For every light, which flicketh on,
another salmon cease to spawn,
The hunter without spiritual prayer,
teaches his young to despair
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Fisherman never giving thanks;
discards plastic on river banks,
Each piece dropped by river oak,
a rainbow does fade and choke
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One who has stopped reading books,
is out poaching royal Chinooks,
He who harms creatures with no need,
shall nevr know love of woman indeed,
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She who hurts a little sage hen,
shall not become true love of man,
An animal knows when you fear it,
and can read the good your spirit
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Humans not built separate from nature,
but tangled now with Techno-future,
Can we learn living side by side,
with shady spots and complicated pride?
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One could read tracks to a day,
until ego began to shade his way,
Her stickers urged “Visualize World Peace!”
yet friendship with her neighbor ceased
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Save the lion, wolf and bear,
but what about the kids you care?
High schools parking lot’s a mess,
projecting acts of generation next
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Each delay of children’s center,
a young lad loses a valuable mentor,
Drinking and speeding up and down,
such hobbies paint your face a clown,
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Son’s military service brings law and order,
Wild man discovers new psychic borders,
Every hungry truck engine left while idling,
A Persian Gulf soldier drowns in oil fighting,
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A day spent within forced mechanical shields,
Distances one’s touch from beauties fields,
Every radioactive bomb a dud,
Gain we anew one field of spud
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Each spilled barrel of in-toxic-crated waste,
A song filled meadow churns slow to paste,
Following a daily ritual too close,
hollows mans spirit into a ghost
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Too much time on highway lately?
Pirsig’s advice: think laterally,
The crooked road you’ll find much more,
the cup of time fulfilled will pour
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With Faster, Hurry! Go! Go! Go!
You might just zip, right past the show,
Airport paves a runway long,
cooks gridlock in a country song,
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Each tailgate to a bumper,
forces a body to become a jumper
Too much fame, too much luck,
into Private Idaho you duck,
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Inner city pressure forced you here,
wolverine medicine revealed over beer,
Hamp man dressed down, furtively glancing;
try soft deceit for excellent dancing,
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Social help not here with this wealth,
we’re forty-ninth in mental health,
Each resort by glamour lighted,
another criminal is invited
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With synthetic chemicals excessive high,
dark questionable characters draw a nigh,
A pot of gold will drive some crazy;
our moral lines become quite hazy
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My last letter to Dad & mother,
“Valley’s brimmed with small potatoes smashing one another,”
Each new shelter built on field,
mountain lion blazes new trail to yield,
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Tree roots cut with sewage hookup,
Great horned’s cloak above is shook up,
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A truth that’s told with ill intent,
beats any lie you can invent,
Should I do a good job replacing this grate?
Hey, it’s a low liability State
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Friendly waves gone unacknowledged;
snared upon wrong books in college?
Shiny idea gems from mind were taken,
with Indian lands life forsaken
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No return to lake and ocean,
bringeth gesture without motion,
Fearless leader guides a human race,
now seek thee quick their aged face
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Think ye mental storm difficult handle?
find two honest men with said stick candle,
Purify yourself deep in Gaia forest;
Help marriage with Earth come undivorced…
