http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/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 poehourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/418832do not forget Saint/Mother Theresa of Calcutta (and Albania/World/Earth/Heaven) Thank you Mom, Thank you Mother Theresa, Thanks to Mom's who conceived,bore and carried us, those who lost someof us, those who cry for second and third chances. Shalom...Glory to God, and to the Quaker leaders who...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/132468One Haiku and Two 4-liners on Freedom of Speech: - HAIKU- One weeping willow Three swans, not four - under blooms This spring I am one. It's Saturday, so I will share some fruits of poetree:- Writing is a haven A mode of self-instruction I brandish my pen No weapon of mass destruction Do not,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/129092CATCH A LOVER BY THE ASS - the MODERN way ASS or AssETS? If nudity satisfies and helps CHASTITY, bring it on! There was a time, in my native South Africa, when women and men tried to win a date, lover or marriage partner through a simple and shocking process. This was by looking at, analysing and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/128989(Like a Moth to Fame, yes fame, not FLAME) See the details in the Blogging of this Morning: Blogging this Morning I exhumed nurses and poets Like a moth to FAMEhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/128785It is now Friday morning in California, the capital of the West Coast! Wake up people, morning has begun. For the past several minutes I have been in a quandary. Do I post a favorite short poem by Emily Dickinson, a host of political sciency topics, an article on Cicadas from the BALTIMORE SUN...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/128492Anybody see or hear from Tremacc? Once a week, Ariala kidnaps Tremacc just so someone can read all her poetry. But she had her turn this week a few days ago. Tree, are U napping with your kid? (she has a son, not just 2 cats like other famous people). She may still be laughing from last night,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/128446CATCH A LOVER BY THE ASS - the MODERN way (REVEALED for the 1st time ever) ASS or AssETS? If nudity satisfies and helps CHASTITY, bring it on! There was a time, in my native South Africa, when women and men tried to win a date, lover or marriage partner through a simple and shocking process. This...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/127660DENVER MAGIC: I'LL NEVER SHAKE HIS HAND, LIVING THOUGH I'VE LAIN MY ACHING HEAD UPON HIS MELODIOUS LAND, GIVING GIVING COMFORT TO THOSE ABOVE AND BELOW MY KIND MY KIND OF LYRICAL POETRY BORN OF MAGICIANS, SINGING SINGING ABOUT AMERICA AT ITS BEST HILLS GREEN, RIVER RESTLESS, RINGING WRINGING AND...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/127505PRETORIA, 1893 (South Africa’s Executive Capital) SUNDAY NEWS: M.K. Gandhi in town NEWS: M.K.G. in town NEWS: DID YOU KNOW that when Gandhi arrived in South Africa, he met African-Americans in Pretoria? Yes, at Johnston’s Family Hotel in Pretoria in the year 1893. How Gandhi got there is the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils5369/126767GANDHI 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...