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QUEEN ANNE'S LACE TWO



A table on which the bees

may sup

For them by His grace

God has raveled out of

space

a table which has merged

with its

cloth of lace



QUEEN ANNE'S LACE I



Queen Anne's Lace

Sun's crystallized grace.

Her roots go much deeper

to the waters of God

She is able to weave

pure lace out of sod.



(to Gale Hudson)







STEVE GLEASON



Starlets' taxi driver

Author of "Valerie'

Loving and good father

Fighter for liberty.



Middle East expert

Eyes of bluegreen fire

Poetsoul of Isle of Eire

all saints' hagiography



No stars exist

where he ought to be

to outline his perfect form

No suggested symmetry

inside which to conform



He is unbounded joy

infinite space

He is living forever

He is love unlaced



He is Godward desire

Jesus' heart burning

Melted his yearning

In the father embraced





N AND M



If en and em make verbs from nouns

as in 'enjoy' and in 'embark'

and if love moves to verbs from

grounded nouns

as the rooted become winging larks

so N and M are synonyms for Lovers

... they are the first initials

of my mother



CRICKET CHOIRS



Cricket choirs

Concerts of toads

Solos by the nightingale

and the meadowlark



counterpointed by

the inexhaustible throat

in the song of the brook

and the bee's buzz

ambling through blooms amber



WILL TO JOY



Out of the caged

parakeet songs to the sun trill

Out of the men on the chain gang

pain made music spills

How much more should the free

to spread cheer love and joy.... will





ILLUSORY EPITAPH



Are all gravestone epitaphs

reductionist insults

to the infinite love

once caged in that body..



Whether it was in bud form

or blooms full blown

it is love

which now is free



BEYOND THE BLACKBERRY BRIERS



Beyond the blackberry briars

which bar barristers

and the wild rose thorned barriers

do blackbirds upwing



(upwinger: a word from F M Esfandiary,

Persian poet)







FORGIVE BECAUSE



He forgave all when

he realized that all lines

of every human being actor

were written by the

Divine Playwright



(sparked by Sai Baba's line

'the actor who slapped you on stage

waits behind the curtain to

congratulate you on your performance')





IS NEARLY EVERY PEARL PURLOINED?



Untimely ripped from the cloisters

of most innocent oysters

is nearly every

pearl

purloined?

The oyster suffers when the

pearl is made

and suffers more when

his lots are divided amongst others..

his jewelry stolen

his flesh consumed.



UNDER COVER



May and Mother Earth has

gone under cover

hiding herself neath fields

of daisy and clover



SLOW LEARNER III



Great poets have

tried to teach with levity

that rhythm and rhyme

are as important as brevity



HITLER'S CONCERT



If Hitler heard concerts

and then waged war

the music pacific

was not with message

sufficiently specific



If a bombdropper writes poems

of sunrise skies amber

1 room in his cerebrum

speaks not to another

brain chamber

THE SEA IS WAVING



The sea is waving.

Is it a hello or a goodbye?

It is up to each to decide.



HIVE OF MY HEART



In the hive of my heart, unstolen from bees, is stored my

infinite love for you.



LOVE NOT FORCE



Love not force rides the free horse



SOUNDS OF MANY WATERS



Rain drumming on the roof

but softly dripping

from the leaves

Frozen snow

soundless drops

Quiet the great river

flows near the sea.



Over stones the singing

brook

the waterfall's

constant roar

The lapping of the

boat rocked lake

Waves doing omkar

to the shore



(Baba said the waves

are ever engaged in omkar

or the repetition of Om))



WEAVER OF LEAVES



Oh God who weaves

evaporating leaves

and knits the mist

into fluffy clouds

rain now where

mercy calls for You

*

DAWN FRAMES



Dawn frames the ebony sky of night with

a pink fringe

*

CALLA LILY



Lovely leelas for every calla lily

has the Lord of Light

while the wind sings lullabies

to each lilac.. every eve and night



SOUND OF THE SEA



in the conch the sound of the sea

and endless pears contained in pear seed

in the tidal pool are caught the stars

in the eyes the light of God

*

NIGHT OUTS THE STARS



Night outs the stars. Each falls in love with his

own light, realizing he need no other.



WRITE'



One was a gifted playwright

Another performed

priestly rites

A third worked for

the underclass' rights

A fourth did

letters to prisoners write.



(to the extended family of

Jean and Joan Wright)



© Saiom Shriver



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SEED CREED



Within each seed

is his own creed

unfolding as

sunsparked

and freed.



Within each heart

a loving creed

affirming rights

of every weed.