*23 Short Poems

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Short Poems


For every beloved is a belover.

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Love's quiet triumphs over hate's loud trumpets
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Some prefer greenwoods fringed sky... others the sky of the sea, unframed
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As morning tops each grass spire with a globe of shining dew
so little acts of kindness become magic wands of great power
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River carved Grand Canyon captured more by water colors than by child's crayons
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Cone-crowned tree of pine, let no bulldozer ax or chainsaw lay you supine
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Some can forgive as easily as a pulled switch releases a magnet's
metal filings. For others it is a gradual shedding of many layers.
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Slowmoving clouds, behind them moon winking and stars' twinkling...bring deep breaths of peace
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The daybreak sun in a state of ever-rest faster than
any mountain climber has scaled Everest
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The music note of the sun has climbed beyond the skyscraper scale... beyond measuring.. his infinite light
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That miracle turning point when the give me give me give me
of the child becomes the giving of an awakened heart
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As birds helped Cinderella to dress for the dance
the peony made her debut because of kind ants
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The enraptured woodpecker raps his rhapsodies
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Is a swamp a pond.. in a state of despond?
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The cloud balloons were pierced by church steeples..
  not ready yet to drop raingrace upon the people


For every tree and flower He willed effortless growpower


Wishes start as tender tendrils, yet as the oak's wood
hardens, so do desires, sometimes blocking Spirit's fire.


In the bell of space, the pen of Tiong is a music tong


Clouds unfold, waves unrolled, leaves unscrolled, horses foaled,
phlox flags unfurled.. all's right with the world

 

Tendrils of rising morning mist met and mingled and kissed
the downfalling sun rays which melted them away.


River ice births ice floes From them melted water flows.
The ice remains for a while as onward newly freed water goes.

 

The April fern as yet unfurled but coiled and curled
ready forth to spring with the woundup power of resurrected spring

 

 

With a rare wave bottled messages float to the shore but with each wavelet
the sea's unbottled message is 'they love you ever more'

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(In the bell of space is to John Tiong Chunghoo)
(Clouds unfold is to M and M Lytz)


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Author's Notes/Comments: 

Fructose from fruit has polysaccharides disaccharides and monosaccharides and is
a more healthful source
of sweetness than
sugar cane, whose fields
are sometimes burned
prior to harvest.

Sai Baba: (paraphrased)
Be like the tongue which
lives unharmed in the
midst of 32 armed
soldier teeth

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