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16 poems

23 RULES I NEED TO REMEMBER

or MY SELF speaks to myself





Over and over God and angels have tried to tell this slow learning

writer in myriad ways and through friends, visions, dreams,God

Calling,

The Course In Miracles, the Tao Te Ching, the darshan

of the ocean , the witnessing of divine love to phrase her speech and

writing

in positive ways.. and to be silent as often as possible.



1. We become what we focus upon.

2. What we focus upon grows.

3. What we speak becomes reality.

4. When one says 'don't think of

a purple porpoise'..others thinks of a purple porpoise

.. for the thought form is more powerful than the plus or minus in

front of it

5. We are more likely to evoke

ethical acts in ourselves and others by describing

their virtues than their lapses

6. Positive thought materializes

and negative thoughts can summon

forth negativity

7. It is better to describe

than to add gratuitous value judgment, said Meher Baba, for judgment

invites opposition from the reader.

8. Asking a question invites more thought

than a lecture.

9. Prayer is a more effective behavior modifier than criticism.

10. Those who pour forth with laughter

and joy are more effective.

11. Speech and writing reduce the infinite sphere of reality

to 1 line. They rend the fabric of the magic balloon

which carries us everywhere.

12. The message is first for the messenger, says the Course

In Miracles. If I did not have energy on a subject,

I would not write of it.

13. Many statements evoke equal and opposite reactions

as the mind of the listener or reader is involved

in its function of dissection.

14. Bees are drawn to the sweet not the sour.

15. An ancient story is that the sun and wind had a contest

.. who could first make a man doff his coat. The sun sent down

many rays.. while the wind blew cold. The breath of the wind

made the man rap his coat more tightly. The warmth of the sun

made him shed it.

16. Why do I think bad people should be loved

and that bad corporations should be boycotted

.. is there an inconsistency..

17. Why if I were an artist would I paint pastel swaths

of lemon and pink, lavender, saffron, and aqua.. while my

thoughts on war profiteers are grey with despair and red with anger.

18. Is it not an oxymoron to chant PEACE NOW with anger in the voice?

19. My friend asked me if my objective was to persuade or to vent.

20. She said homicide detectives have the highest divorce rate

because they only look upon death.

21. My teacher has said silence is better than speech.

22. Negativity, criticism, bitterness lose support for ones causes.

23. We see what we are. The world is a reflection of our

own frequency patterns. The projections we have not

forgiven in others are what we have not forgiven in ourselves.

LEMONS AND LIMES



How awestriking

How sublime

that out of slime

God makes lemons

and God makes limes.



LIME WEAVE



The lime tree weaves the light

into limes on loom of night.

Some in theatre limelight

seek to hearts ignite

and others desire only

to weave lime-light.



(to Michael Lightweaver

whose email is Lightweave@aol.com)



WASHING WISHES



If we wash our wishes

they will sooner

whooooosh into reality.

May God now wash Washingon..

through grace and miracles

cleanse it of greed and

violence, lies and

dictatorship, racism

and cruelty.



WHAT ARE PRAYERS?



What are prayers?

. the insistent ringing

of loud suffering

. desire seeds planted by God

springing.. greening

.. love leaving its birthplace

heart... as perfume

.. the incense of wishing all well

from the soul's wishing well



We pray Father Mother God

that the

ringing bell

does not crash down

calling us to

bellum's hell

but calls us to the

shrines of peace

.. most holy calm and belle



A DUPRE



Oh once fired

as A Dupre

for giving all

of his students

an A

.. for living

beyond the realm

of those who judge

above the

Ivy League elms



POLLONIUS FELONIOUS



It was felonious

to stab Pollonius

but not to lob

a water balloon

at Dennis Hastert





BIRDFRUIT



Every mature tree

from twig to root

yearns to be home

for flocks of birdfruit.





OPINE NOT DOES THE PINE



The spruce, the fir,

the evergreen, the pine

does not to the air

or peers opine

and attracts more quickly

Spirit bird pinions

than those of more

Procrustean opinions.





IN MAY TO BLOOM COME THE BEES



As surely as

in May

to bloom comes

the bee..

she turns the

verb of doubting 'may'

to that of certain 'be'



(to S and J Everett)



PAINTING SORROW INTO JOY



over a sad oil

painting of the thorncrowned Jesus'

face



a charistmatic leader strode in

and painted space..

where had been darkness specific

there was now vastness pacific

a space of sunshine yellow and white

a painting of Abba: GOD AS LIGHT



FROM SLIME TO LIMES







He who turns

bat guana

into sweet guavas..

and donkey dung into

dandelions

and cowpies

into pure fuel

and manure

into mangos

and grows limes

from the slime

can turn the hate

of His attackers

into the velvet sky

foiling His stars

as their waste becomes the methane

enkindling evening lanterns





















BREAK OF DAY



The break of day!

The crack of dawn!

Look not at night's

shellshards

but at the newbird sun!



(to David Wright)





CATCH A FIRE IN THE SKY



Catch a fire in the sky

with water.

Catch sun father

with liquid daughter.

Water is not the foe

of fire.

Together rainbows they

do sire.





to Brian Williams and his wife

Sarah Pere: "When the mind is open and awake Then do the gods partake

to fill the spaces in between The dreamer and his dream



BLUE FLOWER FLAME



He sees the divine

in everyone

He turns their pilot

lights

into a multipetaled

blue flower flame



(to Piotr)







OMNIPOTENT PINK BAND



A single positive thought..

a wellwishing sliver

diverted the flow of

a mighty river.

A single silent green light

empowered a line

of awesome truck might.

A single band of pink

dawning light

pushed back the entire

greyblanket of night.



(to charismatic Jan B)





. blue flower flame



. break of day

. lemons and limes

. lime weave

. omnipotent pink band

. washing wishes

. what are prayers

. omnipotent pink band

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© Saiom Shriver