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26 POEMS TO CATHOLICS

Attributes of Miracles
Clement Lemons
Crucifiers Become Crucifers
How jesus soul came to mary
jesus' fig tree
no stones nor swords
rejected stumbling block
Papal Bull
Cathedral Birds
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JESUS' FIG TREE

He did belittle you..
but soon he'll bebig you..
In spring on twigs
with blooms he'll rewig you..
in summer he'll summon
jade cloaks to resprig you..
and in the fall with fresh fruit
He'll refig you

HOW JESUS' SOUL CAME TO MARY

Like falling rain oer lilyleaf tripped
Like pure moon into bright cloud slipped
Like setting sun into calm sea dipped
did Jesus' soul come to Mary.

Like communion chalice sipped
Like the river oer fallsbrim lipped
Like dewdrop out of buttercup dripped
was Jesus' soul born of Mary.

CLEMENT LEMONS

In the holiest of climes
where the trees to heaven climb
.. the sweet sweet rain
turns to sour juice of lime

and the dew skysent and clement
is the source for sour lemon

so do the words of the Peaceful
Master
become the tirade of
warmonger pastors

(this poem was dedicated to charismatic peacemaker
John Clemente before his death)

REJECTED STUMBLING BLOCK

We are the rejected stumbling blocks
.. we have become His temple cornerstones
We the 11th hour workers... grateful for the grace.
We the 100th lambs.. for whom the angels rejoice
We the last He makes the first
We the least of His brethren.. He cares about the most

ATTRIBUTES OF MIRACLES

Miracles are often a surprise
but Godplanned as the sunrise
and stand beyond the realm
of mathematical surmise.
They multiply solutions
Cause hurt's dissolution
They bring kind absolution
and rain reunion ablutions.

NO STONES NOR SWORDS

Jesus told stoners to put
down their stones
He told Peter to put down his sword
Thou shalt not kill.. said His Father
Blessed are the Peacemakers..
his eternal words.

CRUCIFIERS BECOME CRUCIFERS

All the mockers, nailers,
   whippers, crucifiers
making hard crosses
from His bending firs
   .. everyone in time
turns crucifer

(crucifer: carrier of the cross)

PAPAL BULL

Once the Holy Father
issued a papal bull
excommunicating priests
who who blessed fights of bulls
Trappists would not eat
any part of the heart
or other piece of any bull
St Martin de Porres would
not eat any meat..
not spam or lamb or ham
St Francis ate no creature
not a mussel
Poor Clare consumed no being
not skin organ or muscle

CATHEDRAL BIRDS

Birds are fed at the Cleveland
Cathedral...
unlike the skyscraper diagonal,
it has niches.. and caves..
nooks and naves
where
dew is caught
and dwellings made..

When they are fed by passersby..
the little sparrows sometimes
defer to the pigeons of greater size..
and sometimes quickly get their share.

PINK PEACH FIRE
OR WOLF OF GUBBIO

Inside the soft peach flesh
lives hard peach pit.
Inside the hard peach pit..
eternal pink peach fire.
Inside the sheep's clothing
lives hard heart wolf.
Inside the wolf's belly
the wolf planned the lamb.
But instead.. inside
wolf's heart
the Lamb of God.

(the maneating wolf of Gubbio was tamed
by the love of Francis of Assisi)

INFANT OF PRAGUE

Why did this towering
masculine man
prefer to worship
the Infinite
.. as the cloaked
Prague Infant?

He had been abused
as a child..
by a strong male.
He found Spirit
in the Powerless

LINKLING

A spiral swirl
of windwed weed
Each tiniest wheat-hued
needle
caught a globe of dew
.. a crystal rosary of 59 beads
already goldchained inside
and awaiting only the Jeweler
of Morning
to forge the links
and lift the love aloft to
the Lord

CURE OF ARS

Cure of Ars
priest with ears
like the sea's
.. listening
hour after hour

to the confessional dirt
the rivers bring him

transforming
by listening

PURPLE GRAPE JUICE

Wanded are dew and rain
and underground springs
into new wine
as
the sun world over
says mass in grape vines

CARMELITE

In dusk's carmel light
In the convent Carmelite
where they care more for grace
than karma's blight

.. golddusted are
the garden's gardenias
and bee-kissed
.. the camellias.
As the nuns listened
to the birds' vowbreaking
song.. and the
bees' vowbreaking buzz
some left..
and others stayed

CATHEDRAL BIRDS

Birds are fed at the Cleveland
Cathedral...
unlike the skyscraper diagonal,
it has niches.. and caves..

nooks and naves

where
dew is caught
and dwellings made..

When they are fed by passersby..
the little sparrows sometimes
defer to the pigeons of greater size..
and sometimes quickly get their share.

CRIMSON CROSS TO PINK JOY

The sun through the crimson cross
of stained glass
.. made pink patterns on
the tiles
as the scarlet blood of

his suffering became
the joy of His children.

GOSSIP

As if one were throwing
human waste into
the church sanctuary,
gossipers
defile the air waves
of earth with their
gossamer winged thoughts..
which can not be retracted
.. save God do miracles

As they pick up
their dirt balls
they muddy their
own fingers.

GUADALUPE LUPINS

It was in a mountain meadow
of lavender lupins
that he first realized
his visit to the shrine of Guadalupe
had delivered him from lupus.

HOLY SPIRIT IN UNIONTOWN

The Church of the Holy Spirit in Uniontown..
has no stained glass.. no expensive
tower for the exposed bells..
only
a very big holy water font..
and a church
Spirit filled.

O LORD WE ARE ALWAYS WORTHY

O Lord We Are Always Worthy
that You should come to Us
.. for we are made in
Your image..

and no venial cloud
can for long
hide from us our
inner sunselves

OUR LADY OF ALL FLOWERS AND BEES

Flowers left alone
on the forest floor
flowing with
Father's Divine
SunFire

or a florist's flower
painted gold
a frozen bee
trapped in her fold

nor can she shed
her fragrance bold
nor is she allowed
to older grow

Which will it be?

to Joan BC whose love encompasses every flower bee and other bee-ing. Scotching
blooms will happen less because Joan continues earth to bless. George Bernard
Shaw: I love little children but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in
vases. Sai Baba: Why pluck a flower and hasten its death. Ram Dass: When the
flowers blossom the bees come

PAPAL BULL

Once the Holy Father
issued a papal bull
excommunicating all
who came to fights of bulls
Trappists would not eat
any part of the heart
or other piece of any bull
St Martin de Porres would
not eat any meat..
not spam or lamb or ham
St Francis ate no creature
not a mussel
Poor Clare consumed no being
not skin organ or muscle
Whether Jesus was an antiquarian
or an antiantiquarian
They all believed that
He.. was a vegetarian.

ROSE ROSARY TO GOD AROSE

Every japamala
every prayer bead
every rosary
every thought seed

With prayers for
immediate peace
each rose colored
rosary..
to God arose

WATERFALL PRIEST

An overturned clamshell
.. this slab of granite shelf
This waterf/altar oer which
priest river pours himself

Poured out to all
the amphitheatre below
this offering of his sacred wine
to his God's every creature shrine

NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Sally E asked us to
visit the shrine..
to be bathed in the
waves of blue light
in which it is immersed.

THE SEA AGREED TO BE CAUGHT

With the anchor, the naive thought he had
caught the sea.
With the fishhook, the child thought
he had caught the ocean.
So great was the heart of the deep, the sea
agreed to be caught.
But he went most quickly to those
with hookless hearts.

HOLY ONES

Holy ones among sisters, priests
brothers and laity
let no discordant papal legacy
stand between them and
Jesus Christ's legacy

DOMINE SUM DIGNUS

Lord I am worthy.
All are worthy..
for we all contain
the Indweller in our hearts.

UNIVERSAL SANCTUARY

The monk concealed the knave
in the hidden church nave
because his sanctuary was for all.
The monk kept all
in his secret heart caves
because his love was for all.

PURPLE GRAPED FEAST

The many armed vine priest
with Spirit Light from the east
offers communion to all
... purple graped feast

CATHOLIC WIND

Silent floating flotilla
of clouds.. supported by
a Catholic wind, prayer propelled,
which will cause them to rain
bringing peace in their train

(The Spanish armada was turned
around by a Protestant wind)

Millions of vigilers for peace in Frankfurt, London,
Paris, in many US capitals.. in many countries
http://www.amnestyusa.org

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-Saiom Shriver-

"Waterfall Priest"
to G Bertsch of Norton, nee August, 1913
Linkling is to Charles Marshall
Infant of Prague is to James Earl Ritchey
Crimson Cross To Pink Joy is to the parishioners of
Holy Family
Carmelite is to Lori S Idian
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Notes:
There are many controversial topics which divide Catholics.
The prolife to prochoice spectrum has most Catholics in the middle wanting
abolition of 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions with absolutists in prolife wanting
all abortions banned... and prochoice absolutists wanting no abortions banned.
Catholics are divided politically... over the wars about which the Great
Pacifist Lord told
Peter to put down his sword. Catholics are divided about animal rights... many
want an end to ermine in papal robes, an end to the catechism's approval of
animal research in cruel labs, and a return to early Christian vegetarianism.
Many Catholics want priests to have a marriage option... Many want women
not to be excluded from the priesthood.

http://www.animalsagenda.org Colman McCarthy former Trappist monk and syndicated
columnist has publicly asked bishops to give good example by not eating animals.
Father John Dear, S.J. has written a 16 page pamphlet on the historical
vegetarianism of the Catholic Church as well as the issues of prevention
of animal agony, multiplication of food yield, and greater health from nonanimal
diet. http://postpoems.org/authors/animalpoems/poem/345507

Anemone is to Sr. Mary Ellen, OP Crimson Cross to Pink Joy was sparked by Holy
Family Church Clara's links turned gold while she prayed in the St Jude Shrine
re Gossip.. writer counts herself among those who have been guilty of this and
who hope not to be in the future

Catholic priests Don Mario Mazzoleni of Vatican Radio, Charles Nogoda of
Nigeria, Catholic sister Karen Fromer Blanc, Notre Dame priests
and others have worked to reach out to the mystical paths of other faiths...
as Pope John 23rd did.
http://catholicveg.blogspot.com

PINK PEACH FIRE
OR WOLF OF GUBBIO

As they pick up
their dirt balls
they muddy their
own fingers.

GUADALUPE LUPINS

It was in a mountain meadow
of lavender lupins
that he first realized
his visit to the shrine of Guadalupe
had delivered him from lupus.

HOLY SPIRIT IN UNIONTOWN

The Church of the Holy Spirit in Uniontown..
has no stained glass.. no expensive
tower for the exposed bells..
only
a very big holy water font..
and a church
Spirit filled.

I CAN

In the heart of
everyone educated
by a Dominican
is the enfired spirit
of "I Can".

In the fires of
God's embrace
it is transmuted
to "I Will!" grace.

MICHAEL'S BREAD

Their favorite Communion
is from the uneven hosts
made of Michael's bread
.. it tastes divine
.. love is its leaven
.. lining up to partake
are the hosts of heaven

(to M B C)

O LORD WE ARE ALWAYS WORTHY

O Lord We Are Always Worthy
that You should come to Us
.. for we are made in
Your image..

and no venial cloud
can for long
hide from us our
inner sunselves

OUR LADY OF ALL FLOWERS AND BEES

Flowers left alone
on the forest floor
flowing with
Father's Divine
SunFire

or a florist's flower
painted gold
a frozen bee
trapped in her fold

nor can she shed
her fragrance bold
nor is she allowed
to older grow

Which will it be?

to Joan BC whose love encompasses every flower bee and other bee-ing. Scotching blooms will happen less because Joan continues earth to bless. George Bernard Shaw: I love little children but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. Sai Baba: Why pluck a flower and hasten its death. Ram Dass: When the flowers blossom the bees come

PAPAL BULL

Once the Holy Father
issued a papal bull
excommunicating all
who came to fights of bulls
Trappists would not eat
any part of the heart
or other piece of any bull
St Martin de Porres would
not eat any meat..
not spam or lamb or ham
St Francis ate no creature
not a mussel
Poor Clare consumed no being
not skin organ or muscle
Whether Jesus was an antiquarian
or an antiantiquarian
They all believed that
He.. was a vegetarian.

ROSE ROSARY TO GOD AROSE

Every japamala
every prayer bead
every rosary
every thought seed

With prayers for
immediate peace
each rose colored
rosary..
to God arose

WATERFALL PRIEST

An overturned clamshell
.. this slab of granite shelf
This waterf/altar oer which
priest river pours himself

Poured out to all
the amphitheatre below
this offering of his sacred wine
to his God's every creature shrine

NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Sally E asked us to
visit the shrine..
to be bathed in the
waves of blue light
in which it is immersed.

THE SEA AGREED TO BE CAUGHT

With the anchor, the naive thought he had
   caught the sea.
     With the fishhook, the child thought
       he had caught the ocean.
   So great was the heart of the deep, the sea
       agreed to be caught.
   But he went most quickly to those
      with hookless hearts.

HOLY ONES

Holy ones among sisters, priests
brothers and laity
let no discordant papal legacy
stand between them and
Jesus Christ's legacy

DOMINE SUM DIGNUS

Lord I am worthy.
All are worthy..
for we all contain
the Indweller in our hearts.

UNIVERSAL SANCTUARY

The monk concealed the knave
in the hidden church nave
because his sanctuary was for all.
The monk kept all
in his secret heart caves
because his love was for all.

PURPLE GRAPED FEAST

The many armed vine priest
with Spirit Light from the east
offers communion to all
... purple graped feast

SNAPDRAGONS

Snapdragons

Do snapping turtles
eat snapdragons?

(Catholics
were murdered more by Nazis than any other group except Jews) (visions
are symbolically true whether or not literally)