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BUTTERNUT AND BUTTERCUP

Held the dew
the concave buttercup
better than
the convex butternut

as listening ears
have healing
in their cups

with what
chalice'd joy
does the buttercup
hold
the liquid sunup

(to Jeff Miller and his wife,
to L Yost and her partner
and to others)

HOLY HOLES

Love makes a manger
of a desirefilled heart.
Rocks in the ocean turned
to rookeries by the sea
Eyelets in the rose
by Japanese beetles sewn.
Suffering creates caverns in once hard hearts,
caverns in which love lives.

Woodpeckers softly drill
caves in the tree.

Holy holes.

ALCHEMY OF ATTRACTION

The criminal desperate for money mused over counterfeiting,
forgery, teleportation, alchemy, treasure hunting,
perusing bank blueprints
.. not leaving fingerprints

Another prayed, did acts of love, gave things away, and
planted fruit trees, free food machines.. these bore the fruit
of needs fulfilled.

A third did nothing, knowing that God his heart indweller,
knew his needs before he himself did..

BAMBOO BAMBINOS

Helen Blavatsky described
her trip to India..
60 ft. high stands of bamboo
were beetle bored..
and in the wind
these trunk flutes
sang the sweetest symphony

Bamboo have bambinos
effortlessly...
everywhere  are the
new spears of life

BEETLE BITTEN BEE BIBBED BLOOMS

The beetle bitten blooms
are now beautiful of lace
The bees have bibbed
all the nectar
and the emptied bloom chalice
will now hold new de

COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN

Coins dropped into the
wishing fountain
its serene surface
splatter,
.. as desire does
in the soul of
a master
his serenity
only seem to shatter.

DESIRE'S PRISMS

As long as one
sees the universe
through desires's prisms
one will be magnetized
after death
back to reincarnation's
prisons

ERASER

God can delete
all negative reactions
to any of our mistakes
or errors or actions
God can unite
all the fractions
we have made
by the spirit of faction

FASTER THAN ONE THOUSAND BROOMS

faster than 1000 brooms
the Wind has swept.
As He passed trees
their petals wept

The wind has swayed
the bonnets of the blooms
faster than a million
hatteries

The mirror has painted
a picture
faster than
a thousand brushes

I DUB

I dub
the bud
the princess
of the bee
but not
his queen

INTO THE BREACH

The seed of birch
Into the breach..
and coconuts into
the sand on the beach

the seed of beech
and hardstoned
seed of peach
which wishes
to be
in softness impeached

LITTLE FROG

They watched the tiny
frog hop across the bike
trail..
Their decision to
walk rather than
bike
made safer his tiny tail

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.

POWER POINT

The action point of
a pen..
is that point with the
least mass, the least weight
.. said the pencil, speaking
of his own point.
And another replied..
The Mississippi at the delta
is more
powerful than the
Ohio.. for though he flows
more slowly he flows with
more power.

OUT OF NAUGHT THE TREE OF NUT

Each night
the Tree of Nut
Out of Naught
knits
neat
nuts
for every Natalie
and Newt
.. and Nate
and Nat and Knute

POPLARS ARE POPULAR

The weary traveling
birds.. make
Italian poplars
popular..
a sanctuary.. a hostel
without
charge

WOODPECKER ARCHITECT

The melody of his pecking
is a counterpoint to the wind
..
as he creates
not skyscrapers vulnerable
but the holy of
holies.. emptiness...
.. out of a
sycamore

and builds for
his family a cave
.. a shrine with
niches and naves

A mystery that
his drilling without
surcease
gives us
a feeling of peace

SIX WAYS OF LETTING GO

Creating space is
of things letting go.
Losing weight is
of food
letting go.
Moving love is
of judging thoughts
letting go.
Meditative peace is
of the mind letting go.
Making time is
of plans letting go.
Miracles are of
money letting go

Letting go
Letting green unmolested grow
Letting friends listened to glow
Letting rivers uncontrolled flow
Letting the wind in windmills blow

(writer was mentioning to
S Vance that I had
resolved daily to
create space and go
for walks.. she said
they were both forms
of letting go)

ANGELS RUSH IN

Angels rush in
where those perceived foolish
have created vacuums by
giving..
they fill the emptiness
with greater quantity
and higher quality

VISUALIZERS STOP THE WARRING

Visualizers
stop the warring..
security warnings
replaced by hearts'
global warmings

MUSIC'S ATTAR

sitars of Qatar
guitars from afar
The Avatar fills
with music's attar

GRAND CANYON RAINBOW

Over the concave rivercarved quarry
night arched explosively starry

and then broke magnificent sunrise
Void and rain birthed rainbow surprise

LISTENING LOVE

One thought that because
the other listened
in silent love
she did with what she
heard agree
As if the polluted
rivers were in
accord.. with
the receiving sea

ODYSSEY TO LOVE

All the endless journeys
of the soul
were for 1 purpose..
to melt the icebergs
of desire totally
in the Sea of Love..
that the sea return
to Itself..
that Frozen Love
become Liquid Love..
sometimes the iceberg
goes drip drip drip
.. slowly letting go
at other times
there is like Beethoven's 5th
a drip drip drip crash..
a sudden silent cataclysm
.. as a whole sheet
falls away..
drip drip drip crash
.. Beethoven's 5th
.. in the odyssey
of frozen sea
to flowing sea

TARA

Tara is the emptiness
through which flute music pours
Tara is the queen throne zone
Tara is nonattachment's zen
Tara is desireless.. the
  zeros which multiply
  other numbers

PICK UP THE PEN

It is better to pick up
a pen to write
than submit to the surgeon's
knife.
It is better to pick
up a pen to write
than in anger to take
another's life.

WORDWINGS

He watched his words
across the world take wing
simply by touching
a blue light link

WILLOW WHISPERS

The wind in the
willow whispers
while asterisked
by will o wisps

IN FOREST GLEN

In forest glen
lives nerd the Len
caring not for yen
teaching love is zen.

DANDELION DOWN

By dawn drawn
dandelion down
falling down
falling down

BUBBLES OF JOY

In joy does hidden stream
release the bubbles
In joy does the milkweed
let fly her parachutes
In joy does mistrise
from the pond's surface
In joy does fish let go
of his floating eggs
In joy does the sun
give birth to his moons
In joy do souls
slip bodies' gloves

3000 MILES

The Peace Pilgrim..
and Dick Gregory
and Doris Haddock
have walked and run
across America
..with each foot
step.. on the loom
of America
weaving peace

DON AND DOFF

at the break of day
a pinklight dress
light's own spawn
does dawn don

but at sunset
dusk does doff
bright garb as sun
turns light off

it is
saffron robes
that are the clothes
he now sheds
as day does close

HOLY HOLLY

Once termites bored
a hole in the holly
on the hill
Now a gnawing holocaust
of emptiness
where once Hollywood
was held
but as time passed
they all knew
that Holly was hallowed
because Holly was hollowed
and soon a beehive came
graced with honey
and the magic of the
queen to
the hallowed hollowed
holy
Holly on the hill.

BLANK CANVAS

A river overburdened
looks to the receiving sea.
An artist wants not newsprint
but blank canvas for his art.
A soul in pain wants
present, listening ears.
A soul in pain wants
a nonjudging heart.

FRUIT STEM

Grasping, clutching
is the fruit stem
holding onto
Mother Tree's hem
When she is strong
she will let go
and not be afraid
to be in the flow

SPACE AND LIGHT FREEDOM AND JOY

Jesus spoke of objects' robbers:
the mud and fire and dust
thieves and rot and rust

Buddha said these possessions weigh us
down

we have stress from fear of loss,
the expenses of rooms in which to
keep our things...
immobility from such heavy loads

Things cost money and time.
They block the light. They take
up space.

I am not ready to slip away from
my things.. but God let me spend
some time most days giving or recycling
or throwing away.

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CONTROLLERS

Controllers think
to own when they
plant flags on mountains
Controllers think to
own when they urinate
in public fountains

FOUR CHIMNEYS

Four chimneys in that hearthhome..
one for Santa Claus
.. one with a fire always burning..
one.. by an altar..
and one undisturbed so as not
to bother the nesting stork.

(to all the descendants of
Thomas Marshall)
(a special fireplace.. for which
no miner was harmed.. no tree felled)

EVE ANGEL

Eve angel does
never evangelize
.. but transmuting
power
flows through her eyes

(to EKB)

VANISHING

One need not the
foes of light vanquish.
As the dawn slowly breaks,
they silently vanish.

EGOLESS MIRROR

The mirror reflected
the morning sun.
Dracula said
the mirror had ego.
The tv tower transmitted
its received message
Dracula said
the tv tower had ego.

ARCHIVISTS

Archivists
are wavecounters.

RELEASING THE CHILD

The director has
total power
until opening night
when he must be content
to let go, available
with cues from the wings.

MATE MATTER

The mind's expansion
builds air mansions
as desire causes Spirit
to mate matter.

THROUGH THE FLUTE

Because of the space
in the stem flute
living waters rise
from the roots
to turn into the
juice of mango fruit.
Because of the desirelessness
in the body's chakra'd spine
kundalini rises from the
muladhar
to awaken the sahasrar.

THE POWER OF EMPTY SPACE

The actionless beauty of
the honeysuckle sparks the
actions of the bees.
The blankness of the page
.. the emptiness of the canvass
.. inspire the pen and the brush.
The desirelessness of the Buddha
awakened the love of his disciples.
The matterless space of the
seashore sky
creates the flow of healing.
The charity of the bighearted one
causes the miracle of resurrected energy.
The release of unneeded possessions
molds a vacuum in which solutions come.

JESSICA'S FISH

As a child, Jessica wanted to hug
her fish but knew that would damage
essential scales.
Just so, parents reach a point
in which they let go.

PRISON BUILT OF WISHES

Desire keeps me from my Beloved.
My prison is built of wishes.

ACT WEIGHTLESSLY

Will I ever learn to act
weightlessly
without creating karmic
obligation seeds magnetizing
rebirth?

OMNIPOTENCE OF WISPY DESIRE

One wispy cloud
the infinite sun shrouds
One string ties the balloon
from floating upward to the lune
One unplugging darknes the light
A raindrop so small and slight
can glue the butterfly's wing to the leaf.
Desire rides on rocking horse
and anchored boats it rows.
One rock in the river makes
ebbing eddies in the flow.
From one thread of desire
hangs the curtain of maya.
But wishes gently are released
like ripe fruit from nurturing leaves.

EARTH'S GRAIL

rays of dawn light..
they need not fight
the sunless night
as their beams bright
fill earth's grail
with ageless delight.

TEMPLE DEN

Her lair was empty
because space to her
was a shrine..
the seashore with
uncluttered line

IN MOST NEED

The prisoner who from behind
bars sees spring green flags unfurl
The soldier paraplegic who from
his wheelchair hears the soccer shouts
in the field
The blind man who only hears
the descriptions of dawn fire
God's miracles are coming down the chute
to answer all desires

GOLD CHALICE

The juice is released from the grapefruit rind..
Abandoned, the bright gold chalice has caught
the gift of rain .. communion for possums and raccoons
.. and with what is left she
reflects the sun the stars and moon

-saiom shriver-

3000 MILES
6 WAYS OF LETTING GO
ACT WEIGHTLESSLY
ANGELS RUSH IN
ALCHEMY OF ATTRACTION
ARCHIVISTS
BAMBOO BAMBINOS
BEETLE BITTEN BEE BIBBED BLOOMS
BLANK CANVAS
BUBBLES OF JOY
BUTTERNUT AND BUTTERCUP
COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN
CONTROLLERS
DANDELION DOWN
DESIRE'S PRISMS
DON AND DOFF
EARTH'S GRAIL
ERASER
EVE ANGEL
FASTER THAN ONE THOUSAND BROOMS
FOUR CHIMNEYS
FRUIT STEM
GOLD CHALICE
GRAND CANYON RAINBOW
HOLY HOLLY
HOLY WHOLLY HOLE VERSION 9
I DUB
IN FOREST GLEN
IN MOST NEED
INTO THE BREACH
JESSICA'S FISH
LISTENING LOVE
LITTLE FROG
MATE MATTER
MIRACLE POINT
MUSIC ATTAR
ODYSSEY TO LOVE
OMNIPOTENCE OF WISPY DESIRE
OUT OF NAUGHT THE TREE OF NUT
PICK UP THE PEN
POPLARS ARE POPULAR
POWER POINT
PRISON BUILT OF WISHES
RELEASING THE CHILD
SPACE AND LIGHT, FREEDOM AND JOY
TARA
TEMPLE DEN
THE POWER OF EMPTY SPACE
THROUGH THE FLUTE
VANISHING
WOODPECKER ARCHITECT
WILLOW WHISPERS
WORDWINGS
VISUALIZERS

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