COWS on the MOOVE
48 Tales from a Paradelle Universe
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A Selection of titles from the Table of Contents
25 - For Something to Celebrate - 5/9/07
26 - For an Upstart Thief - 5/15/07
27 - For a Day on the Lake - 5/20/07
28 - For Unexplainable Prescience - 7/9/07
29 - For the Sun is Melting - 7/16/07
30 - For Being the Was I wasn’t - 7/24/07
31 - For One Hand clapping – 11/26/07
32 - For the Labor of Trees - 1/15/08
33 - For Being Small Minded - 3/08
34 - For the Greatest Illusion - 4/07/08
35 - For One Devil, Many Gods - 4/28/08
36 - For Reincarnation and Life Insurance - 6/27/08
A Paradelle for Cows on the Moove
Cows on the moove, stop dead in their tracks, considering the meaning of moo la la.
Cows on the moove, stop dead in their tracks, considering the meaning of moo la la.
When encountering questionable livestock, be polite to inquire - how now Dow Cow?
When encountering questionable livestock, be polite to inquire - how now Dow Cow?
When encountering questionable Dow stock, be polite to inquire the meaning of cows
dead in their tracks. Stop considering the move on moo la la. How? Live cow now!
The Cow Crossing Advisory Group rejected the call to increase monitoring in the fields.
The Cow Crossing Advisory Group rejected the call to increase monitoring in the fields.
So now, each time you take cows out to pasture, be sure to leave their dance back in the barn.
So now, each time you take cows out to pasture, be sure to leave their dance back in the barn.
Advisory: now be sure to increase the call to dance in each take-out cow you so pasture.
In time the rejected cows leave the group, crossing their fields back to monitoring the barn.
Wandering free-range roaming cows, fenceless and alert to any a ... weirdness around them,
Wandering free-range roaming cows, fenceless and alert to any a ... weirdness around them,
see a roadside cow pause to call at a crossing ... obviously the cow doesn’t know moo.
see a roadside cow pause to call at a crossing ... obviously the cow doesn’t know moo.
A wandering cow, free to see any weirdness roaming the range around them, doesn’t
pause at a fenceless crossing. And roadside cows obviously know to call a moo cow alert.
Encountering a questionable advisory, rejected at the crossing, cows on the moove dance
to see the increase in their stock of moo la moo la. Crossing the barn, cows monitoring the Dow,
call to take back any roadside cow out wandering the range. Alert to free roaming cow weirdness,
polite cows pause to inquire how ... considering the fenceless pasture now around them.
Each time a group doesn’t know when to call in, you leave cow tracks in their fields!
Stop meaning to be so obviously dead sure ... be alive and cow now!
A Paradelle for Peace
For God’s sake, be your own Jesus; forgive others of their ignorance and the suffering that it caused you.
For God’s sake, be your own Jesus; forgive others of their ignorance and the suffering that it caused you.
Resist the temptation to blame them for your sorrow. Don’t judge others for their sins; do not hate them.
Resist the temptation to blame them for your sorrow. Don’t judge others for their sins; do not hate them.
And to you others, that hate them others; for your own sake, don’t be the sorrow for their Jesus. Do not
judge your sins; forgive them for their ignorance of God’s suffering. Resist the blame it caused temptation.
In the name of Allah, peace be unto you, who open your heart as did Muhammad, in his surrender to god.
In the name of Allah, peace be unto you, who open your heart as did Muhammad, in his surrender to god.
Embrace the truth god has given unto you. Would it be the work or a word, praise and proclaim His mercy.
Embrace the truth god has given unto you. Would it be the work or a word, praise and proclaim His mercy.
Be open unto the embrace of God, or surrender your heart to work in peace. Be it the God who has given
unto you his truth; would you praise His mercy in a word as did Muhammad; and proclaim the name Allah?
Open your eyes as Moses and behold the Spirit of the Lord; deliver yourself from hatred and its captivity.
Open your eyes as Moses and behold the Spirit of the Lord; deliver yourself from hatred and its captivity.
Let your conscience be a nation of justice for those who have none, do not hold others in fear, release them.
Let your conscience be a nation of justice for those who have none, do not hold others in fear, release them.
And as Moses, release your eyes from fear and behold the captivity of a nation. Let the spirit of conscience
be your Lord. Open yourself in those others who do not have its justice. Hold hatred for none. Deliver them.
Do not surrender your heart unto a hatred. Work to forgive others, as you deliver them from the sorrow
that caused your blame. Would you embrace none of them in the spirit of your Lord? Be it for Moses, Jesus,
for Allah and his Muhammad; release the suffering nation of your sins and proclaim peace! Don’t hate the fear
for its captivity; have your open eyes be god’s praise! Be it for His sake, others or them, do not be a judge
as others who did. Resist the temptation to hold; in your own word and self ignorance; the truth god has
given unto you. Let those who open their conscience, behold their god in the name of justice and mercy.
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About the Book
Welcome to a Paradelle Universe; where rigid rules are transcended and creative imagination discovers ever surprising potentialities. A universe where formalized and uncompromising poetic structures succumb to a radicalized deconstruction of their basic elements; then reconstructed through an almost word by word re-ordering and reinvention of the poems original meaning, images and intent. The Paradelle is a form of poetry whose time is now: a time of stagnating social theories, fossilized religious traditions, and a political system paralyzed by its own impossibilities. A time of constant unrelenting change and adaptation, of innovative ideas reconfiguring outdated concepts and beliefs; of individual and collective human consciousness expanding beyond existing borders and horizons. A Paradelle reflects this evolving planetary process in the fundamental reinvention of itself ... never exactly certain of where its going or how it will get there; yet always managing to arrive at the coherent conclusion of its revealed destination. Even then the Paradelle refuses to become a static statement of all that has been said and done. The poem learns from each rewriting how to speak for itself. All that a Paradelle asks for is a fair hearing. To be given a voice ... for the blessing of living breath.
About the Author
Author Bio ... Old Man Crowe Writing lyrical poetry has been the main passion and pursuit in my life for over 45 years; my primary method to understand and make sense of the world as I experienced it. The last seven years has been devoted to writing Paradelles; a process that has captured my attention and commandeered my time to such a degree that’s it has often been my sole and singular focus. I simply love the challenge of writing. My commitment to using the Paradelle form as a vehicle to tell a particular kind of story, to allow the words to tell their own tale ... has been and continues to be ... one of the most rewarding creative efforts that I’ve ever been engaged in. This process has been a developmental as well as spiritual gift ... one that has benefited my life on more levels than I could name. A gift that will forever be; a foundation and inspiration in my life. My father wrote poetry and sculpted in clay; and it is from him that I inherited the eye to sculpt in verse and a textural format. My work is not only to communicate to the heart and the mind; but as much as possible ... to speak directly to the visual eye. In terms of speaking, and the value and importance of the ear, the role of the voice; a Paradelle is also a poetic performance. My next project is to record the audio versions of these poems.