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5 POEMS OF MISTAKES, ILLNESS

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ERRORS

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Each error
becomes a rung
on the ladder
leading to perfect
action

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(Robin Williams quoting
his director.. 'a mistake
is a Buddhist gift')

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FLY RIGHTS

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Those who care
about fly rights
are helped by angels
to fly right

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(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)

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GOD LAID HIM LOW

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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 was an empowered center
of sacred
surrender

and though he was healed
its lessons
he remembers

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POISONED APPLE

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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

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BIRD OF PREY

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A bomber over any
country is
a bird of prey
its semen.. bombs

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 -saiom shriver-