Poetry for Peace...welcoming the poets and prophets and those who write the wrongs. - iPeace.us2024-03-28T19:13:44Zhttps://ipeace.us/forum/topics/2217368:Topic:11597?commentId=2217368%3AComment%3A2497516&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAnd they came and bore witnes…tag:ipeace.us,2010-03-31:2217368:Comment:24975162010-03-31T18:07:24.707ZKrowhttps://ipeace.us/profile/Krow
And they came and bore witness for a thousand and one<br />
Turns of the blue planet with it’s yellow sun.<br />
They watched as the tribes all continued to grow<br />
In wisdom and knowledge and how they did show<br />
Their concepts of self and how to relate<br />
To each other and life and how not to hate.<br />
<br />
These ways became customs and tribal beliefs<br />
That led to their cultures, their songs, their motifs.<br />
And spread out through time, they watched them evolve<br />
As they struggled with knowledge and how to resolve<br />
The…
And they came and bore witness for a thousand and one<br />
Turns of the blue planet with it’s yellow sun.<br />
They watched as the tribes all continued to grow<br />
In wisdom and knowledge and how they did show<br />
Their concepts of self and how to relate<br />
To each other and life and how not to hate.<br />
<br />
These ways became customs and tribal beliefs<br />
That led to their cultures, their songs, their motifs.<br />
And spread out through time, they watched them evolve<br />
As they struggled with knowledge and how to resolve<br />
The conflicts and passions that flared and caused shift,<br />
In the ways of the tribes, was a curse, was a gift.<br />
<br />
It led to diversity ,a difference in ways<br />
That created new tribes in the following days<br />
Some went to the water and some to the hills<br />
New forms were taken according to wills.<br />
A division of language, a distinction in place<br />
Within this whole wheel, within this whole space.<br />
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So they watched and they wondered how far it could go<br />
As each group found its niche, it’s place in the show.<br />
And a thousand and one more cycles has passed<br />
As they watched and they waited to see who would last<br />
And each tribe grew forward according to kind<br />
Individual wisdom creating group mind.<br />
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Realities were made that flourished or failed<br />
Teachers came by and were burned or were nailed.<br />
As each separate tribe tried to find which one was best<br />
To look after this planet, to take care of the rest.<br />
<br />
So they watched and they listened to one and to all<br />
They listened to prayers, to songs, to the call<br />
Of those that felt lonely afraid or unwell.<br />
Heard many complaints and many did tell<br />
Of one particular tribe who seemed to not care<br />
About the fates of the others, or the land, or the air.<br />
<br />
How they spread through the planet, turned forest to dust<br />
Made holes in the veils and holes in the crust<br />
Till the surface was covered in their filth and their pain<br />
And the water was poisoned, even the rain.<br />
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Still they watched and they waited till they knew for sure<br />
Which tribes were best suited to help and to cure<br />
Which tribes learned to honour, which tribes grew to know<br />
How to enhance the planet, to include and to grow<br />
In love and in beauty, in wisdom and grace<br />
Which tribes would restore the health to the place.<br />
<br />
For a thousand and one years, which tribes would be best?<br />
To further the planet, to assist the rest<br />
Of the tribes that played happily as they evolved.<br />
Which tribes added conflict, which ones resolved?<br />
And at the end of the next thousand and one<br />
Turns of that planet and it’s yellow sun<br />
They offered the leadership of planet Earth<br />
To those tribes that best developed their worth.<br />
<br />
One tribe was removed and sent far away<br />
To a more patient star, and a planet whose way<br />
Was a little less fragile, less gentle, but strong<br />
So they could keep on evolving and yet still belong.<br />
And the gentle blue planet was then assigned<br />
Was put into the care of the two very best kind.<br />
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Thay promised to care for the land and the sea<br />
Each promised to love it and help all who lived there<br />
To feel nourished and cared for as they became aware<br />
To give guidance and wisdom, by example be shown<br />
The love and the kindness by which they were known.<br />
<br />
So all the great oceans were then governed by whales,<br />
Who’s great compassion never fails<br />
To hold sacred the waters for all to exist<br />
Be they corals or turtles or all the great fish.<br />
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And to the tribe of elephants was given the land<br />
For they had the wisdom to know and understand<br />
That all could co-exist in ways that were sure.<br />
With no hesitation, they knew what was pure.<br />
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So the planet evolved with love and respect<br />
And the creatures prayed for those they had to reject.<br />
And they wished them well in their new planet place.<br />
And hoped that they learned about love, and with grace,<br />
They bid them farewell and then let them go<br />
Honoring what they'd learned ,they went onward to grow<br />
And in paradise lived together in peace<br />
And for a thousand and one years, at least. Abraham’s mad ravings
shape a…tag:ipeace.us,2010-03-31:2217368:Comment:24975112010-03-31T18:05:41.738ZKrowhttps://ipeace.us/profile/Krow
Abraham’s mad ravings<br />
shape a world of war,<br />
brother battles brother<br />
while women keep score.<br />
Genetic mutations<br />
of power and greed,<br />
line pockets of prophets,<br />
who’s will be decreed.<br />
The earth’s precious children<br />
lay waste in thy name...<br />
Business as usual<br />
proceeds just the same.
Abraham’s mad ravings<br />
shape a world of war,<br />
brother battles brother<br />
while women keep score.<br />
Genetic mutations<br />
of power and greed,<br />
line pockets of prophets,<br />
who’s will be decreed.<br />
The earth’s precious children<br />
lay waste in thy name...<br />
Business as usual<br />
proceeds just the same. You are welcome to post here,…tag:ipeace.us,2008-10-02:2217368:Comment:1305072008-10-02T18:18:34.581ZKrowhttps://ipeace.us/profile/Krow
You are welcome to post here, but I doubt it gets much reading. I would though. grins.
You are welcome to post here, but I doubt it gets much reading. I would though. grins. Wake up and rub the perkedet…tag:ipeace.us,2008-09-29:2217368:Comment:1212482008-09-29T18:32:43.551ZKrowhttps://ipeace.us/profile/Krow
Wake up and rub the perkedet from your mind’<br />
Hear the bells that toll for all humankind<br />
Frere Jacque's Mourning bells are ringing<br />
And no angels are singing<br />
The arrival of a saviour<br />
Consequence of our own behavior<br />
Global warning<br />
St. Johns bells are mourning<br />
Do we still need baptism by fire?<br />
There’s got to be a higher<br />
Calling<br />
Than sitting around while the sky is falling<br />
Waiting for 2012 to come<br />
Undone.<br />
Bring ‘er down.<br />
The Howdy Doody clown<br />
Ran amuck,<br />
Still the citizens stuck<br />
Him in for another…
Wake up and rub the perkedet from your mind’<br />
Hear the bells that toll for all humankind<br />
Frere Jacque's Mourning bells are ringing<br />
And no angels are singing<br />
The arrival of a saviour<br />
Consequence of our own behavior<br />
Global warning<br />
St. Johns bells are mourning<br />
Do we still need baptism by fire?<br />
There’s got to be a higher<br />
Calling<br />
Than sitting around while the sky is falling<br />
Waiting for 2012 to come<br />
Undone.<br />
Bring ‘er down.<br />
The Howdy Doody clown<br />
Ran amuck,<br />
Still the citizens stuck<br />
Him in for another round again<br />
And the world groaned in unison<br />
Fool making<br />
God forsaking<br />
Rats and men<br />
Looks like they’ll do it again<br />
Same old story<br />
Oil is the quarry<br />
For the great white hunter now<br />
Anyhow<br />
It’s the political dance<br />
Where peace has no chance.<br />
Don’t want to risk a change<br />
And can’t re-arrange<br />
Old world thinking<br />
Deer in the headlights, eyes blinking<br />
Caught unaware<br />
Beware.<br />
New choices on the offer<br />
But they’ll emptied the coffer<br />
On the way out<br />
Hear the poor corpirates shout<br />
Drowning out the voice of reason<br />
Calling for an open season<br />
And Annie Oakly’s got her gun<br />
Picking off ideals hard won<br />
100 years of woman’s rights<br />
And all the anti gay fights<br />
Are doomed to defeat<br />
There is no more easy street<br />
Fundamentalist rule<br />
In the mass consciousness pool<br />
Where sharks smell the blood of the lamb<br />
Grand slam<br />
Crash the market,<br />
There’s a new war so get<br />
Ready<br />
Steady<br />
Take aim.<br />
Who’s to blame?<br />
Go back a few pages<br />
Our ancestors sold out for factory wages<br />
Or a few bags of meal wormed flour and a hoe<br />
Just goes to show<br />
How low we’d go<br />
To feed our kids<br />
Sold out to the highest bids.<br />
And we’ve not evolved from there.<br />
Does anybody care?<br />
Choices of fear or freedom<br />
Don’t let the corpirates bleed em<br />
Anymore<br />
Look what’s in store.<br />
Bloods and Crips at least are tribal<br />
Like every church has it’s bible<br />
Holier than thou<br />
Can’s and cant's<br />
Still won’t give peace a chance<br />
Brothers in arms<br />
We sold out the farms<br />
To Monsanto’s greed<br />
And we can’t feed<br />
Even ourselves<br />
Empty shelves<br />
Line the market<br />
Might as well park it<br />
Can’t afford to drive<br />
Even if we do survive<br />
The next hurricane<br />
Able or Cain<br />
Who’s going down<br />
In your home town?<br />
Acts of diplomatic wonder boys<br />
Trading Chinese christmas toys<br />
Toxing up the dollar store near you<br />
With it’s sweat shop abundance<br />
Where peace has no chance.<br />
Nothings new,<br />
Different name<br />
Here North of the border it’s just the same<br />
Land rights<br />
Title fights<br />
Turn out the lights<br />
When your race is over<br />
Call them over, Red rover<br />
Five party policy<br />
Still makes the same dynamics of the land of the free<br />
Hypocrisy<br />
Got educated about right wing economics<br />
From the Sunday morning comics<br />
And we don’t know what to think anymore<br />
Who’s been keeping score<br />
For the past 2 thousand years<br />
All our hopes and fears<br />
Are pinned to the coat tails of the Lords in waiting<br />
Aggravating.<br />
Can’t hear a quiet voice of logic spoken<br />
we pay our token<br />
and turn on CNN for our news<br />
US world views<br />
for our mini me<br />
leadership party.<br />
Ignore the environment<br />
we’re all hell bent<br />
for prosperity<br />
it’s a pity<br />
about the inuit.<br />
Where is the balance<br />
That can give peace a chance?<br />
The world waits for new leaders<br />
While the bottom feeders<br />
Lick up the spoils of war<br />
We all want more<br />
Of what’s carried on the backs<br />
Of the tax<br />
Payers<br />
Stock players.<br />
Look up and pay attention<br />
Did I mention the choice we share<br />
Do we dare?<br />
China dolls perched precariously on the edge<br />
Of reason<br />
And it’s still open season<br />
on the Buddhist<br />
Who still insist<br />
We can give peace a chance.<br />
Last dance<br />
Of the sons and daughters<br />
War machine fodders<br />
Taking aims for the elite<br />
Wall street<br />
Ticker tape<br />
Earth rape<br />
No escape<br />
From the fall out<br />
And all who shout out<br />
Are silenced once more<br />
Bill C 54 says what’s in store<br />
And the poets won’t write anymore<br />
Cultural revolution<br />
Is not the solution<br />
Ask Russia or China where the forbidden<br />
Didn’t stay hidden<br />
For long<br />
And a rock and roll song<br />
Sung in resistance<br />
Takes decades of persistence<br />
But keeps on playin’<br />
All we are sayin’<br />
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Is give peace a chance. Krow said:Really beautiful. T…tag:ipeace.us,2008-09-16:2217368:Comment:641602008-09-16T18:30:59.147ZJackyhttps://ipeace.us/profile/Jacky
<cite>Krow said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://ipeace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2217368%3ATopic%3A11597#2217368Comment61911"><div>Really beautiful. Thank you for posting it, and remembering to cite the author. I</div>
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I have just joined the ipeace network and would like to contribute some poetry .... but not sure where to post under this section or in the main forum site ?? Many thanks for your advice! J
<cite>Krow said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://ipeace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2217368%3ATopic%3A11597#2217368Comment61911"><div>Really beautiful. Thank you for posting it, and remembering to cite the author. I</div>
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I have just joined the ipeace network and would like to contribute some poetry .... but not sure where to post under this section or in the main forum site ?? Many thanks for your advice! J Really beautiful. Thank you f…tag:ipeace.us,2008-09-16:2217368:Comment:619112008-09-16T02:56:25.618ZKrowhttps://ipeace.us/profile/Krow
Really beautiful. Thank you for posting it, and remembering to cite the author. I
Really beautiful. Thank you for posting it, and remembering to cite the author. I SAMADHI*
Vanished the veil…tag:ipeace.us,2008-09-15:2217368:Comment:612922008-09-15T20:57:59.013ZAnanda Sanghahttps://ipeace.us/profile/AnandaSangha
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SAMADHI*<br />
<br />
Vanished the veils of light and shade,<br />
Lifted every vapor of sorrow,<br />
Sailed away all dawns of fleeting joy,<br />
Gone the dim sensory mirage.<br />
Love, hate, health) disease, life, death,<br />
Perished these false shadows on the screen of duality.<br />
Waves of laughter, scyllas of sarcasm, melancholic whirlpools,<br />
Melting in the vast sea of bliss.<br />
The storm of maya stilled<br />
By magic wand of intuition deep.<br />
The universe, forgotten dream, subconsciously…
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SAMADHI*<br />
<br />
Vanished the veils of light and shade,<br />
Lifted every vapor of sorrow,<br />
Sailed away all dawns of fleeting joy,<br />
Gone the dim sensory mirage.<br />
Love, hate, health) disease, life, death,<br />
Perished these false shadows on the screen of duality.<br />
Waves of laughter, scyllas of sarcasm, melancholic whirlpools,<br />
Melting in the vast sea of bliss.<br />
The storm of maya stilled<br />
By magic wand of intuition deep.<br />
The universe, forgotten dream, subconsciously lurks,<br />
Ready to invade my newly wakened memory divine.<br />
I live without the cosmic shadow,<br />
But it is not, bereft of me;<br />
As the sea exists without the waves,<br />
But they breathe not without the sea.<br />
Dreams, wakings, states of deep turiya sleep,<br />
Present, past, future, no more for me,<br />
But ever-present, all-flowing I, I, everywhere.<br />
Planets, stars, stardust, earth,<br />
Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms,<br />
Creation's molding furnace,<br />
Glaciers of silent x-rays, burning electron floods,<br />
Thoughts of all men, past, present, to come,<br />
Every blade of grass, myself, mankind,<br />
Each particle of universal dust,<br />
Anger, greed, good, bad, salvation, lust,<br />
I swallowed, transmuted all<br />
Into a vast ocean of blood of my own one Being!<br />
Smoldering joy, oft-puffed by meditation<br />
Blinding my tearful eyes,<br />
Burst into immortal flames of bliss,<br />
Consumed my tears, my frame, my all.<br />
Thou art I, I am Thou,<br />
Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!<br />
Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever new peace!<br />
Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy, samadhi bliss!<br />
Not a mental chloroform<br />
Or unconscious state without wilful return,<br />
Samadhi but extends my conscious realm<br />
Beyond the limits of the mortal frame<br />
To farthest boundary of eternity<br />
Where I, the Cosmic Sea,<br />
Watch the little ego floating in me.<br />
The sparrow, each grain of sand, fall not without my sight.<br />
All space like an iceberg floats within my mental sea.<br />
Colossal Container, I, of all things made.<br />
By deeper, longer, thirsty, guru-given meditation<br />
Comes this celestial samadhi<br />
Mobile murmurs of atoms are heard,<br />
The dark earth, mountains, vales, lo! molten liquid!<br />
Flowing seas change into vapors of nebulae!<br />
Aum blows upon the vapors, opening wondrously their veils,<br />
Oceans stand revealed, shining electrons,<br />
Till, at last sound of the cosmic drum,<br />
Vanish the grosser lights into eternal rays<br />
Of all-pervading bliss.<br />
From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.<br />
Ocean of mind, I drink all creation's waves.<br />
Four veils of solid, liquid, vapor, light,<br />
Lift aright.<br />
Myself, in everything, enters the Great Myself.<br />
Gone forever, fitful, flickering shadows of mortal memory.<br />
Spotless is my mental sky, below, ahead, and high above.<br />
Eternity and I, one united ray.<br />
A tiny bubble of laughter, I<br />
Am become the Sea of Mirth Itself.<br />
<br />
Whispers from Eternity<br />
A Book of Answered Prayers<br />
1949 Edition<br />
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by Paramhansa Yogananda tye
dyes
markers of a lost ca…tag:ipeace.us,2008-09-11:2217368:Comment:486982008-09-11T21:50:01.015ZKrowhttps://ipeace.us/profile/Krow
tye<br />
dyes<br />
markers of a lost cause<br />
when a handful of people<br />
actually believed that Peace had a chance<br />
and that we all had something to do with it happening.<br />
Die hards some of us<br />
still waiting<br />
to make it happen.<br />
What's happening<br />
man.
tye<br />
dyes<br />
markers of a lost cause<br />
when a handful of people<br />
actually believed that Peace had a chance<br />
and that we all had something to do with it happening.<br />
Die hards some of us<br />
still waiting<br />
to make it happen.<br />
What's happening<br />
man. Landscape shaped raw
By winds…tag:ipeace.us,2008-09-11:2217368:Comment:486932008-09-11T21:48:49.825ZKrowhttps://ipeace.us/profile/Krow
Landscape shaped raw<br />
By winds<br />
Blowing prayer flags<br />
Sacrificing peace<br />
To the world below.
Landscape shaped raw<br />
By winds<br />
Blowing prayer flags<br />
Sacrificing peace<br />
To the world below. K, I am trying to post some p…tag:ipeace.us,2008-09-11:2217368:Comment:486892008-09-11T21:47:06.406ZKrowhttps://ipeace.us/profile/Krow
K, I am trying to post some peaceful ones too. counter-balance.<br />
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Sun dappled shadows<br />
Reflecting spirit’s form<br />
Moss covered standing stones<br />
From afternoon still warm<br />
The kings and queens of yesterday<br />
Yet hold the evensong<br />
Prayers for peace prosperity<br />
A right for every wrong<br />
With every war that has been fought<br />
Upon these sacred grounds<br />
Run fast the blood of future lives<br />
And yet the drum deep sounds<br />
Calling soul to hold a place<br />
Upon the earth still fair<br />
Stay the sword for truce by might<br />
Lends your…
K, I am trying to post some peaceful ones too. counter-balance.<br />
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Sun dappled shadows<br />
Reflecting spirit’s form<br />
Moss covered standing stones<br />
From afternoon still warm<br />
The kings and queens of yesterday<br />
Yet hold the evensong<br />
Prayers for peace prosperity<br />
A right for every wrong<br />
With every war that has been fought<br />
Upon these sacred grounds<br />
Run fast the blood of future lives<br />
And yet the drum deep sounds<br />
Calling soul to hold a place<br />
Upon the earth still fair<br />
Stay the sword for truce by might<br />
Lends your grace to bear<br />
A heart that bleeds for all life held<br />
Within the hands of fate<br />
Behold the truth where patterns meld<br />
And time she runs too late<br />
The past and future meet as one<br />
Where power thickens still<br />
And stately folk are seen at night<br />
Still gathered on high hill.