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PeaceFull MusEcology

Radically erroneous monotheists
have mistakenly substituted
our co-infested
co-operative
co-invested
co-empathic pantheistic HolySpirit's
naturally healthy 
resonant EarthTribal bodhisattva powers 
of polyculturing communion love and peace

for messianically monoculturing luster
and loneliness

unnaturally unhealthy
irreligiously irritating dissonance

degeneratively devilish
and idolatrous
and disrapturously ecocidal

false-god demonic
anthro-supremacist power

Struggling to survive
against Othered 
fundamentally erroneous monotheists.

In the woods 04-12-23

In the woods, a man, shadows dance
examining his fleeting silhouette, stuck in a trance.
He raises his fist toward the sun.
He sees its embrace, withdrawn.
He wonders is a shadow the absence of light
or the presence of darkness?
If both then why
when he raises his hand further to the sky,
does brilliance become substituted by obscurity?
Is he a bringer of darkness?
Or is darkness just unfortunate light.
Trapped beneath an opaque shrine.
Bidding its time for freedom.

Severe Weather Warnings

Long-range forecasts
predict outbreaks of pretty weather girls.
In the event of short-range predictions,
some ugly guy may be substituted.
In the case of an emergency,
mice may seek the sheltering wings
of owls and hawks.
By midnight, the total destruction
of garden gnomes is anticipated.
Survivors are asked to remain
in their bathtubs
until absolutely clean.

Wackiness

No one missed the cock's wackiness,                                 Still it was a dreaminess,                                                Nothing substituted his craziness,                                  Crowd appreciated Tom's cockiness,                           Actually he was a bird of laziness,                                                      
 How did he get the pickiness?,                                             
 But he used his canniness,                                                         I admired his rockiness,                                                           
He removed our sloppiness,                                                   His fight was not spottiness,                                                        I was attracted by his choppiness,                                         He got victory by his grogginess,                                        Atlast he became logginess,                                           Anyhow his fight gave me floppiness.

Chef Rabbits Special Stew

Chef rabbit’s specialty was lovely, marvelous cabbage-carrot stew.
One year there was a drought, and he did not know what to do.
No cabbage anywhere around, okay, maybe he could scrounge up two.
He substituted lettuce, and it was tastier, on a scale, twenty-two.

chef rabbits special stew

Chef rabbit’s specialty was lovely, marvelous cabbage-carrot stew.
One year there was a drought, and he did not know what to do.
No cabbage anywhere around, okay, maybe he could scrounge up two.
He substituted lettuce, and it was tastier, on a scale, twenty-two.

Bouncing Baby Song Nursery Rhyme Song

Bouncing on my grandma's knee.
A pirate on a boat at sea.
A monkey swinging from a tree.
Laughing with grandma and me.

(Chorus)
Up and down
Round and round
Riding on a
Merry go round

Bouncing on my grandma's knee.
Buzzing like a busy bee.
Sweeter than the sweetest pea.
Grandpa's waiting next for me.

(chorus)
Up and down
Round and round
Riding on a 
Merry go round

 3/27/2023
note: any name can be substituted 
           for grandma and grandpa

The Magic Hour

The magic hour

The day is ending, and time is one hour back but 
the day still serves early twilight
From the window of a tourist resort, I see the mountain range
I lived beyond, in a village with no name.
So many years ago, when thinking about that time 
it appears as movies rolled fast forward the seasons
turns into one, was it summer or fall?
I had a dog we walked in the woods every day, she chased rabbits
I chased dreams like catching the breeze
The dog, tired of chasing bunnies, retired to the verandah
walking alone in the forest was tiresome
I knew of Serengeti in another dale tall yellow grass were
lions spied, crocodiles in the muddy stream, but when 
I blinked; the sight had gone, substituted by grazing mules
and wine orchards, beautiful red grapes going nowhere.
The dog resting its head on my thigh, so tired and weary
in the morning, she had gone.
A dream was over; we had both been defeated by old age.
I sold the cottage, but before leaving, I walked up to the hill
to see the ocean, I shall not sail on.
But what I have lost will forever be mine to keep.

Eve

Eyes meet for a last resort
Repetition tools, my only hand
Efficiency a cursed blessing
Language substituted breath
Red is with me
Beneath a powerful, helpless fracture
Confused, misunderstood
me? you?  
Numbed beyond rational choice
Order is the highest power
The stench of my circles corner, contamination United.
Chameleon's consume the artistic design.
A cost of emotions is equal to that of pi, all the while I'm dead to be alive.
Clones breeding,  math to divide from war.
Food for thought
Thought for food
We go again with new recruits.

Leadership

Our leadership has been anguished
Our society is malnourished
We are presented with a cup-full of disease 
Our hopes have been turned a decease

Our night has turned sour 
By the gunshots of leaders of ours 
Our youthful senility 
Has been substituted for grey hairs' agility

Our cry for help is like a shout in a deep sea
They cannot speak, hear nor see
They can't acknowledge it 'cause they are too blind, deaf and dumb 
To our plight, they went numb 

I put no trust in future of today
For my hope is lost in the abysmal of yesterday
Maybe, just maybe, thy dear God will have mercy and make their minds mature
For I retire in bright future.

After the Slap

Everybody’s seen it
And discussed it to no end,
Wondering what repercussions
It may yet portend.

But to have a welcome chuckle,
Go check out James Corden’s song.
If will guarantee a grin and likely,
You will sing along.

For the writer took the Bruno tune,
Which most of us now know,
And just substituted Jada,
Making it so apropos.

How it blows my mind when talent
Takes an item in the news
And creates a little magic,
Well-deserving of our views.

Abecedarian Alliteration

An abecedarian Australian animal activist
Bagged bodacious big bucks
Caustically criticizing crocodiles,
Driving darling dragons
Essentially extinct. Eschewing
Fact, fabricating fanciful fiction,
Grifting gloriously,
He haughtily held hostage
Important, instructive information,
Juxtaposed jaundiced, junk
Kangaroo kills,
Leveling large lizard libel,
Manufacturing marsupial misinformation malevolently.
On other ominous occasions,
Preferring pernicious propaganda,
Quickly, querulously, quashed
Real, rational reports, rather,
Substituted several substantially
Tarnished technical travesties,
Undermining unified understanding.
Very vociferously, viciously
Wrote works without warrant,
Xenophobic xenotypic
yarns, yammering yellow-bellied yawps,
Zombie-like, zealously.

Innovative Commentary

INNOVATIVE COMMENTARY

where purpose
alludes
self-glowing iterations
   are accentuated
yet
restrained
  by complicity

an uneasy assessment
  on reflection
of facial
   gymnastics
where expression
incarnates
   in enviable
propensity
&mundane fantasy
is  collapsed
by
 tradition
appropriated
& subverted
in the
   collective psyche
tangible
  evidence
   mutating
emotive
squashed
  &
substituted
then
   released

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived

Industrial-Revolution

During the United States’ industrial revolution,
Eli Whitney invented interchangeable parts;
Identical components that could be substituted one for another.

This creation was made for machine— 
weapons
cars
and other mechanical mysteries. 
This isn't the case today.

Hips are interchangeable. 
Legs are interchangeable.
Hands and fingers are interchangeable.
Hearts are interchangeable.
Now, not only with man, 
but also with machine.

I can’t imagine it will be long before
software updates are reprogramming us,
instead of the devices we hold in our hands.
That we electrocute when wet,
and overheat when used for a long duration of time.
That we can recharge by cord
and turn on and off with the simple click of a button.

A small advancement, interchangeable parts were,
yet they contributed to further blurring the lines
between man and machine.

Grace Weeping

I
No, my dearies, beautiful Grace did not weep that day
It is a matter of weeping over grace at mealtime
Not to make a federal case out of it, but one day
Alone, did say grace, knew my veggies were divine

II
The tears began to fall: "Jesus, your amazing provision!" 
Vegetarian I was, but only cook veg in my home
I recalled islands I toured: Trinidad, Mauritius, Reunion
When it was harder to eat well, as I was not alone

III
Not bragging, but since that day I'm aware Jesus is near
Very interested in my food preferences, always proving
His title, "Jehovah Jireh" even as He took Isaac's spear
When we walk with Him, plain food becomes communion!


NOTE: In Genesis 22, Abraham is about to sacrifice his son, Isaac, to prove to God he, Abraham, is obedient & trusting in the Resurrection. When the Angel stopped the killing, a ram was substituted. High up a mount, all alone, a single male sheep? Caught & crowned by thorns? That was a Christophany, previewing Jesus' willingness to die in our place. In this chapter we find God revealing this aspect of His provisoning for His flock: YHWH Yireh

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