CONFESSION ZERO

HURRICANED The wind howled over our din The water poured out its wrath The smallness of bones wrapped in skin Witnessed our fleeing its path The storm ends, noise again rises SWIMMING   You are loved! Now swim your freedom, Your escape breathes a new path. WITH TEETH This toxic age Lunges for freedom Bearing teeth An indiscriminate rage What is to come If we don't embrace Peace? © 2017 Mark Richard Prime

55 CAR PILEUP ON ICY INTERSTATE We move nearer to our own weight, then, with the heft of our machine's, we continue moving too fast, only to pile up, as the dead weight grows most unbearable. TRUCK FALLS FRIM HIGHWAY, EXPLODES One fell down another exploded One noise, like a scream for help the other, a metal scraping fire.. IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT GIRAFFES I refuse to imagine a world without giraffes I refuse to imagine a world that doesn't marvel I refuse to imagine a world without great wonder I refuse to imagine such avoidable ugliness © 2016 Mark Richard Prime

ONE ISIS ATTACK VERY 84 HOURS SPURS ANGER IN EUROPE Do not give way to war, To terror's angry teeth Wrapped in a dismal metal The size of consciousness. Ticktock, said God, Your sway is incalculable The offspiring of war begets terror... 3 DEAD IN SHOOTING AT WV PARTY All this death to gun violence, Should, without question, Concern us most greatly. (People are too damned ugly!) Yet the most hideous of all The most ugly of our use Are the weapons we create And the echo that follows... 4 DEAD IN MEDICAL PLANE CRASH It wasn't meant to end this way A howl and a sudden dive Rendering the cure to the soil The medicine of Peace, rest now OFF DUTY OFFICER SHOOTS COP, FLEES These acts are born of human fear Yet rage is the open-mouthed screech Witnessed behind eyes bent in agony Chaos is an indiscriminate form of speech SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY TO REOPEN  Oh, dear children, Please forgive us, We're in need of your lessons, Please instruct ...

DALLAS SHOOTING, SUSPECT UPSET AT WHITE PEOPLE ... Red's the sound of murder Blue's the sound of mourning Yellow, pinstriped cowardice Tapping toes, a distraction Rage, the news attraction Pure gold, rating's satisfaction The sound of murder is red Blue's next ~ HATE CRIME REPORTS SURGE IN BRITAIN ... "Hate is caused by Fear Fear is caused by Hate They feed off one another End both, end all Wars. Cease both, Heaven arises." Hate, are you Fear's second cousin? (First cousin.) Are you two close? (BFF's!) ~ ISIS CLAIMS 40 LIVES AT SHIITE SHRINE ... How many more are to be lifted before We rise up? (We need rise up just to get a headcount of those murdered.) It would be far too painful, sorrow comes from the actions of the murderer, the victims draw upon our grief...

Bangladesh Attack Suggests Shift by ISIS as It Loses Territory The shift is most felt after there are no other alternatives but to believe in something beyond doubt that you cannot possibly know in the unfolding of truth. Truth's unknown until it unfolds. Don't detonate rage, set off Love, assemble Peace, let War fall away, erase it of its monstrous use. Marijuana Compound Removes Alzheimer’s-Related Protein From Nerve Cells The news is delightful coming out about the myriad of benefits that cannabis offers to humankind and to the (H)eartH. This news is not for those who have had a heavy hand in keeping the medicine away from its rightful heirs, humankind. Those guilty of deception probably find this news more alarming than joyful. Chart Explains Why You Might Not Get Your Full Social Security Benefit To what benefit? Consumption? Enslavement wages- They can only allow so many To dig their way free. Let's not set some arbitrary and readily ignored go...

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/22/afghan-taliban-leader-mullah-mansour-likely-killed-in-us-airstrike-official-says.html TALIBAN LEADER KILLED "Sometimes you get the war and sometimes the war gets you." (That's supposed to be a bear, not war, Scribbler.) We can't blame this death on a bear, as a matter of fact, there's not one death from war's countless that belongs to the bear. War is on man, not nature. http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/21/world/asia/ap-as-nepal-everest-death.html?_r=0&referer=https://news.google.com/ MOUNT EVEREST CLAIMS CLIMBERS LIVES Better they be remembered for their bittersweet and final triumph, than die men without any good history to speak of. http://www.ksdk.com/mb/news/lake-mead-drops-to-the-lowest-level-in-history/208540053 RESERVOIR DROPS TO LOWEST LEVEL IN HISTORY Down, down, down It sinks now, dropping Down, down, down Below the idea of time Down, down, down Thirst and famine ...

"HEAD-LINE" Verse March 16 2016 http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/middleeast/iraqi-plane-downed/index.html ---Iraq says plane went down in Kirkuk, shot down by ISUS--- The last time we were here The coffins draped in flags Were only outnumbered By those stuffed in bags. The echo grows louder The second time around... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/03/16/giant-texas-cross-sparks-atheist-lawsuit-and-wont-believe-why.html ---Giant Texas cross sparks atheist lawsuit--- One giant cross Suffers alone Leave it be Roll away the stone Rise as One collective There's much less agony http://news.yahoo.com/storms-replenish-key-reservoirs-amid-california-drought-195428759.html ---Storms replenish key reservoir amid California drought--- Everything's going to be okay. It's a circle, this Life, Home still turns Nothing dies, Or stays dry for long... © 2016 Mark Richard Prime

CLEVELAND POLICE OFFICERS FIRED FOR DEADLY CHASE Dying like September leaves We miss the lesson's echo When we're too cold to care About the truth of one another. PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLEARED, ACTIVISTS INDICTED These atrocities are countermand to Peace. We must be good to all Life. We must cherish Home or we, at least by our own example, begin to disregard one another and that leads to war, which, by the way, falls on the collective responsibility. Peace is born within like Love, open it up and share yours... HOMES, APARTMENTS ON CLIFF'S EDGE IN CALIFORNIA These nests of ours are the twigs in the story, we're obviously the pigs. © 2016 Mark Richard Prime

ISIS ATTACKS GROW BEYOND CALIPHATE Do not be fearful! Be peaceful, the truth follows, the dream crumbles and God awakens from his slumber. ~ WORLD ICEAGE POSTPONED BY HUMANS It was held off as we waited for a savior to return instead of shepherds who’d been here all along… (ping) ~ OVERDOSE FEARS LEAD TO RECALL OF CHILDREN’S COUGH SYRUP Have we not sensed our mistake yet? We keep taking manmade medications for things that merely require the properties in the cannabis plant, and we’ll have undone millions of years of human evolution. (PS: How about the Now Revolution, they’ll be smug in their imagined victory, then we begin to be who and what we are born to be as we allow God to guide us. We ask God to summon all of the collection of angels, and allow the oil baron’s just enough rope to-) Let us now begin, we are most ready… Now. © 2016 Mark Richard Prime

AID REACHES MADAYA Help enters, it is panting from its rush. The eyes of the children see us. The hands of hope are raised, Enter brothers and sisters,  I pray. DEADLY BAGHDAD MALL ATTACK These looming events that split children and adults like firewood is a tired sorrow, a weeping that never ceases. The autopsy is being performed on Freedom. (More like a lobotomy.) God, I pray we bring such treachery to rest. FOUR TEENS ARRESTED FOR GANGRAPE  These things are instructed by society, these things are held without breath, these things are- No. Not thing, this act is about power, of which the boys now must realize they'll have none... MILKY WAY GREW FROM INSIDE TO OUT It's quaint, this idea we have of "outside in" as a forward motion, if we think the outside is where we'll find all of the hidden answers,  we have yet to sense what was born within and has made, or is making, the journey out. Hello...🙃

---Bomb Kills At Least 32 At Busy Market In Nigeria--- The shattering of glass The shattering of stone The shattering of silence The shattering of bone Terror’s done enough ~ ---An explanation for why Turkey fans appeared to boo minute’s silence for Paris attack victims--- We distract ourselves with such dismal assumptions, Lazy enough, just crazy enough, Rage and fear have little time to spare… ~ ---32 US Governors Refusing or Opposing Syrian Refugees--- Thirty-two, nice and even, Refugees, no time for grieving, Governors, refuse their breathing, Fear is the worst kind of leader… © 2015 Mark Richard Prime

  Cecil's Brother, Jericho, Killed The Lions have seen enough! They’ve seen humankind’s attempt at ownership, they’ve seen their violence, especially that which is unnatural, they’ve witnessed enough to sense the true king. They’ve been here, they’ve roared their disapproval, best we begin to do the same… Firefighter Dies - Emergency Declaration O Rain Be our savior from the flames O Wind Cease your ireful roaring O Nature Forgive us our trespassing O Peace Deliver us safely home O Love Rise now with Forgiveness and douse the flames The Lord's Prayer The (H)eartH is my Home; I should not want. (H)eartH gives me green pastures to lie in: (H)eartH needeth me to cleanse the waters. (H)eartH restoreth my sustenance: (H)eartH has many paths and all lead to righteousness. Yea, since I walk upon the ground of (H)eartH’s breathing, I fear no other: for thou art with me; thy water and soil comfort me. (H)eartH’s table is prepared before me in the presence of a...

Syrian Rebels Want To Fight Assad, But Now They'll Face ISIS Syrian children, take cover inside, the rebellion is not for the innocent. Rebuke violence, chide murderers, and return your Home to Peace. Ukraine rebels move to encircle government troops in new advance This is rebellion, rebellion that does not need reasons, for too many years now... they've been given. Greek F-16 crashes in Spain during NATO exercise, killing 10 Down, down, down Down, down, down, Boom boom boom Boom boom boom goes the boom boom Down, down, down Northeast braces for 'potentially historic' blizzard Brace for it, it is on its way to you now. Hold tight, white-knuckled tight, potentially. Reminds me of our history of invention, the white-nuckled echo is coming, potentially. © 2014 Mark Richard Prime

Right-wing extremists strike again Do not be deceived by this murder Do not be deceived by this cruelty Do not be deceived by their terror Do not be deceived The revolution will be collective The revolution will be peaceful The revolution will be loving The revolution will be The revolution will be heard The revolution will be seen The revolution will be felt The revolution will be The revolution will be beautiful The revolution will be joyous The revolution will be kind The revolution will be The revolution will be Peace and Love Student and teen gunman dead in Oregon school shooting The scowl had their attention through the barrel's aim, a solemnity, dark eyes, without panic. Death landed with a voice, a message entered the flesh, God awoke. Death. God awoke. Death. God awoke. Death. Now is not the time to mourn as if there is no answer. God awoke. Iraq militants seize Mosul, causing thousands to flee What have we loosed? Trembling red p...

Americans dying for al Qaeda Sacrificing breath to breathe our death, a final gulp through shattered vest. When will our dying’s madness click, Before or after our sickness we admit? Bowe Bergdahl's "safety and health were in jeopardy," Def. Sec. Hagel Our battle with one another’s the menace of a shadow found of our stumble Home, a truth in us, destination unknown, security and health, the trembling grimace. Netanyahu urges world not to recognize Palestinian unity government When will you relent, brooding minister, before you remove your mask of devotion in your role as phantom to God’s Opus? “O! Hide your face so the world will never find you!” © 2014 Mark Richard Prime

TENNESSEE CLEARS WAY TO BRING BACK ELECTRIC CHAIR Strap them in tight, so as not to let the animal escape. Send in their death, so they never return to murder. Stay man's execution, so he senses his own lethal sway. KOREAS EXCHANGE FIRE NEAR DISPUTED SEA BOUNDARY Boom ...echo of another. The shattered courage to never end the murder, boom boom, brother, and you'll bring about your own assassination. CHINA- 5 SUICIDE BOMBERS CARRIED OUT XINJIANG ATTACK The stealthy schemes of cowardly vengeance fits like a glove stretched tight upon the hand, the blast greets us afterward with a kind of sign language, it cannot be learned, only experienced. © 2014 Mark Richard Prime

Hundreds swarm military base in protests after Qurans burned The flames lick the loveless wars. Hordes of wagging tongues give rise to anger, adorned in the color of grief, pushing the feet toward failure, soon to tumble to the heavenly floor… Twelve killed in protests across Afghanistan More death, more rage, more contempt, more senseless bloodshed over beliefs. Kill, murder, misery and sorrow!  Might I summon humanity back from the edge that awaits its headlong extinction? Afghan Koran protesters killed by police Ready! Aim! Fire at will! Slay thy human brother, murder thy kith and kin, exterminate, destroy, and slaughter! ( “Shoot to kill” was the order, how else was I supposed to follow such instructions?) © 2012 by mark richard prime

iPhone Combusts Mid-flight End-flight, we seem to begin once again to see ourselves as we were meant to be. Love. Occupy LA asking court to stop eviction End your madness, Humans! It is not Love you seek, it is self. What is humankind’s intended purpose… as our minds bend Love into our monstrous machination? Fort Smith Homeless Shelters See Rising Need End your idleness bowing to corporeal idols, instead, bow to what you know, not what you can squander greedily from Love. Love is not to be parsed. Love is to let flow, beneath the wings of her swims more Love. Oh! Love has our peace! End your warring for that which you cannot possess. End your hostility. End your stupidity run amok… American Airlines files for bankruptcy The skies were empty of metal birds and hell’s machinery. The mountains could finally sleep without all of that noise. Silence, it seemed, fell upon the gleaming and beautiful eartH. The Grandmother was pleased that life could now breathe, and with it,...

After serving her country, female veteran struggles to find a job The veteran stands straight-eyed, staring forward, scanning the crowd with an awareness of a lengthy battle, bruised skin, busted limbs and broken spirits. The wounded insurgency extends around the city like a naval blockade, faces ashen, waiting for a Coup de grace . Dozens of Occupy protesters arrested in Texas, Oregon The wolf hunts with packs. Yes. The bird flies with flocks. Yes. The elk run with herds. Yes. Activist rebels with love? Early snowstorm hits US East Coast killing at least six The first snow came early that year. It sat forlornly upon her lap, upon her confident Love. The first snow came early this year. It stood with a heavy caution upon our disgrace. Why Zombies Never Die Would you? Yes. Would you die only to live forever? Yes. Would you live only to die forever? Yes. If you were a zombie would you never die? Yes. If you were a zombie would you die to live forever? Yes. ...

Russia Wants Lunar Lava Tube Real Estate The last of humankind to escape earth came crawling out of their makeshift holes to question the destruction of all within their reach. Their eyes scanned the surface of a beleaguered moon emptied of spirit, save for death’s marauding phantoms. The last of humankind came begging that Love again grant them their prayers, they pled with her to offer them one more chance at laughter’s reign, more time to make good on their promise to Love. Boom! Boom! Boom! Answered she… Mega-bucks flow from drug cos. to doctors This particular pill is hard to swallow without sufficient water to push it past my panting and thunderstruck tongue. A second opinion’s unneeded, as it only benefits the benefactors, and the side effects of the money game are proving the oath most disastrous... and beneficial. Man with knife attacks Occupy N.M. protesters Ending most occupations has been left to guns and bombs and warriors tapping out their maste...