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Grey sea and grey skies are one... yet does the sudden
crimson sailed boat give hope and perspective.
ART
As he aged he read only poetry, a bee supping on nothing but
nectar, an angel sipping ambrosia.
*
hexagonal are honeycombs and snowflakes
and the columns in the Giant's Causeway that basalt makes
and round Saturn's north pole it is not his rings
but a sixpointed hexagon which does Jupiter brake
*
April south wind stirs October leaves of red into a mobile
with no visible threads
*
Unlike a freshman's trunk, overpacked, clothes spilling out,
the epigrams of Gore Vidal... have a world in few words.
BEAUTY
Fragrant fireweed fringes fire hydrants.
*
The comet's tail, an orange light trail.
*
Under gold dandelion parasols, beetles lie in the beach
of green grass, looking at the blue skysea beyond.
*
several lamps make a shack lovely.. more than a dark palace
as the light of the holy makes any face beautiful
*
In the folds of the fields Mother Earth has
.. phlox.. foaled... she has phlox unfolded
*
The spider web dewjeweled and studded with samara stars
..has not done harm
*
The secret spring, the aquifer.. helps the knitting
of new needles for the aqua fir
*
As Michelangelo's vision of David's divinity freed him
from his marble block, so women of size plumpkin can
free themselves from their body coach of pumpkin
*
Flowering grass spire, dew-wanded, a green exclamation point!
COURAGE
I hid behind the wall but my more courageous shadow.. . showed herself.. and
walked up the ladder.
EFFORTLESS
The way of yielding water.. flowing.. being never preaching
is the teaching of the ancient I Ching
*
Some cherrypick. Some plumpluck but Newton was given
an apple windfall
*
What are the jobs of appletrees? To breathe and to be
.. while apples come automatically.
*
Can only the wind surf the grass seas?
*
Infinite drops of rain gathered by river trains, now remain
in the bowl of sea main.
ENDURING
In the meadows pink lupins. In the forest, green Lew pines
For a much longer time, last the fir shrines.
EQUITY
The horse has run her heart out for her 'owner''s bank
account.. and her reward? the slavery of a stall
ETERNAL
Angels threw an etheric butterfly net over him.
Reverse lepidopterists, they from the body's cocoon
set his butterfly soul free from earth's room
*
As bells chime when someone enters or exits a bookstore
so Spirit sometimes makes music when souls come or go
from a body
*
Every River Styx is a River Phoenix, the soul either touching
down into a new and better form or returning forever to
the kingdom of ecstasy
FORGIVING
Two branches of the same river of God approach
a cliff. Rocks cause the foes each other diametrically to oppose. As they roar
over its side, unhurt they emerge as one,
some drops rising as mist to bless riparian trees.
FORM
Humankind prefers vessels from which to sip infinity
... gobles from which to sup eternity.
GIVING
watering apple trees in spring each act of charity returns amplified and summer
is in the fall applefied.
His mind does not bookkeep. His mind does not measure.
To give of heart treasure is his greatest pleasure.
GRACE
It is good luck to feed birds in flight
that they need not slow down nor alight
*
The Grace rain follows dry river bed hollows.
Soon are new shallows.. then deeps do all hallow
*
A gathering of grey cloud mass.. communion rain for
animals birds bugs trees and grass
*
as desert shadows are more defined than those of the woods
so the separation between good and evil is greater there
*
Raincloud flotilla, float not idly by, but rend yourself
with lightning... that your grace fall from the sky
*
June 21st: night's requiem is warbled by the robin's reveille
HUMILITY
The heaviest fruit grows on pumpkin vines in horizontal and not vertical
lines... Near the ground the humble and prolific
their green umbilical cords entwine
INTERFAITH
Allah bless you and all in each and all ways... now and always.
God answers to all names by which called.
On an Asheville spring hillside.. the divine lamplighter
ignited the mountain laurel's purple candelabra.. with her
constant praise to the Son and Abba
O Ganga in Bangladesh may you never again be the goddess of
death.
The same God who spins cotton for ephods out of sod can
reknit any bone.. and make crying babies nod
LOVE
She is my sister and of all who come her way the assister.
Eventually most find that God is Universal Love
does not mean to be polygamous, polyamorous or polyandrous.
*
Arthur could remove from a stone a sword but Bea
can turn a rock liquefy with her aura and words.
*
Some human beings frighten the birds. They are animaated scarecrows, but there
are others who attract them near and far.
They are carecrows.
*
The Lord of Love laves his lilies in light.. and lets
dandelions and leaves of ivy alone to live
*
Sleeping Beauty is awake inside each being, but some of us
need the kiss of unconditional love to know we are made of love
MATE LOVE
Radiovoice comes in at night as through the window
streams starlight.. uplifting as the boat which pops
oer the horizon into sight.
It is each heart-mind which decides how strong or nonexistent
are the rings of saturn.
*
Is fickle Cupid the most prolific of all muses of poetry?
MEDITATION, PRAYER
The sun does nothing but meditate.. yet flow his rays
in 360 cubed ways. He is focused on one point, but his energy
transforms..all points.
*
As he saw.. his fears were allayed..for there was the sun
in mornlight arrayed.. there were the trees with springblooms sprayed....
answered were the
prayers.. that he had prayed
*
Sunrise does night shadows shatter.. for all sre Spirit
not their bodies' matter
*
Knowing that if he took any more animals in his ark would
sink, he began to pray.
*
MIRACLES
Who heralds the trinity of sun of rain and grapevine as they
daily turn cloudgift into wine
MOTHERING
Unlike the queen bee who stayed in 1 place because her
wings were clipped by honey thieves, the mother bird
stayed during the forest fire because her babies could
not fly.
NATURE
Redwoods: faithful silent sentries.. standing for millenia
not centuries
NONVIOLENCE
Lambs go more quietly to their murder than pigs. Pigs fight
hard against the knife wielders.
He stopped fishing for reasons of mercy
and saved himself from radiation, worms, lead and mercury.
She defends not only underdogs but undercats, undercows,
and underpigs, underchickens and underfishes.
At their wedding, the in love couple said
'til death do us part'. He was drafted to an illegal war.
It was 'friendly fire' did them part.
A meditative Sufi ring is less likely to suffocate fishes or cause their
suffering.
Butchers unthinkingly smash the hour glasses of mammals' lives.
*
The trash truck comes around, its treeslapping height
leaving a mobile of severed spring leaves in its wake.
*
NASA secreted hundreds of mice into
the hold of the shuttle. Each was a spacemouse.. each was
a scapemouse.
*
Seldom are birdwatchers seen... in factory farms
How many daisies does a daisy cutter bomb cut?
PATIENCE
Mother bird, why worry. Don't scurry. Don't hurry. No flurry.
Your babies... they are safe.
PEACE
The wind lullabies the lilac looms and fireflies
OTHER
* River carved Grand Canyon.. a master's oils attempt to capture you as well as
child's crayons
* Oh tree of pine, your branches are wider on the bottom, but...
SUN
Behind sparkling fountain waters sinking climb
higher the rays of the giving sun king. We need not seek him.
He comes to us.
The sun wears no dark glasses. He has nothing to hide
and is not threatened by his own light.
The meditating sun is to Marty Solomon of Wake Forest
*
sword from stone is
to Bea Arthur and her
universal compassion
*
Undercats is to Kathleen S
*
Jobs of Apples is to
Steve Jobs
*
His mind does not bookkeep is to John
Scott Wegener who has
left for God.
Carecrow is to E&N
Lew Pines is to Lew R
As I typed B) to Philip
B I saw that a smiley
face in dark glasses
came up.
Waterfall is to the people
of the US and Canada,
Asheville mountain laurel
is to K Hart
*A 1400 pound pumpkin
has been grown.
*
Dawn defeats night.
Visible are traintracks,
tide traces, and snailtrails.
*
Artist sun the canvas
cover snow unveils
and babyforest pinecone
gifts in his light reveals
*
Gatecrasher sun invades
the parties of the predawn still
sending legions of rays oer the windowsills
killing vampires with weaponless skill.
Everywhere his power spills
*
The jade willow
roots winnow
the wee watered
minnows.
**
He spied her seated by a river
neath silver moon's myriad slivers
For him Cupid plucked arrow
from his quiver
and struck now her
heart aquiver
*
In last autumn's meadows'
luster
we saw
a cluster
of empty acorn caps all on
1 stem
*
... a sapling tree hanging with silvery paper
full
moons...... Japanese lanterns
*
a barberry bush with saffron leaves.....
on its branches hang rows of crimson raindrops...
as if the bombing raids of the distant war
had rained blood here
*
goldenrod.... now cotton wands
*
the wind blows the cattails
.. everywhere their floating trails
*
numbers adding up to nine
are He says.. the most divine
but one prefers 10 quarters to nine
when standing in cafeteria lines
*
milkweed seeds.. tiny wayside shrine niches...
at their bottoms, rows of perfect brown scales...
at the top.. silky seeds wrapped more perfectly
than any parachute
GOD THE INDWELLING SUN
This answered his spiritual
parent
to the random doubt of one of
his
querants:
God is entire in each being
inherent
despite ephemeral veiling
storm clouds errant
*
as brief as an illuminating flash of lightning, or the
flash of sun from behind a cloud, a wink
'across a crowded room', briefer than the dew upon the rose
or raindrops sliding down leaves
*
OUR MOTHER NELL
Nearing the sea we
breathe her salt smell
Hearing wave music weaves
peaceful spells.
We listen to the Om
in each conch shell
from Atlantic's isles
to Indian
Seychelles.
Stars glow in each
tide pool swell
and rainbow'd clamshells
where the
wee no longer dwell.
Constant love in
the heart upwells
Love given to us by
our mother Nell.
SEALIFT
The clouds downshift
The clouds downsift
white snow so swift
to silent drifts
Quiet reigns
where snow did rain
and Peace comes now
in snow's train
But then sun frees
each flakefreeze
from ice prisons
to flow adrift
As flow gathers
to currents sure
All see the goal:
God's sea as gift
Til finally
light's rays of amber
smash the ice's
jailing chambers
And now sea
drops of mist
the sun evaporates
and to sky lifts
(to Jimmy E)
CREATION MELODIES
Birds' and crickets' chorus
Frogs and brooklets' hymns
All creation singing
their great love of Him
(to just arrived Melissa)
RIVER PHOENIX
Fishes' coats of mails
their seascales
did not protect them
from human males
but at the base
of the falls
the river is phoenix
to each and to all
(to River Phoenix)
*
Oer the graveyard
of elephants
slaughtered for ivory
now grows
jade sin-obscuring ivy
(to D's friend T Spivey)
*
Why worry if the fleas bite us?
They cut cholesterol and
reduce phlebitis.
*
Transmuted scorpio's sanctuary is the Spirit Eagle's aerie.
*
Near Bethlehem was born the leader Yasser Arafat.
He was killed but his soulark soared.... far from Ararat.
*
Reborn... Sappho... wears monks' saffron
and glows with soulfire greater than 1 million sapphires
*
Homer's 'rosyfingered dawn',
Though her rays slipped by
the Morning Star, has found
that Venus remains
a wedding ring on her finger,
even as her beams entwine
other
bright orbs.
*
Schumann said that after a series of painful ear explosions he began
to record the angelic music he heard. Those of us who merely describe
the magnificent sights God sets before our eyes....are we poets? or
merely secretaries?
-Saiom Shriver-
97
Notes:
The meditating sun is to Marty Solomon of Wake Forest
*
sword from stone is
to Bea Arthur and her
universal compassion
*
Undercats is to Kathleen S
*
Jobs of Apples is to
Steve Jobs
*
His mind does not bookkeep is to John
Scott Wegener who has
left for God.
*
Why worry if fleas bite us is to Richard Nixon,
framed not for war but for the good he was planning
and his 'temerity' in having an FBI man investigate
Kissinger
*
Carecrow is to E&N
Lew Pines is to Lew R
As I typed B) to Philip
B I saw that a smiley
face in dark glasses
came up.
Waterfall is to the people
of the US and Canada,
Asheville mountain laurel
is to K Hart
*A 1400 pound pumpkin
has been grown.
ACTION
Grey sea and grey skies are 1... yet does the sudden
crimson sailed boat give hope and perspective.
ART
As a youth he read only poetry, a bee supping only on
nectar, an angel sipping ambrosia.
*
hexagonal are honeycombs and snowflakes
and the columns in the Giant's Causeway that basalt makes
and round Saturn's north pole it is not his rings
but a sixpointed hexagon which does Jupiter brake
*
April south wind stirs October leaves of red into a mobile
with no visible threads
*
Unlike a freshman's trunk, overpacked, clothes spilling out,
the epigrams of Gore Vidal... have a world in few words.
BEAUTY
Fragrant fireweed fringes fire hydrants.
*
The comet's tail, an orange light trail.
*
Under gold dandelion parasols, beetles lie in the beach
of green grass, looking at the blue skysea beyond.
*
several lamps make a shack lovely.. more than a dark palace
as the light of the holy makes any face beautiful
*
In the folds of the fields Mother Earth has
.. phlox.. foaled... she has phlox unfolded
*
The spider web dewjeweled and studded with samara stars
..has not done harm
*
The secret spring, the aquifer.. helps the knitting
of new needles for the aqua fir
*
As Michelangelo's vision of David's divinity freed him
from his marble block, so women of size plumpkin can
free themselves from their body coach of pumpkin
*
Flowering grass spire, dew-wanded, a green exclamation point!
COURAGE
I hid behind the wall but my more courageous shadow.. . showed herself.. and walked up the ladder.
EFFORTLESS
The way of yielding water.. flowing.. being never preaching
is the teaching of the ancient I Ching
*
Some cherrypick. Some plumpluck but Newton was given
an apple windfall
*
What are the jobs of appletrees? To breathe and to be
.. while apples come automatically.
*
Can only the wind surf the grass seas?
*
Infinite drops of rain gathered by river trains, now remain
in the bowl of sea main.
ENDURING
In the meadows pink lupins. In the forest, green Lew pines
For a much longer time, last the fir shrines.
EQUITY
The horse has run her heart out for her 'owner''s bank
account.. and her reward? the slavery of a stall
ETERNAL
Angels threw an etheric butterfly net over him.
Reverse lepidopterists, they from the body's cocoon
set his butterfly soul free from earth's room
*
As bells chime when someone enters or exits a bookstore
so Spirit sometimes makes music when souls come or go
from a body
*
Every River Styx is a River Phoenix, the soul either touching
down into a new and better form or returning forever to
the kingdom of ecstasy
FORGIVING
Two branches of the same river of God approach
a cliff. Rocks cause the foes each other diametrically to oppose. As they roar over its side, unhurt they emerge as one,
some drops rising as mist to bless riparian trees.
FORM
Humankind prefers vessels from which to sip infinity
... gobles from which to sup eternity.
GIVING
watering apple trees in spring each act of charity returns amplified and summer is in the fall applefied.
His mind does not bookkeep. His mind does not measure.
To give of heart treasure is his greatest pleasure.
GRACE
It is good luck to feed birds in flight
that they need not slow down nor alight
*
The Grace rain follows dry river bed hollows.
Soon are new shallows.. then deeps do all hallow
*
A gathering of grey cloud mass.. communion rain for
animals birds bugs trees and grass
*
as desert shadows are more defined than those of the woods
so the separation between good and evil is greater there
*
Raincloud flotilla, float not idly by, but rend yourself
with lightning... that your grace fall from the sky
*
June 21st: night's requiem is warbled by the robin's reveille
HUMILITY
The heaviest fruit grows on pumpkin vines in horizontal and not vertical lines... Near the ground the humble and prolific
their green umbilical cords entwine
INTERFAITH
Allah bless you and all in each and all ways... now and always.
God answers to all names by which called.
On an Asheville spring hillside.. the divine lamplighter
ignited the mountain laurel's purple candelabra.. with her
constant praise to the Son and Abba
O Ganga in Bangladesh may you never again be the goddess of
death.
The same God who spins cotton for ephods out of sod can
reknit any bone.. and make crying babies nod
LOVE
She is my sister and of all who come her way the assister.
Eventually most find that God is Universal Love
does not mean to be polygamous, polyamorous or polyandrous.
*
Arthur could remove from a stone a sword but Bea
can turn a rock liquefy with her aura and words.
*
Some human beings frighten the birds. They are animaated scarecrows, but there are others who attract them near and far.
They are carecrows.
*
The Lord of Love laves his lilies in light.. and lets
dandelions and leaves of ivy alone to live
*
Sleeping Beauty is awake inside each being, but some of us
need the kiss of unconditional love to know we are made of love
MATE LOVE
Radiovoice comes in at night as through the window
streams starlight.. uplifting as the boat which pops
oer the horizon into sight.
It is each heart-mind which decides how strong or nonexistent
are the rings of saturn.
*
Is fickle Cupid the most prolific of all muses of poetry?
MEDITATION, PRAYER
The sun does nothing but meditate.. yet flow his rays
in 360 cubed ways. He is focused on one point, but his energy
transforms..all points.
*
As he saw.. his fears were allayed..for there was the sun
in mornlight arrayed.. there were the trees with springblooms sprayed.... answered were the
prayers.. that he had prayed
*
Sunrise does night shadows shatter.. for all sre Spirit
not their bodies' matter
*
Knowing that if he took any more animals in his ark would
sink, he began to pray.
*
MIRACLES
Who heralds the trinity of sun of rain and grapevine as they
daily turn cloudgift into wine
MOTHERING
Unlike the queen bee who stayed in 1 place because her
wings were clipped by honey thieves, the mother bird
stayed during the forest fire because her babies could
not fly.
NATURE
Redwoods: faithful silent sentries.. standing for millenia
not centuries
NONVIOLENCE
Lambs go more quietly to their murder than pigs. Pigs fight
hard against the knife wielders.
He stopped fishing for reasons of mercy
and saved himself from radiation, worms, lead and mercury.
She defends not only underdogs but undercats, undercows,
and underpigs, underchickens and underfishes.
At their wedding, the in love couple said
'til death do us part'. He was drafted to an illegal war.
It was 'friendly fire' did them part.
A meditative Sufi ring is less likely to suffocate fishes or cause their suffering.
Butchers unthinkingly smash the hour glasses of mammals' lives.
*
The trash truck comes around, its treeslapping height
leaving a mobile of severed spring leaves in its wake.
*
NASA secreted hundreds of mice into
the hold of the shuttle. Each was a spacemouse.. each was
a scapemouse.
*
Seldom are birdwatchers seen... in factory farms
How many daisies does a daisy cutter bomb cut?
PATIENCE
Mother bird, why worry. Don't scurry. Don't hurry. No flurry.
Your babies... they are safe.
PEACE
The wind lullabies the lilac looms and fireflies
OTHER
* River carved Grand Canyon.. a master's oils attempt to capture you as well as child's crayons
* Oh tree of pine, your branches are wider on the bottom, but...
SUN
Behind sparkling fountain waters sinking climb
higher the rays of the giving sun king. We need not seek him.
He comes to us.
The sun wears no dark glasses. He has nothing to hide
and is not threatened by his own light.
The meditating sun is to Marty Solomon of Wake Forest
*
sword from stone is
to Bea Arthur and her
universal compassion
*
Undercats is to Kathleen S
*
Jobs of Apples is to
Steve Jobs
*
His mind does not bookkeep is to John
Scott Wegener who has
left for God.
Carecrow is to E&N
Lew Pines is to Lew R
As I typed B) to Philip
B I saw that a smiley
face in dark glasses
came up.
Waterfall is to the people
of the US and Canada,
Asheville mountain laurel
is to K Hart
*A 1400 pound pumpkin
has been grown.
70
