RANDOM POEMS 49: QUOTES AND POEMS
-saiom shriver-
NO MOW 9
"When there's mowing
butterflies have
no mo wings
Machine deflowerers
remove the petaled
frocks of dandelions
and daisies and dahlias
and turn green tree saplings
into sticks
sending tree souls
to the River Styx
By
doing nothing
nonmowers create
paradise."
*
"When it has the most leaks the Washington boat best floats."
"A champion racehorse at the winning line, unattached, eats the blooms of his victory wreath."
"Harrison and Henry
machinegunned
the stars..
but starlight kept glowing
..yet they gave a new
meaning to 'shooting stars'
as their own stars
continued to climb."
"In India the bloody footprint of Alexander's throne
lasted as long as twigs into the vast sea thrown.
Yet the lords of karma consider his thousands of victims' moans.
The lords of karma consider the elephant graveyard bones."
"Busy bees chased
the bloom chaste
Though
they crawled on her
clothes
her petals unfolded
and those held close
still ever faithful
to the sun
is the everpure rose
Whether her hue
is violet or rose
Whether she grows
in freedom or rows
ever to God
in waves arose
the love perfume
from the heart of the rose."
"Alexander's anger... was there any blame to Aristotle?
Are winesellers guilty for the rage within...
a fermented berry bottle?"
"Arrayed against all
the darkest night
With all the arms
and violent might
comes a rippling ribbon
of dawning slight..
an omnipotent band
of pink sunlight."
"Snow silent swift
as the skydown sifts
and turns cloud gifts
into earthcloud drifts."
"Has made manifest,
God, Weaving Master
the unfolded fan spheres
of each purple aster."
"In the empty chalice of the rivercarved grand canyon
dawn has drawn with gold pink orange light crayons."
"The smoke of frankincense
earth transcends.
On the charcoal campfire
below its smokerise
the steam from
the pot of berry tea
upcurls.
These 3 streams entwine into trinity....
while from the windswept willowwoods
upwings a wren."
"A beautiful child
is sometimes pedophiled
A fancy car does
thieves attract
The loveliest blooms
are sometimes plucked
And beauty by the
rejected attacked."
"Atop the winterbranch
brushes
rests the rising yellow
sunball they painted."
http://www.epa.gov/greenacres
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1."
"Mother carrying child, may your birth be as easy and without fear
as a bubbleblower stick releasing its sphere,
as the full moon rising out of the eastern sea,
as a low branch of the pear tree dropping her present
into a nest of tall grass."
"The trees of life
randomly grow
but the graves of Arlington
are set in rows."
"On pot he looked down at the chicken bones femoral
of innocent birds with lives so ephemeral
and decided from the moment of that day
to attempt nonviolence in every way."
"It snows at sea.. quiet.... falls in flakes * melting designs**
leave form for All."
"As dim cellar caged yams send forth pink roots into the dark
unknown, so do souls facing change stretch in trust to the
future. God has Mother Earth homes for them everywhere."
"Mother cows grieve
for not in distant fragrant groves
but in human bellies their infants' graves
.. while their babes' blood curdles to fat
and adrenalin drenched gravy."
"How do the words
of the Peaceful Master
become the tirades
of warmonger pastors?"
"Herbert Hoover said a chicken in every pot.
Chickens United Against Human Chauvinism and
Repressive Drug Laws say
pot for every chicken."
"An iceberg puts out a match but snowflake does not last in a furnace. Satsang or good company lifts the spirit."
"God
does not dust the summer leaves
nor rake the leaves of fall
She does not mop up deer'
footprints
nor dam the waterfall.
She does not shovel falling snow
She leaves that to the sun's bright glow.
Unmowed She leaves the grass to grow
Unchained She lets the wild wind blow."
"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."
"It does not violet iris perplex that the sun continues
iris petals to purplex."
"Above a battle grey with smoke and crimson with blood in silent
contrast break pastels from the palate of sunrise."
"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."
"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."
"Death is a loved one's transition
to guardian angel."
"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."
"Hitler and Bonaparte
retreated...
by
cold Russian snows defeated
by cold Russian snows
and hot Russian hearts."
"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?"
"The sun looked down and saw dark spots within his aura..
he was upset until he realized that his light blanket
spread over all."
"Dark hairs poke from the corrupt white wigs of high British
judges. Grey hair peeps from the sheep's clothing of wolves.
Blonde hairs of a villain actor protrude from the disguise
of the Indian hero he plays. Red hair falls beneath the mask
of a dancer at the masquerade ball."
"The horse has his hooves
The lion his claws
The porcupine: quills
The skunk: his smell.
Powerless are these
against my rifle
thinks the trophy seeking
hunter,
unaware he's been
struck by lightning
until he hears
God's thunder."
"Bee-cloven fields of clover
delight in their sun lover
for cloudclad skies have
rained away
and they feel him now oerhover
As he lay in these fields bee-cloven
Songs came swiftly to Beethoven."
"A message bottled within each sparkling sunbeam..
'no harm, no foul' because it's a dream."
"Dreams are
messages in a bottle
washed upon our shores
from the ocean of God
They are
script of the night
seeded by angels."
"Awakening: into shards the
dreams have shattered
.. the pain
in the dream
... has not mattered."
"A single positive thought..
a wellwishing sliver
diverted the flow of
a mighty river.
A single silent
jadegreen light
empowered a line
of awesome truck might.
A single band of pink
dawning light
pushed back the entire
greyblanket of night."
"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."
"One need not the foes of light vanquish.
As the dawn slowly breaks, they silently vanish."
"He needn't reach the stars..
stars' light reaches him..
He needn't climb to God.
Inside him .. Elohim."
"Leo is transfigured.
As if to an airport
bees come and go round
their home within the
lion's carcass.
Ego dead, only sweetness
remains."
"The word of Jesus says
we must love our enemies.
The word of God says
we must love our neighbors
as ourselves.
Those who accept the above
2 commandments must love
their enemies as themselves.
our."
"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."
"Faith moves mountains. Truth soars over them at the speed of light."
"Mother Earth has knitted strong knots in the faithful blue
forget me nots."
"For love the model forsook the runway
From that shallow world she did run away.
Her love awaited at the airport Monday
.. and that eve they taxi'd down the runway."
"When day's azure blues become eve's purple hues
then blues are violet."
"Jesus said to consider the lilies of the field.. they toil not nor spin. God's sun does the spinning for them."
"Unconsciously in breathing in a peony, she stepped on a dandelion."
"As a deluded sword thinks it slices beams of the sun
so do the unforgiving believe they have been harmed."
"I ask you tenderly
to grant me clemency
as polluted rivers' tendencies
are purified in clement sea."
"Love, not force, rides the horse."
"Released from confinement
in the karmic ark
On the blue page of sky
the wings of the lark
I love you wrote
with invisible arc."
"He believed in phalaphilia
and was therefore a phalaphile
It pleased him immensely that
he need not follow in single file."
"Begins to emerge the bubble
From the bubble blowing spear
but not til it leaves.. without fear
will it be a perfect sphere."
"The strong branches of an old apple tree
can support two tons of apples free
but only Mother Earth can hold
pumpkin spheres of growing glowing gold."
"beachcombing sea
gives more than
she takes
as she secedes."
"God's aiding souls help us gain control
As ants help unroll the purple peony's scroll."
"He who did vi'let luster
the vinegraped cluster
sent the sweet rainduster
to gleam the fields of mustard."
"After innumerable lives, the eggshell of the star pattern
breaks open, and a soul is born into selfmastery."
"The ocean:
rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars
.. only by great masters trod, only written on by God."
"Overarcing the entire sky
..a 7 hued rainbow..
Gate of Heaven..
.. we, Rainbow Catchers,
stand between the brilliant
setting sun and His projected
Promise."
"News of
the arrival
of hate's new rival
As pink
dawn approached
night feared his survival."
"The Grace rain follows
dry river bed hollows
Soon are new shallows
.. then deeps do all hallow."
"O Lord to You we give thanks
that in time Polish horses ... defeat Nazi tanks."
"Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunder
and made them vibrate.. empathic in pain."
"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 left 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
tabernacle'd godlet seed
Shattered that it might manifest
thousand forests of fir tree
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)."
"Subterranean streams will upwell. Thus tart fruit sweetens
and swells."
"Subterranean
streams will upwell.
Thus tart fruit
sweetens and swells."
"Sailors as they glide
take the North Star as their guide
The Magi in the desert
with Bethlehem's light did abide.
Spiritual aspirants take holy
ones as their guiding stars.
But you can be led by
the Star of the Third Eye Inside."
"As in the dark purple of the night
appears Milky Way: starry path of light
As in the crimson of the Red Sea waters
God makes a way for His sons and daughters
so does God every day
give supplies and show the way."
"Used to water
trees and plants
the dirty glass
is also cleansed.
Love flowing through
to the loved
washes
the lover."
"the noun weed has been made into
a verb.. weeding..which means to kill weeds, kill the noun..
as if humaning meant a murderer or
childing meant to slaughter a child... weeding is plant racism."
"We have nothing to offer
you.. say the cows of
their gravy.. but our
blood, sweat, and tears.
(cows' blood.. contains
sweat or uric acid.. pre urine.. trioxypurine
correlated to heart problems and to arthritis
It contains adrenal protein enzyme fright hormones
as terrorized animals hear the screams of their
fellows being butchered.. these protein enzymes chains
have some links broken
http://www.pcrm.org
by cooking but many remain intact so that eating meat
is the biochemistry of eating anger and violence)."
"Encroacher, Gatecrasher,
Intruder, Trespasser
... nonwords to the limitless
Heart of the Master."
"No longer was birds' dawn warbling thrillspill
scotched by Valmiki's thoughtless killskill."
"CLOVER VEIL
A clover veil..
violets the vale
neith skies cloudclad
or when ultraviolet
sun prevails."
"Knowing that frogfear is engendered by horsehooves,
Pegasus grew wings."
"Underground corpses had fewer rights
thought Sherlock
than the ferns' shy locks
or dewjewelled shamrocks."
"Shed no green blood from Godgrown plants."
"They called wild violet a weed
though it was satellite bee'd
and scotched these purple fragilities
with unconscious facility."
"Harm no being
no weed bug or tree
says the fatbellied
son of Parvati.
Harm no fir, elm or neem..
not mango nor Mahaganesh'
mahogany
*Mahaganesh: Great Ganesh: Ganesh is God in the aspect
of remover of obstacles, creative intelligence, etc."
"The bullies of nuclear nonproliferation say
nine nations can have their nukes.. but none else.
Let them disarm now."
"If the world contained one sheet of paper
it being Shakespeare's original writing
Picasso would it erase
that he could ink the space."
"When God's green grows it's rarely in rows
Awry the rye rises .. unruly the rose."
"We gave him a pitcher. He gave us the sea."
"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."
"Within each acorn
are infinite oaks
which can cover the world
with jadeleafed cloak."
"Ten fingers calyx the chalice, assuming its spherical cup."
"All shed blood is innocent blood, whether it is the red blood of a soldier, a hunted animal, or the green blood of a tree killed for
his wood or because he is in the way of someone's desire."
"The boats which to their slaughter ship sheep are never shipshape."
"Some like earthworms eat dirt and die.
Others like caterpillars become butterflies."
"Only because the little one was cold, she was able cradling the Christmas cricket in her palm to take him inside to a warm plant room."
"It is the rosebush who
is the throne of thorns.
Above their spears in
dawning light
shine myriad blooms reborn."
"Her intution is
highly
honed
but she fears it
like a guardian angel
she is muzzling."
"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 !!!!!!!!"
"Bursting blooms of bluebonnet
to the sun sing silent sonnets
while yonder there a flute
of beetlebored bamboo .....
the wind plays upon it."
"The mirror finds many different personalities projected onto her
by passersby."
"Totally corrupt is an unelected system of legality
which allows torture of animals and the inflicting of lethality."
"TWO TEXAS WOMEN
Two Texas women, married
to warwaging cattleranchers..
maintaining painful silence in public
but in private Lady Bird
and Laura B
make their gentle oases
of prairie grasses
and bluebonnets
.. Indian paintbrush
and other bloomsonnets
starstrewn fields reflecting
the sky
fenced away from the
slaughterhouse-bound hooves
of gentle cows."
"As sun sets and in quiet
eve drops
a gentle rain now from
eaves drops
Angels unbidden on Eve's soul
eavesdrop
rejoicing as guilt
finally... Eve drops."
"Welldressed and of controlled demeanor
are those who prosecute small misdemeanors
.. yet are their souls oft colder and meaner."
"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."
"By dawn drawn,
dandelion down
is falling down
falling down."
"He had an appointment
with Death in Samarra
but because he had a
quickened Sahasrara
it was joyful to cross
the Sea of Samsara...
he was not a tiny samara
destined for struggle
in the Sahara."
"Within their 6 point jails
the snowflakes..
Not yet does light
bedeck
them with her flecks
nor do they dance
in streammelt's flux
.. but in the spring
they, warmer, will quench
the thirst of phlox
and sparkle on the wool
of now freed flocks."
"When comes eternal noon?
When soul turns around
each no... to on."
"Bee-cloven fields of clover
delight in their sun lover
for cloudclad skies have
rained away
and they feel him now oerhover."
"Truth spreads quietly and as easily as morning
light beams fill the chalice of the skybowl. It resonates
in every heart."
"Candle flame fear not
results if you ignite
the snuffed candle's
reborn light."
"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."
"My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago
Saiom Shriver."
"HEART PERFUME
A rose fullblown
is the opentoall heart
.. fragrance flows from it
.. the perfume of love."
"God is Love Love is God
and since God is omnipresent
so is Love."
"Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for her magnetizes to your home those who love every heart."
"Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.
(typo corrected)."
"The bulldozers of builders and bombers rape Mother Earth
and her sentient trees... is called treeson."
"The Ohio River after the rain
Has a long sparkling wedding train
Merging in her mate Mississippi
Together they flow on to the main."
"A bottled message
comes ashore
while unbottled
the sea wavelets
murmur
'they will love
you evermore'."
"The ice sculpture fish melted into his waters of completion."
"As sunset brushes all with luminescent gold, so does time
make old friendships more sacred each year."
"Mercy's statute of
limitation: time
melts the cross...
erases the crime."
"How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes."
"God who freed
from fruit the seed
can pick a pear
from a baby tree.
God who sired
the hallowed fig
does harvest fruit
from a barren sprig.
God made blooms pastel
and bright fruits
and can a kumquat take
from a tree of quince.
Who made Pluto and
the Pleiades
can pluck a plum
where there is no tree."
"How are the gold sun
brown earth
crystal rain
and blue sky
wanded into
the crimson orbs
of apply
Northern spies?"
"Meditation is cookie deletion.
Exorcism is a form of dumping spyware from computers."
"We too can turn water into unfermented purple wine
by watering now our greenleaved allgiving grape vines."
"Wages now
A might fight
between mammon and manna
.. the dark versus
the power of light."
"Tied to the floating moon many beams of moonlight
Many strings has this one glowing silver kite.."
"Moon circles in orb that God has laid.
The sun means not moonlight to fade
though by his glow the sky is dayed."
"You are the nectar, the hummingbird, the clover.
You are the bloom, the
bee, the OerHoverer.
You are the child, the bond and the mother.
You
are the Love, the Beloved, the Lover.
(to our mother)."
"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 poet's long rainbow
of words
play our heartstrings from afar."
"As he lay in
fields bee-cloven
songs came swiftly
to Beethoven."
"Over the concave rivercarved quarry
night arched explosively starry
Grand Canyon .. magnificent sunrise
Void and rain birth rainbow surprise
Saiom Shriver."
"Weeding is plant racism."
"The chalice is ephemeral.
Jesus' blood eternal."
"Those who glory in war
as did Alfred Tennyson
have more often
been deerslayers
turning creatures into venison."
"Thank you dear reader
that you to life ignite
these fallen words
with your holy eyelight."
"end the cycle of violence... put immediate
total brakes on any wheel of violence."
"The Light of God pours from all Eyes. The Love of God
shines in all Eyes."
"That Da Vinci
ate no plants or
animals
some think laudable
He knew the carrot's
screams
were faint but
to him
audible."
"Does the conch shell of Hari sing as sweetly of
omkar when the living conch
was knifed?"
"The sun with light umber
touches vined cucumber
The more he tickles
the more there are pickles."
"It was not a peace officer's rooflight but the sun flashing
hello in the rear view mirror, saying the past of everyone
is holy."
"Jesus' Fig Tree
He did belittle you..
but soon he'll bebig you..
and in the spring
with blooms he will wig you..
in summer he'll summon
a jade garb
to resprig you..
and in the fall
on patient twigs
with fresh fruit
he'll refig you."
"To all beings manifests the mango tree... her manna gently and gradually... Some rest as gifts in high grass baskets."
"A national anthem is not sung
to the violence, greed, or lies
of the past or present
by the rulers of the people
but as homage to the heart of each person
who has ever or will ever live
in the land.
The music of the rain,
the roar of the cataract, the babbling
bubbles of the spring, the muffling
peace of snowfall,
the soothing waves of the sea,
the soughing of winds, the symphony of sunrise
birds, bees' buzzing, baby pigs guzzling are
anthems too, anthems of the Spirit
which quickens all."
"How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart
by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or Bonaparte?"
"The artist loved
to create sunny
paintings full of light
... rainbow swaths of
saffron and lemon..
aqua and lavender
and pink.
But why he thought did
his political thoughts
not match..they
were of red anger or
grey despair about
the illegal war."
"Stormclouds become pears
Rain ripens to raspberries
Dew develops into dates and
fragments of fog ... to figs."
"Carved in his soul
was the mantra
tomorrow would
bring.. fresh new manna."
"A jeweled whole
the
hexagonal flake
of snow
but God wants it
to melt and flow.
And Star of David
to see in each Godglow
and to merge with all
and grow."
"Lilies of the Valley
are a very different thing
from the Lillys on
the Hill
***
© Saiom Shriver."
"Rigid judgmental
opinions
can block descent
of Spirit's pinions."
"Every dawn a straight rainbow of promise is on the horizon
...heralding each heartsun's rising."
"Out of the sea
the sun aborning
Not adorned but
all adorning
with his awesome light
of morning
says to you
Come! My Mavoorning!"
"The Great Lord can behind her twirl
Vast Universe' gyrating swirl
that her rebellious insurrection
become her glorious resurrection."
"Love is a purifier more sacred than pure fire."
"Do arrows of rain
come
from the rain-bow?"
"Last winter jeweled
snowflakes
aped the flat beetables
of Queen Anne's Lace
falling to the ground
with their muffling grace."
"3 quiets merge..
the silent snowsift
.. night's fall swift
and the stillness
of the wilderness."
"The racist mob
beat the
throngs
gathered for the song
of Paul Robeson
Whitebodied thugs
did not recognize
God when He came
with His black robes on."
"Of a purple eve, the goldglowing church tower clock, both hands at six, in the rain slowly drips on thirsty flowers below."
"Two clouds slowly kissed in the sky. They'll make rain for all by and by."
"Now real are imagination's figments
as the sun does new figs mint."
"Does he say novenas
for those with no venus
(to Dan Brown)."
"tide pool eyes that filled
with what Spirit had oerspilled."
"In this world fruitflies can drown in one drop of dew,
sapling trees can be crushed by 1 boot, and the hopes of
a child can be dashed by a few words."
"Unconscious
children ambling down
a garden path
decapitating daisies
are the promiscuous..
leaving a trail of broken hearts
sooner or later
all of us
..hundredth lambs..
begin to feel
the winged
touch of angels."
"He feared he must pass on his empowering baton but when he looked..
lo.. it became a torch.. giving to others its blaze entire
while keeping for him all its holy fire."
"As fearsome as the bite of a snapdragon
is the anger of a saint."
"Birds chirp and cheep above the school chapel, for Chips
no longer serves chops to the chaps."
"Under the rays of the ocean moon
one sees the rocky temple of Neptune.
The temple is gray but its deity
sea is blue.
The temple is frozen in form.. the
sea is flexible and formless.
The temple has fallen stones
but unchanged is the seathrone."
"As the sea does each drop, all rivers ingather
so flows every soul to God Mother Father."
"Bright sunwands as they unfurl
cause the chrysanthemum to uncurl
.. so cause loverays unbidden
to ope heartchambers long hidden."
"Reading Leviticus a gentle cow found that it is forbidden to consume cloven hoofed animals. Like a WW1 pacifist shooting
himself in the foot, she took an ax to each of her four hooves."
"With thread of pain Saturn weaves veils over the transparent heart... yet do these part to admit the rays of unconditional love."
"As joyful steam spirals above a cup of berry tea
do souls leave their bodies and fly to the Lord."
"Basho taught us the pond has no sound, no refrain..
until violated by a frog, a stone, or fingers of the rain."
"In the sea,
a zillion strong
singing his own song,
each sweet sponge."
"Birds are happy with the branches of a dead
tree on which to rest...dead sticks with which to build a nest."
"Can one snuff the stars
or shoot the sun?
Can one kill God? the
universally indwelling Sun?
Clouds and moon sometimes
block the sun
but no sin is mortal
All reside in
Light
All live in Love Immortal."
"The sea is rhythmically snoring tonight
beneath a blanket of glowing moonlight."
"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."
"The clarified waters of Snowdrop Lake are
made of melted hexagonal snowflakes.
The heart unfrozen with new love flows
as new soulspace does forgiving make."
"The bee does not fly with honey on his wings.. matter is irrelevant where the spirit rings."
"Even should the Buddhist feather brooms wear out, it is
the Wind of Spirit making a clean sweep across all lands."
"The rising moon ball... tossed by the uncaptive Matterhorn seal."
"As they melt away, all icy maledictions
flow into blessing filled valedictions."
"April is aproned with apricot blooms."
"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."
"Apollo the sungod is carried by his steeds
Across the sky at awesome speed
spilling everywhere his blazing fire rays
and pouring out his infinite light seeds."
"Sunshine, rainshowers,
windfans and earthblanket
loved the seed of lilac.
In growing to her purple fragrance
she has not known loss or lack."
"One cannot forfeit
love from
canine fourfoots
who responds to blows
with unconditional love."
"The mind's thoughts are clouds
gray or white in hue
The master's consciousness
is a sky of blazing blue."
"War profiteer cartels
and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime
are called The United States
by warwhore news teams.
Everywhere including
peace loving Schenectady
the American people
dislike such synecdoches."
"NOAM CHOMSKY
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."
"A lie has wings of wax
In the sun they do not wax."
"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."
"Crocodiles shed crocodile tears which blend with riverdrops
when they are underwater. They cry perhaps when they are hunted."
"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
they said
as they carpe'd Diem
(Diem of Vietnam, murdered
in a coup)."
"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."
"God make the sight
of a rose enthrall
Harris County prosecutor
Chuck Rosenthal
that he dismantle
the killing halls
that he dismantle
the killing halls."
"Dawn's breaking quiet... begets bees' buzzing riot."
"The room with the most precious gems, gold, other precious metals
and securities has the least airflow. The heart with the most
ambition has the least surrender."
"rays of dawn light..
they need not fight
the sunless night
as their swords bright
fill earth's grail
with ageless delight."
"Fragrant fireweed fringes firehydrant."
"a fireworks of exploding lime..
a waterfall of jade grace:
water has yielded
to the will of the willow
planted by the spring in spring."
"Angelsent white winter snow
helped by North Wind kindly blow
veils the white hunted doe
from her bow and arrow foes."
"Job trees of January continue to lift their arms in prayer
though they are powerless, unable to speak or move, their leaves stolen."
"Ivy violet with the violent vies not."
"The inebriated woman fell asleep in the snow.
Touched by Father Winter in the dead of the night
she awakened to find his kiss of frostbite,
and began to climb 'one step at a time'
abstention's awesome heights."
"Healing is God's projection of God's own perfection."
"One said that
the posies
were sham posers
.. ignored him
the posies
and kept on posie-ing."
"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."
"He was alive
because on that day
in Niijima
the skies were gray
(a student came up to an
American teacher of English
in Japan and told her he was born
on Aug 6, 1945 in Niijima. Because
of overcast skies, Nagasaki was
selected as the 2nd target for
the only reported atom bomb
dropped on a human population)."
"Miracle Point:
The lion skull in the desert
shelters a bee hive.
Sea water through the aeons
has made of rock a rookery.
Suffering has carved new
caves in the heart.
In Tara's empty space
miracles take place."
"She was forced to walk the plank into the ocean of her Self."
ZIMBABAWAY
Zim Baba way
Zim Baba way
Zim Baba way
all hearts beat as one
all hearts in unison
all hearts in unisong