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RANDOM POEMS 36

IT DOES NOT US BEHOOVE

It does us behoove
not to.. their legs dehoove
for even if we had no heart
Mad Cow is in their body parts

TANAGER

Scarlet tanager
alights tangent to
orange tangarines

WALK IN THE WOOD

To smell
Lilac incense
Peony scents
heavensent
costs nary a cent

SHAKTIPAT

a sudden raindrop
gives shaktipat

(shaktipat: guru's
transmission of power
through touch)

JHOOLA

An upside down
squirrel sways
in the sunflower
seed pod..
.. a right side up
guru swings
in the jhoola
inside the heart

(jhoola: swing)
(MSC's squirrel)

CAIRN

over a buried body
a cairn: a pile of stones
by a human belly tomb
a chicken's pile of bones

FOUR HOUR BACKRUB

a four hour backrub
.. given by a great heart
to an inpain friend

(to KSH)

PINK KEY

On slopes of Mount Graylock
in depression's gray locks
until he spied the pink key
rays of the rising sun

HEART TRUMP

His mind's freedom demands
have yielded to his
heart's commands

REMOTE CONTROL

when hubby took
control of remote
and did channel switch
..
she began to itch
she began to twitch

  
BE YE HOT OR COLD

sitting on the fence
and sitting on the bench
.. neither desirable

RED CARPET

having red carpet rolled
out for you
is better than being
called on the carpet

FINGER HUT

when a Hindu Indian
says namaste
when a Christian
or Jew or Muslim
takes time to pray
when a Buddhist
reaches mindless state
when a Jain
or Sufi meditates
the fingers fold
and a fingerhut is made

(to Eric Fingerhut)

  
WEDDING OF WATER AND FIRE

The rain and the sun
did wed to produce
the sparking of green leafy life
in the capped acorn

and now
100 years later
he from the sun for
the hot is shade
he from the rain for
the traveler is shelter
he for the birds
branchbenches provides
he for the squirrels
provides food neatly shelled
as for all the world
he creates oxygen
he in the wind rustles
Allah Shalom

The wedding of fire and water
airblessed
makes new earth.
..

REJECTED BECOMES CORNERSTONE

The abandoned chair
left for trash on the curb
.. for lame pedestrians
the revered throne
..
the rejected piece
has become
the cornerstone

SHUTTERS OPE

after near frost
opes her shutters the bloom
to waft to all
her unequaled perfume

ICONOCLAST BABY

Iconoclast baby chick
chisels marble shell
not to sculpt the
perfect sphere
but to shatter it
for the womb was
in danger of becoming
a tomb

WINDBREATH

The wind does
the yoga of breath control
because when she
has no control
the result is hurricane
typhoon
and highwaves' roll

SUNNY YELLOW

Is the sunny yellow
of the lemonrind
in the lemonwood seen?

DAHLIA MANDALA

The dahlia mandalas
strung with bee
japamalas

NEPHROPOLIS

he no longer made
a necropolis
of the cells of
his nephropolis

(necropolis
.. city of the dead
or cemetery
nephropolis..
..nephros.. kidney)
(uric acid in flesh
is toxic to kidneys
and causes joint arthritis)

ESCORT

He feared his escort
death..
until he awoke
in a more spacious
and sunfilled
room..
in the castle of joy

RIPARIAN FLUTES

The reeds sing and talk
through their flute stalks

DANCING FIRE

Mercury no longer
criticizes
the oak
for not rolling
around in her leafy cloak
Ocean waves no longer
chide the mountain
for his fidelity
Dancing fire
now respects
the meditating yogi

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