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       SLIPPING EARTH TIES







FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH





Fire has left the hearth

Nautilus climbed from shell

Perfume flowed from bottle

Prisoner gone from cell



Butterfly flutterbied cocoon

nor hand restrained by glove

Jesus away from manger

Cage deserted by Dove.



Sparklings soared away from wand.

Chick's egg become the bird.

Omkar sung from out the throat

Violin's notes now heard.



Buddhist temple pine cone

tabernacled godlet seed

Shattered that it might manifest

thousand forests of fir tree



The heart that was

from body cut left a hole

a stencil which paradoxically

heals other hearts to whole



Eternal snow of mountain top

now nurses meadow flowers.

Shining never held by sun

relentless melts ice towers.



Love has left its

spring the heart

Is now a liquid pond

Host stolen from the chalice

consumed in mouth of God



Starlight abandoned star

a billion years ago

Left that tonight you

might

have its sight

and know



Know Love is forever

no drop of God ever dies

Lover not bound by form of love

God's bodies are not God's souls



(to his wife and children

on the death of Robert S)





IT SNOWS AT SEA



It snows at sea.

*

*



Quiet falls in flakes.

*





Melting designs

*

* Leave Form



For All



(to J and D Shriver

on the death of their mother

Sylvia)

LOVE IS THE ONLY LEGACY

The sand castles have fallen.
The ice sculptures have melted.
The pink chalk on the sidewalk
has been rained away.
The corn stalks are earless
and summer leaves have disappeared
from the centenarian oak.
Matter's traces of the Unquenchable
Spirit's path

But her Love
forever remains...
murmurs the leg of the sea
Her love
is everyone's legacy.

(re Sarah B who hovers around her loved ones as a 3 shift a day
guardian angel.. through whom God spoke from the time she was a
little girl. The infinite love her parents gave to her was returned in measureless amounts.)

LIKE A CHARACTER ALLUDED TO IN A PLAY

Like a character
alluded to in a play
whom we neither see nor hear
.. though his influence permeates
the stage...

like a fragrance .. we know
not whence it came...
.. yet it fills the room

is he in the lives of
his children

(to the loved ones of Colangelo Graffeo)

JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS

Fate oerfixed you
and flung down his starry spears.
By strangest alchemy
starlight turned into biers.
The plump pumpkin of your life
was shattered.
Its evergreen seeds were
most widely scattered.
By prearranged script
God's and yours co-writ
your sacrificial pain did
a grateful nation lift.

DAISY STREAM

Reflected in the rippling creek
the sun was made a daisy
.. fragmented by the faster current
into petal sparks
Windstirred and starred
each unplucked firepetal
traveled downstream
while the full daisy sun remained
and murmured
SHE LOVES YOU EVERMORE
SHE LOVES YOU EVERMORE
SHE LOVES YOU EVERMORE

(to Richard Dawson on the death
of his mother)

DIAMONDS IN THE LIGHT



They asked Martha to give

her family a sign that she

was still with them.

.. She had left her

body as a baby leaves

the mother's womb

.. a hand leaves a glove..

a light leaves a room...



of a sudden

a gust of wind

blew light dust

snow from a branch

.. each particle

in sunlight shafts

was a diamond foiled

by a backdrop blanche..



a cheery hello

for others too





(to Martha D's loved ones)

INTO HEART DRIFT PARTICLES OF TIME





Into the chasms

of pain in the heart

quietly drift

snowflake particles of time

.. slowly sealing

.. softly healing

.. joy annealing



CURRENT OF GRIEF



The current of grief

at the funeral

is of lightning bolts

which strike even

strangers...

causing them for

no explained reason

to release tears of

rain.



(to all who love

C Turchan M)





LIMA BEINGS



She buried

her father's

discarded shell

with a seed of

bean upon his face

that out of rain

sun

and freeing space

a vine would weave

new bean lace

and let all eat

of new bean grace

As his unneeded limbs

become limas

Her father now

dwelt in

a happier place



KOREAN PERSIMMONS



Buddhists come to the Korean

graveyard on ancestor day

to leave prayers and food

for foremothers and forefathers..

but the persimmon tree above

the stone.. gives all

she has the entire season



NO FLAME FLAKES



The Spirit Flame

Leaves No Matter Flakes

.. no flame flakes

.. the crystallizations

are what's left behind



PETER SELLERS



The pink panther

.. master empath...

took the pink path

.. the sun-on-sea path

to the land of God

.. a land beyond paths



MARBLEHEAD



When I leave my body

.. I want no marble head

over a grave with lies

proclaiming I am dead



May my ash

make no splash

as it sifts into

the unstony sea

off of Marblehead



ASHES OF MY SON



As we tossed his ashes into

the sea..

the wind came onto

the quay

and into our mouths

she blew

a few

as she blew others

away



which might have

made us

unwitting cannibals



had we not thought

that he was such a holy man

.. it was instead

a communion on the quay..



HANS MAMLOCK



he wanted no carved script

engraved in mausoleum's crypt

for he knew the body

to be at best a prism

at worst a prison

of Infinite Spirit





ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH



Her soul is the typewriter

whose carriage can return

to former times through prayer

to whiteout certain lines.



Her soul the screenwriter

for the movie of her life

edits adds deletes improves

future scenes and those

transpired.



Searing agony in the past

is visualized in light

and God is asked to send

great grace

and kind anesthesia there.



He most often the soul

removes

before moments of great pain..

the soul with Him lookng down

on the stopping of lifetrain.



She controls time and space.

Within her is all that is..

Because she is one with God

playing His role as Anne





BABY BOY



He sent trusting tendrils so tenderly toward me..

I did not fear these insignificant little shoots

which found their roots in the chinks

in my heart and there began to grow

and grow and grow.. until there was nothing in

my heart but him.. When he left

he took my heart with him.





BARRIE





Our dog Barrie

used to jump

up on my bed

and bury bread

beneath

the bedspread



CURTAIN CALL



A yogi views

without desire

entrance into

form..

life's curtain calls

and exit from

the body..

life's curtain falls



BUMBLEBEE MOURNS



Seeing

the bumblebee mourn

the bloom newmown

and goldilocked dandelion

not ready

to doff his down

they are mowing

no more wings.





UTERI



We were born

of not 1 but

2 uteri

..

my twin,

you and I



how seldom those

of us who alight

at the same time

leave for God

at the same time



but now you

hover round

me like

a sun shining

from all sides.





(to E Daughterty,

Clara T, and other

twins whose birthmates

left for God first)







HARVEY MILK AND

DAN WHITE



All works for good.

If when we remember

the senseless slaying

of Harvey Milk

by Dan White

we are reminded

that White..

Milk Kills..

it will not have

been in vain.



http://www.milksucks.com

http://www.notmilk.com

http://www.pcrm.org



GUARDIAN ANGEL



Death is a loved one's transition

to guardian angel.









SHOCK OF SHARDS



Those who focused on

the shock of shards

as the phoenix bird

burst from his shell

nearly missed the sight

of his wondrous maiden flight

as he soared up and away

and out of sight.







WILLOW FROND



A jade curtain of

willow fronds

parts world of

green earth

from that of blue pond



A grey curtain

of morning mist

separates turquoise waters

from blue sky



A more slender

veil is

at the portal

hiding the paradise

of the immortal.



LINEUP



As far as the eye can see

.. endless lineup of

planes waiting to take

off from the runway..

as they break the bonds

of earth one by one

so do souls one by one

slip the gravity field

and fly free



BEYOND THE GAME GRID



He had many points in the game

of life... the love of many friends

and family, wealth, attractiveness,

intelligence, power, ...

and when he was taken out of

the game suddenly by an early

death.. we were reminded

that those who win the game

are those who transcend it



MOTHERING EACH OTHER



They found

after the death of their

mother

the sisters and brothers

were mothering each other



INVULNERABLE



If a scale breaks

is the weight affected?

If a mirror breaks

is the reflected face harmed?

If an apple is peeled

are the seeds killed?

If a body slips off

is the soul hurt?



MARILYN



She hovers around him

in a cloud of love

smoothing his way

... the cable connecting

them indestructible..

a cable which slips

under the veil between

earth and heaven



(to Greg C)





MONOCHROME



Today we spied

spring's first dandelion decapitators..

ride on mowers

turning the goldstarred jade meadows

into monochrome green.





Their goldilocks

will never turn gray.



MELTING POINT



Souls ever entering

and leaving

form as quietly

as the sea near

the Arctic freezes

into ice and is

then melted into

liberation



WILLIAM CHARLES ENNIS



As a nimbus

encircles a flame..

as a father

holds his child

his love surrounds her

He has gone ahead

to prepare her chamber

and yet he hovers

around her



(to Jan Hirsh Ennis on the death of Bill her
husband of more than 50 years.... she grieving
for him would follow a short time after this
was written)



WINDOWS ON THE WORLD



At the top of the world

as they anon did dine

they died without

an anodyne

And animals

upon whom

we dine..

have died

without.. an anodyne





ANNE PERRY CHARACTER



Poisoned by the water

in which severed

lilies of the valley lie

now his body

in a lily'd valley lies

... the bells on

the flowered stem

silent

but in kinder worlds

they now peal



BREAKING OUT OF TIME



The minute bursts

like a nut with thirst

to be beyond time

.... to be all



BIRD IN RIBBED CAGE



Once again the soulheart bird

began to beat in ribb-ed cage

For God wanted him to make

another entrance on world stage





(to B W)

(Kabir compares the soul

in the body to a bird

in a cage)

(Neem Karoli Baba calls

the body central jail





BLACK SPHINX





From your infinite

eyes we drink

Stars within skies

of blackest ink

Please do not eclipse

us when you wink

but hold us in

Your eyes, Black Sphinx





RAY CHARLES



Perhaps Ray is singing

"I can see clearly now..

the rain is gone"



RISING ELSEWHERE



The 2 suns have

set from her eyes

and in kinder skies

her soul does rise









PORTAL TO IMMORTAL



A jade curtain of

willow fronds

parts world of

green earth

from that of blue pond



A curtain of

morning mist pf grey hue

separates turquoise waters

from overarching sky's blue



A slender band

of post wave sands

sparkles between

the sea and the land



A more slender

veil is

at the portal

hiding the paradise

of the immortal





BODYFALL IS SOULRISE





Bodyfall is Soulrise

when the sun within his eyes

no longer chained by body's cage

away to the Lord of

Love

does fly



While others grieve

crushed by the grave's

gravity



she saw in dawnlight rose

above the stones of sculpted

rose

and carved angels

row on row

his Spirit yond

prison in joy arose







HIGH TIDE NIBBLES



nibbled at the sand castles

the high tide

and nipped at beachballs...

away they slide

but the rock

the rock abides



IRAQI CHILD SENT TO ALLAH





The little child.. bombed into

heaven



should we be angry with

those unripe souls

.. who love combat..



who sent him there?



Though a child he was an old

soul.. tired of the game

of time..

wanting only to

be with his Eternal

Beloved



The Lockheed F16 was

his best friend, ushering

him to Allah



For such a one as this

writer, nonjudging is

a steep path



GOD COMES HIMSELF





E students walk to heaven

D students take a bus

C students take a car

B students take a limousine

For A students: God comes

Himself



TABERNACLE OF ALL HEARTS

  



Where the mirror meets the frame

Where the river joins the sea

Where the fire becomes all flame

is where she waits for you.



Where the wand meets Cinderella

Where desires touch starfire

Where soft crocus bursts hard plain

There she waits for you.



Where the cross turns to crown

Where the up is born from down

Where the saint receives God's gown

in bliss she waits for you.



Where ice melts to the drop

Where pain transmutes to love

Where prayer swirls to miracles

Now she waits for you.



Where torches light new candles

Where the rain weds the rainbow

In the tabernacle of all hearts

There she waits for you.



ROME FOUNTAIN HORSE



Crystalline thirstquenching

water

through the mouth

of the fountain horse..

does course

yet none think the horse

.. of the water the source.







ANNE PERRY CHARACTER



Poisoned by the water

in which severed

lilies of the valley lie

now his body

in a lily'd valley lies

... the bells on

the flowered stem

silent

but in kinder worlds

they now peal



RUPTURE RAPTURE



The running rabbit

was seized by the raptor.

The clawcaused rupture

sent him to rapture.





(unethical research done by

NIH found that mice seized

by cats secret endorphins

which send them back to GOD

in ecstasy.)





Hippocrates: first do no harm







OMNIPRESENCE



there is no eternal hell..

hell is living distant from God

  in the universe' outer shells

How can there be a hell

if God is Love and omnipresent..

present in the universe'

each and every cell



TO THE PARENTS OF A BOY

WHO KILLED HIMSELF



God does not tell us the time

or the way He calls us back

to Him.  A soul, lonely in

separation from the Eternal

Father, sometimes takes charge

of his own destiny. This is, if we

could see with Divine eyes, a

release to joy. May God bless you

for all the love you showered on

him.



FAITHFUL BOY



His heart metronome

beat faithful all the way Home

Like the sun rising above tree bars

on its way back to the stars

Like a bird soaring in joy

above the earthly cage

he left

and yet the umbilical cord of

his soul

like the very long string of a balloon

ever hovers around you



(to A Magoun)





BETWEEN FILM SHOWINGS



As a good theatre is cleaned

between film showings,

so a healer takes time to

meditate between sessions,

so angels, devas help

in cleansing a soul before

he returns to earth.



SHAKTI



Before it goes down

seems largest the sunball

The leaves seem most orange

before they fall

The fire burns hottest

before leaving the hall

The soul blazes brightest

before returning to All



OCTOBER LEAVES



As the sun shines through

October's dead stained glass leaves

so though for her presence he grieves

her existence transcends

what he merely believes

..

that she lives forever

that he will be with her

he knows





50TH FLOOR OF WORLD TRADE CENTER



The fiftieth floor..

where firefighters ascending

met the fleeing descending

.. where the courageous

spiraled up to God

leaving us

their loving legacy

of boldness and bravery

as they dove into death



(911truth.org)





SNOWFLAKES



Spring's petals snowing

Falls' leaves snowing

Ash from fires snowing  

Bodies snowing as

souls rise to God.



FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM



JBO went to an estate

auction... saddened

by the lack of interest

in the family photo albums

of thw woman who had survived

all her loved ones.



A family photo album

full of those who

have passed on..

faces.. are snowflakes

.. each unique pattern

melting .. the

new faces will be even

more beautiful



God's family photo album

contains all beings..

each with purple place holders...

each face carved in His heart.







LASTING REALITY



Clouds are real and passing

Sun is real and lasting.



COLUMBIA



Dark widow clouds

over the vale

do the sun's

brightness veil



Rows of icicles

drip slowly in grief.

A ship unable to land

had it enough fuel

because the docking collar

was removed and helpless

frightened powerless NASA Glenn

lab animals filled the hold..

animals blown to bits over 5 states.

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-saiom shriver-

50th Floor of WTC

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Perry Character

Ashes Of My Son

Baby Boy

Barrie

Between Film Showings

Beyond The Game Grid

Bird in Ribbed Cage

Black Sphinx

Bodyfall is Soulrise

Breaking Out of Time

Bumblebee Mourns

Columbia

Current of Grief

Curtain Call

Daisy Stream

Diamonds In The Light

Diane Salem

God Comes Himself

Goldilocks

Family Album

Faithful Boy

Fire Has Left The Hearth

Guardian Angel

Hans Mamlock

Harvey Milk

High Tide Nibbles

Jacqueline

Korean Persimmons

Into The Heart Drift

Invulnerable

Iraqi Child Sent To Allah

It Snows At Sea

Lasting Reality

Like a Character

Lima Beings

Lineup

Love is the Only Legacy

Marblehead

Marilyn

Melting Point

Monochrome

Mothering Each Other

No Flame Flakes

October Leaves

Omnipresence

Peter Sellers

Portal to the Immortal

Ray Charles

Rome Fountain Horse

Rupture Rapture

Shakti

Shock of Shards

Snowflakes

Tabernacle Of All Hearts

To The Parents Of A Boy

Uteri

William Charles Ennis

Willow Frond

Windows On The World



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