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OCTOBER ORANGE
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Blazing October
orange conflagration
.. the year's
fiery consummation
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TAWNY, TAN, AND TANGERINE
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October when
summer green
turns
tawny, tan and
tangerine
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HARD TRUNK OF SPRUCE
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The hard trunk of spruce
births such gentle jade lace
as from hard industrialists
come sometimes
such gentle children
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JAMES BOND BEE
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James Bond Bee goes
zigzag among the blooms
gathering their wealth
and data perfume
but when it's time
for home
straight not zigzag
is his path oer the green
to his monarch his queen
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EXPENSIVE DETECTIVE
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The paranoid man hired
an expensive detective
who found his wife's fidelity
was not defective
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BRIDE OF THE SUN
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His sea bride by him
is now sunkissed
and slowly he lifts
her veil of mist.
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TAO OVER DOW
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They depress news
of Mad Pig, Mad Lamb,
Mad Chicken, Fish and Cow
that their explosive news
not depress the Dow..
whose path is opposite
to that of the Tao.
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AFRICAN INDIAN INDIAN AFRICAN
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An African Indian
is different from an
Indian African
only in the exterior.
2 temples to the
one indwelling God
have the same
divine flame interior
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CALCIFIED EMPTINESSES
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They collect seashells...
abandoned homes from which
Spirit fled..
and yet
even conchshells...
these calcified emptinesses,
contain
the sound of the sea...
and of the waves' omkar
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INTESTINAL RIBBONS
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to protect the crows
from becoming roadkill
as they peck at dead squirrel
bodies, already roadkill,
one removes to the sideland
not only the cadaver but
the intestinal ribbons
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CULPABLE CROW
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it was the crow who
loved bright shiny things
who stole the woman's
diamond earrings
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COMINGLING COMETS
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in that life they
were starcrossed..
in this life
... starkissed
... they did ignite
more blazing light
than comingling comets
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RUBBLE OF REBEL RABBLE
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do oligarchic capitalists
regard the bodies of fallen
foes as the rubble of rebel
rabble?
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DOES SUN TAKE COFFEE BREAK
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does the sun take
a coffee break?
does he ever uncertainly
sound his silent trumpet rays?
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NEW SHOWERS
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Because of those who have
been tree seed sowers
even parts of the desert
have seen new showers
and the bursting beauty
of rainkissed flowers
fringing and framing
new green bowers
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AQUARIAN HYPOCHONDRIAC
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He, an Aquarian hypochondriac,
could be seen at the ashram
wearing a broadbrimmed hat.
From all its rimpoints
mosquito netting
fell
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LIGHT IS THE ROBE OF GOD
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Light is the Robe of God.
God is the Indweller of all beings.
God is not affected by the evil
done by those God indwells
anymore than the sun is impacted
by his rays' merging with Mother Earth.
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HONEYSUCKLE SPEARS
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When honeysuckle's
new pink spears
burst into fragrant
creamhued spheres
then from far
and from near
bees seeking nectar
approach without fear
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INDIANS FAN
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Dear Wind, be an Indians fan
and their batters' balls
out to the stands fan
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LORDLIGHT
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It is not the shadows
of Lilith but Lordlight
which lilies love
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HENRY VII
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even the fins
of the dauphin of dolphins
were devoured by Henry 7
and his 'royal' kin
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DEAD FUR COATS ATTRACT FLEAS
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Dead fur coats attract
fleas..
Fur is their habitat of
choice......
Not all hear the pleas
of powerless fleas
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CROWS' CROW
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Long ago did crows crow
before roosters
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CIRCLE OF GREEN STARS
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Before the Queen Anne's Lace
can be a circle of white stars, they
are first a circle of green stars
as young souls of all races
take time to mature.
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UNEXPECTED LOVE
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Out of the blue, 'the ship on horizon'
Out of the gloom, the meadowlark trills
Out of the dark, the sun is a risin
Out of despair, unexpected love chills
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PLEA OF THE WIND
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Please, Wind, love the baby birds
Keep them in their nests
Don't let your full power show
when on your rounds you blow
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LILAC DIAMONDS
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Mother Rain left drops
on the lilac
Father Sun turned them
into diamonds   
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FRAGILE FLOWER POTS
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The precise tornado finger of
God threw the woman's metal
chairs into the windows of
her neighbor... next to them
were fragile flower filled pots
... left alone
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TWIG CARRIER
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the twig-carrying father bird
is hurrying home to his aborning
nest
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HALDOL, PAXIL, PROZAC, ZOLOFT ETC
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Haldol turned the man into
a saint... for 4 hours... and
then he became a raving demon.
Pharmaceutical companies have
paid out billions in settlements
to families of nonviolent people
who killed others or themselves
under the influence of these
lethal 'antipsychotic' products
which are psychosis generators.
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DOES SPIRIT REMAIN
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Does Spirit remain
in the innocent little pig's
pork chop remains?
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GOLDEN MEAN
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both excess water.. floods
of wealth
and little water ... drought
of poverty....
do harm
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UNKIDNAPPABLE BREATH
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one cannot kidnap breath...
or cage others' love
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SIREN BLACKEYED SUSANS
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Siren blackeyed Susans
seduce the bees...
but are forced
to their queen bee
them to free
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SHY MEADOWS
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In the presence of the Sun
shy meadows blush with bloom
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LOVE IS NOT SOLD
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Love is not sold
for rubies and gold

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PLUTO AND PERSEPHONE

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In an Ice Palace,
Pluto Winter kidnapped
Persephone River
but now has let her
onward flow
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DAWN CONSORT OF THE SUN
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Dawn, the Consort
of the Sun
her brilliant fan unfolds
... each piece.. a beam of gold

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CLEFT OF GRACE

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In the deep forest
a secret waterfall
A Cleft of Grace
Cascade of 1000 Steps
.. heavenward
ascending staircase
down which grace
descends

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-saiom shriver-