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RANDOM Poems 46

-saiom shriver-

221 GREEN AND OTHER POEMS



"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."



"Reborn, Sappho

wears monks' saffron."



"61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam..

two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of war...drying in the sun."



"They did the little boy turkey named Art... choke

and then served his dead body with artichokes."



"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."



"The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet."



"The tide sent into

the cleft of rock Neptune's

polyfingered hand of

welcome."



"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?"



"The South Wind

has for the evening

donned

jasmine scent."



"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."



"The olive tree is

the altar of Allah.

On it Allah has placed

olives free for all.



May Allah allow none

to alter His altars.

In protecting trees

may no one falter."



"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."



"Enpine the cone! Enoak acorn! Enpear the seed that inner sun

be freed!"



"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."



"They called the wind

lackadaisical..

but because he in freedom blows

the world will never

lack for daisies..



(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of wild lawns)

http://www.epa.gov/greenacres

http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1."



"How do you do?

said the rose to the bee.

On the dewclad rose

said the bee to the rose

I would rather do

than to be."



"He has changed He has grown

No longer bud but Love Fullblown."



"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."



"FOUR FLOWERS



The Sun Arose

in Morning Glory

with His Goldenrod

Wanding Violet

to Rose



(to C and R Davis

of Maryland)."



"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."



"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."



"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?"



"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."



"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."



"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)."



"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."



"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."



"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."



"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."



"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'."



"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.."



"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."



"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."



"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."



"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)."



"Each night the Tree of Nut

out of naught knits neat nuts."



"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."



















LUTHER



Luther was made to

sail a hardship

on stormy 'heresies'

out of which came

a friendship

on democracies.



**

(It is not an endorsement

of his anti Jewish writings

for which the Lutheran church

has apologized to say that

Luther helped democratize the

world by opposing hierarchy.)

(It is not an endorsement

either of his militarism

.. Jesus told Peter to put

down his sword, but during

the 100 years' war, many

Protestants and Catholics

took up swords against each other.)



LUCIFER.. 100 YEARS WAR



The Pope said that

Luther

was linked

to Lucifer

and the Pope,

said Luther,

was linked

to Lucifer.



Lucifer..

bearer of light

It is our

great good luck

that

all beings shed

the light

of the Indwelling

Lux