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Random Poems RANDOM POEMS 52
-saiom shriver-
CHERRIES ENTWINE
God can a pear impeach
in a tree of peach
and cherries entwine
on old grape vines
GRAY GRACE
The cloud darkens
Indra drops
gray grace
Baba's fingers will and drop
vibuthi gray grace
NEELAKANTA
Neelakanta Shiva
drink the hemlock pain from
the chalices of all hearts.
Only You can transmute this agony
to amrita
(Amrita: the nectar of immortality)
HOUDINI
Bina and Dave had a woodchuck named Houdini
who loved their garden especially zucchini
but since they planted enough for each creature
slipping out of traps was no longer his star feature
(Bina Robinson has worked many decades in animal rights.
She found a second publisher for Hans Ruesch's
Slaughter of the Innocent after Swiss and American
pharmaceutical companies blocked the first publication)
CLOUDS: MASTER JEWELERS
Clouds, master jewelers,
setting in gauze each raindrop
as night places star diamonds
on
a purple sky backdrop
SEYCHELLES SEASHELLS
She picked up only vacant seashells
at the shores of the Seychelles.
For chambered nautili hollow
were minnow castles in the shallows
(to my mother)
CHISELED IN STONE
He would not write his love in sand.
Nor carve it on a feeling tree.
He chiseled it deep into the stone
For all eternity.
SAPPHO
Sappho desired no
monk saffron..
neither the slavery
of kitchen aprons
CALVES' CALVARY
War and cavalry
for horses Calvary.
Stampede in Calgary
for calves too, Calvary
TEACHER OF LOVE
Puppies give unconditional love
and priceless faithful loyalty...
listening without preaching..
love their only teaching
***
(A report on network news was of a study which concluded that friends and support groups have a higher healing rate than $200 an hour 'professional' therapists)
ISAIAH OR JOEL
Isaiah said in Chapter 2: 4
"And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they
shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more."
Why was this reversed by Joel in chapter 3:10?
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the
weak say, I am strong."
We cannot have 2 masters. Choose the peace of Isaiah or the violent ridicule of
Joel.
ANNE PERRY'S WORLD WAR I
King and Kaiser were cousins...
George V and Kaiser Wilhelm II
World War I, a war between
the Kaiser's desire
to expand his empire
and British plutocrats' desire
to hold on to their own.
37 million casualties... 8.5 million
dead, 21 million wounded, 7.7 million
missing and POW's.
Millions were slaughtered
by chlorine gas,
by suffocation in trench tunnel caveins,
by dying slowly for hours shot and nailed
on barbed wires,
by slow freezing,
by gnawing hunger,
by each side's hunters.
Tens of thousands of sailors died
of suffocation by drowning or
of fiery torpedo explosions.
No chaplain spoke of Jesus
as universal pacifist
but of the honor
and loyalty of slaughter through
bullets bayonets or fists.
Conscientious objectors were
given white feathers on the street,
projected cowardice. In prison
they were beaten.
British 'upper' classes could
purchase officer status,
were often incompetent,
and in many cases conducted no
military training.
Those who were convicted of self inflicted injuries
in order to leave the insane slaughter
were shot, whether they had injured themselves
or were innocents sacrificed.
306 soldiers on the Commonwealth side were executed, including 25 Canadians, 22
Irishmen and 5 New Zealanders. Shellshock was not recognized.
Survivor soldiers' world was a treeless gray mud
of bonenumbing cold.
The constant stream of legs or hands shot off,
bellies blown open, blindings,
bombcaused castrations exhausted the surgeons.
Smells of offal
were longlasting and awful.
A horse leg floated down the stream.
***
(The Treaty of Versailles was so draconian in
its steep reparations and punishing provisions
that it planted the seeds of Hitller's hope for revenge.
World War I atrocities still echo today. Soldiers on both sides freeze on Afghan
mountainpeaks,
are blown apart by drones or daisy cutter bombs.
Survivors, because of faster more advanced techniques,
are of higher percentages, but their injuries worse.
Today too men and noncombatant women, elders, children,
animals, birds, frogs, butterflies, trees
die in fights for oil, for control of poppy fields, for mineral mining, for
interfaith hatreds fanned by war profiteers. Bears are bomb-sealed forever by
caveins in their hibernation caverns. A quarter million fleeing Iraqis were
carpetbombed and bulldozed into graves, some buried alive, in what has been
called The Highway Of Death.
Today, some returning soldiiers will bring back STD's or face a homefront of
some mate infidelity. On one military base, 4 men have killed their wives,
driven mad by an alleged antimalaria drug.
Other soldiers have died forced to take lethal 'vaccines'.
Who is a greater familybuster than military and media
with propaganda's luster?
Cui bono? 'To whose benefit' was the black op of Sept 11, 2001. The answer could be seen in the haste with which the US regime went into Afghanistan 6 weeks later.
****
(Anne Perry's book Shoulder The Sky and others of her books have been graphic about this war, yet she has done no preaching or opining. She has described nearly all the WW1 events in this poem. Apologies for any unintentional inaccuriacies. The paragraph about purchase of officer status is not Anne Perry's, nor does she make any criticism of chaplains for supporting the war effort.)
GIVEN NO EPITAPH
Given no epitaph
of trillions dead, each calf
Evidence of crime disappeared..
Their bodies were eaten.
A PLACE OF PERFECT PEACE
He is a
secret garden
whose fragrance pours
beyond his walls.
He is a place of
perfect peace.
All who are touched
by his becalmed aura
are healed
are imbued with joy.
SPY SPIDER SPINS WEB
Red threads
Rouge python
Crimson tendrils
Scarlet tentacles
Some do it for power
Some do it for drugs
Some for revenge
Some for pentacles
YELLOW ROSE
Outer petals' perfume
given to all.
Inner ones held close
NO EPITAPHS
Given no epitaphs
for trillions of calves.
Evidence of crime disappeared..
Their bodies were eaten.
SAPPHO DESIRED NO SAFFRON
Sappho desired no
monk saffron..
neither the slavery
of kitchen aprons
nor crimson
Greek wars.
I'M EXHAUSTED
I'm so exhausted from
watching my parents jumping
to conclusions all day long.
SHE LOVES ME
He no longer
daisy petals shreds
to find if her love
for him has been shed.
"She Loves me..
She loves me.
She loves me"
he repeats instead.
STOLEN HONEY
Like factory workers are bees
who work tirelessly all day
only to have their labors' fruits
stolen and receive no pay.
Humans often queenwings clip
so that with their hives they can't away slip.
Worker bees often crushed in the racks
as the trays slip from their tracks.
Some 'owners' in fall wipe out
the whole hive
rather than feeding their own food
to those who strive.
Multinational chemical and insecticide
companies have been killing bees and frogs
butterflies and fireflies for money.
Poisonous is nonorganic honey.
The design for the brilliant
geodesic dome
came from the Goddesigned
hexagonal honeycomb.
How magnificent that
these architects with wings
trillions of times over
create such a perfect thing.
****
(Buckminster Fuller, designer of geodesic comes.
A British rabbi writing in The Jewish Vegetarian wrote about the queen bee's
wing clipping, the crushing of the bees in the rack, and the killing of whole
hives rather than feed them their own food through the winter.
Fruit sugar, fructose, has polysacchariddes,disaccharides, and monosaccharides,,for a time released flow of sweetness, unlike cane sugar whose human growers burn ground esting birds and every mongoose in the field.)
PINK ROSE VINES
He preferred pink vines
in planting new roses.
Cheerfully glowing as they climbed,
they melted away neuroses.
If York's white rose
and Lancaster's red
had been pink
perhaps they'd have wed.
**
(To see British stone cottages, the whole side wall filled with pink roses. or to see the roofs of Mexican villages covered with blue morning glories ..fills hearts with joy.)
GIVEN NO EPITAPH VERSION TWO
Given no epitaph
was any calf...
Evidence of crime disappeared..
Their bodies were eaten.
(How many trillions have been murdered)
RUBIES OF THE POMEGRANATE
Thank You, Lord, for this food.
which is Your visible grace
sunwoven out of starry space.
How did You the orange chambers
with amber interlace!.
How did you on the crimson apple
skin ... gold stars trace?
How did you hang the
wee white bells
in the pepper's belfry?
How do Your trees
spin avocados
and give them free.
In the peach You placed
seeds of granite
and put soft ruby jewels
inside pomegranate.
How does your sparkling dew
inside pecans leave
no residue?
We know not how You do...
but with all our hearts
we thank You.
*****
(Genesis 1:29 Behold I have given you herbyielding seed. To you it shall be for food.
Isaiah: He who slays an ox is as he who slays a man.)
ROOSTER HUMILITY
Rooster thought his crow
the baton
indispensable to
summon the dawn
until seeing the Great
Peacock's fan in the sky
he was reverentially
humbled.
***
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RISING MUSIC INCENSE
The music of the choir
beyond gender rises higher
as cello and lyre
flute and violin require.
Different bodies' voices
intermingle, entwine
and like incense smoke
soar above the earth
(to Tom and Mary Jo)
THE SUN LEFT FOR CHICAGO
The sun left for Chicago
last night..without saying goodbye..
as she the sun has always done.
We knew she had gone
for suddenly
we felt alone.
This morning she was here again!
She has just now flown in from Spain!
We knew she was home....
for suddenly we feel warm.
(to Clare Barrett)
http://www.rexwallpapers.com/wallpaper/Sunrise-39/
UNBUBBLING
Inside you is a secret spring
where joy is always upbubbling
Inside you is a secret phone.
God always answer the secret rings.
DAISIES
He no longer
daisy petals shreds
to find if her love
for him has been shed.
"She Loves me..
She loves me.
She loves me"
he repeats instead.
STEVE JOBS
What are the jobs
of apple trees?
To breathe and to be
as apples come
automatically
PIGEON RELIGION
Expanded his religion
He'll send no pigeons
to bleak realms Stygian.
SPY SPIDER SPINS WEB
Red threads
Rouge python
Crimson tendrils
Scarlet tentacles
Some do it for power
Some do it for drugs
Some for revenge
Some for pentacles
(based on a picture of
a demoness wrapping her red tail
around a man's leg)
YELLOW ROSE
Outer petals' perfume
given to all.
Inner ones held close
CAT AND MOUSE SHALL LIE DOWN TOGETHER
Isaiah said "the lion shall lie down with the lamb"
Now people say no pig shall be ham
Nor cow killed into spam.
Nor evicted ... any clam.
No cat hitmen hired for pittance
by those who delegate the
murder in the barn.
No longer will cats harm
the winged with feathers.
The cat and mouse shall
lie down together.
*
(In unethical research at NIH, it was found that cats not raised by killer cats will play with mice but not kill them.)
COMPELLING MUSIC
How is it that music
of any degree
more than brutal decree
of slavemaster Simon Legree
can compel us to dance?
HABITAT FOR ALL CREATION
Bees cement hives
Spiders spin webs.
Wasps...paper drywalls.
Birds weave nests.
Bears find caves
Beavers build dams.
Gophers dig holes
Shells have clams.
Woodpeckers drill
From inside each
how to make homes
He does teach.
**
(There are 1000 ways to preserve animal habitat... by not using paper products nor building with trees ... ending or reducing lawnmowing etc)
PUDDLE
Just a puddle..
enough for a firefly's sip
or a reflection which
holds the sun moon and stars.
Further rain wed him
to a puddle other.
Together they birthed
a sweet running brook
To travel with him
their home they forsook.
and now flow by willowed
banks' peaceful nooks.
COUNTING SHEEP
Counting sheep
I can't sleep
On the boat
are frightened sheep.
Herded aboard to ports
of slavrery and slaughter.
They're terrified of the
sailors and water.
**
(Heifer International sends baby animals overseas to lives of slavery and slaughter, a practice which forcibly separates them from their mothers, terrifies them, promotes anmal flesh related diseases (cancer, heart disease, food poisoning, ecoli (colon bacteria)), arthritis, kidney dysfunction, obesity
etc, global heating, deforestation, energy waste.
Around the world are movements to end the live shipment of 'livestock' animals.
5 STORIES (LATER REWRITTEN TO 9 STORIES)
A teen
eating as he smoked
pot... looked at the
leg of the chicken
upon which he was gnawing.
In his slowed down perception
he gave Spirit reception
and never ate flesh again.
*
A woman was passed
a joint... in her expanded
awareness she saw
a highway between
her heart and throat open.
After that she was more
able to speak her mind.
*
A hearing on Capitol Hill.
The alcohol lobbyists,
cumulatively paid billions,
speak of their perceptions
of the danger of pot....
but censor reports of
millions dead in alcohol related
traffic accidents, cirrhosis of the liver,
domestic battering, bar fights,
delirum tremens.
*
In the US, Mexico, South and
Central America, ecocidal terrorists
called crop dusters spread airborn poisons,
killing people, animals, birds, frogs, butterflies,
plants, poisoning
*
A artist and writer who lost his ability to walk from
a waterfall accident.. slowly through the years regained
his ablity to walk, with the help of pain relieving marijuana.
BALLERINA TUTU
The ballerina's tutu
revealed her tattoos
TIBETAN MONKS SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE
"Greater love hath no man
than to lay down his life for
his friends'.
Self immolation is not
an action all will defend.
The monks ignite courage
as their souls ascend.
The power of their
witness will never end.
May the reign of nonviolence
to Tibet now descend.
THE RIGHTS OF THYME
The rights of
powerless plants of thyme..
stars garbed in hues
of purple and lime
will be more honored
as onward flows time.
BY FRAGRANCE UNDONNED
By fragrance undonned, it was the dew
which made purple rose' sweet perfume
RHYMING
A friend who had spoken in rhyme for 6 hours ended
his soliloquy with
"He does not want it now to rhyme
for it's just about his dinnertime".
I used to think that rhyme
and rhythm were frills...
but as time flowed on
certain poets gave me chills.
Is it meody, meter
and sound harmony
which lift
any lyrics at all aloft.
They are the pinions
which lift ode opinions
beyond the realm of
earth's dominion
DIAMOND FOILS
Diamonds in jewelry store
displayed on grey velvet.
Diamond dewdrops sparkle
on purple violets' velvet.
Diamond stars unshy
on black velvet sky.
It is not the same but
the opposite which
by foil heightens beauty.
MORNING MOORINGS
The boat of Night
slipped its moorings
and sailed into
the rays of Morning
AWASH IN STARLIGHT
Receives no light from the sun
The other side of the moon...
but she is awash in starlight
and glowblessed by rays of Neptune.
APPARENT VICTIM OF DROWNING
The fiery soul of the sun
sank... his flaming trail
visible as he crashed
into the sea.. soon only his
dying embers could be seen,
and they too slowly disappeared,
drowning in the water. It seemed
through the dark night that the
sea had won. Yet at the darkest
time..all hope gone.. suddenly
a pink band appeared
where sky meets sea
And then... soft beams of rising.
until resurrected...Heappeared
on the horizon.
6 MONTHS OF ATHEISM
When my father died,
I lost my faith.
The world was a gray place..
I desired only to be around
what existed here before he had.
I gravitated toward the sun..
His light slowly healed
my soul over 6 months time,
as he was filling mangos, peaches
and grapes
with juice..
and I was able gradually to
return to my faith,
FRANKINCENSE
Happiness and sadness
are of the pairs of opposites.
Bliss which blesses all
rises like frankincense
beyond the duality.
OPEN THE HEART
If he opens his dammed
painridden heart and loves
the cardiac surgeon won't need to.
SLIPPED FRMO HIS BODY
His voice on the answering machine
His cell phone at odd moments rings
His clean shirts from the laundry arrive.
Aftershave fragrance lingers in bathroom.
His Cuban cigars... linger in the library
His favorite marmelade in the fridge
Books with his signature
Love letters in a box
His imprint on the bedroom mattress
He himself alights in my dreams
BLUE POOL BLACK ROCK
Blue pool's beauty
magnified by black rock fringe
Brown eyes foiled
by blue eyeshadow tinge
BARRIE BURIED BREAD
Barrie with his paws
buried bread in our bedspread
while the wind
Wind buried blueberries
to make berrybushes.
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT
He is kind, not ruthless but ruth.
and has a sacred reverence for the truth.
He's a brilliant detective, a Godgifted sleuth,
supported from New York, to LA, Galveston to Duluth
with a volunteer army of seniors and the youth.
SAINT DICK GREGORY
Nonviolence includes not eating animals
he said to Dr. King.
For many moons he has fasted
that 911 truth ring.
He ran across the US on juices..
apple avocado cherries bing
For many years crucified
for the truth that he did bring.
BLACK OP PLANNED BY OUR GOVERNMENT'S SECRET BOSSES
Speaking on national radio show
Coast To Coast
Susan Landauer said
to the host
that the US regime
plans a black op
suitcase bomb
to turn a part of the US
into toast
HUMAN LOONS
Together they fly and float
on the road to God,
giving each other
love unconditional
and fidelity,
sharing each other's joy
shouldering each other's pain
giving each other trust
Love is their tether
Transcending words
are their vows.
TWO LITHIUM POEMS
LITHIUM
Lithium chops off people's highs
as well as their horrible lows.
Lithium is from lithos.
It can turn the kidneys into stone.
It's very dangerous.
It marbleizes bones.
VISION
A woman whose son had been prescribed lithium
by his psychiatrist saw a vision of a priest lifting the host
above his head... then she heard the word 'lithium'.
In the Mass, some priests break off a tiny portion of the
Host to consume, since those who believe in transubstantiation
accept that even a tiny part of the Host is Christ. She felt she
was being told to ask him to take only a small percentage of the
lithium prescribed.
SATURDAY NIGHT
The boat of Night
slipped its moorings
and sailed into
the rays of Morning
DIAMOND FOILS
Diamonds in jewelry store
displayed on grey velvet.
Diamond dewdrops sparkle
on purple violets' velvet.
Diamond stars unshy
on black velvet sky.
It is not the same but
the opposite which
by foil heightens beauty...
-saiom shriver-
