Iraq
A surge in violence
A surge in United States troops
A bigger surge in violence
An even bigger surge in death, maiming and destruction
A surge in missing limbs, charred flesh and disease
A surge in money for the $500 million US embassy “complex”
Complete with a McDonald’s
Will there ever be e a surge in peace
For a change
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"A Quaker veterinarian gets a chance to ramble on about animals, veterinary medicine, politics, fathering, poetry, spirituality (Quaker and others) and baseball."
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- 51 year old, divorced father of 13 year old son. Veterinarian for 10 years. Cub fan for 45 years. Owner of an 8 year old black Standard Poodle named Duke and Budgie named Bob. (Max during this past Christmas season, of unknown causes)
5 comments:
Chuck, I appreciate you posting your poetry.
Have you read the book Friends For 350 Years? I've been sitting on it for months now (the Library Committee will be after me in another year or two) and I finally managed to wade through the first couple of chapters, which were dense and slow going. The middle three chapters, "Reaching Decisions," "The Meeting Community," and "The Meeting and the World" are great. I'm just thinking a lot about what it means to be a pacifist.
yes, i read the first three chapters, just kind of petered out. I felt like it was a book I wanted to read and should read of I was gonna be a real Quaker. I'm sure i will. I own the book. I'm findin a lot of direction and solace from Patrica Loring's first boood on Listening Spirituality. She's a Quaker who offers ways to hear God from different traditions. I'm loving it. I am thinking of starting a Quaker apirituality group. What do you think? I also own it and her second bood on Corporate Sprituality. I tried to get into #1 for several years and finaly it just "clicked" this fall.
Chuck
Thank you for sharing your poetry, it is beautiful. This poem in particular is very moving.
Oooooh. Nice photo!
Thanks - Chuck - for your creative appropriate words - in such a thoughtful poem!
As we get older, hopefully we find more peace within ourselves which may better help us cope with the insane perpetration of both wars and warlike mindsets both nearby and afar.
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