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Ever since earthly life began its cycle
man has thought they were in control
anything was achievable no matter what
so thought the human mind but they stole
They were thieves of their own destiny
for only the creator has the true right
He was the sole architect of everything
holding in His hand all so very tight
The folly of man just won't accept it
that there's someone far bigger than them
in absolute control of life and breath
so when will you throw away your sour lem?
The original founder of it all is God
He holds everything truly in His hand
even our breath is His to give or take
such is His glory sings the heavenly band
So let's be wise to recognise who He is
the God of eternity who always has been
and the news is He God always will be
He decides when we leave our earthly scene
("In his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.")
Job 12: 10 (ESV)
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You, unfeeling creatures
Who call yourselves human,
You, fleeting bubbles of reason,
Accidental parasites of time,
You, filthy microbes of cancer,
Ephemera of invincible eternity,
You, who try to fill your vanity
With abominable crimes,
You, insensible butchers of animals,
Notorious destroyers of pastures,
You, contaminators of oceans,
Deleterious polluters of rivers,
You, menacing beings of harmony,
Transgressors of universal laws,
You,
Who deliberately have put me through
The tormenting agony of dying
By
Strewing your treacherous dark web of
Your unworthy ambitions, all over my face,
Shadowing my generous fertility and
Rendering me sterile,
Behold,
For the time has come for you
To feel my wrath and my fury
Boiling lava over you
To flow every day,
Kneel,
Your tiny mortal beings
In front of the immortal cosmos,
For the shiny heavy sword of
Universal justice,
Punisher of transgressions, guardians of
The eternal laws,
Over your thoughtless heads to fall
With vengeance and rage
Decapitating the most of you and
Those who would survive
Shall feel the torturing pain in
Their hearts
For
Uncountable years!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
20 March 2020
* This poem I wrote in 1985 in Montreal, Canada when, as a co-founder of a peace movement, was making efforts to raise conscientiousness for to save mother earth. It was posted here on the 28th of November 2012 with the title:"The Rage of Mother Earth". Now, with minor editing, is re-posted with its original title of 1985: "THE MOURNING OF MOTHER EARTH." THIS IS A STERN WARNING TO ALL OF US WHO DESTROY HER: REMEMBER NOT MUCH TIME IS LEFT TO SAVE OUR PLANET AND OURSELVES!
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{There will be ‘nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.’ UN climate report warns of ‘code red for humanity.’}
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You, unfeeling creatures
Who call yourselves human,
You, fleeting bubbles of reason,
Accidental parasites of time,
You, filthy microbes of cancer,
Ephemera of invincible eternity,
You, who try to fill your vanity
With abominable crimes,
You, insensible butchers of animals,
Notorious destroyers of pastures,
You, contaminators of oceans,
Deleterious polluters of rivers,
You, menacing beings of harmony,
Transgressors of universal laws,
You,
Who deliberately have put me through
The tormenting agony of dying
By
Strewing your treacherous dark web of
Your unworthy ambitions, all over my face,
Shadowing my generous fertility and
Rendering me sterile,
Behold,
For the time has come for you
To feel my wrath and my fury
Boiling lava over you
To flow every day,
Kneel,
Your tiny mortal beings
In front of the immortal cosmos,
For the shiny heavy sword of
Universal justice,
Punisher of transgressions, guardians of
The eternal laws,
Over your thoughtless heads to fall
With vengeance and rage
Decapitating the most of you and
Those who would survive
Shall feel the torturing pain in
Their hearts
For
Uncountable years!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
11 August 2021
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* This poem I wrote in 1985 in Montreal, Canada when, as a co-founder of a peace movement, was making efforts to raise conscientiousness to save mother earth. It was posted here on the 28th of November 2012 with the title:"The Rage of Mother Earth". Now, with minor editing, is re-posted with its original title of 1985: "THE MOURNING OF MOTHER EARTH." THIS IS A STERN WARNING TO ALL OF US WHO DESTROY HER: REMEMBER NOT MUCH TIME IS LEFT TO SAVE OUR PLANET AND OURSELVES!
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**'Worst is yet to come': Disastrous future ahead for millions worldwide due to climate change, report warns. So it came to pass. What I dreaded back in 1985 is here, according to the UN report. The question is this: What can we do? What should we do? What we would do? LET US DO THE BEST WE CAN TO SAVE OUR EARTHLY HOME!
***I wanted to include this poem in the PoertySoup upcoming Anthology but poetrySoup says it has too many lines!
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At a mosque at Fatahpur, India, --- what was the capital city of the
Mughal Empire, --- Akbar (r. 1556 - 1505), the third emperor of the Empire, had constructed the largest gateway in India. This imperial construct, Akbar's
Triumphal Arch, was meant to symbolize the supremacy of the Empire.
And emblazoned on this arch, on a panel of kufic script, are the words -
Akbar commanded be put:
"Jesus, the son of Mary (on whom be peace) said: "The World is a Bridge,
pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day, may hope for eternity, but the World endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer, for the
rest is unseen."
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"Entheogen" Hiway (Harmony, sin, redemption):
"[Jesus' disciples asked] him, 'When will the Kingdom come?'
Jesus said, 'It will not come by waiting for it.
... rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and
men do not see it.'"
--- From the ancient Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Saying 113
"Jesus said, 'It is I who am the Light which is above them all.
It is I who am the All. From me did the All - come forth, and
unto me did the All extend. Split a piece of wood, and I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
--- From the ancient Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Saying 77
"Sometimes it is said that by meditation one will understand that God is -
seated in the heart of the human being ... The Bhagavad-gita [confirms] this -
with the declaration that Isvara, the supreme controller of the world, is
seated in the heart of everyone. He is present, not only in everyone's
heart, but also within the atoms. No place is vacant, no place is
without the presence of the Lord."
--- His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder - Acarya
of the International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKON)
"The splendor of the sun, which dissipates the darkness of this whole world,
comes from me. And the splendor of the moon and the splendor of fire
are also from me."
--- Lord Krishna, from the Bhagavad-Gita [15.12]
"Light and darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of
one another. They are inseparable. Because of this, neither are the
good good, nor the evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason
each one will dissolve into its original nature. But those who are exalted
above the world are indissoluble, eternal."
--- From the ancient Gnostic Christian Gospel of Phillip
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