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Dear Jasmin, in my little hometown here in the Philippines, there are greedy politicians who are also illegal loggers. Each time i go home for a visit to my mother's grave (we moved to the city a few years ago), i see balding mountains and native monkeys are now 'pets' to the many residents who do not know or downright ignorant that those monkeys are endangered species and that they are forced to come out of the mountains because they no longer have 'homes' and are either confused or lost. Without the lush greens of the mountains, it's only a matter of time before they become extinct. Your apt poem is like a wake up call and i can only hope and pray that a change for the better will eventually happen to my beloved hometown. Blessings to you.

Best wishes,
Sheri

Right on target. Love it. Liz

Toys and more toys, Bigger houses, bigger pools, bigger fools. Amen Jasmin Patrick. Now a bigger keg.....I can deal with.

Jasmin, your words ring out with great truth my friend -- their reality cuts like a surgical tool into the decaying moral fiber of those who would harm mother earth and every living thing upon her -- peace and love be with you -- JM

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva

The homelessness is getting bigger and yet all around are people challenging each other to build the biggest, most luxurious, tacky decadent cabin-lodge-palaces to be used only a couple of week a year.
Overproduction of food that are thrown away to give place to a new batch of over produced items, billions and billions of rotting tonnes as many people are starving.
Mammon has no heart.

Georg

Very electric! About a half dozen associative threads run through my mind as I read this, not least being the model of corporate America greedily running amok, exploiting ordinary people with unprincipled enthusiasm and rapacious intent and in so doing, sucking any natural joy and happiness out of their lives like an Amazonian leech. The imagery is as disturbingly clear as a bolt of Tesla's capacitative static dischages, but in a very constructive and thoughtful way. I enjoyed reading this, as much for the raw amperage flung out in great gouts of verbal energy as for the reflectively worthy exhortation contained within these words. Aloha mai e! Malama pono!

You question if we deserve to survive as a species, Jasmin, and the answer is no, we don't...we will sooner than we imagine get what's coming to us - extinction; we've had our shot and we've blown it.

John

Sadly harsh but all too true; thank you, Jasmin. Love and peace to you,

Regis