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                                       Earth's Creatures

Trifle for an Anniversary

2/27/2022

 
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Since the days when decadence
put the Puritans on defense
since the time when whaling grease
stole away religious peace
and New Englanders found God
incarnate in the Sacred Cod
we’ve established a tradition
that is leading toward perdition,
that is, giving lots of horse-lip
to pious ancestor worship.
 
But the crux of this mistake
follows from the choice we make
for we try to pin the godhead
on those forbears who are DEAD.
When the corpse is stowed away,
where the faults unseen decay,
reputation is decomposed
and diaries are recomposed,
Magna Opera of Puritan hypocrisy,
foundations of American democracy.
 
 But this tradition can make sense
if used with seemly reverence
by using you as proof alive
to show the world we don’t contrive
So today we congregate
to honor two who’re truly great
bringing offerings of our love
which make Heaven smile above
 
                                                            (early 1960s) 

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    Poems by   Janet
    Illustrations by   Johannes

    Most poems in Volume 1 come from early efforts, but all cluster mostly on observations of persons and events which lift the mind to Life's Creator and "the way things are," with "all things turning unto good."  



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    Sections of Book
    and Poems

    All
    A ... Book Beginning
    A ... Book Ending
    Against Salt Waves
    Age In Spring
    Ambition
    April And May
    Change Of Season
    Child Disposal
    Children Of East And West
    Church Of The Virgin
    Color With Purpose
    Compensation
    Deafness Of Time
    Doorways
    Dreamer Underground
    Eden Walk
    Fate Of The World’s Children
    Finding One’s Role
    From Laos
    God Bless The Willows
    Hearts At Half-Mast
    Living On The Third Floor
    Look Through Falling Leaves
    Maria
    Mary Mary Quite ....
    Mountain Barriers
    One God
    Praying Afterwards
    Rat’s Eye View
    Red Fury
    Reflected Rays
    Set Prayer In Motion
    Stars Light Our Way
    Step Three – AA
    Student Blood In Beijing
    Sun-Flower
    The Blind Shoemaker
    The Young Voice In The Old
    To Be Naked
    To H.R. In The Cafe
    Trifle For An Anniversary
    Tulips
    Waiting Below
    Watching From The Window
    We Claim Our Own
    Welfare Fare-Well
    What Neighbors Do
    With The Flowers


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