of
Darius, was
made of date palm wood.
A double indemnity:
cutting down a fruit tree
and with it
causing cruelty.
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wonderful hunger pangs..
those chisels flaking
off unwanted pounds
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God You can make dolphins vegetarians
and cause the apple not to drop
onto ants... nor the brown leaf
to hide the green grass on which
it falls.. You can make me a better
person
*
To the anguished cries of pigs
cows and sheep, please hearken..
Feingold and Mikulski
Grassley Inhofe and Harkin
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gruesome hunting fillers
which show birds in flight
being shot down..
some flapping with 1 wing
falling to the groundl.. dying slowly..
others drowning..
the V of their victorious flight
formation
destroyed by trophy seekers

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Posted by sb11 on 09-18-2007 06:20 AM:

universal happiness has to happen
*
grey is not only the color of aura sadness
.. it is the color of elephant skin,
of the ashes of the Phoenix Bird,
of April showers
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the pointed spears
of ocean waves
.. of fiery flames
or of the green of
resurrection through
winter's earth
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he danced with a woman
the way a matador approaches a bull..
with sadistic and objectifying intent
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the rower of the little boat
is lifted aloft by the highest wave.. and considers
himself king of the ocean.. until
the next wave flows over him
sending him out of the boat..
his life is saved by a plank
*
the tree wanting more light broke the panes of the greenhouse glass
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the ancient Genesis adage..
eat cukes and tomatoes: not cabbage

(L.O. rhymed adage and cabbage)