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The black snake winds around the Missouri
The black snake winds around the Missouri and chokes the Sioux Nation with misery. Black venom slithers across sacred land, but Water Protectors make a last stand. Bullets and burning gas- grenades explode; Big Fist shoots water canon in bitter … Continue reading
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Ghazal #89 from Ghazals For The Friend
Drunk or smashed is all the same to our clear and sober mind; the Friend’s name opens the heart’s eye and makes it to all else blind! We swear we have no gods but fall prostrate at your pure feet: … Continue reading
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“I am not the body…” Avatar Meher Baba
” I am not the body. I am not the mind. I am not this. I am not that. I am nothing but a living lie of that truth that is me and unless the lie is dead the truth … Continue reading
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“Pity the Nation…” Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced, and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to praise … Continue reading
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Is Beloved Archives a con?
Beloved Archives, incorporated by Nosherwan Nalavala in NJ about seven years ago as a non profit- 501(c)(3), is evidently a tragic con. The archival project purports to collect, archive and present media and material associated with Avatar Meher Baba’s life … Continue reading
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We have opened the door to our heart and let you in
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We long to drown in the loud sounding sea
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Crazy my love for the lover beyond reproach
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Rumi quatrain #267 Foruzanfar
A foot that would wander with joy at night, A hand that would pluck a fist of flowers: That hand was severed, and that foot crushed By the ambush of death’s gnashing jaws. پای که همی رفت بشبستان سر مست … Continue reading
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