Shroud of War: Invocation I am the Vietnam generation. I am the generationof witness and fire. I was a hospital corpsman during the Vietnam Warand though far from combat,the war hauntsme and my generation. This war of decades ago,and unending warsof the American war machine,shrouds my waking hours. Vietnam: Fire. Redemption. Love. I am the …
This is the poem I read after the service at the #UUNOLA Unitarian church, and the Minister said, “Never come back here! You are out of order!” Another man tried to shove me out the door (he later apologized). Maybe the #UUNOLA is not so much into peace love and forgiveness? Regardless, this is a …
Travel is an essential color in my palette of wonder. The comfort of my home in the woods, overlooking blue heron pond, with all my creative toys, holds me in a serene enchantment… but the wind carries fragrances from exotic lands, birds land on my porch with stories in their wings, and the clouds …
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I had my veterans for peace hat on and a young man came by and said, “Thank you for your service, sir.” And he shook my hand. “Thank you.” I said. “But can you do me a favor?” He seemed surprised, but quickly said, “Yes, sir.” “Do something for peace every day. …
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I love the shy erotic kisses of Emily Dickinson. Sequestered in myth as a recluse spinster. but your hot passionate kisses of word and song burn with erotic bliss in my soul. …Songs of your Moorish lovers and tales of midnight rendezvous. How well have we loved …
There is the legend of the Queen of the Islands, Malika Al Jazeera, A myth…. or so I believed… till one moon inspired night in the labyrinth of Algiers. “La Belle Dame Algiers” I sailed along the Berber coast, past the shores of Tangiers and the caves of Hercules, veering off the cape …
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Yemen steadily destroyed by Saudi Arabia, bombed by drones from the USA, and dying from the complicity of its Muslim brothers. When Muslims kill Muslims and shout out, “Allah Ahbar! God is great!” Does Allah and the Prophet weep or laugh? My beloved and beautiful Yemen, orphan of poverty and war. You are …
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