he was america

tiny feet descend as an escher mass of mist

caterpillar a march in floating unison

sky is falling builds up into drop

on mapletree pancakes

drop rolls off 

it wets dry

soil 

tiny cat

pillar feet boost cat belly

each star nipple taken night full 

all still eyes closed universe breathes 

peace destroys frenzy dreams

ganesh indra yawn

time moves  

bare

 

"Maybe we ain't got culture, but we're eatin' regular."

"The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on." 

Carl Sandbag 

 "Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) 

 was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. 

During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). 

He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life". 

When he died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius.  

He was America"

 

"A prominent name for Ganesha in the Tamil language is Pillai  

(Tamil: பிள்ளை) or Pillaiyar (பிள்ளையார்).[31] A. K. Narain differentiates these terms by saying that 

 pillai means a "child" while pillaiyar means a "noble child".  

He adds that the words pallu, pella, and pell in the Dravidian family of languages signify "tooth or tusk", also "elephant tooth or tusk".

Anita Raina Thapan notes that the root word pille in the name Pillaiyar might have originally meant "the young of the elephant", because the Pali word pillaka means "a young elephant". 

The number of Ganesha's arms varies; his best-known forms have between two and sixteen arms.[67]  

Many depictions of Ganesha feature four arms, which is mentioned in Puranic sources and codified as a standard form in some iconographic texts.

 His earliest images had two arms. 

 Forms with 14 and 20 arms appeared in Central India during the 9th and the 10th centuries. 

 The serpent is a common feature in Ganesha iconography and appears in many forms." 

The earliest Ganesha images are without a vahana (mount/vehicle). 

Of the eight incarnations of Ganesha described in the Mudgala Purana, 

 Ganesha uses a mouse (shrew) in five of them, 

 a lion in his incarnation as Vakratunda, 

a peacock in his incarnation as Vikata, 

 and Shesha, the divine serpent,  

in his incarnation as Vighnaraja. 

Mohotkata uses a lion, Mayūreśvara uses a peacock, Dhumraketu uses a horse, and Gajanana uses a mouse, in the four incarnations of Ganesha listed in the Ganesha Purana.  

Jain depictions of Ganesha show his vahana variously as a mouse, elephant, tortoise, ram, or peacock." 

" Sanskrit word mūṣaka (mouse) is derived from the root mūṣ (stealing, robbing) 

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 Indra.    equivalents :

Greek Zeus

Indo-European Perkwunos

Norse Thor

Roman Jupiter

Slavic Perun

Celtic Taranis

Buddhist Śakra 

Indra 

  the Hindu god of weather, considered the king of the Devas 

 and Svarga in Hinduism. He is associated with the sky, lightning, weather, thunder, storms, rains, river flows, and war."

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"He then moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work for a newspaper, and also joined the Wisconsin Social Democratic Party, 

 the name by which the Socialist Party of America was known in the state.  

Sandburg served as a secretary to Emil Seidel, socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912." 

"The Sandburg house at 331 South York Street in Elmhurst was demolished and the site is now a parking lot. " 

Sandburg supported the Civil Rights Movement and was the first white man to be honored by the NAACP with their Silver Plaque Award as a "major prophet of civil rights in our time."

"Sandburg is also remembered by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons, 

 a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. The Rootabaga Stories were born of Sandburg's desire for "American fairy tales" to match American childhood.  

He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so populated his stories with skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies and the "Five Marvelous Pretzels". 

"A Large number of the stories are told by the Potato Face Blind Man, an old minstrel of the Village of Liver-and-Onions who hangs out in front of the local post office." 

"He seems to love some of the precious things that are cheap, such as stars, the wind, pleasant words, time to be lazy, and fools having personality and distinction." 

"men and women old in years sometimes keep a fresh child heart and, to the last, salute the dawn and the morning with a mixture of reverence and laughter." 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg

"In 1919, Sandburg was assigned by his editor at the Daily News to do a series of reports on the working classes and tensions among whites and African Americans. 

The impetus for these reports were race riots that had broken out in other American cities. Ultimately, major riots broke out in Chicago too, but much of Sandburg's writing on the issues before the riots caused him to be seen as having a prophetic voice" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Songbag 

"Sandburg's 1927 anthology 

 the American Songbag 

 enjoyed enormous popularity, going through many editions; and Sandburg himself was perhaps  

the first American urban folk singer,

 accompanying himself on solo guitar at lectures and poetry recitals,.

 and in recordings, long before the first or the second folk revival movements (of the 1940s and 1960s, respectively)."