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GATECRASHER

 

Through the window

the gatecrasher sun enters

uninvited

She didn't mind after she saw

how her chambers had

been lighted.

*
JUST FLOWN IN FROM SPAIN

*

The sun left for Chicago
last night..without saying goodbye...
as she the sun has always done.
We knew she had gone
for suddenly
we felt alone.
This morning she was here again!
She has just now flown in from Spain!
We knew she was home....
for suddenly we feel warm.

*

(to Clare Barrett and Paul Obis,
editor and founder of Vegetarian Times)

(When Mike Royko excluded vegetarian

gluten ribs from his contest, Clare

built a media campaign so powerful

he had to bow to it.)

 

AURUM IS THE AURA OF AURORA

*

Dawn pastels canvas of dark velvet blue
Then snuffs star lamps she painted by
Draws back curtains where lovers lie
Sparks them to action til night's lullaby.

She pinks the Notre
Dame crystal rose
and caps cloud mountains
with pinkest snows.

She sips the dew from chaliced blooms
tips the trees with saffron singe
sows the sea with seed light mirrors
sews sky togas with purple fringe.

Crowing cock thinks
he summoned her quiet
Yet her stillness begets
the bees' buzzing riot

Next kindles the fires in the grates
and sets the kettles on to bubble
Breaks mouni vows as cities hum Om
Lovesilvers the lakes with power to double

She rolls back hillquilts of mysterious mist.
Unwinds vine tendrils so tenderly kissed
Lifts bird crowns from out their wings
winding their throats that they might sing

Wanded by her molten rays
Dracula is melted clear away
Cloistered petals come out to play
Sequestered sequins start to dancepray

Whispers the slumbering
down from dream stories
and swivels faces
of blue morning glories.

Takes down the moon she hung at twilight
Fires up lattice of moving searchlights
as she throws ope the east gate in dawnlight
to wait for her God in demibright

Seeing His blazing face
vanished the night
In his unconditional love's arms enfolded
Aurum is the aura of Aurora unfolded.--

**

(this poem is dedicated to N Robinson)

1 the seed syllable of all sound Mouni:
vow of silence taken by some spiritual seekers
2 of these lines were sparked by Robert Graves in I Claudius
Arun: Shiva as God of the Sun aurum: Latin for gold
*
SUN ACTOR

*

The sea is the gallery
for that actor the sun.
As dawn cloud curtains
rise
He makes his entrance
in the skies.
She laughs her tide beyond
the dunes
.. sometimes boos
him off stage
with stormy shrieks
Betimes in boredom
rustles her skirts
Often her wavy arms
clap in applause
but mostly she is silent
in awe
and gives her heart
to him
that there be rain
and gives her
all
to continue his reign.

*

(to Ned Beatty, not only
for his masterful and enduring
acting, but for his work for
the homeless, the poor, and
a better world.)
*
CONVERTIBLE

*

These always busy

sunlovers
bought a convertible

for themselves and

their 2 children.

Neighbors used
to gather on
a rainy day..
to see them drive
home after picking
up the children
at school...
4 umbrellas
and a convertible
going by

*

CLOUD CURTAINS PART

*

Cloud curtains part..
for sunrays' arrival..
the dawning sun
has nowhere a rival

 

 

*

CLOUD GIFTS

*

White clouds shapeshifting
grey clouds snowsifting
rain clouds lightning gifting
peace clouds slowdrifting

 

*

SPUN SUN

*

He who spun
the ageless sun
and makes
peaches of spun sun
He who weaves
the waves
He who holds
every drop
of all rivers
will carry us
all
back to love.

*

ENTRYWAY

*

Over the threshold
comes sun's freshgold
Through the portal
spills his light immortal
In through the door..
his firepour....
Wide now the gate..
for destiny's date.

*

SUN CAME OUT TO PLAY

*

The sun with her
came out to play
but shy night
could not stand his light
and ran quite away.

*

OVER THE LIP OF EARTH

*

Over the lip of the earth
broke into night the sun.
A little cloud
.. a baby herald
ran and told everyone.
Each little cloud soon
caught the sun.

*

(to MBC)

*

HIMSELF ARRAYS

*

Himself sun arrays
in His own rays
and as He arises
and all birds He arouses
His rays are of
pink and purple and rose.

*

(to MBC )

*

FIGHTING NOT

*

the sun need not
darkness oppose
but need only
darkness expose.
It then melts in
the dawn
of the light pinkrose

*

OPEN TO THE LIGHT

*

Sometimes hunters wear
camouflage green
Sometimes they wear
orange very bright
Sometimes they hunt
neath full moon bright
Sometimes hidden
on a nomoonlight night

But the works of God
are open to light.
All animals in
their kindness delight.

*

REFLECTED SUN

*

The way the sun quiver
moved to and fro by the quay
showed it wasn're reflected in river
but in the swaying sea

When the wavelets
against dock lapped
or bigger waves
against pier slapped

then the unmoving imaged sun
became a volcanic fountain
and molten gold aglazing
poured over its own sun mountain

Sometimes sat like a
little girl in a heartswing
pushed by his own waves
wayward rippling

The water glazed sun
was gentler to gaze upon
than his sunsource in the skies
too bright for earthtuned eyes

Branches of an ocean pine
reflected in nearby puddle
made the sun look like
sixteen celled zygote bubble

but the puddle by ocean pines
sank into everthirsty sand
and with it disappeared
the sun's mirror upon the land

 

UNCAUGHT

It was revealed
the sun was not caught
in maya's leafy oaken branch but
whole oer forest shone

The sea mirrored sun wished to woo
his skyheld omnipotent twin
..he found at violet dusk and rose
dawn
he was nearest to him

 

BRIGAND

Sea built a sunset stairway to reach
pot of goldsun at bridgeend
At tip of seaheld rainbow
she found her heartstealing brigand

 

(to V Potter, a beauty queen
who became a nun..and for several
years managed a senior citizens'
home... on a vacation she
met a magnet of a man...
and left the convent to marry him
.. in all her roles she's
always a saint)

*

SAL

*

Sal loved to sail in solitude
and silence neath Sol

SLEEPYHEAD

*

She hates dawnsun
to rip to shreds
curtains of her dream
chamber bed
As a confirmed
photophobe
she runs from sunrays'
invasive probes

 

*

SUN DYED AT DAWN

*

The sun egg dipped

into many cups of dye
.. pink and purple saffron yellow
orange and red.. a gold mellow
but He preferred His own color.. that
of blazing light
and emerged untouched
by dawn or dusk or deepest night

*

SHROUDCLOUDS

*

The sun was shrouded
in a scandal cloud
Not seen his rays

everburning candles
until the wind came
and blew away
the shroud clouds
and all saw
his eternal light

*

BLIP

*

Out of the purple
night
comes the horizon
gold orb of light
like a blip of
a quickening miracle
on the flat lines
in the heartmonitor
of the no longer dead

*

CATCH THE SUN

*

Daffodils, dandelions
forsythia and buttercups

burst from the warming sod
with
sunflowers
and goldenrod
catching the yellow
sun of God

*

ACOLYTES

*

Go the sea
to see the sun's devotees
.. the worshipping acolytes
of his sunrise and sunset light

*

UNQUENCHABLE

*

No matter how high or strong
the waterfall's waves..
they can't quench the fires of
the reflected sun they lave

*

WALLFLOWERS AND SUNFLOWERS

*

Wallflowers.. stone framed
rock foiled
.. cool, wetness rooted, shy
are the most beautiful blooms
of all  
said unconvincingly one
to a devotee of the flowers of the sun

*

HELIOTROPE

Dawndrawn

*

ARCHER

*

Arjun must bow to
the sun, master archer
who shoots his rays.
Through the courtyard's arches
Through window portals
comes the invitation immortal.

*

BEYOND RAINBOWS

*

In the rainbow
are only seven hues
but the sun has made
infinite shades
of infrared, ultraviolet
and countless greens and blues.

 

In his nuts and berries,
vine and tree fruits
his spectrum is every and each,
tangerine and tints of tan
and every shade of pink and peach.

*

SPRING SUN

*

Oh spring sun,
melter of icicle rigidity.
Eraser of snow frigidity.

*

ORANGE ORB

*

The orange orbed sun
has been loving trees: every one
.. now in the citrus grove grow
many new orange suns

*

DELINEATING ONENESS

*

Dusk and dawn
horizontal
lines of pink and red and orange fire
seem to separate the blue sea
from the aqua sky
yet no fire can separate
earth from air

*

WRAPPED IN NO CLOUD SWADDLING

*

The sun does not
dip into the sea

nor is he trisected

by branches of trees
He is not by
sunrise dyed pink
He is wrapped in
no cloud swaddling.

He is as his Creator
a lover of all...
allgiving and unchanging

*

TOASTING

*

The wavy sea does at dawn toast
the sun and all his rising host
while grasses on the dunes join in
applauding wildly on the coast

*

ARBITRESS

*

Milton said the
moon was arbitress
but since light of
the sun is her dress
it is to the sun
that we most go
for mercy's ultimate
redress

*

FREED MOON

*

the moon rises now
out of
the trees' prison bars
as around the world
doors of slave harems open

*

SAMESHWARA SUN

*

The sun
gives the same pure rays
to both men and women
to those made bronze by his rays
   as to those hidden
to those
who this hour
have power and to those powerless
He glows the same beams
   on the saint and hiding Dracula
He is unconcerned when clouds
   do his light shroud

(Sameshwara: God in the aspect
of equal to all and serene)

*

FENCER

*

O sun, greatest fencer,
with infinitely long swords
going in every direction..
scotching Draculas everywhere

*

CHERRY CHEER

*

Every cherry
holds the sun's cheer..
and seed chariots
of new trees of cherry.

*

RAINBOW PROMISE

*

Overarcing the entire sky
..a 7 hued rainbow..
Gate of Heaven..
.. we,  Rainbow Catchers,
stand between the brilliant
setting sun and His projected
Promise.

*

INTO THE HEART OF THE SUN

*

Into the heart of the sun
I will go
.. that I may feel
his toasting warm love
on all sides.. in every cell.

*

APOLLO

*

Apollo the sungod
is carried by his steeds
Across the sky at
awesome speed
spilling rays on very
African, Asian, and Swede,
and pouring out his
infinite light seeds

*

 

CHRISTENING

*

The newfallen snow was glistening
in the sun's universal christening
yet for spring's snowmelt streampour
was the winterweary world listening

*

NO HARM NO FOUL

*

The lightning only seemed
to bisect the rainbow..
but instead he magnified
her beauty

*

DAY'D

'

Moon circled in orb
that God has laid.
She turned bright plaids
to moonlight braid.
The sun meant not
moonlight to fade
though by his glow
the sky was day'd

*

LIGHT MITOSIS

*

The sun through
the rare tree branch
which survived in
the cattle ranch
was bisected..
a seed of light
in mitosis
.. as it rose
in the ponds
and windows and mirrors
there would be suns
everywhere

*

RAINBOWED

*

said many grey clouds
.. you sun are not allowed
to speak out loud
but rained away their shrouds
and some special drops
by his light were rainbowed

*

SWANDOWN

*

as the swans take flight
their feathery swandown
flecks the lakes already
spangled with sundown

*

TREEPLUCKED

*

Fruit sunpacked
birdpecked
and squirrelpicked
by tree plucked
and in your lap
placed

*

ASKING NOTHING, GIVING ALL

*

With his infinite candles
the sun exposes night's scandals.
With his endless needles
he stitches new green grass.
With his numberless wands
he conducts silent choirs.
Asking nothing he gives all.

*

(to J and P Bertsch)

 

*

NONVIOLENT MUSK

*

From his prison desk
he saw the sun disc
turning sunset
into dusk
He left for home
through pine woods
smelling cones'
nonviolent musk.

 

(36 oxen are castrated
to make 1 ounce of
musk oxen musk)

*

LONGFINGERED SUN

*

As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in the light of moon and stars
so can a poet's long rainbow of words

play our heartstrings from afar.

*

THE EMPTY CHALICE OF NIGHT

*

Light slowly fills
the empty chalice of night.
Quietly the sunspill
brims the grail with light.

 

 

-saiom shriver-

 

 

Brief Poems to the Sun

 

Volume 1

*1
Night can no longer suborn
first light's gathering morn!
*2
The sun's allgiving gold cheer.. has become the allgiving tree's purple
cherries.
*3
Popping oer the mountains the dawn sun arose, unrolling through
windows welcome carpets.... of red rose
*4
It is not the sweet nuthatch
but the sun
which hatches the nuts
of nut trees everyone
*5
The sun thought about another's criticism that he lacked focus.. but
then began again to shine in all directions
*6
moondown is sunup
*7
The sun diamond stipples the ocean's wind ripples.
*8
The sky shyly blushes pink at the approach
of the Avataric Sun
*9
Behind sparkling fountain waters sinking climb
higher the rays of the giving sun king. We need not seek him.
He comes to us.
*10
The sun wears no dark glasses. He has nothing to hide
and is not threatened by his own light.
*11
Oh womanizer or manizer most polygamous...but only the
sun can be righteously milligamous
*12
The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup-brimming buttercuplet
*13
The sun craves no limelight as he grows limes in his light.
*14
As morning wands with a dewdrop each grass spire
so little acts of kindness are by God given
great power
*15
the sun rays arc with their igniting sparks
making sparkles everywhere
*16
now a seasmoke fog hides
the rising sun... but soon his
flaming rays will break through
*17
Beach footprints by tidewater erased. Snow footprints
by the sun melted away. So does God forgive all transgressions.
*18
Sunrise is apple fall
*19
When her sun wed his moon
and his sun wed her moon
skies poured forth for lifefaithful loons
Love's manylived monsoon
*20
Oh please dear Mr. Pinkus with your dawning
rays..please pink us
*21
The sun does not kill and tell.. but how can tree hide her new peaches in the dell?
*22
With soundless tapping
the horizontal baton rouge
of dawn light
called forth a chorus
of bird delight
*23
He who gilds the fringed coast Of all buttercups the toast.
More ancient than all.. yet evernew His ray host.
*24
The forces of night.. their vanishing might
.. melt away in delight.. at dawn's vanquishing light
*25
The moon has dominion over the sea, he thought, watching as her unveiled
full rays caused the highest tides. But at dawn he
saw the sun lift the waters much higher with his elevating
evaporating fire
*26
The sun does not narrowcast.
*27
And now a seasmoke fog hides the rising sun... but soon his
flaming rays will break through
*28
Sal loved to sail in solitude
and silence neath Sol
*29
Dawn drawn dandelions sun-summoned... spread gold parasols
... brings another sundown .. a diaspora of dandelion down
*30
The sun with her came out to play
but shy night could not stand his light and she ran quite away.
*31
Holds the sun's cheer... every purple cherry.. and seed chariots of new trees of
cherry.
*32
As the longfingered sun reaches out to touch a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in the light of moon and stars
so can Tolstoy's long rainbow of words play our heartstrings from afar.
*33
They whispered the arrival of the iceberg's new rival... he feared as the gulf stream
approached.... his very survival
*34
Arun arose awash in rose.. His dawn rays oer all arose. Did all arouse .. his rays of rose...
millenial oaks... the corn in rows... and the no-rows wildest rose.
*35
The egg of the sun dipped into many cups of dye.. pink and purple saffron yellow orange and red.. a gold mellow but He preferred His own color.. that of blazing light
and emerged untouched by dawn or dusk or deepest night
(not an egg stolen from a chicken)
*36
Light lingers in fig leaves and pink cloud fingers
*37
The sun's divine current is transformed into currants
*38
To the apple tree the sun said "You think you're the decider
but it is my rays which decide which apples become cider"
*39
Where is my lover the sun? Coming up over the mountain..Where is my lover the sun? Splashing on top of that fountain.. Where is my lover the sun? Red-appling inside that green tree
Where is my lover the sun? Sparkling through all the blue sea.V

 

Volume 2

 

*1
The sun left for Chicago last night..without saying goodbye..
as he the sun has always done. We knew he had gone for suddenly
we felt alone. This morning he was here again! He has just now flown in from Spain! We knew he was home....for suddenly we feel warm
*2
Today the sun is granting plenary indulgences.. to everyone.. shining on all
.. as he does everyday .. the great sun ball.
*3
Your lightning beams have my dreamstage curtains rent... dissolving actors and scenes have been away sent
*4
In the prided wood, the Lord of Luminescence gives to each fruit a dewy essence
and with light each lemon limns and with love each lime She lines.
*5
The dawn sky looks like a fertilized egg... sending forth tentacles of
red life... soon to crack the shell of night
*6
With the stretching lilac bush
the sun has kept his appointed tryst
In her his blaze glows as stained glass
or anointed amethyst
*7
Daybreak ray ribbons...in the stream broken ..rippling...
goldfish bread nibbling
*8
The snowman fell in love with the sun queen but around her changed into a puddle.
*9
Falling sunbeam took home as he kissed...
tendrils of rising mornmist
*10
From dreams' reverie and night's revelry ....
summoned by dawn's reveille
*11
It is only where there are waves that the dawn sun makes a yellow-light fishing net upon the water... but this is a nonviolent net...which suffocates none... giving them all the energy to be free.

 

*12

He who gilds the fringed coast Of all buttercups the toast.
More ancient than all.. yet evernew His ray host.
*13
The forces of night .. their vanishing might
.. melt away.. in dawn's vanquishing light
*14
The sun's allgiving gold cheer.. has become the allgiving tree's purple cherries.
*15
Popping oer the mountains the dawn sun arose, unrolled through
windows welcome carpets.... of red rose

 

-saiom shriver-

 

. acolytes
. apollo
. archer
. asking nothing, giving all
. aurum

. beyond rainbows
. blip
. catch the sun
. cherry cheer
. christening
. cloud curtains part
. cloud gifts
. convertible
. dayed
. delineating oneness
. dracula resists
. entryway
. fencer
. fighting not
. freed moon
. gatecrasher sun
. heliotrope
. himself arrays
. into the heart of the sun
. just flown in from Spain
. light mitosis
. moon swaddling
. no harm no foul
. nonviolent musk
. open to the light
. orange orb
. rainbow promise
. rainbowed
. reflected sun
. sal
. sameshwara sun
. shroudclouds
. spring sun
. spun sun
. sun actor
. sun arrays himself
. sun came out to play
. sun dyed at dawn
. swandown
. the empty chalice of night
. toasting
. treeplucked
. unquenchable
. wallflowers and sunfloweres
. wrapped in no cloud swaddling

(some of the above are on the 2nd sun poems p