Thursday, March 31, 2016
God of the Garden
The God of the garden
Welcomes me
Home
Death Valley.
May be beautiful
And far
But it is not
Green with flowers
And
Too many spring
Weeds
It is quieter -
Until the wind blows
Then it feels like time
To dig a hole
In the dusty ground
To get away from
Blowing sand that stings
As it hits my leg -
Can't stand up straight -
Walking like a drunken person -
And the sun -
Which dries all things
Is very fierce
There
Beautiful mountains. -
Here -
I have the sea -
All places seem to have
Some version
Of crows -
As one flys by
A hummingbird
Comes near -
Sits on a branch
Above my head
And looks at me
Saying
Why -
Why don't you have
a hummingbird feeder
For me
Thank you
God of the Garden
For being here
To welcome me
Home
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Dragons and Unicorns
Reading the bible
Again,
With a more adult curiousity,
I find -
Dragons and
Unicorns mentioned
Many times !
Water being turned to wine
And multiplying loaves and fishes
Is mentioned with much more
Amazement
Than the common everyday occurrence
Of dragons and
Unicorns
What am I to make of this -
Seriously !
The blind can see
The lame can walk
And dragons and
Unicorns lounge around
In the public square
Causing no great calamity
The Roman solders must have had
Special divisions
To fight them
Or catch them
Or deal with them
Somehow
Special nets
For unicorns
(Pet them)
Special harnesses for dragons
(Ride them)
It is in a book
Which some say I must believe in
Literally !
- some say
It is open to interpretation -
Some hardly look at it
At all
God is love
And light -
To be sought
Within
And there are dragons
And unicorns
But -
Loving "my" neighbors
Is not so easy
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Ploughing
Trying to find some
Time away
Seems a bit like
Ploughing
A field
Everyone wants
Something -
There are horses
To harness
And bargains to be
Made
There is money to be
Set aside
Now -
With everything costing
More and more -
I still want to see
The sky
And have some
Quiet time -
Some time among
The trees
No one seems to understand
This
The Taoist Hemit
Within
Needs a bit of
Expression
Now and then
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Donation Button!!
Just in case
You might have
Lots of money
And would like to be
"A patron of the arts"
I have
(With help)
And much pondering
And
Poking of buttons
And
Reading of unintelligible
Instructions
- Two hours it took us -
There has been installed
(With much hopeful wishing
And imagination)
A donation button
On this blog
The dream is
That just a few millionaires
- From somewhere on earth -
Would like to donate
To the cause of
My continued
Survival
(Not that I will perish
Without them)
But
It would be sooooo cool
To have a stash $$
To be able to prop up this old house
To shop
At more
Than the dollar store
- Just sayin -
Sunday, March 6, 2016
The Trump Tower
Will he save us ?
(We need saving)
There are those who wish to
Harm us
To take our stuff
And kill us
And They are coming here
They are already
There
Causing trouble
And attacking
We, as people,
Have fought so
Long and hard
For our evolution
Into a people
Who believe
That butterflies
Are free
And have a right
To be
We have tried hard to evolve
Into a people with
Rights
And compassion
And enough to eat
For everyone
There are some who do not
Believe
In you and me
Some who do not want
To allow everyone
To be
To exist
To be free
To call God
By name
And Goddess too
There is a Goddess
Of mercy
We need her
Here
Everyone does
Need mercy
And space
And time
And place
Will this deal maker
Be able to deal
For us
For all of us
Will he be able to
Separate the wheat
From the chaff -
Water the wheat
(No gmo)
And do we know
That it takes work
And heart
And courage
To approach that
Which we call
Civilization
And it takes preserving
And believing
As a group
As in
All of us
-where we are-
To insist
In dignity -
To cooperate
Willingly
It can be lost
So easily
It is up to
Each and
Everyone
Of us
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