Poems

<BODY BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD" TEXT="#080000" LINK="#000000" ALINK="#800200" VLINK="#000000"> <div> <B>In The Name Of God </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>by Rev. Lori Bruno HPS</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>In the name of God?</B></div> <div> <B>How odd!</B></div> <div> <B>War condone</B></div> <div> <B>Skull and bone </B></div> <div> <B>Hate each other </B></div> <div> <B>You forgot the Great Mother, </B></div> <div> <B>Forget your sister and your brother. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Religion is good,</B></div> <div> <B>But misunderstood. </B></div> <div> <B>The Holy books can justify </B></div> <div> <B>Who is to live and who is to die. </B></div> <div> <B>There is another way</B></div> <div> <B>Learn all paths this day.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Open your mind</B></div> <div> <B>your soul you'll unbind,</B></div> <div> <B>And learn to be kind</B></div> <div> <B>Unholy war,</B></div> <div> <B>No More!</B></div> <div> <B>"Garden of Eden"</B></div> <div> <B>that's what we're needin'</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Become a caring nation,</B></div> <div> <B>Not part of the un-creation.</B></div> <div> <B>if you do, </B></div> <div> <B>Keep peace true, </B></div> <div> <B>Between me and you!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>No more war!</B></div> <div> <B>The price is too high,</B></div> <div> <B>All want to live, none want to die!</B></div> <div> <B>Allah! Buddha! Christ! Great Mother!</B></div> <div> <B>Want humanity to love one another.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Hate not for religion or color of the skin,</B></div> <div> <B>Look into the heart - the Soul is within.</B></div> <div> <B>Create, not destroy.</B></div> <div> <B>Make the world a place filled with joy.</B></div> <div> <B>This is not odd,</B></div> <div> <B>It is a place of Goddess and God!</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>OH ROUND MOTHER</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>by Penny J. Novack</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Close your eyes</B></div> <div> <B>Listen</B></div> <div> <B>Swirling between thin solar energies</B></div> <div> <B>And green-mossed stones</B></div> <div> <B>Winds perform wild dances of love</B></div> <div> <B>Circular, lush, filled with Her arms,</B></div> <div> <B>Wild as Her primal energy.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Close your eyes</B></div> <div> <B>Smell</B></div> <div> <B>Earth wakening in Spring – Autumn leaves,</B></div> <div> <B>Stone-scented springs gushing</B></div> <div> <B>Love-messages flowing from flesh, from flower,</B></div> <div> <B>Her plump fragrant messages</B></div> <div> <B>Lusciously wild and wet.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Close your eyes</B></div> <div> <B>Touch</B></div> <div> <B>Contours of tree-flesh, leaf and root</B></div> <div> <B>Stones stream-laved, fruit hanging ripe.</B></div> <div> <B>She is round and soft, curved and hard.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Oh round Mother! Oh lush Beauty</B></div> <div> <B>Perfect and full of Life!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Open your eyes</B></div> <div> <B>See</B></div> <div> <B>In full richness She plays before you..</B></div> <div> <B>She is dense and soft and glorious</B></div> <div> <B>Lovingly sweet, rough as waves,</B></div> <div> <B>Intimate as grass stains</B></div> <div> <B>Warm as bonfires, cool as snow.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Lift up your arms, Round Woman, dance!</B></div> <div> <B>Toss your head, Oh Mare of Wildness, dance!</B></div> <div> <B>Be filled with glory, Lush Undine, dance!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Oh Round Mother, be me.</B></div> <div> <B>I who am only a raindrop of Your rainbow curve,</B></div> <div> <B>I who am only once in Your Always,</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Let me rejoice in my flesh</B></div> <div> <B>Let me be apples and honeybees in your heart.</B></div> <div> <B>Let me be proud,</B></div> <div> <B>Your sensuous beloved</B></div> <div> <B>Daughter!</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Care</B></div> <bR> <div> (the friends triangle)</div> <bR> <div> By Natalie</div> <bR> <bR> <div> When you are feeling lonely you will need a friend</div> <div> Just open up you're heart and friends will come your way,</div> <div> You wont feel lonely anymore because you just opened up your door</div> <div>  </div> <div> Care about your family including you</div> <div> Care about your friends and god too</div> <div> care about things and places</div> <div> cause it's yours, mine and gods creation</div> <div>  </div> <div> If you are feeling lonely, </div> <div> If you are feeling sad</div> <div> Just tell your friend </div> <div> and you will be glad</div> <div> Just open up your heart and </div> <div> your problems will depart.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>    </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>The Burning Times</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>BY </B></div> <div> <B>Samual Percle</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> We are innocent</div> <div> We cause no harm </div> <div> Our children suffer </div> <div> From your selfish charm</div> <div> We are few </div> <div> We are strong</div> <div> Our ways kept secret </div> <div> Far too long </div> <div> Through horrific screams </div> <div> You didn't hear our voices</div> <div> Who made you god?</div> <div> Acting out violence in religious choices</div> <div> We were hunted down</div> <div> Accused and beaten </div> <div> Hung and burned </div> <div> Still our souls shall not weaken</div> <div> Those who slay us call themselves christian</div> <div> The smell of the devil to our suspicion.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>I Think So </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>By Rose Watson </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>When I cover my ears with my hands </B></div> <div> <B>Will I not hear the drumming in my head </B></div> <div> <B>I think not! </B></div> <div> <B>When I look at beauty around me </B></div> <div> <B>Do I not see the troubles and strife </B></div> <div> <B>I think not! </B></div> <div> <B>When I listen to the birds on a spring morning </B></div> <div> <B>Do I not hear the cries from the poor and hungry </B></div> <div> <B>I Think not! </B></div> <div> <B>When I listen hard and see with my heart </B></div> <div> <B>Do I find beauty, love and hope </B></div> <div> <B>I think so! </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>