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Fly Rights And Other Poems
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A Fellow Creature FLY RIGHTS
Those whose hearts
care about fly rights
are given angel help
in learning to fly right
(to Issa, the Haiku poet
of Japan who wrote
Yare utsu na
hai ga te wo suri
ashi wo suru.
or
Don't Strike That Fly
Wait! Don't strike that fly!
he's wringing his hands there
and wringing his feet.
(Some say Issa's name is derived from ichi one.. and the
Japanese word for tea.. but Isa is the Tibetan
name for Jesus.. Japan's Buddhism came by way of China)
GOD LAID HIM LOW
God laid him low with a cruel illness
and in time he found a divine stillness
In its forced turning
in its pained churning
being not acting was
its holy learning
this empowered center
of sacred
surrender
and though he was healed
its lessons
he remembers
POISONED APPLE
By the abandoned
crystal casket
of Sleeping Beauty
are groves of trees
ignited by the
poisoned apple's seeds
And in the empty
Trojan Horse
have birds made their nests
BIRD OF PREY
A bomber over Iraq
.. or Afghanistan
.. a bird of prey
.. its semen.. bombs
-saiom shriver-
