A Florida bill allows prayers to be read at assemblies but can’t designate a particular religion, offering openings to various sects. Scott Bates provides the school children with some possibilities.
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In Support of School Prayer (with a Twist)
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Pesticides vs. Sweetness and Wings
Monarch butterflies and bees are in grave danger. Poems by Scott Bates and Mary Oliver remind us what we will lose if we don’t move to protect them.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "The Underside of Heaven's Gates" endangered species, bees, environmental devastation, happiness, hive collapse, Mary Oliver, monarch butterflies, Nature Comments closed
The Divine Enters thru Imagination’s Holes
If Christmas is about the entrance of the divine into the human, then works of the imagination are always filled with the Christmas spirit.
The Quest of the Marvelous Tree
In this mystical Scott Bates poem, the Christmas tree becomes a magical key that unlocks the darkness.
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Fighting Back against the Program
In this Scott Bates parable, one can get pushed around only so much before turning to rebellion.
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Whitman’s Blast of Green Grace
Scott Bates’ homage to Walt Whitman tells of amorous encounters from the grass’s point of view.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Lines of a Blade of Grass", "Song of Myself", homosexuality, Leaves of Grass, love poetry, Walt Whitman Comments closed
