First The Lightning Then The Rain Poem by Saiom Shriver

First comes her lightning..
then her rain
first her humor
with kindness in its train
First the baptism by fire
and then water's laving
First Uranus
.. the way for Neptune paving

She does not in Uranian ways
laugh in her sacred church
.. but issues lightning bolts
of compassion from the pulpit


Uranus must twice revolve
to equal Neptune's once resolve

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(to Dr Ginnie Bourquardez, founder
of International Network for Religion
and Animals. She is with God now)

INRA combined vegetarian and animal
rights teachers in all religions

(Uranus has an orbit of 84 years
.. Neptune an octave higher
has an orbit of 168 years)