Heroes and Heroines for Sunday, May 02, 2004

Sunday, May 2, 2004

This time, it is poetry: GANDHI MEETS JEFFERSON (Viva USA)

GANDHI MEETS TOM JEFFERSON The Spirit of America, his American spirit No idol, no idolatry, a plea to Providence A life like another of His sons Making us ache for grandeur, ideas, acceptance Your truths, your concession to dirty brown me For equality and a government of the truly free Free of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Non-Violence and relevance, please help

Dear folks: I am Director of a new non-profit that seeks to promote Martin Luther King, gandhi and Thoreau's ideas of non-violent action in the world. We are interested in the Middle East as aplace that could use more of this philosophy, and it will reassure the State of Israel too. Let me know your... Sign in to see full entry.

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These words may be used, but they don't exist ... a short list

NAUSEATING: some makes you/one NAUSEOUS, and someone talks nauseatingly. Like the word "pain" and "paining" - the first exists, but you/one finds things "painful" or one has "pain" never the present participle. Did I already mention that EGGPLANTS do not grow on eggs and that pineapples contain... Sign in to see full entry.

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Dedicated to those who improve AMERICA: With the grandeur of prairies and canyons With Georgian welcomes from Springer Mountain With cooler welcomes of Mount Katahdin America rises with five million feet* To hike amid more mosses, mammals, trees Than do survive in spaces, countries Equal in size but not in what survives America rises with miles of Trail With delirious descents of peregrines With the swooping swish of eagles with fish With raising and saving our whooping cranes America rises in our Refuges Grace as in the disappearing chestnut Timelessness and wonder in the redwood Gifts of euphorbia, aster, camellia America rises with chlorophyll With green and red blood that will unify With plants and Hawaii that diversify America rises and falls from view America for all, saved by the few. *Someone estimated it takes five million footsteps to walk the Appalachian Trail, the AT. I wrote this poe

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