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Love Aligns
Of names given at birth, one blooms special.
Mary seems to me a popular name.
Common folks and royalty likewise called.
But no two named Mary are quite the same.
A young girl named Mary lived righteously.
By God she was favored, is history.
She willingly bore God's begotten son.
Obscure to man…virgin birth mystery.
Infant queen, Mary of Scotland, betrothed,
Had escaped Henry the Viii rough wooing.
Life's whirlwinds, deaths and romance havocked her life.
Politics sent beheading ensuing.
Mary Read of Devon County, England
Surrounded by death, raised as a boy.
Captured by pirates of the Caribbean Sea,
Became a pirate herself, lived wild joy.
Mother and Daughter, writers named Mary,
Mary Wollstonecraft, swayed by T. Paine, wrote
"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," (1792)
The thoughts of a mother, by death made remote.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, sweet sixteen,
Strong spirited, influenced by her mom
Left home to be Percy's mistress…outcast.
Sorrows in life are Frankenstein's where-from.
Mary Anning, a woman paleontologist,
Prepared fossils from Jurassic era beds.
Well-known by geologists, financially poor,
Put new ideas in scientific thinkers heads.
Famous women named Mary nowadays abound.
From Mary Anne on Gilligan's Island
To Mary Poppins flying through the air.
Each Mary, in her own way has some life brightened.
All of the women I have presented herein.
Have one thing in common: strength and chagrin.
But, there is not one Mary I read about or met.
Whose loves like my grandmother's was fashioned.
She, was a woman of strength, strong will, and *****.
But, tenderly, she comforted many a tear.
Teaching young children from her sewing machine,
She consistently worked to keep family near.
She offered fresh fruit from the family tree.
I know her sweetness from Heaven shines.
Without her love, I wonder where I would be.
When I hear the name Mary, love aligns.
© July 17, 2010
REFERENCES:
1. Mary Queen of Scots: http://www.rampantscotland.com/famous/blfammqos.htm
2. Famous Pirate: Mary Read: http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/mary-read.php
3. Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley: http://classiclit.about.com/od/wollstonecraftmary/a/
aa_famousmother.htm
4. Mary Anning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning
Can’t remember what you look like or even the way you smell
I’ve gazed upon many who fit the description but are any of them you, who’s to
tell?
I’ve told myself I’m over it time and again
But the feelings of abandonment nag at my soul and my aggravated spirit
cries, “Daddy, where you been?”
I’ve ran through bedrooms and barrooms hoping to receive compensation for
your debt to me
No covering over my shame and proudly wearing my badge of illegitimacy
It’s crazy
I named my son Jeddidiah
Simply because David was his father
And mine too
Then from David to Dawud
Man, I don’t even know you
But I do know that I love you
How very strange to me
That my estranged daddy
Has the ability
To evoke from me, a stranger
The most powerful of things so effortlessly, albeit I’m
angered
I was a pretty little girl, so sweet and just as good
How or why did you leave me as unprotected prey for wolves?
I don’t understand, didn’t – don’t you love your offspring?
I mean, don’t you care about the precious things,
About my happenings,
About anything that has to do with me?
Do you even remember my name?
Remember it was me that you potty trained
Now think back to that day you left us in the rain
In front of my aunt’s house over on Paine
Nobody was home that day so we just sat on the stoop getting drenched by the
shame
My mother barely seventeen, us loving you in vain
There have been stepfathers who abused
And many years later, men that have used and thrown me away like refuse
And I prayed and begged to be rescued by you
But it’s all been of no use
I suppose I could go on for a lifetime
And still never find
The ultimate locution to express my hurt over this matter
And even though I was constructed from half your matter
You’ll probably never read this anyway, so what I write really doesn’t matter
But just in case mere happenstance causes you to peruse the configurations of
my pen
I need you to know that over the years I’ve needed you and to my chagrin
It has truly been
A reverberating sin
That your oldest daughter has never known where in the hell you’ve been
Daddy, where you been?
Common Sense.
Common Sense written by Thomas Paine to unite the colonies under one single cause. Freedom.
One does not need to read this in order to gain a sense of freedom or ideal when it is already built into the very essence of our souls!
Dig deeper!
Spiral out.....to move in a circular motion away from a centralized point...knowledge of self
Learn to swim or drown, as they say...
Dig deeper......THINK!
Orwell said it first when deeming the term "groupthink."
One. ??
Its not common sense as in the view of what is not taught in schools. Its common sense. What all people have in common and that is the ability to sense.
The ability to breathe, to see, to bleed, to think, to learn, to understand, to say, to write, to believe, to create, to feel; to live.....to love!
Deep breath.....Pause......exhale!!!!
The common aspect that we all have a sense to simply just be. To exist! To think for ourselves and unify as one!
One. ??
To unify under a single cause; to be connected as a single one.
One. ??
All things are connected as one and therefore unified for a single purpose. Life.
We breathe the oxygen given by plants and trees and flowers. Those things, in turn, breathe while converting our exhaled carbon dioxide into oxygen so therefore we trade life.
If we did not breathe, our favorite flowers would surely cease to be and in that WE would cease to exist!
All life is balance!
Common sense.
Everything else is simply superficial so therefore this world has lost its way....
We already know oppression so therefore through balance, we know freedom.
Its time for a higher consciousness......
So deep breath......Pause.....Exhale!
It is THAT simple!
In doing so and by letting go, we will be inoculated from the turmoil, hate, pain, fear, injustice, oppression and control that this world continues to use to toxify and poison our minds and our lives!
In this we will free our minds, be connected as one, and this world will know true freedom.........
To be, or not to be....that my friends, is the question..
It ALL starts with you......
The Age Of Reason is Now
Meant...........to be
Radical planet friendly measures
equals earning kudos as unsung hero
(think environmental/carbon footprint)
nearly absolute zero
while global population quarantine
suspension of civil rights
would never fly with trumpeting pharaoh.
Since United States economically crippled
(as well rest of world wide web)
courtesy coronavirus fallout rippled
analogous, whereby Mother Earth
(Gaia's) motley crew psyches stippled.
Golden nugget opportunity whence
twenty first century man/womankind
can make figurative about face
humanity undergoes tense
fossil fuel powered civilization
intricate tapestry doth unwind
(COVID-19) wreaking havoc
among flu fighting village people
constituting human race
shifting radical paradigm
toward renewable resources
alas me dogmatic karma credit
thinks green new deal
(Paine fully) common sense
to any doubting Thomas
since global governments
currently flattened, gutted,
hobbled, immobilized, jackknifed
martial law restricts
impugns verity capitalistic
(re: cannibalistic planetary exploitation)
acquiescing higglety pigglety
free for all
(Alfred E. Neuman wannabes) madcap
(spy versus spy chase
explicit green lighting
global (fiery red) desecration rents
linkedin multitude innocent
flora and fauna violently asunder
ethos predicated upon
vandalistic, monopolistic, capitalistic...
manifest destiny codas enshrined
no matter indigenous tribes genocide
horrifically did erase
place names benign injustice
underestimates true value
native peoples legacy
impossible mission feebly
conjuring bloody events
sacred treaties scotched, revoked, quashed...
accentuating death sentence signed
obliterating rightful heirs amazing grace
storied proud nations traduced
as agents provocateur
cruelly prodded to adopt
offense and/or defense
inevitably pushed off their sacred lands
today their abysmal existential nihilistic crisis
crushing, damning, punishing... poverty
testament how third eye blind
turned away s as to avoid witnessing
tears for fears etching staind face.
I need you in my arms
I need you by my side
I will cause you no harm
Understand my pain
"Only in this lifetime"
Along this path
I was absorbed through misery
I became known as
What you all call today
An outcast
In all my words
What would make you think
You couldn’t come to me
I’ll do all I can for you
I have fallen from grace
So I can no longer adore truth
Right or wrong, for better or worse
I could never leave you without a home
I try to do more good than terrible
But these are times of Paine
And they make life unbearable
All kinds of suffrage in this living
Find someone to be there
Better times to envision
These overshadowing events
and circumstances
Shape us into the individuals
We might one day grow to be
You say you’re making it
I’ve grown to become a college brat
I too am surviving
Maybe one of us
Will one day relax upon a better day
Other than that
There’s no wishing this weather away
How can I be what was never taught
The personality I sold
Was the image you all bought
And if I don’t fare through the night
It doesn’t mean it wasn’t a fair fight
Days I could see myself
Through your eyes
As a child flying a kite
So smile things will be alright
In a stand still moment
You ran away from home
Ambitious and following
The wrong scent
In depth I think
So my thoughts
Seem to rush the children away
It’s not that I preach
But I can’t afford to lose
So I push the obvious Pilgrim away
Gone silent, visually awry
Awaiting an angel to call me
Witnessed my shadow
Fall not far from me
Sympathetic exposure
Amidst the thunder and clouds
Is it okay to wonder aloud
Did I bring us
The worst of you and me
On my knees
I need your arms around me once more
A pint of Evan Williams by my side
Did I become vulnerable
Me or you whom shall we grieve
Don’t you wish things were wonderful
On my last stance
Until then and perhaps
This old man’s back may collapse
Takes a breath, for he’s not leaving
He relapses and keeps breathing
Form:
Warriors of austere adventures,
soldiers for suffering and tribe survival,
children,peasents,women & men,the penny poor & candid criminals,
proud peoples,honest heros,
we marched on all the flesh of earth,
no terrain was forbidden for the fantastic forbearence of the foriegn fighters,
campaigns on the cold clay of Europe's mountain valleys,
the smeltering sands of arid Arabia where the sanctuaries are shadows,
mundane manuevors upon the hot hills of the mutinational Meditterrain,
marching in spread points across Russia's frozen waters,
mildly marching single file through soft dirt along the massive Mississippi,
going above and beyond the shattered rock the Hindu Kush does pile,
forging fanaticaly in columns of two against angry winds that whirl and wail
amid the plateus of Peru where pain is pink and mercy mute,
motives for marching can be exquisitely egregious,or simple and sanctified
like the beating of a boy in order to make a man rather than a brute,
Hannibal climbed the hellish heights of the Alps,
Caeser acquired apotheosis by the grinding of Gaul,
the Khan of Asia killed for culture,
irreproachable rebels like Moses and Boudica fought for posterity,for legends,
Joseph Brant and Alaric broke yokes of the Imperial vulture,
Cincinatus pushed forward the march to ensure the peace with plough,
Tom Paine for freedom of expression,Joan of Arce burned for rapture,
simplicity brings relief,and sometimes joy while on the move,
oddities like bluejays & baccon,
wonders such as hawks & large wildlife,
good things like clean water & a commrades cackle,
mysterious events of improvised spiritual ritual,omens deciphered
unique to each are rife,
in the snow & in the beach,through the mud,grass & crisp leaves we traverse
to bring the battle to the enemy,
to deliver the war with might,
we march so to bring the conflict to ourselves,
we march to meet,compete,and to defeat ourselves,
we march to meet our Maker's light -
J.A.B. %
I
The Servants of Free Men on the Mayflower
Knew "abundant life" in Jesus, Great Savior
Two servants, too, rose up to sign The US Constitution
Lover of His Morals, Binder of America's First Bible, Jefferson
Perhaps, long before, some foundations cast by Tom Paine & William Penn
II
Then there is Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island
Who paid Native Americans for Providence, new way to get land?
More fortunate than Minister Anne Hutchinson, foe of New England
Because she read the Bible, taught it, and well ... thus expelled
Yet more fortunate than Mary Dyer, Quaker, now Watch at Boston Common
III
Smaller folk prayed for A Great Awakening. It came. Publicist: Ben Franklin
Preachers in the trenches, before two Billys: Charles Finney & Our Theologian
None other than Jonathan Edwards; when he died, on that occasion
His wife wrote her daughter: we weep but thank LORD he was our relation!
IV
The idea of America ... inimitable; Einstein came as Refugee of Distinction
And veterans I'm blessed to know, ennobled by trials and tribulation
We lost Lewis Reynolds this year; a Marine and Man of many an Invention
Your simple research will reveal we owe much to such Fighters For Freedom
And in my church: Walter Ogden, Dick (Tex) Pentecost, Russell Coleman
V
Yes, we may criticize its imperfection ... often without paying a price
There was the bad history with Indians - broken treaties and cowardice -
Yet John Rolfe did marry Pocohontas, many now claim them Ancestors
And slavery of Africans was brutish, but Lincoln busted free of old fears
As did Noble Roosevelt, Carter, & Obama ... celebrate USA in Living Colors
(c) Deo. Happy Birthday America; God empower the peoples and every level of Leadership to fulfill the Great Destiny of America. After all, Gandhi's great granddaughter, Uma, says: "Try to share; you'll have to one way or another."
(alternately titled: excuse me while aye...
touch the sky, hen derrick lee
and pull lightly gag.)
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and eighteen didst find me
to awaken with a start
during the wee
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of predawn this morning
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sensation to regurgitate,
which tum me,
(and ma tummy)
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the moost unpleasant –
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We started out so young and in love at 15 but then as we got older things started to go wrong when our hidden love wasn't a secret no more
we had been together for a year or more at the age of 17 we had our first born on the way but she was taken from us to soon after birth our relationship stayed intact but wasn’t the same we grew distant our young love hadn't been the same after 10 month and we were 19 the lost we had was a lot to handle but time had passed we were blessed with our beautiful boy who I thought would ease the pain
but still things didn’t change I made mistakes and you did to fill the void because things weren't rite an you weren't there the way I needed you and your mistakes were drunken an hazed a time or two so we're both to blame for our love that’s been hurt an broken now 3 years later I made small mistakes here and there an you've still not been there the ways I’ve needed you we’re both hard head an still young our blessed boy older and more handsome then when he was born sees the Paine our love is going through
we have our small moments of perfection the heart ache an tears are not even I don’t know what to do no more we’re about to turn 24 I miss the way things were before when you loved me the way you did when we first started out I wish I hadn't made my newish mistakes but as this new year has started I wanted a new start an it’s been greatish but as the months have passed it’s turning bad from the past mistakes catching up with me an our new issues arising I feel our love getting more lost an possible never to be found I wish we could go back and we could prevent our mistakes from happening an our relationship be saved from this lost path but you can't turn back time just try to prove we can be trusted an take a new steps forward and hope for the best
Something is very wrong here
A world monopoly, based not on human life but on financial and corporate power
Money is one of the most socially paralysing structures humanity has ever endured
“ None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free ”
Johhan Wolfgang von Goethe
“Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperament; greed and fear
of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified; the direct consequence is that we
have to fight with each other in order to survive.”
Bernard Lietaer founder of the EU Currencey system
This is in an age where planetary sustainable wealth has exceeded anything known in human
history.
“We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in
the hands of a few; we can’t have both ”
Louise Brandeis Supreme Court Justice
Money is the greatest single impediment to the evolvement of humanity as a species. Money
generates nothing except the need for more money. Money creates greed, greed degrades the
human condition to a level of slavery to survival no better than that of cave men
Abundance, is not the mechanism of money, scarcity is its mechanism; scarcity equals
profit. Abundance surrounds us, it is evident in the creation of our cities and in our
super markets. What point is there in selling abundance, you might as well try and sell air.
The environmental conditioning of poverty is the prime cause of 90% of global criminality.
The United States has the largest prison population in the world.
“ My country is the world. My religion is to do good ”
Thomas Paine
“ I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality ”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr