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APRIL RELEAF

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Oh what a blessed relief

to see April the trees re-leaf
and a windbussed Noreaster
fragrant with Easter
 melt away the last ice-lings
of grief.

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(to Leonard B)

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EVERY LEAF

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Every lovely leaf
in the rainforest
weaves clouds of
rain for us.

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INEVITABLE

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The cross has
become the crown.
The rejected stone
is in temple installed.
The metal resoldered
is stronger than
original.
Wings have emerged
from cocoon.
The most sacred place..
where foes have
reconciled.

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AMAZING GRACE

The cloud which blocked
the revelling sun
became a rain of grace
and in the barren winter tree
has crocheted new green lace.
The stone cold foe has
turned around
.. is now of hearts the ace
and out of the invisible
God
has given love
a face.
The world is now awash
with love
.. arinsed with rains
of light..
everywhere
cleared away
.. the illusory
pain of night

(to Janet O)

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ARBOR AND HARBOR

Of every leaf's placement
in any arbor
God is the
First and Final Arbiter

Of every lapping wave
in each sacred harbor
His birds
are the harbingers.

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(to Eliza and John W)

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BEIJING SPRING

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In Beijing
the I Ching
joyful sings
eternal spring

Birch bloom strings
wilent ring
Sun to all
quick'ning brings

BLUEBIRDS ON A BARREN TREE

Bluebirds sit
on the barren
black branches
of a winter tree..
but it is not
their gentle touch
which will resurrect
him with lifespringing.
It is the God ever within himself.

GREEN ROOM

She'd had a few lines of
tears in the scene
but in the Green Room
before and after
and on the stage as well
from her they heard laughter

BURSTING BRANCH

How has withered
winter ebony branch
become bursting flute
of bloomed blanche?
Though the kisses
of the sky's rain dance
and the wand of Sun's
most casual glance

They find no longer room
do the bursting blooms
in the branches' cocoon
Butterflies of purple
redbud
burst out of their tombs

(to J Dunlap)

CRIMSON RAINDROPS

Blood from the wounded deer
splattered everywhere..
it has become crimson
raindrops over there
.. raindrops which
to bright red berries
crystallized..
.. foiled more beautiful
by the bright blue air

when they fall to the
ground they become
greenleafed shrubs

BUTTERFLIGHT

Transubstantiate.. Metamorphose

Jesus miracles water into wine
Merciful rain turns
to grapes violet upon
the vine
and the communion giver
turns that wine into
Jesus' blood
as willow trees are
born of flood
as acorn becomes oak
and kernel the corn
and the love of a father
in forlorn child reborn
and Tolstoy's ink
becomes Sathyagraha
which Gandhi thinks
and the murdered pig's
fat candle becomes
sacred enkindling flame
and the manure pile
becomes the pink rose
and moon's night
becomes sun's light
and crawling worms
become butterflight
So does the Holy Spirit Dove
turn anger into Love
and make us One with
OUR GOD who is Love

(not an endorsement for
butter stolen from cows
http://www.notmilk.com)

CROSSROADS

We came to a crossroads sign
     and what did we see?
        All directions pointing
                 to his heart's infinity.

               (to Mahashakti D'Alessio)

NOT YET READY

Half worm
half butterfly
fearing death
of cocoon
is not ready
to fly
to come forth..
from the tomb

CHRYSALIS IS NOT CRYSTAL

The larva..
the chrysalis
is not translucent
bright crystal..
but hidden
in the dark
.. the dark night
of the soul
before emerging
as the Christ

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inspired by Emily Dickinson's
"My cocoon tightens
colors tease
I'm feeling for the air
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear"
and by the questioning of Jan F

POISONED APPLE

By the abandoned
crystal casket
of Sleeping Beauty
are groves of trees
ignited by the
poisoned apple's seeds

And in the empty
Trojan Horse birds
are nesting

JUDAS IN HEAVEN

The world the silver moon
shattered into shards
in the shallows and
upon the seashore
has been gathered into
One
by the Resurrecting
Morning Sun!

GREEN SWADDLING

The seeds..
little godlings
as the rain
soaks the sod spring
are by sun sparked
with green swaddling
..

RIVERCLOVEN

On the banks
of the valley
rivercloven
are fields of
daisy, phlox, and clover

APPLE APERTURE

In the dirt
of Mother Earth
God had made
a hole of pain
.. into this aperture
fell apple seeds
which filled
Her now with
a grove of apple trees

(to Jean Giono, famed
French novelist, who
wrote The Man Who Planted
Trees about patient
treeplanting as a way
to reclaim desert)

SOUTH WIND

The south wind her
evening messengers
has sent
.. each donned with
her jasmine scent

CLOUD CREATOR

I am the cloud creator
ever spinning veils
which block the Sun..
the Lord of Light
His Love He can't reveal

FEAR NOT

They need not
fear the gathering storm
He brings life
..blooms will be reborn

IGNITE THE NIGHT

Daily God rejets the blue
with purpled streaks of
evening hue
He now ignites the night!
with the sun!
and calls it day!

(to Pete Seeger.. his
purity, courage, vision,
heart)
(Lahiri Mahasaya: Oh God
who ignites the stars)

DRACULA DEMONS AND DEVILS
SAVED

Dracula thought he could
escape
under night's dark
hiding cape
but the morning sun's
rays
left night in disarray
and brought
each and everyone
to the Father and the Son

SOUTHERN CROSS

The Southern cross
conveys no pain..
it is a crucible
of light
a crux..
of lux.

(to the Lux family)

POOL

The swimming pool
shaped like a crucifix
.. it hurts not to
swim in its waters.

DREAMFILL

Some dreams seem to die
so very quietly
like the soft snow falling
upon the mountain lee
But in the morning sunrise
light we see
Dreams filled for
all eternity

ELEPHANT FOOTPRINTS

Around elephant footprints,
small animals circle
to drink the captured rain.

  The ruts made
            by a visitor's drag race
                 have left pools
                    in which
                            butterflies sip.

GANGRAPES

The sun's sharp sword
rays
.. were like many gang rapes
.. yet in the end
they gave purple grapes.

The sun is a lust-er
and yet and yet
his brilliant lustre
is now graped cluster.

(to LM)

EVER PROTECTED

She sits neath
the tree's
apples uncored
All round her
her angels sing
mantra's sweet chords
All beings
united in one sweet accord
to protect and to
guard
their love L McCord

HELLO

Out of the darkest
night
is born the
dawning light.

Out of the greatest
pain of
hell
so low
is born of goodbye
the
sweetest
hello

(to E)

BOUNDARIES

You don't respect
boundaries
complained the mineshaft
as daily at noon
sent the sun
into his dark
her freeing light shafts.

CHICAGO

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.

MOSES' ROD

Struck water, Moses' rod
empowered by the grace of God.
Tears struck
from the stonyhearted
.. the holiest water in creation.

HERR HERON

Herr heron
no longer
the free herring
hearing

MEDUSA VANQUISHED

The sight of Medusa
turned humans to stone
The sight of the past
turned Lott's wife to salt
but the sight of the sun
turns gloom to cheer
as the sight of Christ
breaks the stone in hearts.

PHOENIX ARIZONA

The ashes of the
past do sire
Phoenix feathers
born of fire
.. out of the
maelstrom gyre
alights the fulfilling
of desire

POOLING

In niche where other rocks
did that rock cleave
water has pooled and
does flowers weave

BLUEBELLS

At long last
she had
fullblown
bluebell
blooms of her own

WINDTOSS

Onto the rocks
the storm's windtoss
has turned smashed apples
into sauce
To these who survived
their stony cross
the ants more
quickly come
as to heartbroken souls
come sooner seekers
after sweetness

FATHER WINTER'S KISS

The inebriated woman
fell asleep in the snow
Touched by Father Winter
in the dead of the night
she awakened to find
his kiss of frostbite,
and began to climb
1 step at a time
abstention's awesome heights.

ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Pass the clouds of nonlove
while blazing them above
glows the eternal
Sun of Love

EARTH SCARS

as earth protects animals
in her scars, her ravines
so people's heartaches
help them to know other beings

GREY BREAK OF DAY

The sky is grey
at the break of day
with crimson streaks
sending night away

(a prayer for the resurrection
of scarlet and grey Ohio
State.. that no more animals
be caged or harmed or killed
.. pcrm.org)

SKYBOWL

Into the dawn lake.. the
skybowl ...
flow hidden streams
until with light
the lake is whole

GOD IS NOT MADE OF HATE

Think not God is
hate.
He leaves none in
realms infernal
He renews all
in Earth's dress vernal
those He made of
Love Eternal

VALEDICTIONS

As they melt away,
all icy maledictions
flow into blessing
filled valedictions.
In the gathering light
all past friction
is seen as mirage:
disappearing fiction.

SUNGOLD COMPANIONS

After to the cruel mower
the dandelions gave way
..now the sunny buttercups
in the yard hold sway
... but soon new
dandelions with
the buttercups will play

BROWN CRANE

The dead little tree
standing in the swampwaters
was touched by the wind..
and up flew the brown crane..
movement revealing his quickening.

TEMPLE OF BREATH

Pillars uphold
the Temple of Breath
He has transcended fear
and no longer locks the
doors. Now
the Deity Wind can blow
even in the 'lower lobes
of the lungs'*.

* a phrase by Yogananda

MILLENIAL OAKS

The squirrel dug up
the new zucchini plants
of Dattatreya, she said,
and replaced them
in the apertures with
acorns. Not a
vine which would last
a season, but millenial
oaks.

BEYOND TIME

The hourglass has broken
The hands of the clock are still
Time's scythe stopped
by an act of divine will.

MELTING PRISON BARS

Sun melts the hexagonal shape
  of the fallen snowflake
    So Spirit melts the bars
        of pentacles
turning a curse into cures

CRICKET SONG

The cold little cricket hopped behind the furniture that the evicting resident not discover him and drive him into the cold. Alas, his song betrayed his hiding place. He was put out.. but angels directed him to hop and spring to a kinder hearth from which he pours out melodious joy.

NOT SEANIBBLED

Sandcastles nibbled by the sea..
Snowmen melting on the pyre..
Icicles dripping in the sun..
Logs Erased by Fire

And yet did we see afar
a sandcastle-holding sandbar
And yet did we see upclose
.. Fire Resurrecting
The Form Entire

(to Mr and Mrs Craxi, whose
child was resurrected by God)

SPRING COIL

Impelling each forward
step of marching spring
.. is a hidden bubbling
gurgling spring
.. a hidden coil of pushing
shakti which makes
jade spears
through the hard ground spring

BLACK FRAME GONE

They removed the unseemly black frame
from the oil painting of bright
spring with her pink and saffron
and lavender flowering trees

THRONE OF THORNS

    It is the rosebush who
    is the throne of thorns.
    Above their spears in
    dawning light
    shine myriad blooms reborn.

EVENING RESURRECTION

So clarified was the window
it mirrored the setting sun in the west
with a blazing light in the east..
making the evening.. a time of resurrection

HE EARTH SPRINKLES WITH PERIWINKLES

He earth sprinkles
with periwinkles
and wild places peppers
with green vines of red pepper
With unannounced blooms
the deserts He stars
and with sunrays arrays
spring trees with new sprays
He grows new green clumps
in junkyard dumps
With goldenrod He dusts
abandoned car rust
and with dandelion down
He powders the dawn

THIRTEENTH FAIRY

The 13th fairy not
invited to the ball
.. threw the apple of discord
... it rolled right out of
the hall
and fell into a ditch.. a niche
and her seeds grew and grew
.. into an orchard so fragrant
that all around it drew
In its midst the 13th
fairy..
her holy light blazing anew

SHORT POEMS

Reborn... Sappho... wears monks' saffron.
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How awesome How sublime That out of muck and mud and slime God makes
lemons God makes limes.
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Oh Julie .. God's sun is shining   She is grapevining
and the grove tree now she's liming
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Out of the pain of hell so low..
was born of goodbye the sweetest hello
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the bee the purple blooms did rape .. and now there
are sweet violet grapes

Glass shatters.. neath sunfire.. each shard reflecting his orb entire
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The Great Lord can behind him twirl... vast universe' gyrating
swirl... that his rebellious insurection
.... become his glorious resurrection
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No lid for the cups of sunlemony buttercups..
they just infold to escape night cold..
but in the morn... once again unrolled... their cheery gold
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One upright pier pillar after another yields in the night to the
hegemony of the tide.
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Those who took opposition roles...
were midwives of her strengthened soul
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The sun arises and rouses the rose. In raspberries,
His arisen rays are rose.
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A wee teardrop reflects a star. The tears dry.. remain the stars.
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Meet the sea the icebergs melted
.. and now reflect the sunrise molten

Transmuted scorpio's sanctuary is the Spirit Eagle's aerie.
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Every dawn a straight rainbow of promise is on the horizon
...heralding each heartsun's rising.
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As resoldered metal is stronger than when first forged,
so the resurrected are paradoxically more perfect than
the Godcreated original
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The soul's essence is ever in God's presence, and unharmed by the
fires of creation or the ashes of cremation.
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He was so loved by all creatures that when it rained
a cloud served as his umbrella.
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Filling every inch of the line of floodcracked cement
is a thread of velvetjade moss
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In the empty chalice of the rivercarved grand canyon
dawn has drawn with gold pink orange light crayons.
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Candle flame fear not results if you ignite
the snuffed candle's reborn light.
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As a clock with no hands can register time as the sun
plays across its face, so Spirit needs no body in order
to manifest its power.
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The apple tree's each barren branch.. burst to
wands of blooming blanch
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At the base of the birdfeeding pole, a perfect circle frames
it... the lace trace of birdprints, as they ate the
seeds which had a precipitous fall
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God the Divine Genie is waiting in the bottles of all hearts
to answer wishes.
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On Ararat rests the ark. A rainbow is born in the dark.
Out of silence bursts the joyful song of the lark.
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. above the clouds
. amazing grace
. apple aperture
. april releaf
. arbor and harbor
. beijing spring
. beyond time
. black frame gone
. bluebirds on a barren tree
. bluebells
. boundaries
. brown crane
. bursting branch
. butterflight
. cloud creator
. cricket song
. crimson raindrops
. crossroads
. chrysalis not crystal
. dracula demons and devils
. dreamfill
. elephant footprints
. evening resurrection
. ever protected
. father winter's kiss
. fear not
. gangrapes
. God is not made of hate
. green room
. green swaddling
. grey break of day
. he earth sprinkles with periwinkles
. hello
. herr heron
. inevitable
. judas in heaven
. just flown in from spain
. medusa vanquished
. melting prison bars
. millenial oaks
. moses' rod
. not yet ready
. poisoned apple
. pool
. pooling
. rivercloven
. skybowl
. southern cross
. spring coil
. sungold companions
. temple of breath
. thirteenth fairy
. throne of thorns
. unseanibbled
. valedictions
. windtoss
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