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WILLOW FROND JADE CURTAIN
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.
PHOENIX BIRD FLIGHT
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.
**
COLD RUSSIAN SNOWS
HOT RUSSIAN HEARTS
Hitler and Bonaparte
retreated...
by
cold Russian snows defeated
by cold Russian snows
and hot Russian hearts.
*
LOVE BY THE SEA
Do you want to be
with your love by the sea
hearing the gullsong
smelling the salt air
feeling the sand
beneath your toes
and the seaweed
the sea's legacy?
watching the rise
oer the bay of the moon
and then ascent
of the Sun.. oer neptune?
GENTLE DAWN LIGHT
Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step taken oh so slight.
ELOHIM
"He needn't reach the stars..
stars' light reaches him..
He needn't climb to God.
Inside him .. Elohim.
SCREAMLESS ICE
The ice does not in pain scream
when in the sun he melts into stream
nor does he in pain scream
when he higher climbs into spiraling steam.
*
*
SUN RIVAL
News of
the arrival
of hate's sun rival
As pink
dawn approached
night feared his survival.
**
**
VIOLETS THE VALE
A clover veil..
violets the vale
neith skies cloudclad
or when ultraviolet
sun prevails.
**
ELEPHANT IN LOTUS POND
An elephant waded into
a pond covered with lotuses
.. His weight pushed them aside
and in the water
instead of gold lily stars
one saw the blazing Milky Way.
EXCLAMATION ICICLES
On a March clothesline
.. transparent icicles in a row
in the bright sun
they drip and glow
Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!!
a sentence of joyful exclamation !!!!!!!!
*
DROPLETS INTO DRUPELETS
Sunwands turn rain droplets
into blackberry drupelets
as enkindled okra seeds
acknowledge heliocracy."
"Those who work for plant rights
don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers.
They plant papayas,
and peppers.
Their pulpit is the popular
not the papal but poplars.
(not in the sense of ephemeral fame
but what the people want.)
*
ETERNAL NOON
When comes eternal noon?
When soul turns around
each no... to on.
*
MINE SHAFT AND RAY
You don't respect
boundaries
said the mine shaft
as each day between
eleven and one
sent the sun
into his darkness
her light shafts.
*
PERFUME OF LOVE
A rose fullblown
is the opentoall heart
.. fragrance flows from it
.. the perfume of love.
*
COCKROACH LUCK
Oh a cockroach is better luck
than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home
those who love every heart.
*
*
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 writer's long rainbow
of words
play our heartstrings from afar.
WEEDING
Weeding
is
plant
racism.
*
CHALICE EPHEMERAL .. JESUS ETERNAL
The chalice is ephemeral.
Jesus' blood eternal.
IGNITE
Thank you dear reader
that you to life ignite
these fallen words
with your holy eyelight.
PICKLE TICKLES
The sun with light umber
touches vined cucumber
The more he tickles
the more there are pickles.
*
*
SATSANG
A match does not
on an iceberg ignite
nor does a waterdrop survive
in a forest fire
We are influenced by
the company we keep.
*
DOUSING WAND
The dousing wand
The lightning rod
Conductor's baton
Will's aligned spine
They find the water,
invoke the lightning
attract the music
and summon angels' aid.
*
*
AS CALM AS NOAM
To pass through the mines
liarseeded
in the field of truth...
sing the truth.. or make a joke of it
or create portraits with words
or paint without the lilygilding
of criticism
or be as calm as Noam Chomsky.
*
ANOTHER HUE
He decried that any would
"add another hue
unto the rainbow"
yet we would ope to
saffron and jade
and pink and rose
and olive and tan
scarlet and indigos
**
(the quote is from Shakespeare's King John.)
*
CAUCUS OF CROCI
One by one
in many countries
they break through
the ice of fear..
cups of crocuses
.. stand up in caucuses
.. East to West
from Africa to the Caucusus
and state
their eternal
allegiance
to the Creator Sun.
*
CARPE DIEM
Carpe Diem
they said
as they carpe'd Diem
(Diem of Vietnam, murdered
in a coup)."
*
UNCARVED MARBLE
Carved in the marble dark grey
of the Vietnam War Memorial..
are the names of 58,000
of the known Americans who died in Vietnam.
Their names are supported
by the uncarved marble
of the 4 million Vietnamese
who died.
*
POSIEING
One said that
the posies
were sham posers
.. ignored him
the posies
and kept on posie-ing.
**
FIRST CHIRPS
the cheerful birdies' song
.. the anthem of the Dawn
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thorns
So high they
swayed
in morning light
their petaled fleece
was never shorn
DAND>
gray haired flakeheads
and now
dandelion seeds float in the air..
by the Bubble Blower sent aloft..
which ones will mystically touchdown..
to root in our hearts?
NOT IN CHAOTIC SHARDS
Not in chaotic shards
do dandelion seeds
burst from their ball.
Each part as perfect
as the whole.
Each each contains
the all.
BEETLE BITTEN BEE BIBBED BLOOMS
The beetle bitten blooms
are now beautiful of lace
The bees have bibbed
all the nectar
and the emptied bloom chalice
will now hold new dew.
BY LOVE'S POWER
He was a great healer
He had taken on so
many of others' burdens
that
His pain was intense
.. His body sick
His mind agony
great
People's hearts wanted
to grow wings with
which to blanket
him.. and him to shield
as their great love
touched his own
by his love's return power
was he healed
BUTTERNUT AND BUTTERCUP
Held the dew
the concave buttercup
better than
the convex butternut
as listening ears
have healing
in their cups
with what
chalice'd joy
does the buttercup
hold
the liquid sunup
(to J Miller, to L Yost and to others)
DAFFODIL CHALICE
Father winter
.. he did fill
the hopeful cup of
wee daffodil
with the cold
sorbet
of chill
the icing of
snowspill.
But it melted
quickly..
and soon to
the touch of
the sun
the daffodil
did thrill.
DO FLOWERS CHASE BEES?
Do flowers chase bees?
Does Mother Earth bite?
Do rivers run backwards?
Do
butterflies get speeding tickets? It is to the meditater at the
tree's base and not to the hunter that the gentle deer come.
***
(to bee attracting C Nevada who juggles 3 careers)DANDELION BLOOD
Dandelions' blood
is green..
Dandy lions' blood
is red
Because they hurt
They have bled
2 Roses is to Bernie Rosen and his wife
LILIES
His body's ashes lie beneath lilies
.. his suicide sparked by
Eli Lilly
but his soul did soar
and now he has merged
in his lost love Lily
MAXWELL PERIWINKLE BLUE
Stars
above & their twinkles
are mirrored by
ground periwinkle
.. they do not sparkle
as much as J's smile
breaking through
her cheek crinkles
to JMB
*****
GOLDSMITHED ROSE
All life is sacred
but one day he chose
that the Japanese beetle
was greater than rose.
Crawling in his greenmail* armour
over the Goldsmithed bloom
ready to turn gold petal fire
into pure insect flight.
He found when he chose
the bug oer the
rose
God gave him back
endless blooms of rose.
(*greenmail reference to the takeover attempt of Goodyear
by James Goldsmith, capital manipulater of the UK..
which cost its city, pensioners, employees & stockholders
95 million dollars
greenmail: an unfriendly move by a securities buyer who buys enough stock in a company to threaten a hostile takeover later agreeing to sell the stock back to the company at a higher price.)
OAK AND POPLAR
The centenarian oak
cares not
that less slender
is his body cloak
He cares not that
in gardens papal
more popular
are the poplars
(sparked by Jan's
heaering poplar
as popular)
PARACHUTES
The wind
releases
dandelion parachutes
They alight
and spark
a golden
pair of shoots
APPLE CHAPEL PINE SHRINE
Is God's favorite chapel
orchards appled?
Her Ichi Ban shrine..
trees of pine?
Her beloved mosque
vine covered kiosks?
Her best synagogue
a cranberry bog?
Her holiest church
woods of birch
***
BLUEMS
When chicory
and periwinkle
.. catching blue
star twinkle
bloom
... they're bluems
NO PRUNING
His plum tree
he did not violently
prune
and therefore
he had
many times more prunes
NO ADIEU
The bees need not
bid the blooms adieu
for the morn brings
new nectar and dew
DELILAH'S DAHLIAS
No longer need
Samson fear
Delilah's shears.
Reborn is
Delilah
..
.. safe are the curly heads
of dahlias
IN THE PRIDED WOOD
In the prided wood
the Lord of Luminescence
gives each fruit
a dewy tumescence
and with light each
lemon limns
and with love
each lime he lines.
2 ROSES DWELT ABOVE
Two roses dwelt
above
.. the meanest sharpest
thorns
So high they
swayed
in morning light
their petaled fleece
was never shorn
DANDELION DIASPORA
The rain, weed-wed,
has
multiplied
these
gray haired flakeheads
and now
dandelion seeds float in the air..
by the Bubble Blower sent aloft..
which ones will mystically touchdown..
to root in our hearts?
Not in chaotic shards
do dandelion seeds
burst from their ball.
Each part as perfect
as the whole.
Each each contains
the all.
BEETLE BITTEN BEE BIBBED BLOOMS
The beetle bitten blooms
are now beautiful of lace
The bees have bibbed
all the nectar
and the emptied bloom chalice
will now hold new dew.
BY LOVE'S POWER
He was a great healer
He had taken on so
many of others' burdens
that
His pain was intense
.. His body sick
His mind agony
great
People's hearts wanted
to grow wings with
which to blanket
him.. and him to shield
as their great love
touched his own
by his love's return power
was he healed
BUTTERNUT AND BUTTERCUP
Held the dew
the concave buttercup
better than
the convex butternut
as listening ears
have healing
in their cups
with what
chalice'd joy
does the buttercup
hold
the liquid sunup
(to J Miller, to L Yost and to others)
DAFFODIL CHALICE
Father winter
.. he did fill
the hopeful cup of
wee daffodil
with the cold
sorbet
of chill
the icing of
snowspill.
But it melted
quickly..
and soon to
the touch of
the sun
the daffodil
did thrill.
**
Al Couch, a Biblical scholar and farmer, took Genesis literally..
that there were no brutal weather patterns on earth when it was
covered with trees.. it is humankind, not God, he thought, who have
created the violence of freezing.
DO FLOWERS CHASE BEES?
Do flowers chase bees?
Does Mother Earth bite?
Do rivers run backwards?
Do
butterflies get speeding tickets? It is to the meditater at the
tree's base and not to the hunter that the gentle deer come.
***
(to bee attracting C Nevada
who juggles 3 careers)
PHLOX UNFURL THEIR FLAGS
The phlox unfold
their bee flagons
that busy bees
not be flaggin
The phlox unfurl
their flags of joy..
made of the caught
flames of the sun..
with hues
unique to no nation..
As the world warms
in the flux of love
there will be less need
for foxes' gloves
or phlox gloves
OLIVES OF WRATH
There are olives of wrath
as well... bulldozed
from their mother trees
in the groves of Palestine...
May God
Who is Nonharming
Who is Peace
change all ways
so that always
peace will be theirs and thine
peace will be for all .. for mine
MAXWELL PERIWINKLE BLUE
Stars
above & their twinkles
are mirrored by
ground periwinkle
.. they do not sparkle
as much as J's smile
breaking through
her cheek crinkles
to JMB
PICKPOCKET KUDZU
Kudzu pickpocket
crawling along
the pickets
and up the trunks
looking for caches
and caves of squirrel
seeds..
as Love climbs over
the heart.. looking
for chinks which will
let Him in
DANDELION BLOOD
Dandelions' blood
is green..
Dandy lions' blood
is red
Because they hurt
They have bled
THISTLE BLOWS
Tangent to the mistle toe
Near where the harbor whistle crows
she the dearest epistle knows
is watching down of thistle blow
Her favorite sermon
.. Jack In the Pulpit
surrounded by his
bee disciples
HOLLY HOCKS
Never will holly hock
the seeds of her
precious holly hocks
Their standards of cheer
are receivers of joy
GOLDENROD DUST
Dorothy has grown
since her trip to Oz..
she now prefers
a goldenrod powdered
wild trail..
to the yellow brick road
**
WATER LILIES
water lilies
offer landing pads to
dragonfly helicopters
SNAPDRAGONS
Snapping turtles
avoid eating
snapdragons
fearing
a return snap
STAR OF INDIA
The Star of India is within you..
said Yogananda to poster in meditation.
(The Star of India is one of the many crown jewels
not yet returned to its original owner India from
the British crown.)
*greenmail reference to the takeover attempt of Goodyear
by James Goldsmith, capital manipulater of the UK..
which cost its city, pensioners, employees & stockholders
95 million dollars
© Saiom Shriver(to the employees of Goodyear who fought James Goldsmith and his greenmail takeover. attempt.. Goodyear lost 95 million dollars and has never recovered. Stockholding members of the URW have been wiped out. Atty General Switzer of NY is building a coalition of AG's to fight Wall St. abuse Greenmail is a takeover tactic but now it has a better meaning: the promise of campaigns against Mother Earth abusers by environmentalists Some have said capitalism is inheently antidemocratic since the accumulation of power leads to bribery, fraud.
Please download on the web on rice, cotton, scrap, nontree paper, or 100% recycled Zelda Fitzgerald wrote her husband Scott that she had awakened to the present of the sun on the table of the world.. she opened it.. and things fluttered everywhere Dr Chandra Bose was knighted by Queen Victoria for proving plant feelings with his crescograph machine. Luther Burbank did also. The book Secret Life Of Plants has many interesting documentations of this.\ ** Al Couch, a Biblical scholar and farmer, took Genesis literally.. that there were no brutal weather patterns on earth when it was covered with trees.. it is humankind, not God, he thought, who have created the violence of freezing.
most flowing
LOOKING UP
A joyful chorus
of a birdflock
caused us up
to look
and we saw at the
very top
of a very tall
fir tree
clusters of pine cones
.. like a genius
ready to give his
mind's gifts to all
WHEN I'M SAD
When I'm sad...
some walk..or run
or listen
to music..
or talk to someone
.. or write out feelings..
or go to a 123 step meeting
or meditate.. do a new yoga
exercise..
LAUGHTER
God's daughters
did not want laughter
to rhyme
with slaughter..
since from God
comes laughter
and from butchers
comes slaughter.
(to A Slaughter of
Princeton.. may she
no longer promote
war)
CALL TO PRAYER
God passes
light through
the brushes of
Michelangelo
God passes
Word made Flesh
through the pens
of Maya Angelou
God passes
the Sound
of the Call
to Prayer
from minarets
and synagogues
and temples
and the bells
of the Angelus..
for by all names
called respond
the angels
NOT A THRONE OF THORNS
Your home
is not a throne
of thorns..
you were made for
joy
FLOCK TO FRUIT
A flock of blackbirds
came to a peachtree
.. each orange orb
mated to a different
bird
as each soul
to a different
angel guardian.
BELLS OF COCKLESHELLS
In the bells of
cockleshells
Wind
silently rings
(Goethe:
Architecture is
frozen music)
CAVES OF JOY
only time determines when
we enter our own
inner and infinite
caves of joy
CLOTHESLINE EXCLAMATIONS
On a March clothesline
.. transparent icicles in a row
in the bright sun
they drip and glow
Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!!
.. crystalline exclamation points of joy
.. each exulting in the light
.. .. at the end of each melting dagger
a watery globe..
they say.. this silent xylophone
with their quiet exclamations
Spring is coming
they say without explanation
(to kind L Umana)
CLOTHESLINE JOY VERSION TWO
a row of icicle daggers
melt
and turn to nursing
watergivers
drops slide down
the obelisks and
in the sun they become
bubbling christmas lights
the xylophone of crystal
is disappearing
they are a row
of exclamation points of joy
KEEBA SMITH
Keeba
when you smile
the 2 corners
of your mouth
lift the shades
and light from your
soul
pours through your eyes
Alleluia is
to Lia A.. countless are the hours she has spent helping other beings
1 of them to Ernest Bevans http://www.postpoems.com/members/masapoet Writer has only read 4 of his poems so far.. Because She Turned Her Back On The Sea is a masterpiece in my humble opinion
Writer has only read 4 of his poems so far.. Because She Turned Her Back On The Sea is a masterpiece in my humble opinion
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PATIENCE POEMS
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MANGO MANNA
The mango tree manifests
to woman and mankind
her manna gradually
.. and gently
MOTHER BIRD BE AT PEACE
Sweet little Mother Bird
why worry?
don't hurry
don't scurry
no flurry
Your babies.. they are safe.
IMPATIENCE ARE PATIENT
Impatience
are often patient
.. waiting for
a brighter day.
Impatience
blooms
woven on the
sun's vast looms
are not annuals
she found when she
.. brought them
in from the cold
.. and saw they
were perennials
SPIDER WEB
He waited til winter
to help clean up
the woods ..
rather than disturb
the spider web
in the trash tire
LOOKING FOR IT
I know God gave me
patience..
I have been looking
for it..
near where I lost it
EVERYONE IS PERFECT
Why do I mind more
the unripeness in others and me
than I mind
the green fruit on a sweet tree?
Not until God's
appointed hour
will fruit be beesweet
and not be sour
***
BIRDS ON A WIRE
Birds sit watching
from the theatre's brick
parapets
waiting for me to
finish eating and feed
them the rest
AWAKENING
Mother Earth has
begun to respond
to the awakening
gentle nudges
of the longfingered sun
as the people of the earth
are responding
to the awakening of
their powers of selfrule.
PATH OF PATIENCE
Some enter
God's realm
through the gate
of generosity
others the portal of
peace..
still others the door
of discipline
or the arch of ahimsa
She attracted what
she resisted..
ingoing through
the passage of patience
ICE LOSES TO SUN
The ice is melting below
but still treacherous on the
surface.
Said one:
Wait for sunclocks
to open icelocks.
A second advised
to go slowly on the ice.
A third .. with the aura
of the sun..
melted each obstacle
as he went forth.
SWEET REFRAIN
The quiet fall
of the rain
.. dripping
merciful refrain
.. bringing peace
peace peace
in its train
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Ramana Maharshi's ashram fed first the animals, then beggars, then visitors, then residents, and finally the guru. * The Torah says to feed animals before humans. *
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NINE PROJECTION POEMS
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WATER HELD THE QUILL
Faster than any stylus squiggling
Can write the sun in the water wiggling
But when the sea is perfectly still
it appears it was water which held
the quill.
(to Mark Braunstein,
author of Radical Vegetarianism)
(a poem about how we project ourselves
onto the mirrors of others)
BRIGHT SPLASH OF COLORS
Some projected that
the painter
of the bright splash
of colors...
was with rage livid..
others that his soul
with love was vivid
REFLECT PROJECT
the world
does your reality reflect
you see what you are
the world resounds to your vibration
echoes to your actions
unkindness boomerangs
kindness sparks into life
and multiplies
in a fractured mirror
the faces of all
seem
fragmented
JUPITER SEES A STAR
The blazing sun
is not orange at dusk
save through the
eyes of our
earth dust.
nor does sun move
in the vast ocean
.. waves project
onto him
wavering motion.
It is not raining
on the sun.
It is raindrops
upon the windowpane.
The pond is not
full of blood, as
the lion thinks,
after washing
off his muzzle
from a fresh kill.
The mirror is not 2 faced..
but polyfaced, and no-faced
.. It is not hypocrisy
for the reflecting sea
to portrait paint
uniquely
each who stands before him.
The stable cleaner with
waste on his glasses
looked at the moon
and thought she was
full of horse manure.
and the man who has
drunk much alcohol
sways.. through
his eyes the room
sways..
he thinks others
are inebriated..
and the detective
saw he was defective
.. projecting his own
grid
onto the pure screen
It is thermal
waves between us
and constant stars
which make them appear
to twinkle
as semaphores
unfaithfully
sending secret messages
From earth
through a telescope
Jupiter with his moons
seems lined up in 1 row..
.. but the moons
swirl around him not
in lines but orbits..
.. nor can the devotees'
orbits around a Guru
be known
In the Cosmic Mirror
of the Poornavatar
saw himself reflected
the pornagrapher
while in the same cosmic mirror
in the Poornachandra
another was sent
into poornananda
We see everywhere what we are..
In the mirror of the Avatar
.. a cheater sees a liar
and Jupiter sees a star
ELEPHANT IN LILY POND
An elephant waded into
a pond covered with lotuses
.. His weight pushed them aside
and in the water
instead of gold lily stars
one saw the blazing Milky Way
On and Off"
INCONSTANCY IN VIEWER'S EYES
The moon through the trees winks
The rising sun is turned
semaphore by passing cars
Stars from behind clouds peep
Children ever play hide and seek
the inconstancy
projected by the viewer
Isaiah: the lion shall lie down with the lamb . The psychiatrist gave an inkblot test to his client. Every time he showed a different shape, the client attributed sexuality to it .. finally the psychiatrist said to the man: Dear sir, I think you are sexually obsessed .. you seem to see sex everywhere. The client responded: Me! You're the one drawing the filthy pictures
JUPITER'S GOSLINGS
From earth the spherical
moons of Jupiter
seem like her goslings
all in a row
as younger souls
project limitations
onto the freedom
of masters
MIRROR DANDELIONS
The devil spawn
.. devil's pawns
cursed the woman with
dandelions
in her lawn
Golden chariots
by dawn
horses drawn
blessed the man with
dandelions in
his lawn
CLEAREST MIRRORS
It is the clearest mirrors
accused of the most sins
by the error-ridden.
It is the clearest mirrors
praised for the most virtue
by saints.
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Ram Das, guru of Anandashram in Kerala, said that good and evil are both projections of the mind. Yet he says that the good work to clothe the naked and feed the hungry. Therefore, even if evil is a projection of our minds, it is a good thing to remove it from society.. ]
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15 VICTORY POEMS
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ARCH OF MELTED MARCH
The massive iceberg float
which barred all boats
has been dissolving
and dewdropping
into the sea.
In the center the
sun has blown
a huge hole
the iceberg is now
an arch
an arch of melted March
.. with an aperture through
which April arrives.
ACORNS ON THE TABLE
Gathered corns, little oakseeds
rest upon the
wooden table..
future trees
upheld by murdered ones
(based on the wood engraving
by Michael McCurdy in Jean
Giono's book The Man
Who Planted Trees)
ANGEL PITCHER FACES DEVILS
Like a pitcher
from the Angels
facing the encircling
boos of the Devils
fans, are heroes
confronting
evil.
The pitcher forged ahead
.. drawing on infinite
inner springs..
and struck out 27 batters
in a row
LIGHTPOUR
A tear was ripped
in the cloudcurtain
.. through it
sunrays poured..
beyond earth ears
their music chords.
Their father a ball
of fire
though linear through
slit
seem his spirit swords
and through the rip
the dove of peace
to freedom soared..
VJ
There would not have
been a VJ Day
There would not have
been a Day of VJ
without the efforts
of Gandhi and Vijay
VICTOR VICTORIA
The soul's ultimate
victory
is focusing on
the beyond gender
souls
of Victor and Victoria
BUBBLES IN A HIDDEN SPRING
As all bubbles
in a hidden spring
to the surface
are springing
so are all hearts
inevitably
to Godhood rising
THROWING ROCKS AT PONDS
He took out his anger
on the little pond
throwing rocks into her
.. and caused her water
to rise just enough
to give drink to
a very thirsty shoreline
plant
KWON YANG AND KWON YIN
whether you are Kwon Yin
or Kwon Yang
you are always
a lovable God
NO GREENMAIL NO BLACKMAIL
He avoided blackmailing a killer
and greenmailing stockholders
and stayed away from courtesans..
that he not fall for those who
sell love
He ate the bodies of
no cattle nor swine
.. and abstained from
the stains of
braincell scotching
wine
as he learned from the mistakes
of past lives
and began to climb
the foothills of Himalayan sadhana
*both men and women can be misogynistic rejecting
the yin inside
DAWNDRAWN
Dawndrawn
by sunspawn
to flight.. the swan
PORCINE
Porcine spongiform
encephalopathy
.. is in pigs
.. not in trees full
of figs.
Caprine spongiform
encephalopathy
comes to goats
They are human victims
not given the vote.
Volpine spongiform
encephalopathy
comes to those who
hunt foxes
"the unspeakable
in search of the
inedible"*
Avian spongiform
encephalopathy
.. is in chickens
Pisces spongiform
encephalopathy
does fishes sicken
Cervine spongiform
encephalopathy
.. to hide its
incidence is
psychopathy
* Oscar Wilde quote
ZOICIDAL OLIGARCHY
We have lived in a country
.. in which livestock
states have much more power
per capita.
We have lived
crushed by zoicidal oligarchs
God now make all places safe
for every bug, cow, and lark
HUMBLE SILVERSWORD
Towering granite mountains
cut by the river..
humble living silver sword..
staying not for victory
flowing seaward
toward her Lord
?Saiom Shriver
God give joy, peace, love, supply, will to all beings now
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Re: Poem Attempts
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POEMS OF SOULS ETERNAL ----------------------------------------------------------------------
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS
The stars oerfixed you
and downcast their glowing spears.
By strangest alchemy
starlight turned into tears.
The plump pumpkin of your life
was shattered.
Its evergreen seeds were
most widely scattered.
By prearranged script
God's and your co-writ
your sacrificial pain did
a grateful nation lift.
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 Spirit 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)
(Baba Hari Das: is the author
of love is more powerful than
lover for love is not bound by
form)
50TH FLOOR OF WTC
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
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.
LASTING REALITY
Clouds are real and passing
Sun is real and lasting.
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)
DIAMONDS IN THE LIGHT
We asked Martha to give
her loved ones a sign that she
was still with them.
.. She had left her
body as a baby leaves
the mother's womb
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
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 cage
in joy arose
DAISY STREAM
Reflected in the rippling creek
the sun was fragmented..
into daisy petal sparks
each unplucked
traveled downstream
and murmured
SHE LOVES YOU EVERMORE
SHE LOVES YOU EVERMORE
SHE LOVES YOU EVERMORE
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.
(to Sarah B)
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
LIKE A CHARACTER ALLUDED TO IN A PLAY
Like a character
alluded to in a play
whom we neither see nor hear
.. yet 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 C Grafio)
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 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..
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
My Barrie
used to jump
up on my bed
and bury bread
beneath
the bedspread
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.
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)
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HEARTLIFTERS
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SHOOTING STARS
Harrison and Henry
machinegunned the stars..
and the light kept glowing
..yet they gave a new
meaning to 'shooting stars'
as their own stars
continued to climb
(Henry Winkler and Harrison
Ford)
GIVING ALL
When passing song
through a willpowered
throat
in heartburst
her soul gives all
we are chilled
,,,,,, tears do fall
(to Barbra Streisand)
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ISLAM
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ALLAH'S ALTAR AND OTHER POEMS OF ISLAM
RUBIES OF RUBAIYAT
One needs no rubles
One needs no rupees
to mine the Rubaiyat
and extract Khayyam rubies
RUMI
.. If ones heart is
infinitely roomy
it may contain
the wisdom of Rumi
KABIR KASHMIR
..
The emeralds of Hafiz
glow forever
but these are foothills
in the mountain range
of Kabir
.. they give ear
to Kabir
from Khartoum and Diyarkabir
to Kerala and Kashmir
ALLAH'S INCENSE
Allah, You have planted
seeds of desires
in the hearts of
all Your creation.
From all hearts rises
incense as prayers to
You. Be merciful to all.
RAMADAN SUNSET
As eagerly as the
faithful faster
of Ramadan
looks to sunset
and moonrise
not to the dawn
is the faithful
husband
to his loving
wife drawn
SCROLL
Alone Allah controls
the waves' endless roll
as they unwind
an infinite scroll
for those who along
His seashores stroll
MALIK ALLAH
Malik Allah
Owner of All
in each heart altar
mercy install
FORGET ME NOTS
The forget me nots
flourish neath minarets
and the lilacs
by the temple.
The roses grow
framing the mandir..
all of them unconscious
of the political
statements to which
others ascribe them.
OASES MARRY LAKES
There was a woman in
Libyan lands
who planted in the
thirsty sands..
a baby tree of date palm.
.. each day she
came
and gave him water alms..
..and watched him grow
and grow..
and stretch his roots
to an oasis..
She planted more and
more..
and the mist they
released each day
became clouds..
and rain..
which pooled
in a new oasis
.. which married
the first..
to become a lake..
More and more soul
torches were enkindled
in witnessing this..
and each planted
many green torch trees
.. reclaiming the desert
.. turning it back
into paradise.
SUFI RING
Mere illusion
is suffering
to the masters
in the Sufi ring..
who see pain
as a nightmare
from which one has
been awakened
ALLAH AKBAR!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Trumpets brought
down Jericho's walls
Allah Akbar!
brought down
the walls of the Shah
Allah Akbar!
now
brings down violent walls
in the hearts
of nearly all
Allah Akbar! brings
down walls
barring Palestine
from its own grapevines
and Palestinians from
their own olives' fall.
BETHLEHEM BOMBER
The suicide bomber from Bethlehem
said he had a right to
reach out from the body cage
with his wings.. and unopen
its latch.. to release the
birdsoul of himself and others..
He said that the Bethlehem
Babe mangerborn..
was not obeyed ..
that many who call
themselves followers of
Christ
blindly follow
homicide bombers and
that the sacred soil of
Palestine was desecrated
by the metal shoes of
tanks.
but Allah the All Merciful
whispered to him:
I do not write My victories
in the bloodink within
finger pens torn from
innocent children.
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http://sss.vn.ua/sb_mm.htm
http://www.murshid.net/eastern-rose...-spiritism.html IN AN EASTERN ROSE GARDEN
olive oil sells for $19 or more dollars a gallon.. money does grow on trees as the price of avocados, macadamia nuts and pecans indicates http://www.islamicconcerns.com http://www.egroups.com/messages/sufi_poetry http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow/119 Baba: in v 11 pg 211: in a stone image, the cloth worn.. even the smile .. are stone.. all is one substance Baba: the foot of a gold idol (if it weighs the same) is as valuable as the head G B Shaw: We are the living graves of murdered beasts
All paths to God are sacred. The poster is ignorant of many aspects of the Quran
and of Islam
Poster is ignorant about God's will for Kashmir.. whether Hindu, Muslim, or
autonomous
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METAMORPHOSIS
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BILLOW PILLOW
How the lapping
wave billow
becomes green
lace in the willow
.. and at his
roots
for frogs
.. a soft pillow
WATER FORMS
Water woven into clouds
Water frozen into ice
Water heated into steam
Water flowing as a river
Water waving as the sea
Water placid in the pond
Water
that water spiders
may paddle
in the puddle
Water as cider
in the apple tree
Water as coconut milk
in the palm
BLACKBERRY BLOOMS
The rainbow green arc
with white blossoms laced
will become
the dark sweet
fruit of blackberry
The worm will
be
a butterfly
LIGHTLINED
In the prided wood, the
Lord of Luminescence
gives to each fruit
a dewy tumescence
and with light each lemon
limns
and with love each lime
She lines.
****
(to E P Wood who for
several decades bought and prepared food
to serve several hundred outpatients
of St. Elizabeth's vegan meals.)
TRANSFORMING VENTRILOQUISTS
God can sever
money's ventriloquists
from unelected judge
William Rehnquist
God can turn
those with clenched fists
into
peacemakers and pacifists
God can end
the psychiatrist's
prevaricating
unfaithful trysts
God, Divine
Love's alchemist
can reform
the bigamist
WIND ARTIST
The wind has blown
away the cloud cover
and turned the pond's
reflection
from grey to blue clover
1942 HORSES
Horses with
raw powerful motion
gallop through
the waves
to shore from the ocean.
Out of the sea of
suffering
of World War 2
are reborn
free souls
in 1942.
(to all those born in 1942..
to Erica Jong and her grandfather
whose huge mural painted this
theme.. and to Jim Warren
of jimwarren.com who has
painted horses in water.)
SUBLIME LIMES
How awestriking
How sublime
that out of slime
God makes lemons
and God makes limes
BLACKBERRY BLOOMS
The rainbow green arc
with white blossoms laced
will become
the dark sweet
fruit of blackberry
The worm will
be
a butterfly
**
When as a child
I ate animals
I was an
unconscious cannibal
PICASSO'S DOODLES
One might accuse
Picasso of counterfeiting..
that his doodles could
turn a napkin
into a gold certificate
His pen contained King Midas' ink.
All emeralds are ephemeral
Vision is eternal
UNNECESSARY COCOON
My cocoon is woven
of threads of desire
but the butterfly
breaks
forth to sunfire
..
leaving cocoon
departing the room
rising from womb
rising from tomb
GRAPEVINE KNITTING KNOTS
The grape vine
did entwine
and spiral oer
the high clothesvine
.. and turned
it into a trellis
knitting knots from
divine fire
(to N A L)
UXORIOUS
The woman exec who
took 12 vacations
alone because her
husband could not
provide his own fare..
had sought for herself
ways luxurious
.. hers was not the
standard path uxorious
but illumination
eventually comes
to all..
she had an abrupt
change and began
making multiplied
amends
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DREAMS, VISIONS, SENTENCES HEARD IN MEDITATION
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GRAND CANYON
The Grand Canyon
in the morning
.. a rainbow arching
over the awesome
beauty of the void..
perhaps the rainbow invoked
by the detachment of the Canyon
DREAM OF WHITE LIMOUSINE, BLACK HAWKS
poster is at an institution..
the US president (whether current unelected one
or another poster doesn't know) arrives in a gleaming
white long limousine.. 20? Black Hawk helicopters arrive
and surround the plane.. a. like bees to a flower in a circle
.. or b. hostile to the man in the office of the presidency
Secret Service men make everyone outside go inside
in a building.. Poster is inside a room from which she
can see the limousine and helicopters.. she stands up
by the window
FOUR YOLK EGG
Shortly after a dream in which 4 women
in a satsang were resolving to pray
together as 1.. and to pray also for egomelt,
poster had a vision of a 4 yolk egg becoming a bird.
(she had in 1970 made eggs for the last time, breaking
them into a skillet, seeing it full of blood, beaks and claws)
TREE PLANTING
Poster is planting a baby evergreen tree..
and to her horror the tree turns into
a dog and the planting becomes a suffocation
(Interpretation: well motivated actions can through
ignorance be harmful... ask the Source.. ones favorite
form of God before doing something)
ELEVATOR LIVING ROOM
a vision of an elevator door opening..
to reveal a 20 x 20 living room..
inviting.. comfortable..
the wall on the right made of
cut stone
(?? upward climbs need
not be arduous)
***
SNAKE BECOMES TRUNK
a vision of a poisonous snake turning
into a greeting trunk of a loving elephant
**
AIRBORN TUXEDO
a man in a tux is airborn, and his coattails
are fluttering in the wind
THOUGHTS AND TRUCKS
a vision of crystallized
thought as huge steel cabinets above the street
blocking trucks (rigid opinions
block communication)
BLUE LIGHT WITH BLACK RIVERS
a dream
of a false Caucasian teacher touching his students
.. transmitting blue light with rivers of black in it
(polluted energy) (we are limited by our gurus'
limitations)
FOUR SWANS..
pick up in their beaks the 4 corners
of a light fabric and fly with it .. and cover
either a sleeping or dead large animal with it
(a liberated soul..has advanced souls
erase his past)
SENTENCES HEARD IN MEDITATION:
1 NOT IN THE MORNING POND
"Not in the morning pond does the lion wash his blood"
(mourning pond?) Poster heard this in meditation
2 INSIDE THE CHALICE
Inside the chalice of wrath is the blood of Jesus
3 BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN SIN
Because you believe in sin it will have power in your life.
4 "V19 THIS STAR IS THE SEED OF LOVE"
(Ve for venus? Vi for Virgo?
V for victory? Vi, Sanskrit for perfection??)
5. "THEY TANGLE THE EDGE OF THE RIVER WITH VINES
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DO THEY MEAN REINCARNATION WHEN THEY SAY:
Jesus: Who do men say that I am? Crowd answers:
Some say you were Elijah.. or Jeremiah. (Jesus asks the
crowd what they think His previous incarnations were.)
Isaiah: I will speak to you from other lips.
Sai Baba: Only the size of the opening to the inner Light
differs among the beings.
Buddha describes his marriage to his wife in his life as the
Buddha, and that he remembers millenia before when they
were both tigers and he won her in a fight.
Poster remembers fragments of lives as a Russian woman
in the 19th Century, Jewish male in the early 20th,
Buddhist Japanese woman,
etc. I love the country of my birth in this life and in all my lives.
Pain leaves deeper grooves than joy in the record of our
consciousness. 3 lives as an alcoholic dying in a French gutter,
a Roman soldier dying impaled by a javelin, and a Native
American whose husband left her in the woods to die
as he chose another as squaw.. have left the strongest
impressions, but lives as a Hindu woman in India and
a Thai* monk have most changed her Spirit, and eternally
attracted her to the compassion tolerance consciousness and nonviolence of Eastern
religions.
All but Avatars ascend from amoebas through lives
as plants insects reptiles birds mammals til finally
we achieve the privilege of human birth. After endless human
lives one by one our desires, ignorance and karma drop
away until we are finally ready to merge in God
All contain God Her/Himself.
*Thailand: one of the first, if not 1st, country to ban logging
OTHERS' VISIONS
From Swami Rama's book "Living With the Himalayan Masters"..
an incident in which an elephant in greeting reached
her trunk into a cave.. she was killed by a scorpion's bite..
and her size blocked for a while the mouth of the cave
... a New York movie has an incident in which
an oversized truck is blocking miles of traffic
as it is a barrier to the entrance to the
Holland tunnel.. a child says.. to take the air
out of the tires.. that frees the truck
HITLER'S GRAVE ROSE BUSH
Jan F, a Jewish Hindu, had a dream of 3 nuns watering
a rose bush at Hitler's grave
a. rose bushes have rights no matter where they are planted
b. the body of a man who harmed many is becoming the petals of
a rose
c. some in the Vatican did not help enough to stop the Nazis
etc.
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WATER VISIONS
the ocean beneath the surface.. there was a gleaming white
cross rooted in the bedrock at the base of the sea.. its top touching the surface
of the water.. it was only a few feet wide and around it
dolphins played.. as if it were a toy for fish in an aquarium.
*
a cross shaped swimming pool.. the shape of
the pool did not affect the swimmers
(Baba telling people not to fear crosses in their charts)
*
many years ago dreamt a woman had learned how to walk on water..
she began to run.. on water.. toward her companions in the boat.. and to tease
and splash them.. she immediately sank
*
an ancient Roman walled in courtyard filled with mars
and other statuary.. water rising submerges the statues..
(waters of love in the heart dissolve love of power)
*
an outdoor stone stairway.. so great is the rainfall
that the stairway becomes a stone basis for waterfall
(the crosses visions.. are meant to remove fear
about their configuration in astrological charts)
CATHOLIC
In this life, poster was incarnated in a Catholic family.
BLUE AND RED ROSARIES
Poster never cared for the rosary.. as a child or a adult..
it was not short like a focusing mantra.. it did not
seem to have the hammer like power of the repetition
of 1 chosen name for God.. however
In a dream,
someone handed
her a blue crystal
rosary
and a red crystal
rosary
red and blue together
make purple.. a color
of compassion
red and blue:
2 of the 3 colors
of the American flag
and of many flags
and each religion
has its own cells
within the CIA..
there is the Mormon
cell.. Mormons
had for a while
the highest percentage
per capita
in the CIA..
there is the Catholic
cell.. which included director
Colby (later murdered)
and director Bill Casey
(whose cancer may not
have been caused naturally)
.. there are the Likud
cells..
.. the British cell
.. the Chinese cell
and so on
God give miracles
to all beings
.. now
Remove
the violent from the power
to harm others
In all ways
and always
We ask this of you Indweller of All
in the name of all
LITHIUM
A friend was experiencing much anxiety..and his family had repeatedly committed him.. poster was opposing the use
of psychiatric medications for him..
but had no power with the pharmaceutically
dominated hospital staff.. then had
a vision of a priest
holding a communion wafer.. and breaking off
a tiny sliver.. and then said "lithium"
(Catholics believe that any sliver of the
communion host is Christ.. as much as the
whole disc. Poster felt she was being told to advise friend to take a small fraction of what was prescribed..)
***
(Lithium.. from Greek lithos.. can turn the
kidneys into stone)
PRIEST AND RED SEA (VISION)
A priest walked through a huge crowd which parted before
him like the Red Sea as he carried the lidded monstrance which contained within it the Host, the Eucharist, Jesus as Bread.
He approached a woman and handed her the chalice.
***
(Of the many possible interpretations one is that
whenever a soul is liberated, she is handed her own
divinity. Another is that women will inevitably
be priests. )
TWO HORSES
10 TV Cameras
A dream that 5 tv cameras above and 5 tv cameras
below dreamer focused on an embryo filled with
2 fully grown horses. The sac broke and they
galloped away.. one to become part of a 4 horse
chariot.. the other to cavort with wild stallions.
This took place in a Western sandy plain
canyon with high granite walls on both sides.
The word "Mathura" or "Matura" was heard, one
a village of Krishna, the other Latin for maturation.
3 CROSSES
Vision of a rocking chair.. and in its seat and
at right angles to it is a child's rocking chair
**
Vision of 2 lines at right angles.. but because
they are in different and parallel planes the cross
won't manifest
Vision of a cross shaped swimming pool
Interpretations are infinite.. but
the theme of these 3 visions to writer was not
to fear projected conflict.. it would not occur
(the rocking chairs would not collide.. the shape of the pool
would not affect the swimmer.. etc.)
A IS ARIES
(this message came in at least 4 fragments on 4 occasions..
1 or 2 sentences each time..
unlike many messages)
dream that a young Bible teacher opens his Bible
to the beginning of a New Testament chapter.
He points to the big red capital A initiating
the chapter and says "A is Aries.
Aries is Caesar
Caesar is the detonater.
Caesar is the diaspora."
This dream came before the OKC bombing.
The diaspora could be
anything from the mind's explosion of ideas
to different ethnic diasporas, to
the seeding of a field by a wind.
MARINE GIVES AWAY BRIDE
vision of
bride being given
away by a Marine
friend.. not the father
(the first interpretation might be
fear that the father is not available..
but the lasting one for poster
is that the bride is a soul leaving
militaristic thought behind..)
WEDDING DRESS MUDDIED
J dreamt a woman in a wedding dress
got off a bus ..
and stepped into mud up to her knees
(One interpretation of many:
a soul involved in a purification
process had just taken on new karma)
3 PARTS LOVE 1 PART WILL
Vision of a USA submarine caught under the Arctic
ice.. poster not on ship psychically tells captain to go 3 forward and then 1 up.. to
free the ship
..
later she hears "3 parts love.. 1 part will"
.. which are the dimensions of the letter L
(this could be any country's submarine caught under the ice)
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EYE OF NEEDLE
In the Sharon wall which is opposed by billions
.. suddenly appears.. a hole big enough for a cow
to go through..
it reminds poster of the scriptural saying that
it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter heaven..
.. it was explained to her that needles were arches
into walled cities.. camels had to stoop to enter them
UNIVERSALITY
3 dreams about universality and its blocks
Dream 1
It was too late to save the fly. A blue squid shaped spider had swallowed his hole head and his 6 pincers were holding the fly at the neck. Dreamer in summer put the wedded spider and fly outside. (one interpretation: flies too have rights.. 2nd: the guru squid spider is melting the mind and replacing it with consciousness.. the buzzing fly is a symbol for the mind)
Dream 2
A man after being given 2 books not of the same size walks into a Catholic or Anglican church from which all the pews have been removed. Also gone is the floor partition between the main church and the attic. The interfaith basement has a circular formation and there are altars to virtually every path to God in it. The spiritual leader has said dogs are welcome in the chiurch, but the fire marshal has said no and so the man leaves the church.
Dream 3
2 intelligence agents involved in killing do not discuss their plans around a woman because she is not apolitical.
All 3 dreams involve different aspects of or blocks to universality.
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POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN
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CHUBBY HAND
The chubby little hand
of the little boy
.. tenderly cups the head
of the puppy..
..a magic little cup
this hand.. which holds
the liquid of love though
upside down.. pouring
it from endless springs
PEDOPHILE
At what age does the
bloom's plucker
become a pedophile..
scotching the unroll
of the scroll..
of the petals' files
ONE LITTLE BOY TRIED HIS HEART OUT
The little boy every day for years
tried his heart out..
to please his father..
Nothing was ever good enough.
But one day.. a lightning bolt
came to the heart of his father..
and from that day on
he made amends.
CHICKADEE
We watch the flying chickadee
above the sky blue chicory
.. but over here
30,000 chickens
were put through a chipper
(At Ward Egg Farm near San
Diego, workers tired of
strangling the baby male
chicks.. unnecessary
in an operation in which
eggs are stolen..
ran 30,000 chickens
through a chipper)
ARMS SO SMALL BEQUEATHING ALL
The little baby girl
stretched out her arms
to the stranger
with a radiant smile
.. saying 'pick me up'
conferring a grace
which made her cry
Arms so small
Bequeathing All
(to S and to E)
WHY DO SOME CHILDREN DIE?
A marching band of children
8 or 9.. with beige uniforms
.. and white belts which make
an X across their backs for
their music instruments..
they walk along the sidewalk
and stop at a traffic light..
they continue to play with
their mouths and fingers
as their legs briefly stop..
the music continues..
as when children leave their
bodies .. bombed in war..
their soul music continues
CONTROL FREAK FATHER
The control freak..
in his father had melted away..
Now rather than bothering
him it delighted him
to see
the snow's perfection
swirled
the blankness with
tracks squirreled
2 KEYS
The two.. each
holds a different key
to unlock the treasure
chest.. of the Holy
Grail.. the birth
of their child..
their Love Incarnate..
DAN POLSTER
God bless USA District
Judge Dan Polster
whose ethics come not
from pay for play pollsters
.. who has made Ohio
executioners
put their guns
back in their holsters
MAGGOT
it hurt the worm's
feelings to be
called a maggot
and even when he
metamorphosed
they jeered that
he was not
a butterfly
but 'just a fly'
APPLE PEELS
A baby boy squirrel
eats the apple peels
.. turning them round and
round with his tiny hands..
like someone chewing
on a new thought
from all angles.
**
GREENHANDED
Mother Nature,
caught greenhanded
with what she
purloined from
the sun
CHRISTY
What was God's greatest miracle?
to turn the CAT in caterpillar
to the FLY in butterfly?
No.. God's eyes were misty
when God made Christy
for God loved her so
(to Kathleen's Christy)
RAGE SENT UNDERGROUND
She told the private
defending the corporal
who abused privates' privates
with punishment corporal
that when she had
been by a grade school 'teacher'
slapped or beaten
it had only created a rage..
a rage intelligent enough
to go underground
as liquid lava..
it taught her in school
in breaking rules
to be circumspect
(the boy who was slapped across the face with a ruler.. the girl sent to the principal who spanked her with a rod .. the child humiliated in front of all by a sadistic teacher .. God melt their scars)
DISARM DOES NOT MEAN BLOW OFF A CHILD'S ARMS
When God said
.. 'disarm'
and 'first do no harm'
He/She did not mean
.. to blow off the arms
of the children of Iraq
Afghanistan and Palestine
nor to murder cows
and cut off their
arms
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
The maple sends peaceful
parachutes..her peace crane
winged samaras
and the pacifist Volga flows
silent
by the roofs of ancient Samara
but the occupation has given
a date with death
to many civilians in
holy Samarra.
IN THE FOREST WAS A BEAR
In the forest was a bear
A nectar guzzling grizzly
Some of the bees were angry
bout his embezzling guzzling
"Let's muzzle him" said fuzzy bee
"Denozzle him" said buzzy bee
"Clog his schnozzle' said dizzy bee
"end his swizzle" said fizzy bee
"Let's kick him out"
said frazzled bee
"Tie him up"
said razzled bee
"Oh let's not"
said boozled bee
"Oh why not"
said frizzled bee
In a sizzling tizzy had the bees
the guzzling fizzing grizzly bear
the bamboozling boozing teddy bear
who was swizzling the honey bees
He didn't even know
for he was in a daze
and lost in dizzy gobbling
was his dazzled gaze
and then a puzzle
when the bees began to quaff
the honey and fell on and off
the flowers while they listened
to
Mozart and Rachmaninoff
why said Hazel bee they didn't care
it's clear there's enough right there
.. enough said Lizzy bee
for all to share
even for guzzling grizzly bear
to R Nation
(Writing in a British magazine a rabbi spoke of the cruelties of bee production.. sometimes the queen bee's wings are clipped to confine her. Many bees are smashed as the racks are pulled in and out. Sometimes whole hives are destroyed in the winter rather than allow them to eat their own honey. Leonardo Da Vinci did not eat honey.. he considered it theft from the bees. http://www.ivu.org )
SUCH A RADIANT SMILE
She complimented the 4 year old boy
on his coloring skill..
so radiant was his smile
she was repaid one thousand fold
by his joy
(B F Skinner repeated vedic beliefs in saying that ignoring is the best way to extinguish undesirable behavior.. and rewarding the best way to multiply the good . In his next life he will maybe be a rat rights activist) as a way of making amends
PORCUPINE DEFENSE
The defense of the
porcupines
kept the pigs
from becoming
pork in the pines..
and the porcupines
were glad
that they were
not porkupines
and worked also
to keep
piglets from
becoming ham
and little lambs
from becoming lamb
Pork prices plummet
as piglets pray
powerfully
ANGEL FEATHERS
When angels see someone
risk his own safety to
speak the words of truth
and peace they give of their own
feathers to wing his words.
And God then multiplies
their wings.
(to Senators Byrd and Kennedy to Representatives Kucinich, Sherrod Brown, Marcy Kaptur, P DiFazio, Maxine Waters, Sam Farr and the flame
of peace burning in all hearts whether recognized or not)
?Saiom Shriver
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BEAUTY SHINES THROUGH ----------------------------------------------------------------------
VERONICA'S CLOVER VEIL
Veronica and clover veils..
do violet the vale
neath skies cloudclad
or when the
ultraviolet sun prevails
ROTTEN APPLE
Any rotten apple's
core-freed seeds
can clothe the earth in
orchards apple-treed.
Of honey bees it is the creed
that the sweetest dew
lies in hearts of
the most rejected weeds.
APPLESAUCE 2
Spherical firm apples
are sold as is.
Bruised misshapen
apples more quickly
become applesauce.
Wave smashed water
more quickly becomes mist.
The imperfect
are sometimes
more quickly liberated.
FLITTING THRUSH
Have you ever seen a saffron field
full of bright orange stars
a tiger lily meadow blush
strewn with dottings of paintbrush
a fruited tree studded with
a flock of flitting thrush
(to Nancy L whose father gave
each of his children a flower..
hers was the tiger lily)
IRIS PARCHMENT
As always of old
the iris bud unfolds
her gilded parchment
of background gold
but the eye's iris
will unroll
the endless scroll
of her own soul
past where sea
foals
past the shoals
past dry land's
attempts to control
DAWN GREETING
dusk clouds setting
the sun did firesinge
gold fingered glowing
with adoring tinge
and then he slid away
but brought out his final rays
..
a light filled syringe
squirted last cloud with
a rosy fringe
and then he was gone
or so we thought
until he dripped through
morning's gate hinge
A HEART FULLBLOWN
A rose fullblown
is the opentoall heart
.. fragrance flows from it
.. the perfume of love
WINTER PALATE
Dawn instantly paints
all the earth gold
Snow brushes the world
with amnesty's white
and Thoughts
of Love
bathe the globe
in rosepink light
TIME THE MIRACLE MAKER
The ugly duckling has
grown to swan
The worm's
purple wings
were by Love drawn
Night's spawn
has birthed
the dawn
Sleeping Beauty is
awakened
by the King's pawn
JASMINE SCENT
The South Wind
for the evening
has donned
jasmine scent
BLOOM AND BUTTERFLY
The bloom and butterfly
ask not which is
clad in more beautiful
clothes
.. ones shining wings
the others pastels....
how beautiful when she
arose
from the petals of the rose
BEAUTY MAGNET
As many chipped away
in building ladders,
Ganesha on a high hill
looking oer the thousands
on the plains below..
unfurled his infinite trunk
and selected her of the
most beautiful heart..
for that was what
drew his magnet
..wound his trunk around
her waist..
and lifted
her up to the plateau
of grace
(to Jan)
GIFT OF BEAUTY
She did not want
in that life that
beauty be bequeathed
..
she did not want
the wrapping
to be more beautiful
than the gift..
nor the unwanted lust
of men following her
as if she were
a dog in heat..
nor the jealousy of women
to bar her from their
hearts.... nor
to see her body as
any more than the glove
of Spirit
but she found the test
too strong
FIR TREE IN THE SUN
Branches of the fir
tree still covered in
snow..
but melting in the sun
.. are both snowlace shawl
and jeweled rhinestones
.. yet it is the melting
drops
which in the sun glow
BEJEWEL WITH DEW
With her 8 thimbles
on hands so nimble
she weaves through
the night
... but not til
dawn is her web
bejeweled with dew
.. shining with
the sun
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MISS MOSS
Miss Moss
.. has been busy
for many years
painting many rocks
jade.. some tree trunks
iridescent green
... water is always
on her brush
She works
from dawn's blush
to soft evening's hush
ever helped by
angels'
wingrush
AARON SHIKLER
Do angels sit on the head of a pin?
Some souls of those whom Aaron paints..
sit on the point of his brush..
others hover round the room
.. in their portraits..
the eyes.. are the gates
BEAUTY
a beautiful child
is sometimes pedophiled
a fancy car
does thieves attract
the loveliest blooms
are sometimes plucked
beauty is by selfhaters
attacked
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POEMS TO THE WAY OF WATER, ACTION WITHIN INACTION
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I CHING
The way of
yielding water
.. flowing.. being
never preaching
is the
teaching
of the
I Ching
A LONGFINGERED SUN
Gently opens the lake lotus
the sun with his long fingers
.. and whether He sets or rises
.. His light forever lingers
LILIES OF THE FIELD
Jesus said that neither
do the lilies toil
nor do they spin
but Solomon in all his
finery is not
arrayed as one of these.
Yet do God's light threads
pour through their looms
.. they are spun
by the Sun
(to Nancy L and to you
if you like it)
6 EDEN RULES
If I want to eat
1 fruit
2 organically grown.. no insects killed
3 nonmachine harvested.. no small mammals killed
4 nature packaged
5 locally risen
6 with ethical labor
perhaps I should plant the seeds myself
OLIVIA
Olivia's
ideas were oblivious
to the origin
of olives
.. until on
Mt Olympus
she saw
how precious
were the groves
CHERRYPICK
Some cherrypick
Some plumpluck
but Newton
was given
an apple windfall
CHOICE
Each moment of life
one can expand
in love or
contract in selfishness..
can choose to
love or
choose to fear
.. can choose to
forgive or
to resent..
can choose
to give
or choose to hoard..
can choose to
chain or
to set free
DEWING
While others are
busy doing
with lawnmowers
butterflies de-winging
Mother Earth is busy
bee-ing
and meadows with
nectar dew-ing
UN INSPECTORS
The UN inspectors
forced missiles into specters..
Iraq.. followed Isaiah
in turning weapons into plowshares..
To the peacemakers belong
The world's power sceptres
ONE STROKE
With one stroke of brush
the artist makes cataract rush
in the mountain's hush
HAYSTACK NEEDLE MAGNET
What is the magnet
for the haystack needle
of love?
The heart
LET US NOT EAT THE FORTUNE
Let us not eat the fortune
within the cookie
nor the mango's seed
.. nor fork ourselves
in the heart
said one
yet Sea Biscuit chomped
on the flowers of his
victory wreath..
after all they had
already been plucked
WORK FOR PEACE IS AN OXYMORON
Is there
a frame for Infinity.
Never slakes the thirst
.. the bitter
saltwater near mother earth.
.. never satiated is the
belly of many tongued Fire
.. Never filled the soul
afflicted with unGodward desire.
Never at rest.. the
mercurial mind.
Only the heart immersed
in the waters of God
is at peace.
(to Yogananda, teacher
in a past life)
JUPITER'S MOONS
Jupiter's moons..
his satellites
.. glide around
his awesome light
not needing
energy of will
to soar effortless
through the night
as those
merged in God
are in
the mystic flow
.. and need
no effort
no striving
to grow
The Day Did Arrest
The day
did the night
arrest
She is grateful
for the rest.
She leaves
her body each night
for her
soul's loving nest
NEED NOT OPPOSE
The sun doesn't
darkness oppose
nor punishment
impose
but need only
darkness expose
as it melts in
dawn's
light pinkrose
(A Longfingered Sun is based on a parable of Sai Baba )
"Clover Veil And Other Beauty Poems"
Clover Veil is to Veronica L. T.
Sundaram.. Sanskrit for beauty
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LAW BOWS TO LOVE
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Crimson and Lime
A little birdie
flew overhead
a traffic light
of green and red.
From her diagonal
point of view
she saw both crimson
and lime hue.
Obey traffic rules?
Birdies need not.
Masters listen only
to the inner voice of God.
(to Sue Brebner, Tom Regan,
and all the others who have
participated in civil disobedience
to rescue an ox from a ditch
on the Sabbath.. or re-establish
Indian independence...or civil
rights in the US or to save
trees in the Amazon)
**********
CABOOSE WITH BRAKES
The Supreme Court has
been the caboose of
the engine of time..
a caboose with brakes..
but God does now
their violent
lawtablets break
BEYOND RITES
In a dream
God did write
a letter to
J & J Wright
and reveal their
eternal soulright
to go beyond
all ritual and rite.
(to J and J Wright)
BRITISH PEACE
As floating cotton fluffs
become stuck on tree twigs
so now do the plutocratic
wigs
of the powdered bigwigs
to the people's boughs bow
JAYFLYING
Birds don't worry
about jaywalking..
or jayflying
TRAFFIC POLICEMAN WHISTLES THROUGH
A time of much traffic..
the traffic policeman
overrides red lights
and motions you through
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ANNUNCIATION
the Angel of
the Annunciation
cared not
about
Mary's
enunciation
CURE OF ARS
Cure of Ars
with ears
like the sea's
.. listening
hour after hour
to the filth
the rivers bring him
transforming
by listening
PURPLE GRAPE JUICE
Wanded are dew and rain
and underground springs
into new wine
as
the sun world over
says mass in grape vines
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SNOWPURITY
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PIG LARD FLAME
The pig lard candle
.. made of screams..
and the cries of resistance..
.. made of shed blood..
and yet when it burns..
the flame of SPIRIT
is always pure
BIOETHICS OXYMORON?
Oxymoron? Bio ethics dept chairman
at Case, where untold objectified
millions of animals have died
under the pseudo scientists' knives
WHITE CARPET
She had a brand new cream colored
carpet
.. she made people take off
their shoes to enter the temple
of her home..
she had cream white walls..
white pillows on her furniture..
gleaming tile in her bathroom
.. and in her white frig
she had opaque packages..
which she heated up..
and then she put
the rotting bodies of
dead innocent animals into her
body temple.. making it
a portable coffin
as she enriched butchers'
coffers
with their caches
of cash
BERRY BRIARS
Barrie the Brown Bear
Plucking berries
out of briars
did bury
the lapse with
the dumpster cache
of Breyer's
ISIS UNVEILED
The attorney general
clothes statues
and strips prisoners
..
as if the statues were
Afghani women in burka
and veil entire
and the prisoners
were starlets in
American pornographic
movies
WASHED
Used to water
trees and plants
the dirty glass
is also cleansed.
Love flowing through
to the loved
in addition washes
the lover.
CHIPMUNK AND CHIMP PROTECTION
Cattails.. 3 in a row
twitch at the window..
at an outside chipmunk...
Until Isaiah causes
lions to lie down with
lambs
and cats to love chipmunks
the little one is shielded
from harm
by the window..
of his purity
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SUN POEMS
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ROTTEN TOMATOES
Rotten tomatoes
contain omnipotent
seeds.
SUN SEA WIND AND FIRE
As he threw mud at the sun
as he threw rocks at the sea
as he knifed the fire
as he slapped the wind
he began to be exhausted..
he began to realize
that SPIRIT and GOD
are invulnerable
**
(muse J Ritchey joked that
his friend was tired from a day of
raping and pillaging)
SPLENDOR
The sun is an
extravagant spender
of his own
blazing splendour
but he always
has more
he always
has more
UNCONDITIONAL SUN
The loving sun
is smiling on all
these ways and all ways
these days and always
Divine winds can blow away
Divine lightning rain away
my selfspun clouds
my selfknitted shrouds
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FREEDOM POEMS
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BONSAI
He took
the circus elephant
off the stool..
and replanted
the Bonsai tree
to ground from vase
and opened the door
of his window
to release the caged
bird to those calling
her from outside.
Every being he
saw.. he gave
root space... or
wings.. or
newminted freedom.
KRISHNA'S FLUTE
With his full knapsack
lightly on his back
trips merrily the hobo
playing his obo
BIRCH SHADOWS IN THE SUN
On the snow the sun
projects the shadows
of birch trees
in parallel bars..
yet do they have
no power to confine
No Thank You
There is a shortage
of secretaries,
teachers, and
nurses.. as the thankless
lowpaid jobs
in which others
give orders mainly to
women are left by those
who desire freedom
**
WHALE PODS
The big fish found a way
to swim away from
the peapod fringed
lily pad crowned
pond.. toward
the sea with its
whale pods
ANGELUS CHIMES
The mosque prayer call
or Angelus chimes
say it is
call to prayer time
but when the Wind
strikes his chimes
he says it is
make your own prayer time
3 dreams about universality and its blocks Dream 1 It was too late to save the fly. A blue squid shaped spider had swallowed his hole head and his 6 pincers were holding the fly at the neck. Dreamer in summer putthe spider and fly together outside. (one interpretation: flies too have rights.. the guru squid spider is melting the mind and replacing it with consciousness.. the buzzing fly is a symbol for the mind) Dream 2 A man after being given 2 books not of the same size walks into a Catholic or Anglican church from which all the pews have been removed. Also gone is the floor partition between the main church and the attic.The interfaith basement has a circular formation and there are altars to virtually every path to God in it. The spiritual leader has said dogs may be in the chiurch, but the fire marshal has said no and so the man leaves the church. Dream 3 2 intelligence agents involved in killing do not discuss their plans around a woman because she is not apolitical. All 3 dreams involve different aspects of or blocks to universality. http://www.circuses.com thank you to the screenwriter of Sabrina for rhyming hobo and obo
?Saiom Shriver
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LOVE
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LOVE GROWS IN HATE
Love grows in hate..
Seeds make fruit out of
the blood of innocents
Apple trees turn the
waste of forest animals
into the food of God.
Icebergs melt in the sun.
Unfolds contempt
into content.
Bitter dead leaves
become translucent
pink spring petals.
Hell.. is the fuel
on which heaven grows.
LOVE IS OMNIPRESENT
God is Love
Love is God
God is Omnipresent
Therefore so is Love.
If God is Omnipresent
God is available
in any selfcreated hell
TROJAN HORSE
Inside the Trojan horse
lurked warriors intent on slaughter
Inside Pandora's box
the furies of evil
Inside the shining marble
of the Supreme Court
are 5 pen-armed serial killers
Inside gleaming Air Force Two
lay 81 birds plucked degutted
and vacuum packed
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POEMS RE POSITIVE THOUGHT
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POLLONIUS FELONIOUS
It was felonious
to stab Pollonius
but not to lob
a water balloon
at Dennis Hastert
MAST REFLECTIONS
In the sea
the mirrored
mast spears
can do no harm
She turns
wavy
their
frozen force
(to Kenny Richey
.. may the Ocean of
God's mercy melt
the force of your
foes and give you
immediate release)
http://www.kennyrichey.org
(Kenny is an innocent Scot
being illegally held
in Ohio's death row)
LES COEURS
It is not
le coeur de la mer
but les coeurs de la mer
for the sea
has hearts beating
everywhere
BIRDFRUIT
Every mature tree
from twig to root
yearns to be home
for flocks of birdfruit.
MASSED THUNDER
In the mountains...God has
massed his thunder
Your faith can ...
help the power break asunder
ROSENTHAL
God make the
sight of a rose
now enthrall
the soul of prosecutor
Chuch Rosenthal
.. so that he
resigns
from his killing hall
so that he
resigns from his
killing hall
BLAZING STARS
To the bitter
the blazing stars
seem sky's scars
To the sweet
the heart's scars
seem gold badge stars.
ETERNAL NOON
When comes eternal noon?
When soul turns around
each no... to on.
BLUE FLOWER FLAME
To see the divine
in everyone
is akin to
turning a pilot
light
into a multipetaled
blue flower flame
FLASHING LIGHTS
Behind me
in the twilight
I saw flashing lights
.. oh oh
an officer of the law
I thought
but it was
the sun inbetween
clouds flashing
HELLO
BREAK OF DAY
The break of day!
The crack of dawn!
Look not at night's
shellshards
but at the newbird sun!
(to David Wright)
SPIDER WEB BEJEWELED
A spider web
dew bejeweled
.. shining necklace
hung on the throat
of dawn..
though its builder
means it as a deathtrap
for innocents
.. God has other plans
CATCH A FIRE IN THE SKY
Catch a fire in the sky
with water.
Catch sun father
with liquid daughter.
Water is not the foe
of fire.
Together rainbows they
do sire.
SUN ARRAYS HIMSELF
Over the lip of the earth
broke into night the sun.
A little cloud
.. a baby herald
ran and told everyone.
Each little cloud seemed to
catch the sun
and to steal his homerun.
But as they were later
rained away, we knew
his ball has gone
further than anyone's.
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 of Columbus)
OBEDIENT ANGELS
Angels are obedient
to our wishes.
They are genies
in the bottles of
our hearts,
waiting to be prayed
into appearing..
waiting to
make concrete
our deepest desires.
IN MAY TO BLOOM COME THE BEES
She prayed and
into inviolate ethers
suddenly came
ultraviolet feathers
delicate gossamer
wings of thought
turning to real
all maybes and oughts
turning the verb of may
to that of be
as surely as in May
.. to bloom come the bees
DESIRE IS DESTINY
The foghorn sounds in the mysterious
mists.. a lonely call for his mate.
The train whistles
beckon to our desire which is our destiny.
The sea sings to the shore.
In Siberia snow falls soundlessly.
In a world beyond time
horses' hooves on cobbled stones,
the crash of the cataract,
the boom of the ocean,
the cheerful babbling of the brook,
.. the first trill of absolute joy
from a predawn bird.. a trill
which is a sword to
Dracula's night curtains.
First and last, God is in our
ears.
CHARGING THOUGHTS
Garbs her thoughts does Marge
with a positive charge
as surely as
putting things
in a bag of white
more than a dark one
reflects the light..
as surely as
rainbows striking
resin's dew
leave hope
as their residue
CLEMENT STONE
Pain is the clement stone,
the hard seed within soft fruit.
Those who chip away at it destroy life.
Others shine on it with sunlove
and rain mercy upon it..
and watch as green fire tongues
forklaugh through the hard
shell and to a sapling grow
.. which to a tree gives sway
which gives away
all her free food of life
From her fruit come unnumbered
pastel bloomed
and bright harvest orchards.
EASTRIDGE
Over the mountain's
Eastern ridge
Of a sudden came
mornlight's dawnbridge
Which distilled into
matter
and became
a light ladder
transporting
them..
wherever they wished
IN FRONT OF 8 BALL
We are all
in front of eight balls..
never behind them..
because we act with all power of God
all evil
vanishes from our presence
as the shards of night
vanish before morning light
A DUPRE
Oh once fired
was A Dupre
for giving all
of his students
an A
.. for living
beyond the judgers' realm
above the
Ivy League vines
and winter elms
FEW MORE SECONDS
She knows Dawn is coming
She saw his pink violet light suffuse the air
and though the sky is now
depressingly grey..
from a stray ephemeral
passing cloud
in a few seconds
oer the horizon
will pop
the blazing eternal sun!
(to Cathy Marshall)
INVIOLATE
Roses are pink
Violets are violet
Our love for you
is forever inviolate
(to JB)
RAISE HELL
---
Raise hell..
raise it to heaven
... use to lift it aloft
... love's airy leaven
the same place
.. are hell and heaven
.. only eyes of varying
frequencies
will difference see
Those immersed in ecstasy
.. see only divinity
RED LIGHT TO GREEN
the red light to green goes
fixed ice melts to water flows
to yes is wanded all the no's
now allies are all former foes
each thought
magnetically with
plus..
turning lack into
surplus
each thought
surcharged
with divinity
empowered
linking
connecting
through the
will God-aligned
as divine currents
flow down the spine
Love drops
its garb of hate
..the nine emerges
from the eight
allow not
the slightest doubt
to unplug current
or put light out
reaching out
to the Love in each
.. as each does
his own love teach
LOTTERY TICKETS
He thought himself unlucky
but it was positive
thoughts he
must unlock..
as he sat by
the abandoned
lottery tickets..
broken dreamshards
but near them
in a puddle
the sun beams
gleam
.. infinite
stems of the sunstar
asking him
to change the angle
of his vision
FORTUNE COOKIE SHARDS
Some impatiently pull
out the fortune
anxious to devour
the fortune cookie shards
Others care more for
the fortune
and abandon the cookie
shell
Still others make their
own good luck.
REMINDER TO MYSELF
Come from the mind to
the heart
.. to cool drinks
which quench thirst
.. not everquesting salt water
Extinguish the fire of
greed not by feeding
it but by walking away
Exhaust yourself not
in ever ending
multiplication of twigs of trees
but rather love their unity
Love less the
external
form everchanging
than the internal
Spirit neverchanging.
Still the endless ocean
waves
by dwelling in seadepths
Love less the ocean's
foamy pieces
than its deep blue peace.
RISING WATERS IN A QUARRY
As rising waters in a quarry..
fill every niche and nave..
so do Spirit's rising waters
grant each desire..
dwelling in heart cave.
(to the McGee's)
SIBERIAN SNOWDROPS
She was in the
north after the sun went down..
toward a snow machine's path
in the snow.. which ended
in vast measureless signs
of Siberian silence
of frozen dark cold wasteland
.. hell was cold not hot
But in the morning she looked
south.. and saw
the avalanches melting
into snowdrops
which would nurse
the headwaters
of the rivers of
joy and supply
Cold hell
is heaven's shell
God was telling
her for the thousandth
time.. to look upon
the bright side..
SPANGLE THE RODS
A grass spire
dewcrowned
reflects the entire sun.
Spangle the rods.
A stick discarded
or used as a club
becomes a magic wand
if it is starred
with the physics of
positive thought.
We write what
we must learn.
SUN'S YEAST RAISING THE EAST
It was the time of
the sun's yeast
raising all the East
... and he could
not understand
how quickly the
sky's hue
changed to sunrise pink
from blue..
until he realized
he had changed directions.
TOUCH DOWN SPIRIT
Angel Air..
lift our wordwings
into the realm of
reality.
Connect the dots
between our wishes and
their
fulfillment.
Color in our dreams.
Manifest our God
planted desires.
Materialize our
prayers.
Alight,
Spirit! Touch down!
into our
hearts
WE
We.. who are
dwarfs or giants or
paraplegics or
who have not been
by headturning beauty graced
or who have neck lines
of time beneath the face
we who haul extra weight
.. or are afflicted
by painquelling addictions..
or sit in prison..
or face bankruptcy
..or do not know where we
will lay our heads tonight..
we are among the first
to realize that the soul
is not the body machine
through which it pours..
and that beauty is not
Divine Love, that
the 999th match after 998
tries.. is enough to
set the world aflame
with Spirit Fire
...
WHAT HER OBEDIENT HEART ORDAINED
A magnet was her spine
attracting all to its line.
What her omnipotent heart ordained
her obedient will quickly obtained.
Around her granite resolve
worlds began to revolve!
WHAT WE THINK TOGETHER
What we
together think
manifests as
words in ink
.. and builds to
critical mass
.. more lasting
than the sphinx
WISH BECOMES WILL
Wish becomes Will
becomes action
becomes reality
as dreams touch down
.. 6 points
for all
Beneath his gaze
the impossible
became improbable
and then implausible
.. and then plausible
and then possible
and then probable
until that it would not
manifest was impossible
FILAMENT
A tiny piece of metal
plus the radio into
the universe.
A slender silk filament
of grass was enough
to bridge the vine
to a water trough..
as her prayer wishes
for loved ones
help them
in invisible ways
YOU ARE STRONGER THAN URI
As many like Uri Geller
can with mindpower
bend metal
so prayer and positive thought
can melt weapons.
FOUR DREAMS
A dreamt she rolled
a woman into an intersection
so great was her desire
to speed her to perfection
Then she was lifting
in a dream
a needle off a record
during static periods
B dreamt her friend
awakened someone
who wanted to go deep
back into the fields of sleep
and then she dreamt
she was singing in a choir
.. and wanted to sing
Amen before the appointed hour
(2 devotees with dreams
about the speeding up of liberation
from karma)
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.
LEMONS AND LIMES
How awestriking
How sublime
that out of slime
God makes lemons
and God makes limes.
LIME WEAVE
The lime tree weaves the light
into limes on loom of night.
Some in theatre limelight
seek to hearts ignite
and others desire only
to weave lime-light.
(to Michael Lightweaver
whose email is Lightweave@aol.com)
WASHING WISHES
If we wash our wishes
they will sooner
whooooosh into reality.
May God now wash Washingon..
through grace and miracles
cleanse it of greed and
violence, lies and
dictatorship, racism
and cruelty.
WHAT ARE PRAYERS?
What are prayers?
. the insistent ringing
of loud suffering
. desire seeds planted by God
springing.. greening
.. love leaving its birthplace
heart... as perfume
.. the incense of wishing all well
from the soul's wishing well
We pray Father Mother God
that the
ringing bell
does not crash down
calling us to
bellum's hell
but calls us to the
shrines of peace
.. most holy calm and belle
THE PINE DOES NOT OPINE
The spruce, the fir,
the evergreen, the pine
does not to the air
or peers opine
and attracts more quickly
Spirit bird pinions
than those of more
Procrustean opinions
.?Saiom Shriver "
Jillelamudi Mother: The mother sees no fault in any of her (infinite) children
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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
BOUNDARIES
You don't respect
boundaries
complained the mineshaft
as daily at noon
sent the sun
into his dark
her freeing light shafts.
LEMONS AND LIMES
How awestriking
How sublime
that out of slime
God makes lemons
and God makes limes.
LIME WEAVE
The lime tree weaves the light
into limes on loom of night.
Some in theatre limelight
seek to hearts ignite
and others desire only
to weave lime-light.
(to Michael Lightweaver
whose email is Lightweave@aol.com)
WASHING WISHES
If we wash our wishes
they will sooner
whooooosh into reality.
May God now wash Washingon..
through grace and miracles
cleanse it of greed and
violence, lies and
dictatorship, racism
and cruelty.
WHAT ARE PRAYERS?
What are prayers?
. the insistent ringing
of loud suffering
. desire seeds planted by God
springing.. greening
.. love leaving its birthplace
heart... as perfume
.. the incense of wishing all well
from the soul's wishing well
We pray Father Mother God
that the
ringing bell
does not crash down
calling us to
bellum's hell
but calls us to the
shrines of peace
.. most holy calm and belle
A DUPRE
Oh once fired
as A Dupre
for giving all
of his students
an A
.. for living
beyond the realm
of those who judge
above the
Ivy League elms
BIRDFRUIT
THE PINE DOES NOT OPINE
The spruce, the fir,
the evergreen, the pine
does not to the air
or peers opine
and attracts more quickly
Spirit bird pinions
than those of more
Procrustean opinions.
IN MAY TO BLOOM COME THE BEES
As surely as
in May
to bloom comes
the bee..
she turns the
verb of doubting 'may'
to that of certain 'be'
(to S and J Everett)
PAINTING SORROW INTO JOY
over a sad oil
painting of the thorncrowned Jesus'
face
a charistmatic leader strode in
and painted space..
where had been darkness specific
there was now vastness pacific
a space of sunshine yellow and white
a painting of Abba: GOD AS LIGHT
FROM SLIME TO LIMES
He who turns
bat guana
into sweet guavas..
and donkey dung into
dandelions
and cowpies
into pure fuel
and manure
into mangos
and grows limes
from the slime
can turn the hate
of His attackers
into the velvet sky
foiling His stars
as their waste becomes the methane
enkindling evening lanterns
BREAK OF DAY
The break of day!
The crack of dawn!
Look not at night's
shellshards
but at the newbird sun!
(to David Wright)
CATCH A FIRE IN THE SKY
Catch a fire in the sky
with water.
Catch sun father
with liquid daughter.
Water is not the foe
of fire.
Together rainbows they
do sire.
to Brian Williams and his wife
Sarah Pere: "When the mind is open and awake Then do the gods partake
to fill the spaces in between The dreamer and his dream
BLUE FLOWER FLAME
He sees the divine
in everyone
He turns their pilot
lights
into a multipetaled
blue flower flame
(to Piotr)
OMNIPOTENT PINK BAND
A single positive thought..
a wellwishing sliver
diverted the flow of
a mighty river.
A single silent green light
empowered a line
of awesome truck might.
A single band of pink
dawning light
pushed back the entire
greyblanket of night.
(to charismatic Jan B)
14 RULES I NEED TO REMEMBER
Over and over God and angels have tried to tell this slow learning writer in myriad ways and through God Calling,
The Course In Miracles, the Tao Te Ching, the darshan
of the ocean , the witnessing of divine love to phrase her speech and writing
in positive ways.. and to be silent as often as possible.
1. We become what we focus upon.
2. What we focus upon grows.
3. What we speak becomes reality.
4. When one says 'don't think of
a purple porpoise'..others thinks of a purple porpoise
.. for the thought form is more powerful than the plus or minus in front of it
5. We are more likely to evoke
ethical acts in ourselves and others by describing
their virtues than their lapses
6. Positive thought materializes
and negative thoughts can summon
forth negativity
7. It is better to describe
than to add gratuitous value judgment
8. Asking a question invites more thought
than a lecture.
9. Prayer is a more effective behavior modifier than criticism.
10. Those who pour forth with laughter
and joy are more effective.
11. Speech and writing reduce the infinite sphere of reality
to 1 line. They rend the fabric of the magic balloon
which carries us everywhere.
12. The message is first for the messenger, says the Course
In Miracles. If I did not have energy on a subject,
I would not write of it.
13. Many statements evoke equal and opposite reactions
as the mind of the listener or reader is involved
in its function of dissection.
Sai Baba: Do not keep a diary of your lapses .. it will focus your
attention on the ephemeral rather than your divinity (paraphrased)
Sai Baba: Do not keep a diary of your lapses .. it will focus your attention on the ephemeral rather than your divinity (paraphrased)
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POEMS TO LAMPS OF PEACE IN EVERY HEART
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BONAPARTE
How many have been frozen
gored starved or blown apart
by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan,
Churchill, or Bonaparte?
ICE SCULPTURE EAGLE BEAK DRIPS
A congressional luncheon..
of a politician on the military spending
committee..
as time goes on.. the ice sculpture eagle
begins to drip from the beak..
as ice becomes water
.. the frozen becomes flexible
.. a spear point.. becomes peace
.. 1 function becomes the power of all function
What moves mountains of
ice? Faith in the Sun.
**
(to Les Aspin)
PEACEFUL MASTER
In the holiest of climes
where the vines to heaven climb
the sweetest fall of rain
becomes sour juice of lime.
And the rainfall mercy clement
becomes the sour juice of lemon.
So did the words of peaceful
Master
become the force of
warmonger pastors..
Soon they too will be aligned
by the God of the astras
.. the God of the asters.
(to John Clemente, a peaceliving
man)
3 SHIMMERING RAINBARRELS
The storm was full of
menacing dark clouds..
hard cold rain..
treecleaving lightning
..now it is over
and in the twilight
3 rainbarrels brimful
of rain..
shimmer in the post
storm peace.
She dropped deadleaf boats
into them that the insects
have liferafts.
(to JM)
BLUE CHALK CROSSES
A vision of blue chalk crosses
such as at Arlington Cemetery..
scrawled on a blackboard..
they can still be erased..
peace begins with you
peace begins with me
peace in thought word
and deed
in prayers
by hearts freed..
peace at the end of our forks
peace at the end of our tongues
Woodrow, you never recovered
from the site of those many thousand
crosses in France, marking the
unncessary deaths of farmers' sons
and widows' boys...
caught between the banks of England
and Germany.
OLD MEN
The old man running out of his
burning hut, set on fire
by napalm
in Vietnam..
Another old man was not as lucky,
bulldozed and buried alive
in his home
by the tanks of Sharon.
A third, the father equivalent
of the Pieta, silently
wept as his son's coffin
came home, disgorged from
the plane's metal belly.
Countless others
were incinerated by
incendiary
firebombs dropped on
Tokyo's rice paper
homes.
PEACEWARD
Turn us from paths warward
to the peaceward
.. from war words
to peace words
from the past
to the forward
GETTYSBURG GRANITE TEAR
In Gettysburg, a statue
to Abraham Lincoln..
in his right eye,
a granite tear has
formed..like a pearl
within an oyster..
it would be many a year
before the soul which
was Lincoln forgave
himself for the purchase
of draft exemptions by
the rich.. while the
poor deserters were hanged
OLIVE BRANCH
For some the laurel
leaves of glory
.. For others
beheaded blooms
of romance
.. as for me
the olive branch
which when
attached to
mother trees
brings lasting
offerings of peace
PEAS' APPEASEMENT
The Yorks and Lancasters..
.. one the red rose wore
the other.. white rose
.. now in their
gardens
side by side
the red and
the white rose grow.
Dear sweet peas
teach us how you
greengrow peace...
not worrying if crows
say..
that the foe you appease
ADVENT OF THE LIGHT
Time passes..
the dark night's
impenetrable
might
is severed by
morning
swords of light
Evil's unity
is broken.
Melting now
are the shells of malice
and the shards of night
soon their evil is so slight
.. they disappear
in the advent of light
***
Course In Miracles: Fear is like a lowlying dense impenetrable
thundercloud. You enter it and find it cannot hold the fall of a
button (paraphrased
AFRICAN HEARTS POLISH HORSES
O Abba
to You we give thanks
that in time
Polish horses
defeat Nazi tanks
that in time
defenseless African
hearts beating as one
conquer
the machine guns
of Cecil Rhodes
that
Seminoles & Shawnee
Shiawassee and Cherokee
who died protecting
their homes their trees
win now over
woods raping
bulldozers backed
by rifles
that unprotected
women
rising as one
defeat the belts
and boots
of programmed men
that the pen of Rumi
is mightier than
the 'daisycutters'
bombs..
that the music of
the life of Cesar Chavez
reached beyond the
money of plutocrats
directly into America's
soul
and that the cries
of billions of animals
begin to echo
in heartcaves
.. their resonance
brings down the pillars
of the past
CANNON FODDER NO MORE
Cannon Fodder..
the poor.. the uneducated
.. become the peons
and pawns
of schemes which
servants of the rich spawn
God protect them
as they huddle in fox
holes in the cold
to preserve the buillion
of billionaires
Dead are civilians
bombed in the millions..
Dismantle the altars of
greed violence and ego
on which these darkpath
magicians would
have sacrificed young men
and women
Perhaps Abraham failed
the test in putting
Isaac on the altar.
INFIDELS
Some Muslims think
everyone else is an infidel.
Some Christians think
everyone else is going to hell.
Some Jews think
your name must be Rosen
to be with the chosen.
Some Buddhists think
it's ok to kill.
Some Brahmins think
everyone else is untouchable.
Some Adventists think no
one else is among the 'elect'.
Some atheists think
that all theists are stupid.
As the zenith sun is
visible from all windows
so does God illuminate
every path to God.
Everyone arrives.
All paths are holy.
HOW MAURY DROPPED THE A
This department store executive
handed out thousands of dollars
of cigarettes .. in mental
hospital wards.. because he
hated forced change..
He adopted 12 people to love
unconditionally.. to be present
for at all times.. he said
he knew this was impossible
.. but that it could be no more
than 12..
he became a vegetarian in
a desire to reduce the
suffering he caused
and decided one day to
figure the mathematical
probability that with
tens of thousands of fingers
on the nuclear button no nuclear
device had been detonated.. he decided then that
the probability was so infinitesimal
that a higher power of Infinity must
be preventing the detonating..
since no nation since the US
in 1945 had
dropped the big A..
and he dropped the A from
atheist.
KIM PHUC
In every seed
is a bottled message
waiting to be freed.
In every heart
is captive love
waiting to be freed.
MIDWEST GOVERNOR
He supported sending poor
boys off to war
and the killing of mourning
doves.. and of bears
He revved up the volts
of electric chair
.. and then garnered the votes
of the prolife stars.
One day he was struck by
a light from afar..
.. with love for
the imprisoned
and the
soldier sons of the poor
and doves and bears
and now deserves
the votes
of the prolife stars.
PHYSICS NOT MIRACLE
When A highly charged aura spherical
which transmutes all to spiritual
has weapons thrown against it..
they boomerang upon the sender
This is physics, not miracle
By their own
ultraviolet
are protected, the nonviolent.
OLIVE BRANCHED DOVE OVER ARROW GRASPING EAGLE
They chose the Dove
with her olive branched beak,
hope made tangible,
rather than the eagle's arrow-
holding claws,
the mistletoe
of love
over limelight's
laurel leaves the
apple seeds of
free food,
the pine cones of
beauty
the acorns of
reforesting oaks
over the asphalt
of the control
of Mother Earth.
FDR'S WAR MEMORIAL
The Arizona, metal grave
of the 900 men drowned
in the bombing
in Pearl Harbor.
REMORSE
Most of his peers
in the Senate
had remorse
that they had not
voted for peace
with Wayne Morse.
And left his body
has Senator Gruening
but in his footprints
the world keeps greening.
(to John Thaw)
WORK FOR PEACE IS AN OXYMORON
Is there
a frame for Infinity.
Never slakes the thirst
.. the bitter
saltwater near mother earth.
.. never satiated is the
belly of many tongued Fire
.. Never filled the soul
afflicted with unGodward desire.
Never at rest.. the
mercurial mind.
Only the heart immersed
in the waters of God
is at peace.
(to Yogananda and his followers)
CROPDUSTERS ARE ECOTERRORISTS
"Ecoterrorists" is what
euphemism busters
might from now on
call 'cropdusters'.
And those who drop
bombs on civilians
from the air..
are they not terrorists
aerial
whether their names
are Norman
or Ariel?
May all Uriahs be
protected from now
on.. by
archangel Uriel
TOLSTOY'S CHILDREN
As he saw among his
words' resisters
.. a child or 2
and a sister..
he did not know at
the time
more children were
in distant climes..
Mahatma Gandhi
and Martin Luther King
Dorothy Day
with more every day
JESUS PETER ISAIAH AND GOD
Jesus told stoners to put down their stones
Jesus told Peter to put down his sword.
Turn them to plowshares.. were Isaiah's words.
Thou Shalt Not Kill.. to Moses told Lord
PLATTSBURGH MIRACLE
1970, the Fifth of May
One day after
the Kent State Four.
The Plattsburgh students
decide to act
from their very heartcores.
They say that in league
with those at Kent State
They will march to
the SAC Air Forc eGate..
to witness that they
want peace evermore.
The SAC commander now decrees
that any who touch
the Air Force gate
will be summarily shot..
This is he says
for security's sake.
And as the students file by
what a miracle is in store.
Out of base homes come
the Air Force wives.
Holding their babes
they offer their lives
and stand between
the young and the armed
and by their courage
is peace reborn.
BLOSSOM MARTIAL
At Blossom Center,
they will be playing martial
music..
as if one were
to arm blooms
***
HIGHER FIRE
He was not drafted to warships
but summoned to worship..
not to soldiers' gassing
by 'friendly fire'
or corporate hire and fire
but called to the
Higher Fire
For His God whispered to him:
I have said you cannot have
2 masters. Pledge
allegiance only to My Voice..
I have not asterisked with
exceptions My command
not to kill.
I told Peter to put down his
courageous
sword and the executing
mob to put down
their stones.
I have told you to transmute
anger into love.. that
is the meaning of "Turn
the other cheek".
You are the Ocean of Spirit
which all rivers hallows..
no matter how polluted
.. no matter how shallow.
3000 MILES
The Peace Pilgrim..
and Dick Gregory
and Doris Haddock
have walked and run
across America
..with each foot
step.. on the loom
of America
weaving peace.
IVY LEAGUE
Hidden in buildings
behind the quad
lurk vivisectors
.. and spy squads
DOVES AND FLAGS
Four doves riding
on the wings of true
eagles.. flew down
and picked up in
their beaks the American
flag out of the mud
and out of the blood
and took it to
the shrines of peace.
PEACEMAKER
If 5% of Muslims
think all Christians infidels
and 5% of Christians
think all Muslims go to hell
.. are there 90% in between
.. peacemakers..
non ideologues?
PEACE OFFICER
As you walk with
a tear gas cannister,
a stun gun, handcuffs,
a club, a gun, bullets
.. do you convey
that you are an
officer of peace?
(inspired by the following drawing)
http://www.drawingresistance.org/new_page_20.htm
HOLY GROUND
Moses took off his sandals
and put down his rod
as he tred on
the sacred sod:
the Burning Bush
of God
The Poor Clares became discalced..
to follow the Poverty
path of their
founder..
Ramakrishna went oer the sod
with feet unshod
because he did not want
to harm the goldenrod.
Barefoot Buddhist monks
sweep forest paths
with feather brooms..
that they disturb..
no bug or bloom.
The brilliant boy
with the headache found
when he removed his socks
Mother Earth had healed him
by absorbing
his excess energy
It is time
for Sharon to remove
the metal tank shoes
from the sacred ground of Bethlehem.
It is time for George Bush
to remove metal tank shoes
from the sacred soil of Iraq
and everywhere else
that armed men from another
country are not welcome.
GOING HOME
15 soldiers on the Chinook
helicopter thought they
were going home
and found of a sudden
that
they were going
Home
(as they left their bodies
for God evicted by a shoulder fired
missile)
CALIGULA
Caligula sent the army
to the shore
to collect
seashells
***
Cartel bosses sent the US army
beyond its shores
to collect
oil for BP & Shell
NOTE OF THRUSH
In the forest so plush
In the forest so lush
near the cataract's gush
near the waterfalls' rush
where none are frightened
by hunters' ambush..
and squirrels nevvvver
do one another push
...in the deepening quiet
.. in the gathering hush
.. out of the Birded Bush
comes the trill of the thrush
and peace encircling
does everyone brush
Baptism Before Battle
Some soldiers before battle
approached army chaplains..
asking to be baptized..
Little lambs, placed on the altar of
sacrifice by the rich who control
the government,
you were baptized in water..
and in the blood of Christ..
may your own blood be kept
unspilled
may the blood of those you fought
be kept unspilled
All are baptized in Spirit..
and some chaplains and pastors are courageous
enough to repeat the words of Jesus, Isaiah,
and the Father:
Peter put down your sword.
Blessed are the Peacemakers for they shall be called
the Children of God
Turn your weapons into plowshares.
They shall study war no more.
Thou shalt not kill.
I de3light not in your blood sacrifice.
Break not the bruised reed.
The lion shall lie down with the lamb.. they shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain.
BLACK ORANGE CATERPILLAR
A bikewheel
has crushed
half of the
black orange
fuzzy caterpillar.
Will he die?
Will he be
a one winged butterfly?
APPLE TREE
The apple tree
has no commercials
in the movie of her unfolding
.. she does not make
passes at her friends
.. she does not spill
oil on newfallen snow
.. she does not sign
the fruit she gives entire
VICTIMS' BLOOD TURNS TO SACRED INK
The murders of
Cain and Moses
David and Saul..
were done in jealousy
or anger, or
lust or obedience
to the state.
Their victims' blood scarlet
became the violet ink sacred
of epistles, psalms
and the transcribed
words of GOD.
Writers often metamorphose
pain into ink
and the smell of the rose.
http://www.amnesty.org
http://www.cuadp.org
http://www.tcadp.org
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/abolish.html
http://www.ccadp.org
http://www.egroups.com/messages/ohioabolition
http://www.state.ga.us to write the Governor of Georgia
ALTER NOT THE ALTAR
They do not
a single plant
alter
which God has placed
on Mother Earth's altar.
For all terra's candles
are Mother Earth's.
They do not alter
a single path of water
for all rivers
are the ocean's daughters.
PRIVATE CAR
When the Pentagon
Petroplutocracy
has been purified
we will again
have wonderful trains..
many free..
perhaps a little more
if you order a private
car..
with your own kitchen
and bed and tv
PURPLE CLUSTERS
Lying in a hammock
beneath the trellis
grapevined
looking at the
hanging purple clusters
and above them shines
the blazing lustre
of cloud clusters
POINTILIST
Orange berried leafless
tree
leafless in fall gainst blue sky
.. a pointilist painting
SUNFAN
The goddess of the sun
retires for the night
through clouds
spreading her fan
of rays of light
MY JESUS
My Jesus is the
Jesus of the 100th lamb..
the prodigal son..
the handicapped man who
sat by the Bethesda Pool
for so many years
the 11th hour worker
Whatsoever we have done
to those we perceive
as the least of His
brethren.. we have done to Him.
GENTLE COW AND BABY JESUS
the gentle cow
made room in her home
when none else did
for the birth of
the Baby Jesus..
yet how do His disciples
repay her..
do they unwittingly
betray her?
**
GOD IS IN CONTROL
Indians and Africans
and Yanks
Chinese Canadians
and Manx
to God give humble thanks
that gone is the power of
billionaires' banks
to kill with bombs and
missiles and tanks
an affirmation prayer that the Army Corps of Engineers will bow to
the people and to Mother Earth
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Tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, 10,000 Afghan and Iraqi civilians, hundreds of Americans and British soldiers are dead
. 3 shimmering rainbarrels
. 3000 miles
. advent of the light
. african hearts polish horses
. blossom martial
. blue chalk crosses
. caligula
. cannon fodder no more
. crrop dusters are ecoterrorists
. deoves and flags
. fdr's war memorial
. gettysburg
. goming home
. higher fire
. how maury dropped the a
. holy ground
. ice sculpture eagle drips
. infidels
. ivy
. kim phuc
. midwest governor
. note of thrush
. old men in vietnam
. olive branch
. olive branch grasped
by doves, arrows by eagle
. peaceful master
. peaceward
. peas appeasement
. physics not miracle
. peacemakers
. peaceofficer
. remorse
. tolstoy's children
. work for peace
***
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html
the Jesus poem was inspired by a conversation with Winnie D and Hope
JR told writer of the firebombs. Father Mother God we ask special grace for Ariel Sharon, George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and all who have used the tools of violence. We ask that they be taken off their warhorses and shown the way of peace. to Wolf\ http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html Noam Chomsky is asking for a boycott of businesses which do business with Israel as long as their govt continues to keep Palestinians in concentration camps and invades Palestine with illegal settlements. Other Jewish peace activists: Barbra Streisand Jerry Springer Rob Reiner Norman Finkelstein http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org Deceased Jewish peace activists: Jesus Christ, Albert Einstein Yehudi Menuhin It is said that St Francis wore bells on his toes to warn the insects of his advent
Footnote to Polish Horses, African Hearts: Cecil Rhodes' imperialist
racism was continued by Winston Churchill.
Rhodes' diamond empire DeBeers once controlled 95% of the world's
diamond market... a market built on the suffocation deaths of mine
workers, their brutal exploitation, a monopoly of supply control, the
use of force to wrest mineral rights (mineral rights still granted to
capitalist billionaires through e.g. a 19th Cent. American law giving
the rich mineral rights at $5 an acre).. Countless tens of thousands
died in a Boer War started by Rhodes. Even today a Rhodes Scholarship
goes to those expected to continue capitalist empire. The United
Nations still reflects the naked racist force of the past, as 4 white
nations and 1 Asian nation (no African.. no Arab, no Hispanic) have
veto power over billions of people. (to Alex Hershaft, whose
reparations money as a child concentration camp victim has been used
for his Great American Meatout) http://www.meatout.com
Footnote to FDR's War Memorial: It is said that FDR was forewarned of
the attack on Pearl Harbor, but felt the populace would support the
war only after an atrocity.
Footnote to Kum Phuc:
Kim Phuc's message to us all is 'first do no harm' Kim Phuc, the
little Vietnamese girl whose clothes were burned off her body by
napalm when she was 9 years old, ran until pain and thirst stopped
her. When she stopped a kind American soldier poured water on her
burns, but the steam only cooked them further. In the pain, she lost
consciousness. She had 14 months in the hospital and 17 operations,
with burns over 35% of her body. To listen to her
JR told writer of the firebombs. Father Mother God we ask special grace for Ariel Sharon, George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and all who have used the tools of violence. We ask that they be taken off their warhorses and shown the way of peace. to Wolf\ http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html Noam Chomsky is asking for a boycott of businesses which do business with Israel as long as their govt continues to keep Palestinians in concentration camps and invades Palestine with illegal settlements. Other Jewish peace activists: Barbra Streisand Jerry Springer Rob Reiner Norman Finkelstein http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org Deceased Jewish peace activists: Jesus Christ, Albert Einstein Yehudi Menuhin It is said that St Francis wore bells on his toes to warn the insects of his advent
?Saiom Shriver
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Re: Poem Attempts
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WILLPOWER 6 POEMS
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AA
Over a summer God
turned the soundless dew
into juice of pear.
Long ago in an instant
Jesus turned water
into wine and
now in a moment
the Higher Power
of the surrendered
alcoholic turns wine
.. back into water.
ENUMERATION
Accountants asking
remuneration
for the slightest
enumeration..
are in a different
class than he
(to BE)
THE PIPER'S PLAYERS
The wind's storm fury
forces the willows
to dance to its tune
but we are not trees
We do as we please.
We lend not our ears
to media puppeteers
nor bloat the coffers
of war profiteers.
Thieves who are
the piper's payers
need not be
the piper's players.
DOUSING WAND, LIGHTNING ROD
The dousing wand
The lightning rod
Conductor's baton
Will's aligned spine
They find the water,
invoke the lightning
attract the music
and summon angels' aid.
EVERY EVENING IN THE EAVES
Every evening
in the eaves
hear birds sing
the song of Eve
SAPLING PROLIFIC
The brave little
2 year old maple
sapling.. struggling
for life and water in
the midst of nonwaterers,
has produced more samara
seedlings per leaf than
many decades old trees.
May God bless her wishes.
***************
"Every Evening In The Eaves"
to EKB
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FOLLOWERS OF JESUS
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HOW JESUS' SOUL CAME TO MARY
Like falling rain oer lilyleaf tripped
Like pure moon into bright cloud slipped
Like setting sun into calm sea dipped
did Jesus' soul come to Mary.
Like communion chalice sipped
Like the river oer fallsbrim lipped
Like dewdrop out of buttercup dripped
was Jesus' soul born of Mary.
(to Nancy M Wilson)
RIVER WINE
River water
turns Christ wine
at the falls
as it pours onto
the altar rock.
(to George B)
JESUS' FIG TREE
He did belittle you..
but soon he'll bebig you..
In soonspring
on twigs
with blooms he will wig you..
in summer he'll summon
a jade garb to resprig you..
and in the fall with fresh fruit
he'll refig you
NO STONES NO SWORDS
Jesus told stoners to put
down their stones
He told Peter to put down his sword
Thou shalt not kill.. said His Father
Blessed are the Peacemakers..
his eternal words.
God give us the grace
to follow his words
to stand with the Prince of Peace
and speak against the warlords
ELEVENTH HOUR WORKER
Why should the 100th lamb
receive more love
than the 99 who
never strayed
and never disobyed
Why should the 11th hour
worker with just 60 minutes
receive the same pay
as those who worked all day?
Only love.. like his..
knows the answer..
but this we can say
Our pain was in the
longer way
(to M McDermott)
FOUR MURDERERS GIVEN CLEMENCY BY GOD
Moses murdered an
Egyptian in anger
David murdered Uriah
in lust.
Cain murdered Abel
in jealousy.
Paul murdered Christians
in obedience to
a cruel state.
All suffered afterward.
Yet God spared their lives.
CHRISTIAN COCKROACHES
" No room at the Inn"
they said when His cockroaches
were born.
and in the middle of their lives..
the cockroaches loved by the Son of Man,
like Him have no place to lay their heads.
And at the end
"Father Father
why hast Thou forsaken us" they cried ..
as they died
nailed by the shoes of the unripe
as their souls to Him soared in bliss
Only Love and Loving Creatures
can be created by the Source of All Love
WHAT MOST HURT JESUS' HEART
Was it the scourging? the crown
of thorns? the carrying of the
cross? the thirst? the sleeplessness...
Those in the Sanhedrin who lied about
Him?
Was it Pilate's cowardice?
His followers who slept through His
agony?
His followers who ran away?
the betrayal of Judas?
the denial by His chosen successor Peter?
(the crumbling of His chosen Rock?)
No.. it was the few seconds
on the cross when He thought
Abba had abandoned him.
(More of His women followers were faithful)
WHEN IS THE OPERA OVER?
The opera is not over untli
Satan himself sings..
until the Luciferian stone
of ego is melted in God's love..
until the diabolical cold
becomes the warmth of Divine
Love
Every being will be saved..
including the most powerful
demon
JESUS BEYOND TIME
Jesus is beyond time.
When He forged the keys
to hell in the chalice
of his suffering
they were for all time
.. past present and future.
He has already let all
out of hell forever.
SAMSON PILLARS
Need not fear,
the caterpillar,
the falling of
the Samson pillars
for he has become
a butterfly.
And leaves need
not squirm
round caterpillar
worm
for he has become
a noleafeating
butterfly.
JESUS PREFERRED
STABLE TO STEEPLE
Jesus preferred
stable
to steeple
The animals loved
Him..
they were not coming
to show off their clothes
.. to act as human sheep
following 1 male pastor
RESONATE
Her acting is so real
others resonate
to the echoes of
the pain she recreates..
(to Meryl Streep)
JOHN CANDY
Each time angel wings
stirred his genius
the Bethesda Pool of his Heart was able to heal not just one but all who entered.
He is no longer bodybound ..
and when we hear the wind stir the lake .. we will know.. he is calling us to joy.
MINGLED BLOOD
On Calvary Hill Jesus' blood drips from the cross..
With the raindrops it mingles..
and pours into ruts before noon ..
made by the dragging cross... then into rivulets it goes which to creeks flow and to streams grow ..
to rivers.. to great rivers.. to bays and gulfs
til finally in ocean seas it merges. The blood is everlasting.
Even this evening it enters as the residue.. in pine resin.. and mornglobes of dew.
Beetles bib and bees sup it from each buttercup.
Hummingbirds sip it in each trumpet flower goblet It fills the cheeks of little plover Alice draughting of a cherrybloom chalice.
Each chrysalis is washed in the crucible of Christ's rainblood.
Now winds are winding round cocoons unwinding. Each lake, every pond, yea every puddle and rain drop.. is the Holy Grail holding the Savior's everlingering blood and reflecting the SunSon of God.
KNOCK
Knock Jesus was knocking on my heart's door I told Him to come back later.. and then discovered He lived Inside. God indwells every being.. no matter what we have done.. tiny clouds on earth can't bar the blazing infinite Sun
WOUNDS ARE NOW WANDS
SCARS ARE NOW SCARS
Whether widowers or wed,
windkissed we wend along the winding way. What a wonder to see His wounds.. and ours too! have become magic wands. Wednesday is no longer for woe.
CHOSEN
Who are the chosen people? After the Messiah came to earth, the chosen people became those who recognized Him Chalice Visions 1. Heard in meditation: "Inside the chalice of wrath is the blood of Jesus." 2. Vision of a Y of streets.. at its intersection in the bricks.. there was blood 3. Was told by someone that a common symbol is 2 swords upside down in a chalice. This can be 2 former enemies united in the chalice of communion.. or a triangle of 2 men and 1 woman the painful effects of which must be worked out or else cancelled through grace. Four Murderers Given Clemency by God Moses murdered an Egyptian in anger David murdered Uriah in lust. Cain murdered Abel in jealousy. Paul murdered Christians in obedience to a cruel state. All suffered afterward. Yet God spared their lives.
THE REVEREND BILLY GRAHAM
First the lightning bolts
of spoken word
and then the rain of grace
As clouds from ocean clashed
gainst peaks of Hawaii
turned into rain and
waterfalls
and down slopes poured
to the waiting sea
so seekers to Billy come ..
their hearts melt in Fire ..
from above they pour down
cascade aisles and fall
to the ocean of God's love
*
Abba in the name of Jesus cause all Christians to remember
and obey Your "Peter put down your sword", Your "Thou
Shalt Not Kill" Your "I delight not in your blood sacrifice." Cause Christians to support nonviolence in ending war
today .. .. for "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is not asterisked with exceptions and this direct word of God to Moses is the path, not "there is a time to kill" of polygamous Solomon.
.
PETER PUT DOWN YOUR SWORD
"My kingdom is not of this world.
Peter put down your sword."
Stoners put down your stones.
Thus saith Christ, Christians' Lord.
Not missiles nor bombs nor guns
but Grace and Love and God's word.
It is 'blessed peacemakers'
and not warmongers who to God
move forward.
Did Moses need an army
when God parted the Red Sea?
Did Joshua need anything
but his horn
at the battle of Jericho?
When God multiplied
lamplight oil for the Maccabees
did God need Mideast oil?
Was a fleet of trucks needed
to deliver manna from the sky?
Was DeGaulle protected by
an earthly power
when 93 shots fired
by a crack shot assassin
missed?
Surely Fidel Castro has been protected
by angels from the many soldiers and assassination plots
sent against him.
Was not the chant of millions
singing "Allah Akbar"
enough to bring down
the puppet throne?
The hunger pangs of Ramadan
fasters turn into arrows
which strike the heart of
Allah with mercy.
And the suffering of hundreds of
millions of Hindus.. mobilized
by the heart of Mahatma Gandhi..
did it not give an example to the
world in the power of
nonviolent resistance?
SANDI PATTY
She no longer feels sad
that her body is bound by gravity ..
as she wings the hearts of millions.
KNOCK
Jesus was knocking
on my heart's door
I told Him to come
back later..
and then discovered
He lived Inside.
God indwells every
being..
no matter what
we have done..
tiny clouds on earth
can't bar
the blazing infinite
Sun
WOUNDS ARE NOW WANDS
SCARS ARE NOW STARS
Whether widowers or wed,
windkissed we wend
along
the winding way.
What a wonder to see
His wounds.. and ours too!
have become
magic wands.
Wednesday is no longer
for woe.
BLACK EYED SUSAN
"Take Me.. Take Me
Take Me" waved
each bloom
to the bee
..but he went
to the one
who was needless
and free
CHOSEN
Who are the chosen people?
After the Messiah
came to earth,
the chosen people
became
those who recognized
Him
OCTOPI
an 8 piece vegan
pecan pie,
.. it was an octo-pie
Along came
an octopus
.. 1 tentacle to
hold 1 piece each
for the other octopi
GAIL
walking on the waves
in the midst of the gale
He walked on the water
calming Gail
and invited her
to walk with Him
beyond sinking despair
beyond fishes' swim
(to Gail Thompson)
KEYS TO HELL
Jesus showed He
has the keys to hell
and at anytime
can release
souls from jailcells
EURYDICE
Orpheus tried to
remove Eurydice
from hell
but J was willing
to trade places
to save a friend
from hell
Beckoning
Christ's love beckons
us to see beyond
the barking dogs
who protect Him..
and to come closer
without fear
.. to His seat
on a throne made
of love's beacons
MIRACLE MIST
The prow of the great
ship
dissolves the slapping
wave
into salty mist
as the ship
in which Jesus rides
is the vanguard
of the miracles of Christ
CHALICE VISIONS
1. Heard in meditation: "Inside the chalice of wrath
is the blood of Jesus."
2. Vision of a Y of streets.. at its intersection
in the bricks.. there was blood
3. Was told by someone that a common symbol is 2 swords
upside down in a chalice. This can be 2 former enemies
united in the chalice of communion.. or
a triangle of 2 men and 1 woman the painful effects
of which must be worked out or else cancelled through grace.
A GENTLE GENESIS
God designed not
sweat
or that we be
with labor wet
but grows
easily wild wheat
and drops in our
lap
fruit so sweet
Bird Gospel With discipline they queue
before dawn cue
and tune up their orchestra
slowly..
to warble of joy to me to you..
the note chorus gathers power
.. as they sing
without surcease
of His constant providing
His Love
His Joy
His Peace
*****
DRACULA BACTERIA GONE
She knew she was feeling better..
that the Dracula bacteria in her
were being vanquished..
as the September sunlight seeped
into her skin
JESUS' VOICE
As Jesus' voice called
Lazarus back into his body
and out of the tomb
so there are myriad voices
of past Divine Love
which can resurrect your heart
THE GOD OF THE MOST REVILED
Jesus loves the rejected.. the 11th hour worker,
the hundredth lamb...the prodigal son.. the man waiting
at the pool of Bethesda... the woman at the well..
the woman being stoned...the blind, the lame..
the leper... the demon possessed.... the condemned thieves
.. those in hell (a temporary hell to which He has keys)
the more afflicted the greater His love
GENESIS 1: 29 AMERICA
Georgia Pecans
New Jersey Cranberries
Maine Blueberries
New York Cherries
Vermont Elderberries
Ohio Peaches
Texas Avocados
California Grapefruit
Washington Apples
Florida Oranges
Mississippi Limes
Alaska Walnuts
Minnesota Grapes
Rhode Island Plums
Arizona Figs
New Mexico Olives
Alabama Coconuts
Louisiana Bananas
Utah Lemons
Arizona Figs
Pennsylvania Pears
Alaska Walnuts
South Carolina Brazil Nuts
North Carolina Filberts
Indiana Quince
Montana Apricots
Colorado Almonds
Kentucky Strawberries
(as more trees are planted and the cold places become
warm.. all can have all)
saiomshriver
PETER PUT DOWN YOUR SWORD
"My kingdom is not of this world. Peter put down your sword." Stoners put down your stones. Thus saith Christ, Christians' Lord. Not missiles nor bombs nor guns but Grace and Love and God's word. It is 'blessed peacemakers' and not warmongers who to God move forward. Did Moses need an army when God parted the Red Sea? Did Joshua need anything but his horn at the battle of Jericho? When God multiplied lamplight oil for the Maccabees did God need Mideast oil? Was a fleet of trucks needed to deliver manna from the sky? Was DeGaulle protected by an earthly power when 93 shots fired by a crack shot assassin missed? Surely Fidel Castro has been protected by angels from the many soldiers and assassination plots sent against him. Was not the chant of Iran's millions singing "Allah Akbar" enough to bring down the puppet throne? The hunger pangs of Ramadan fasters turn into arrows which strike the heart of Allah with mercy. And the suffering of hundreds of millions of Hindus.. mobilized by the heart of Mahatma Gandhi.. did it not give an example to the world in the power of nonviolent resistance?
http://www.hacres.com
http://www.all-creatures.org
http://www.jesusveg.com
http://www.christianveg.com http://groups.msn.com/christianveg http://www.jesusveg.com http://groups.msn.com/catholicveg http://www.hacres.com http://www.all-creatures.org http://www.jesusveg.com
FOUR MURDERERS GIVEN CLEMENCY BY GOD
HOW JESUS' SOUL CAME TO MARY
JESUS' FIG TREE
RIVER WINE
11th Hour Worker poem to M McDermott (Commercially harvested grains kill many animals and are sometimes sprayed with insecticides 3 or more times..) Please download on the web on rice, cotton, scrap, nontree paper, or 100% recycled
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POEMS OF FORGIVING
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TECUMSEH MUSEUM ON A HIGH HILL
A Tecumseh museum .. on a high
hill.. full of axes, scalps
and knives..
A person enters and
walks around opening all
the shutters..
light pours in
One is then
aware.. only of the
supernal radiance.
And from the high hill
distance one sees puffs
from many chimneys.. all
smoking the pipes of peace.
(to all Native Americans
and settlers who have suffered
in the past)
(years after dreamer had this dream on the early morn
of December 7 she heard broadcast on C Span a description
of a Mohican museum.. followed by the song You are my
sunshine)
ICICLE POINT
The frozen daggers of
unforgiveness..
icicles..
they shine in the light
but it is the orb
of forgiveness
.. the miracle
point at the drip
of the icicle tip
which does reflect the sun
BOUND BY LOVE
2 former competitors
for the same man,
not yet aware of their
eternal spirit love
for each other
were yet bound
by their love for him
VIOLET ME
As the sun poured into
her niches and naves
and
her coves and her caves
Mother Earth cried
"You violate me!"
But weeks went by
and she spied
April's apricot apron
and apple blooms
and then she exclaimed
"You violet me!"
(to Nita Nickol)
THE RIVER TARRIES NOT
The river tarries not
over the stones of karma.
To seaward joyfully run
is her destiny's dharma
TWO NEGATIVES A POSITIVE MADE
As two negatives when multiplied
a positive do make
.. former foes who seek
each others' good
cause miracles forth to break
BEING KIND
Those who refuse to harm
the hearts of others
with humor involving
ridicule or cruelty
or searing revenge
.. are able to call
on the aid of the guardian
angels and parents
who do not forgive
as quickly as their
human charges.
SILVER SCREEN PROJECTION
She never feels rejection
by others' projection..
as they describe their
own faces..
found in her soulmirror's
reflection...
when they cast
their negative movies
upon her luminous silver
screen. Its very purity
invites the process..
as a blank page invites
pen scrawl.
as a sea receives
rivers. Slowly
others learn it is their
own movies on her screen..
their own faces in her mirror.
BALL TO BALLLOOOOON
The ball got lighter and lighter
as she shed more and more
of her insides of the past..
until she became an invulnerable
balloon.. and soared away
wherever she wished
.. alighting whenever she wished
