The Children's Peace Plan

I.

Ask the children for Peace Plans!

No God has ever come!

Food, clothing, shelter.   For these,Love stands! 

Not life forever in hereafter to come!

Silence guns! Testosterone's helter skelter!

Watch joyful child-eyes light up the land!

Set Free family love, 

Root of social-love to rise above!

Community embraces real nest, childhood joy!

Here, life and soul find their ploy!

II.

Ask not that empire rules 

Holding riches stolen! 

By hoax of false divine; 

Stop ceremony devised by fools.

Ask not generals and soldiers!

Here, death and ego run for fun!

Where have all the flowers gone!

To grave yards youth-full, every one!

Yea, children are the future

Of Love and community-nurture!

Chose no more life of greed and hate;

Chose Earth-child -- all, hence, elevates.

Bond human hearts: soul of matter!

Not a never seen hereafter!

Copyright 2016  L.S. Heatherly

The Highest Love of Any God

                   By  L.S. Heatherly

I. Prologue: Selfishness Vs. Love --Brotherhood-Family-Community Love

Send Heart's Word forth to every nation:
There is no Heaven awaiting
The murderers of children--
God's sweetest, highest creation!

For, the highest love of any God
Is the Love of innocent children!

Children have been the most treasured members of humanity (and of
Social mammals), forever.  Will our actions of love for our children
Rise up! Into a declared war on the terrorisms that are killing our children!

In the West run by billionaires of global, hi-tech plutocracies/kleptocracies,
A handful of hateful, deprived hearts, here and there,
Can decrease the co-operation, compassion,
And practice of human goodness, family, and community, everywhere.


II. Children as the Source of Human Love

The essence of childhood
Is the Safeness of the Child's Loves

If millions of global, young people
Were organized to compose  Thankfulness lists,

Even, merely, short lists,
Of the cherishings
They are thankful for;

If these lists were messaged into ISIS areas,
And, via media, to home-grown terrorists everywhere--

Serving notice--
From airplanes high over
ISIS villages and cities--
That Global Children are
United against all terrorism.

The bulk of these lists would mention/refer to
Parents, siblings, family, friends-- held as child-birthrights!
Freedoms to grow, live, work, play and love together--

Midst peaceful homes, schools, streets, playgrounds;
Midst clear and free fields,
Of all kind and color of
Earth's innate human being, heart and spirit!

Thereafter, the driving selfishness
Of ego-centered individuals,
Grown as a cancer in the heart of ISIS belief,

Would suffer the irreversible blows
Of wide brotherhood, compassion and love,
Carried, since primordial, human beginnings,

As love flowing into our children
And flowing out from our children,

As the blossomings within human adulthood,
Into the fruitings of community,
Human goodwill, commonality and trade..

And, as well, sustaining our Humanity upon
This ancient, living Earth, jeweled with
The growth of manifold forms of Love.


Copyright 2015  L.S. Heatherly

New Years: Youth, Age, Life and Freedom

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.
                                                                   --  Jean Jacques Rousseau
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest
love not freedom, but licence.
                                                                     -- John Milton
What is the nature of natural, innate, human freedom-- authentic
to our natural, human species? This is almost never asked nor answered.
To know, to have consciousness of, free human life and world; go to places
where there is abundant free forms of other social mammals, preceeding us.
For, we emerged from these freedoms, with these, are a part of these;
or we are diminished and perish.

You can identify human freedom by the company it keeps-- by abundant
free plants and the animals that preceeded our emergence from free
plants and animals. We come from the slow natural selection of freedoms,
interactive with, and dependent upon, many other species. Their
life and freedoms are a part of our life and freedoms.
                                                                           
What is the nature of natural, innate free plants and animals?
These can be identified by the free, unadulterated lands and
waters they keep to. You will not find them and their communities
in the city's land and water-scapes! City-life is conquered and ruled
by a quasi, human organism, engaged in the pursuit of elitist power;
rather than Earth's ecological growth in interactive, freedoms of many
ecological species of life, of which, our human being, lives
and freedoms are part.
                                                                          --  L.S. Heatherly

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection,
and restrant than to be in shackles.
                                                                        --   Pietro Belluscb

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men [often unknowingly]
dread it [the real thing].
                                                                --   George Bernard Shaw

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
                                                                       --  Victor Hugo

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one
of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
                                                                  --   Henry Frederic Amiell
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit.
                                                                    --   George Santayana
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity.
When I give, I give myself.
                                                                      --   Walt Whitman

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
                                                                  --  William Wordsworth



Copyright 2015  L.S. Heatherly

Visions of Love Over Blind Power

Love is blind to the single soul possessed;
Blind to  one mind-body's selfishness.

Love is our wider, deeper vision -- blessed
By, and for, the Earth-human, village nest.

Love grows fruits of love as highest wealth:
Our deep panoramic, Earth and human self!

Love nurtures all humanness and Earthlyness--
unfolding, wide, as the soul's deepest quest;

Love nourishes the manifold joys of humanity:
Not what's bought, stolen, and possessed by insanity;

Sans the greedy, selfishness of persons and elites;
Sans all the Ages and millenia of recycled fights.

Love springs forth the flowerings and fruitings
Of whole human self's, community-soul's choosings.

Ask not for whom Love may ever flower.
Peoples seek Love's seeds and friuts as showers.

Into the winds and soils of the soul,
Love sows Her joys as hearth against the cold!

Ask not why Love's visions still grow in thee;
Such does portend all hearts know being free!



Copyright 2014  L.S. Heatherly

Free Play of Life

Listen, closely, to chirps and songs of birds;
To howls and moans of gathered worlves;
To suckling babes, and romping toddler kids.

Watch, closely; all freedom unfolds in spontaneity.
Growing Love is the one, and only, deity!

Here, on Life's love-play grounds;
Love flashes within Living Nature's bounds!

Feel, Earth-Human-Life-Love grow connected!
Artificial law, through this, will be rejected!

Spontaneity! Life and Love spring!
Here, inter-springing, are Spirits inter-singing!

Mourn this bliss, now, mis-decaying away.
Study, the hitch and glitch of high-tech play.

Study, our Life and Heart away!
Love's blueprints; are being s-mattered away!




Copyright L.S. Heatherly 2014

Auld Lang Syne, of Soul

Deeply rooted truths, realities,
Comapassion, playings, labors, of loves:

Human commonalities are the commons of humanity,
Perennial, mostly buried, by all civilizations.

Source of all Human Revolutions against oppressions.
Not to be aware of buried, human treasure is easy:

Our primal roots and tubers
Of Earth's eco-family-community humanness!

Covered-over by the highways of personal,
Expedient, career and institutional selves.

Soul artifacts: underneath, national,
Commercial and political selves:

Underneath our intellect-egoselves'
Materialistic, diverse empires of domination.

II.
Not to join in the archaeological dig
For the organismic essences of humanity!

Not to yearn for the respringing and enculturation
Of natural, whole, human self and whole being!

To merely accept the ongoing sufferings
And inequities of the bulk of humankind!

III.
Human life (and being) is not a case
of  "to be or not to be".

It is a case of where and what to be,
And how to be that whatness;

And why to be that whyness.
There in our home of human beings.

It is a case of the becoming of,
And sustainment of, human beings--

Beyond the case of mere
Human organisms remaing alive;

Beyond our brains' and bodies' growth;
Beyond health and life, of our brain-body organisms.

IV.
Our human ecosphere-habitat is our where
We journey through our human beingness,

Is where our eco-nature-human being;
Finds what to love, how to love, and why to love.

Should these grown attainments be forgot?
Or, ever be our find!



Copyright 2013  L.S. Heatherly

Soul Songs: Humanity Retaken

Taking root, a song again long-stirs,
Freeing up souls of songsters;

Patient is the waiting spirit's hold
On universal, human heart and soul:

These songs, by nature's knowing of what's just,
Sprout from shared humanity deep within us.

Soul songs, deeper than personality, ego, career;
Wider than ethnocentricity and all fetters
Of nations, industries and language- letters.

Listen! Beyond the many ways love hardens,
Songwriters seed soul songs
Outside the annual, commercial song-gardens!

Sprouting sounds from heart's perennial ground,
Ringing out the universal, song-garden,
Singing shared humanity, unbound.

In the end, alone, one call is there:
To share or not to share,
To sing the soul
Or enter-tain a show,
To free or not to free--
To be or not to be.



Copyright L.S. Heatherly 2013

Finality of Love: Depths of the Human

The truest seekers
Of humanity's light, warmth and splendor;
Of magnanimous, manifold love;
Rediscover our oldest treasure:

Their bounty is Love-- all its natural, ecological, manifold forms,
Reigning as original force, original phenomenon, the roots of humanity:
Of our development, well-being, fulfillment and sustainability.

When we say or feel, "Love is God",
We are in deepest, human togetherness.
There is no reversing this into: God is Love.
We break free on Earth; as one humanity of Hers, at birth!

We skirt free of attaching human traits,
And diverse, conflicting, cultural characteristics
Onto competing man-made Gods of diverse arrogant civilizations.
Earth's commons of humanity--our ecovillages, our souls--recover unity.

All civilizations represent a disintegrative invasion; an anti-Earth nature,
A penetrating, anti-human nature, an alien, artificial form of socioculture;
A violation of Earth's ecologically created, natural socioculture.
Natural culture and society mark and define Earth's natural humanity.

Through Love's universally shared map (nurturome) to human behavior,
Relationships, activities, values, spirituality, culture and lifeways;
Love becomes triumphant, uniting all humankind in unity.

Nations, empires, and all un-natural, un-ecological,
Un-just accumulations of un-human powers, crumble thereupon.
All humans become united as one human condition of being.
All return to evolved, universal, natural, human eco-villages.

When "Love is God" replaces "God is Love";
We are in harmony, in cooperation, as human family on Earth,
Midst other naturally selected, created, interdependent,
Inter-grown families(species) of Earth's life.

From this, Earth's humanity emerged.
To this, humanity, restored into Earth's human nature,
Will return in finality, cleansed of civilization.

Epilogue

The finalities of both love and and real, human philosophy
Are the resurging branching, blossoming and setting fruit:
Our fallings: into perennial, archetypal, Earth-Human villages.

We are our only real fruit: our humanity.
Our soul flows free: with the grace and humility of Earth-life;
Or clots in blockage: with the arrogance and futility of civilizations.


Creative Commons, L.S. Heatherly 2011

Stopping by Woods on a Showy Descending

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For Earth (her Life's days, eons, Her peoples),
and for Robert Frost, U.S. Poet, 1874-1963:

from Frost's watching "woods fill up with snow" and his personal
"promises to keep" to Our watching Earth and Humanity fill up
with technological polution; and our going-scarce promises of "Earth's 
human soul to keep."
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Prologue:

We saw Her, thru artificial eye,
As scope, screen and lense, told not the why.
We failed to pull Her pure Life near,
And hold Earth-human systems dear.

I.
Whose truths these were, we barely know;
Their home: old, organic village though.

They and Earth, divine us stopping here
To mourn their truths, now, buried low.

II.
Our mortgaged hearts sense love is near,
Stopping here to quell our fear:
To foil ego's desire and greed,
Should soul aspire an Earth so dear.

III.
These truths give shackled hearts a break,
Calm civil mind's deep Human-quake.
The only other move's the creep
Of Human Nature's rape, History's true mistake.

IV.
High-tech arts are charming, dark and deep.
But we've Earth's human soul to keep,
Truths to regrow, 'fore we humans sleep.
Truths to regrow, 'fore we humans sleep.

Epilogue:
Stopping by Earth's life descending,
Her powers, she will be defending--
Our coldness to Life, rescending.

L.S. Heatherly 2010-2013 All rights reserved

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Child Development and Love Vs. Sociocultural Delusions

Child Development and Love Vs. Sociocultural Delusions By L. S. Heatherly I A psychiatrist who once had a wide following died April 27th of this year. Yours Truly knew nothing of Stanley I. Greenspan. Reportedly, he was at the forefront in the 1970s and beyond of a movement that saw human interactions and loving relationships as the foundation for a child's emotional and intellectual growth. Looking around us today at the unprecedented fragmentation, disintegration and surrogation, at the the electronification, cyberization, virtualization, of human interactions and loving relationships; we might wonder, and need to ponder, what happened to this restoration movement. Gosh! How did he come to rediscover what was, once upon the times, and in the family-village places, common sense! What was, and is, the most loving essence of the human condition, of human sociality, for eons! That, back then, it took an eminent psychiatrist and a movement to inform us of this! To inform us that human interactions and loving relationships are the central basis for childhood development! And now, we have scarce hope of restoring this traditional common sense Just imagine, it took a movement to attempt the restoration of the core basis of human culture and society! Could it be that he saw all around him a deficiency in these! Imagine that the movement failed; as it did. Now, imagine the seemingly unimaginable! Imagine that we shall come together to apprehend and embrace this vital common sense! Imagine we cared and dared to know how and why this movement failed! Imagine that we shall rededicate our lives to restoring the sanctity of natural childhood. Imagine that we shall protect and defend our children's birthright to be the children of Mother Earth and her natural, unadulterated human nature, unfolding within a natural childhood. It is sad and disturbing to see, to what new, lower levels "genius" now falls in its artificial rise, its separation from the natural human condition. Artificial genius, intelligence and activities now accelerate their rise amidst the Modern fall of natural intelligence, consciousness and activities. This we, through formal education, loosely and recklessly for over 150 years, now, call Progress. Oh, how we desperately need more undegreed, independent thinkers like Will Rogers, Thomas Paine and Jean J. Rousseau! This is one hallmark of our Modern Tragedy, both marking and exemplifying our Age. This unfortunate man midst our pollutions of humanity, a genius by contemporary standards, conceivably, died from more than "complications from a stroke" -- a stroke merely involves the brain of a mere human organism! What about the man, the male, human being? What about the man's heart, life, and spirit? How about reporting to the public what happens to human beings during the Modern process of dying! Tragically, such fuller reporting is beyond what is considered appropriate; it is forbidden! Alas, only rare souls will dare to investigate true, natural human living and dying -- to investigate what human life really is; to investigate the sociocultural follies that really are, increasingly, killing us! We who, once upon true time and place, were full, whole human beings in unity and sustainabilty within Earth-life! Modernity's science and medicine want to report, and impart to us, their knowledge of human tissue, cells, organs and organisms! Whence the truthful and wise human beings so commonly found in more natural and traditional societies? Whence the plenitude of organic, communities, in respectful obedience, knowledge and harmony with evolved, human nature, culture midst all Earth-life? Death from a broken heart is very conceivable, but forbidden to utter: Its conceivable, even likely, to free thinkers, that people get strokes, cancer and heart disease from the progressive breaking of the human heart and spirit! What, after all, is the deep source of Modern stress! Could the real, deep, natural truth be that this man, who saw the light concerning children's growth and well-being; but, still, despite his heroic vision and work, had to endure the ongoing pain of observing the ongoing decline of that enlightenment he professed; and had to witness the displacement, of those very human interactions and loving relationships via the rise in artificial, electronic, cybernetic, virtual, and diverse, unclose, nonloving forms of human interactions, relationships and vicarious forms of these! Could it be that he died of a broken heart and spirit! II Starting, perhaps in the 1980s, movies became filled with scenes of parents and children saying the words, "I love you." This reveals, to anyone willing and able to see, that as the manifold acts of love are removed from our lives; the need to assert love with words arises through the subliminal awareness of love's declining presence in our lives. Its nothing less than the verbalized denial of the decline in the manifold acts and relationships of love. This revelation is also the starkest indication that the Age of Linguistics, and the hermenuetical thesis are false and destructive to humanity. During the 80s, and earlier for some, we arrived to where we could no longer completely block and deny the decline in love. At some level, we became aware of our social and cultural failure to love and be loved as much as humans innately deserve. Through our diverse, commercial oppressions, we cannot walk the walks of love, cannot do the manifold acts of love, cannot have the full relationships of loving each other; thus, we inevitably, try to compensate for what is missing by saying what should be happening. *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Heart, Love and Mind Love is phenomena of the heart, compelling actions; Love, as phenomenon of the mind, remains ideas and words. Love entails behavioral relationship, it is behavioral embracement: growth of human being. Love spoken as affirmation, may also act; but entails, compels, or effects, via mere words, no sharing behavior. *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Original Sin: Rationalization of Love We rationalize this false belief: the saying of love makes it so, makes love there, where it rightfully should be: in accordance with innate, natural, human nature, in accordance with sustainable, natural human culture, family, community, society, life way and Earth's human habitat-ecosystems. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Life and Love I One does not have to verbally affirm true love, when one has true, loving life! We love, therefore, we are. We live as humans be(ings), therefore, we love. All Rights Reserved 2010