O Anna Niemus Poems

God made the flowering jade forest
for free fruit, animal homes
and for rest
and not for the bloom and bee killing
...

I listened today to an African American man
... attempting to gain access
to his cellphone account on the web... for
an hour...replying so patiently to the
...

The milk born of the four
chambered stomachs of cows
is not good for the four
chambered hearts of human beings
...

In a dream on Dec 27 08 poster was in the room as the Dalai Lama gave a gold scarf to someone.

It is not that the Khmer Rouge, the Taliban, the priests
of the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, the Israeli government, the Puritans in Salem Massachusetts, the Ku Klux Klan, the Chinese Army in Tibet, the Japanese Army in China,
...

From Timbuktu to Tuscaloosa,
they think it wrong
to loose elephant tusks
or to castrate oxen
...

Descendants of the donkey who carried
Jesus on Palm Sunday...
live near Jerusalem.
One was shot at a checkpoint.
...

The place of perfect peace
is Om.
the place of perfect peace
.. is Shalom.
...

Time will remove my clinging fingers
from all my possessions.
Therefore I will endeavor
to give them away, recycle them,
...

Spots has not the leopard
because he is lepered
but he must leave alone
the lambs
...