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2024-03-28T20:59:36Z
Kara Johnstad
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New Member/but Old member
tag:ipeace.us,2012-04-16:2217368:Topic:3175568
2012-04-16T17:35:34.276Z
Kara Johnstad
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<p>Had to rejoin my dear old group.</p>
<p>Do I have a home page or am I a woman</p>
<p>Without a country?</p>
<p>My page that finds me on Ipeace Poetry is</p>
<p>Sort of like a country, a home.</p>
<p>I can publish poetry at the</p>
<p>Drop of a thought.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>My LIFE always needs to</p>
<p>BE a POEM.</p>
<p>Stuck in a box of stale ideas?</p>
<p>A poem gets you OUT</p>
<p>Of Worries and the lament</p>
<p>Can Rise above the fear</p>
<p>Because it's not written in cement.</p>
<p>Unbend…</p>
<p>Had to rejoin my dear old group.</p>
<p>Do I have a home page or am I a woman</p>
<p>Without a country?</p>
<p>My page that finds me on Ipeace Poetry is</p>
<p>Sort of like a country, a home.</p>
<p>I can publish poetry at the</p>
<p>Drop of a thought.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>My LIFE always needs to</p>
<p>BE a POEM.</p>
<p>Stuck in a box of stale ideas?</p>
<p>A poem gets you OUT</p>
<p>Of Worries and the lament</p>
<p>Can Rise above the fear</p>
<p>Because it's not written in cement.</p>
<p>Unbend your ideas that are bent.</p>
<p>Free yourself! They have gone... they've WENT!</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
Unity
tag:ipeace.us,2011-06-16:2217368:Topic:2986675
2011-06-16T00:43:55.172Z
Kara Johnstad
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<strong>Peace dwells within pockets of our community<br/>as we fumble toward unity.<br/>My sisters, lets unite for peace.<br/>My brothers, lets unite for peace.<br/>Darkest storms rings brightest blessing.<br/>Tide rolls a shore sending brightest blessings.<br/>Moonlight beam brightest blessings.<br/>Twilight courtyard scroll with brightest blessings.</strong><br/><br/>ONE LOVE<br/><br/>-Brooke Lovestone
<strong>Peace dwells within pockets of our community<br/>as we fumble toward unity.<br/>My sisters, lets unite for peace.<br/>My brothers, lets unite for peace.<br/>Darkest storms rings brightest blessing.<br/>Tide rolls a shore sending brightest blessings.<br/>Moonlight beam brightest blessings.<br/>Twilight courtyard scroll with brightest blessings.</strong><br/><br/>ONE LOVE<br/><br/>-Brooke Lovestone
A Prayer Poem for the end of the begining heavenly wonders
tag:ipeace.us,2011-01-05:2217368:Topic:2736920
2011-01-05T22:01:32.628Z
Kara Johnstad
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<p> </p>
<p>In all the thoughts that prceive me in this day and age</p>
<p>where the darkness shall not follow,where i shall walk you shall walk.</p>
<p>For the day is surely comming when all will see the greatness of the king</p>
<p>and the world as we know it will cease to be,</p>
<p>but all land and sea shall change,for the mountains shall roar and the trumpet will blow.</p>
<p>and all will bow at judgements gates.</p>
<p>heaven and earth with wonders,waterfalls and te wonder of nature.…</p>
<p> </p>
<p>In all the thoughts that prceive me in this day and age</p>
<p>where the darkness shall not follow,where i shall walk you shall walk.</p>
<p>For the day is surely comming when all will see the greatness of the king</p>
<p>and the world as we know it will cease to be,</p>
<p>but all land and sea shall change,for the mountains shall roar and the trumpet will blow.</p>
<p>and all will bow at judgements gates.</p>
<p>heaven and earth with wonders,waterfalls and te wonder of nature. all beings living as one.</p>
<p>In the heavenly wonders.</p>
<p>For this i prey to be that all will see the greatness our loving and gorious king,and all shall sing in oneness, apon the great land, for we will walk the never ending sands.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>let peace i prey fall to earth no more wars and hunger.</p>
<p>and not let the children cry, let peace come to those in prison who have been wrongly accused.</p>
<p>Let peace dwell in our hearts and minds.</p>
<p>For in jesus we find rest, love peace and harmony.</p>
<p>World World stop fighting.Goverments plotting against othere goverments,</p>
<p>which will not help the world,for we need to work as one</p>
<p>like the moon and the sun.</p>
<p>For the flower and the tree d not fight,</p>
<p>let us burn bright the candle of peace,</p>
<p>when we knee to the creaters feet.</p>
<p>in sleep let us have peace.</p>
<p>For jesus said, in the last days i will pour out my spirit amoung the people young men will propheci and old men will dream dreams.this we ask in the name of jesus.</p>
<p>writen by Russell Seager</p>
An iPeace Family member is in Mortal Danger! "Please Read" Can You Help?
tag:ipeace.us,2010-07-22:2217368:Topic:2646501
2010-07-22T21:51:30.275Z
Kara Johnstad
https://ipeace.us/profile/KaraJohnstad
<br></br>
Dear iPeace members,<br></br>
<br></br>
Many of you have been receiving updates<br />
from one of our own members about the murder of Christians accused, but<br />
found innocent, of blasphemy charges. There is more.<br></br>
<br></br>
A day or two<br />
later, the unrelenting radicals attacked homes in the Christian<br />
community where these victims lived, killing 5 more people.<br></br>
<br></br>
This<br />
is also where our fellow member lives and and is involved with Hope<br />
Development Organization, which maintains a peace school in…
<br/>
Dear iPeace members,<br/>
<br/>
Many of you have been receiving updates<br />
from one of our own members about the murder of Christians accused, but<br />
found innocent, of blasphemy charges. There is more.<br/>
<br/>
A day or two<br />
later, the unrelenting radicals attacked homes in the Christian<br />
community where these victims lived, killing 5 more people.<br/>
<br/>
This<br />
is also where our fellow member lives and and is involved with Hope<br />
Development Organization, which maintains a peace school in the<br />
community.<br/>
<br/>
Two nights ago, the radicals attacked again, but were<br />
rebuffed by the police, but as of today reports are that more radicals<br />
are gathering for yet another attack:<br/>
<br/>
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"People<br />
come from Jhang and they are in Makhanwaa and they can attack today or<br />
tomorrow, daud nagar from street 1 to 6 with weapons and they want fire<br />
the houses.</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"/><br style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Our
police is crazy they start giving favor to Musims because they are also<br />
muslims. This happen before in Gogra where where they when they burn<br />
more then 100 people alive. On motorway they caught too many weapons<br />
coming to Faisalabad"</span></span> [the police are not stopping the weapons from coming through]<br/>
<br/>
Our fellow iPeace member, is my 'adopted' son. He, his wife, and their three children are currently in mortal danger. <br/>
<br/>
<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Are you prepared to just sit back and let them die? I am not.</span><br/>
<br/>
I<br />
am asking each of you personally...Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu,<br />
atheist...to join me in doing something to keep this from happening.<br/>
<br/>
If you have political connections, use them.<br/>
<br/>
If<br />
you live in a country that has relations with Pakistan, please put<br />
pressure on them to put pressure on the government and police to keep<br />
the Christian communities safe.<br/>
<br/>
If you live in the US, I urge you<br />
to contact the State Department, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, The New York<br />
Times and any other media you can think of to alert the world.<br/>
<br/>
If you live in the UK, please contact the BBC.<br/>
<br/>
It<br />
may be too late for money to help, but I am asking each of you to go to<br />
to Hope Development's website and make a contribution of any amount<br />
that can be used to help the community now and as it recovers. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://hopedevelopmentpk.org/">http://hopedevelopmentpk.org</a><br/>
<p style="text-align: left;"><br/></p>
<br />
<br/>
But, money alone is not enough. This is a life and death situation and it is urgent. <br/>
<br/>
I<br />
ask that each of you look into your hearts. If we are, each of us,<br />
really sincere about peace, we must help my son and his family to have<br />
it now. <br/>
<br/>
I beg you to take action. Do not let our friend, my son,<br />
and his family and friends become the next victims of this terrible<br />
violence.<br/>
<br/>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Please. Do it now.</span><br/>
<br/>
In peace and love,<br/>
<br/>
Susan<br/>
<br/>
Dame Susan Connors<br/>
susan@susanconnors.com<br/>
<br/>
<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Our<br />
member's name has been omitted from the original posting to protect his<br />
identity should you re-post this message. Thank you for using caution.</span>
Forgotten Tibet
tag:ipeace.us,2010-05-16:2217368:Topic:2556762
2010-05-16T14:17:35.573Z
Kara Johnstad
https://ipeace.us/profile/KaraJohnstad
A forgotten Tibet,<br />
A corrupt government<br />
Mandalas wiped out<br />
Symbols that shout<br />
<br />
Mandalas shout of suffering;<br />
Of courage and overcoming<br />
Spirituality of a gentle people<br />
Who want to end all trouble<br />
<br />
A forgotten Tibet,<br />
A corrupt government<br />
Mandalas wiped out<br />
Symbols that shout<br />
<br />
Tibet is a flower of peace<br />
People on bended knees<br />
Praying for their oppressors<br />
To turn forever into lovers
A forgotten Tibet,<br />
A corrupt government<br />
Mandalas wiped out<br />
Symbols that shout<br />
<br />
Mandalas shout of suffering;<br />
Of courage and overcoming<br />
Spirituality of a gentle people<br />
Who want to end all trouble<br />
<br />
A forgotten Tibet,<br />
A corrupt government<br />
Mandalas wiped out<br />
Symbols that shout<br />
<br />
Tibet is a flower of peace<br />
People on bended knees<br />
Praying for their oppressors<br />
To turn forever into lovers
godchild
tag:ipeace.us,2010-04-18:2217368:Topic:2521972
2010-04-18T22:09:14.070Z
Kara Johnstad
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">godchild</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">i've been sulking</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222; min-height: 16.0px"><br></br></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">we didn't want them to knock our house down…</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">godchild</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">i've been sulking</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222; min-height: 16.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">we didn't want them to knock our house down</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">but that is precisely why they had come</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">bulldozers burping: "only doin' my job"</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">just then everything i know goes black</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">stalwartly cradled into the fire</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222; min-height: 16.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">this is the story of the beginning</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">of what man will sooner than later be;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">wax and wane but with certainty not yet.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">there has been growth in humanity</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">our next stride may even involve you</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222; min-height: 16.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">we watch the smoke curl setting a course</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">to dance on the wisp of a whim it takes form</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">stupefied now by the flow of patterns at play</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">surely such choreography requires some intelligence</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">it contains beauty, there was thought put into this</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">therefore can be reasoned with</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222; min-height: 16.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">not necessarily so</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">you can read into this at will but</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">a lot of life is hit and miss</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">that's exactly how we got here</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">the only reason we exist</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222; min-height: 16.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">all in all</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">pretty amazing of nature</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">pretty shameful for man</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">no matter how you look at it</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">it's time to move on</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">you can either come with us</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">or stay</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">there will be a blaze</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">sent to lick this place clean</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">I'm just trying to tell You</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">If You stop and pay attention</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">You too will hear it coming.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222; min-height: 16.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">our life and livelihood reduced to embers</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">while man's great machines exact their intent</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">back against the wall: "anyway you like it"</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">that's when i conveniently forget</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">you are where i no return came from</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222; min-height: 16.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Thonburi; color: #3a0222">mjmasiko.4.18.10.thornlane</p>
moonray fun
tag:ipeace.us,2010-03-30:2217368:Topic:2495734
2010-03-30T15:03:43.939Z
Kara Johnstad
https://ipeace.us/profile/KaraJohnstad
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 24.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b>moonray fun</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140; min-height: 10.0px"><br></br></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Soak up the moonray fun.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Every Word You say…</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 24.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b>moonray fun</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140; min-height: 10.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Soak up the moonray fun.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Every Word You say becomes</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">some miraculous technicolor math.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">but that is netherhere</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">nor netherthere,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">all at the exact same time.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Hex upon ye dazzle,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">I will cut to the chase.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Here, is my quandary ~</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140; min-height: 10.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">before I tell You what I know</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">I should know a little more </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">about You.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Since there is no time</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">for that to occur;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">I will tell You this ~</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140; min-height: 10.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">If You are the type of person Who</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">upon learning</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">other intelligent beings</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">do indeed exist </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">in our universe</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">and that they are </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">coming to visit,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">and that </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">they are just a few light years away,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">right now;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">and You think You would </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">behave more sensibly and civil …</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">then it is true.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140; min-height: 10.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">However, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">if that hypothetical scenario</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">would put You to mind of</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">~ every man for himself ~</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">… given to looting and rioting;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">then don't believe a word of it.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140; min-height: 10.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">So when all is said and done,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">kronos begets aether and chaos.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Life = Good</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Soak up the moonray fun.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140; min-height: 10.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">& before I tell You what I know</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">I should know a little more </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">about You.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Since there is no time</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">for that to occur;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">I will tell You this ~</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">He chased Her and He chased Her</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">and He chased Her until She finally caught Him.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">So when all is said and done,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">kronos begets aether and chaos.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Life = Good</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140">Soak up the moonray fun.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #494140"><i>moptzar.3.29.10.thornlane<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(94, 94, 94); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/97231980?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></span></i></p>
You Are Here (& this matter of god)
tag:ipeace.us,2010-03-18:2217368:Topic:2482513
2010-03-18T18:22:27.369Z
Kara Johnstad
https://ipeace.us/profile/KaraJohnstad
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">hey guys and gals,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">the following is</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">in response to…</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">hey guys and gals,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">the following is</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">in response to</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">contemplating the impact</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">of 'believing' in god</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">and all that that connotes,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">has had on humanity.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">this is a rant of rants</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">if ever i went on a rant.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">so i figured i'd fly it your way</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">just to see what walls it sticks on.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">and what a better place than <span style="text-decoration: underline">here</span>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">... goes like this ...</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">You Are Here (& this matter of god)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">ancient chinese proverb say:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">he who go to bed with itchy hiney</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">wake up with stinky fingers.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">sorry,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">that was just my first response.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">if i were to apply </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">some 'serious' thought to the matter … </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">yea, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">this whole god thing is pretty perplexing.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">i mean, people who believe in god </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">are generally ok by me.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">until that is, they start killing </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">in the name of said invisible </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">all powerful entity.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">then some of the motivating factors</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">may have to be brought under scrutiny.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">if you find yourself in the act of war</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">because of limited resources,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">and there's no diplomatic recourse … </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">after much exhaustive dialog,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">the truth is revealed = </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">in order for our species to thrive</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">some will have to die.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">and what better way to prove</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">who is more worth their salt</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">& most likely to survive</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">the next turn of events</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">in order to see</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">our ultimately sublime gestalt.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">then to battle!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">that said; </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">if you must equate an almighty being</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">into your reasons for slaughter,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">then i have to ask you:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">"if i am such a blight</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">upon this creation,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">why don't the guy</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">you allegedly work for</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">do me in himself"?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">you know … do it right.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">does he have something to prove,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">using you as his lightning rod?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">is it a test you must pass</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">to gain entrance to his kingdom</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">in all it's imaginary glory?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">look around you.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">if you think about it</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">just a little bit</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">you'd realize</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">what we got</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">is pretty amazing.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">even that there is</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">anything at all</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">to see.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">let alone stand on.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">not to mention</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">to be aware of the sensation that; </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">'you are here'.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">there are so many flavors to savor of god.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">in fact even if you don't subscribe </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">to any concept at all,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">life can still be pretty enjoyable</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">and purpose full.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">life is in abundance all about you.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">of which you are only</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">one tiny little incy miniscule part</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">that has become so obsessed with</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">right from wrong</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">that you can not think straight.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">and therefore, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">for all you belief systems</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">you don't even get to appreciate</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">the wonder of it all.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">where is the value in that?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">holywar is just a monicker for murder,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">in bad taste and a poor excuse</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">for not facing yourself</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">when you pass the responsibility</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">for your own actions</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">off onto your illustrious god.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">to that end</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">i can see</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">god is an impedance.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">and i for one</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">won't live my life in fear.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">simply put,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">the very light within you</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">is asking you to dance.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">while</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">you are here.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">that was just my second thought</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">and i certainly do not mean to offend</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">but i don't know that i got </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">a third thought in me.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">as you can see</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">i'm running out of steam.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">when i used the word 'end'.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">it had a subliminal effect on me</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">and i lost focus.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">my only hope is</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">a second wind of O2</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">to all cooperating neurons and synapses.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">but that's another story.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">i know you'll make the right decision eventually.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">peace. MJM.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #390222">PS. no, i do not care to sniff your digits.</p>
whilst fulfilling the 3 Sss'
tag:ipeace.us,2010-02-20:2217368:Topic:2449293
2010-02-20T19:25:43.989Z
Kara Johnstad
https://ipeace.us/profile/KaraJohnstad
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">a deductive process </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">whilst fulfilling the 3 Sss'</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557; min-height: 21.0px"><br></br></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">ahh smell me…</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">a deductive process </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">whilst fulfilling the 3 Sss'</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">ahh smell me</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">you're all a bunch of </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">philanthropic misanthropes</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">when You finally </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">climb down out of Your tree</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">what do you get done </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">you disagree</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">mood amidst flux</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">get ye some emotional detox</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">much ado about Versailles</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">what have you been taught</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">with your taunts</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">and bad thoughts</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">reflections of your will</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">they take root in your vaults</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">pull the rope too taut</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">and it fails</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">man</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">will we ever get this boulder</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">up that hill</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">grey matter growing pains</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">better pour us another Bourbon</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">toast this futile battle faught</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">my temples have set sail</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">for fertile fields lost</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">sometimes ya just </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">gotta take a breather</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">it continues to amaze Me</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">what a good shit and a shave</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">can do for ones reliant resolve </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">not to mention general outlook</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">throw in a shower</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">and You got a deal</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">My submission to the process</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">apostrophic and diatrob</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">and every dot and tittle</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">diadromantic dizzy spells</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">a lot is not a little</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">diademonics in Your head</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">can't stop to start this riddle</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">as water seeks its own level</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">I should like to find Those</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">whose thought process' are derived</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">by quenching their thirsty wonder</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">from similar springs & swirling pools.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">all in due process tamajaq</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">hope You got the transmittal</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">spiritual hegemonies</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">this is the plot; be civil</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">a time and times and half a time</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">with every dot and tittle</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">yea?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #625557">smell me.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #453b3e; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #453b3e; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'I Did This!'; color: #3f554a">MJMasiko.thornlane.2.20.10</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Georgia; color: #555555; min-height: 12.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #453b3e; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 14.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #3f4632"><i>ps. my sister just informed me</i></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 14.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #3f4632"><i>that for women we need to add a forth 's' ...</i></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 14.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #3f4632"><i>shopping.</i></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 14.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #3f4632; min-height: 16.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 14.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #3f4632"><i>oi.</i></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #453b3e; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #453b3e; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #453b3e; min-height: 21.0px"><br/></p>
A POEM TO COMMEMORATE THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TSUNAMI
tag:ipeace.us,2010-02-04:2217368:Topic:2425388
2010-02-04T09:06:42.983Z
Kara Johnstad
https://ipeace.us/profile/KaraJohnstad
David has asked me to post this into the poetry group. I wrote this after the Tsunami struck in 2005. I thought it was appropriate once again, not just to commemorate the fourth anniversary but also for the earthquake that 'hit' Haiti.<br/><br/>Please see the comments box, as I can't cut and paste into hear.<br/><br/><br/>
David has asked me to post this into the poetry group. I wrote this after the Tsunami struck in 2005. I thought it was appropriate once again, not just to commemorate the fourth anniversary but also for the earthquake that 'hit' Haiti.<br/><br/>Please see the comments box, as I can't cut and paste into hear.<br/><br/><br/>