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BIRD CHOIR



When more than 1 human

speaks at a time

some say

...cacophony



When birds and frogs croak

.. by the babbling creek

and the wind

blows notes through

woodpecker carved flutes...

whose drilling has such

a peaceful sound...

some say....

harmony



FEAR NOT



We wish for a peaceful

quiet world

in which

no flea

need in fear flee

.. no fly

need in flight fly



POND PALATE



Fall trees

.. their pond reflections

are paintbrushes

dipped into the

pondpalate's rippling water

.. aswirl with colors

of crimson and pink

and gold and yellow

and orange

... the wind's rustle

and the splashing fish

only for a few moments

obscuring the

kaleidoscope



FRIGHTEN NOT THE LITTLE ONES



Some thoughts must be expressed

to be released.. put on paper..

so that emotions may flow

into release..

sometimes thoughts are so painful

that after written in the blood

of the past

they should be erased, burned,

torn up and flushed

as the sea

erases the scrawls

in the sand..

that their echoes

not others kill



NONVIOLENT WORDS



For many lives she

had expressed

anger with her fists..

but even now she

could see her angry

judging words..

becoming

others' fists..

and God whispered

to her..

that nonviolence in

thought and speech

is required of

aspiring pacifists.



DUSK HUSH



Gone the day's rush..

Gone traffic push....

Light scattered

by sunset paintbrush

.. Now valleys hush ..

and the birdies shush.

the valleys hush..

and the birdies shush.



(to poet S Steigerwald)



POLARITY OF THOUGHT



One thought that in presenting

his opinions he would attract

those of like mind.

The other thought that

if he presented an idea he did not

totally live up to, he would

turn people away. If he did live

up to his ideal, his thoughts

would spread effortlessly.





MORNING HUSH



mist lies in parallel

layers under the clouds

as satin sheets

lie under cotton blankets



EVE ANGEL



Eve Angel does never

evangelize..

but who can hide

the Godlove in her eyes





SLOWING DOWN



We go by much too fast

the hidden gates to see

.. the quiet love..

silent caring

.. anonymous frequencies.



(to M Radney)



WIND FINGERS



The wind's fingers

stroke the tree harp

and the tree's green fingers

in turn stroke the wind.





SILENT THE SUN



Silent the Sun

Speechless the Sea

Quiet the

  Tree of Quince

Nontalkative the nut tree

Incommunicado

the avocado

Nonloquacious

the wind



VOLUME CONTROL



Her kind smile to him

when he asked her to turn

down her radio..



melted his heart



SEEING RED



It was a gift to be able to see

auras..

Once when she saw red

she knew the woman who

was pouring out her soul

had had second thoughts

..

like a criminal angered

that he had confided

in a priest



but she resolved

to be as silent

as the sea

... the sea

which turns red

rivers of sound

into ultraviolet

jewels



SUN DOES NOT KISS AND TELL



The sun does not

        kiss and tell

     but how can the

  tree of quince

                 hide

her new quints

                 in the dell?



                 (to John J Price and his

                 family)





SEAL OF CONFESSIONAL



The virgin nonvegetarian

and the nonvirginal vegetarian

both agreed

not to discuss

which animals

had in the past been chewed

..



for all are bound by

the seal of the confessional

of friendship





GURU RIVER



As a river carries

fish to the sea

does a guru carry

secrets

.. giving them

to God the sea



SHELLS SHED



As she shed

all her shells

and dove past

the shards

of seashells

into

the depths

from ocean shelf

she was shshshed

into shanti





STARTLING NO STARLING



Dawn's pastel stirring

heralds day, sun-starring

.. with His quiet ways

startling

no robin or starling





SILENT MUSIC



In a dream he said to me:

"I have never known a 3 string

guitar to be silent.."

as he pointed to an apricot

branch.. with 3 twigs..

each playing the music

of apricot making

***

LA SCALA



At La Scala, the opera house,

news that a diva is ill

and cannot appear.. causes

boos

Outside.. the stars play

their silent ecstasy



MOUSHIKA



The little moushika

in gnawing does

make musica.



BENEATH THE WIND    





Beneath the wind

shivers the river

With lightbeam slivers

she does quiver





BUBBLES OF JOY



like joyspheres  rising from a fountain

like moons being born of the sun

like round seeds floating in air

are the soul bubbles of God



IMPEACH



GOD does not preach

to the tree of peach

Without force..  

Love He does impeach



POLYTONGUED FLAME



death by violence

is a hydra headed monster

with more tongues of flame

than Medusa's snake coils

or gossip

or fire



anyone who advocates

violence is a terrorist

who metastasizes the

hatred he fights with

hatred











ASIA



When one cannot speak

it is called aphasia

.. but silence caused by

ecstasy

... occurs more often

in Asia





SWORDS OF SPEECH



As I admired her gold squash blossoms

and sunshine yellow cucumber blooms

.. her pink! not orange tiger lilies,

pink! not whiteQueen Anne's Lace,

I made the mistake of praising her

Morning Glories along the fence..

calling her attention to the sweet vines

she considered sunveiling vines

.. and watched helplessly as she

killed them.



BAMBOO SHOOTS



It was not the willow

who whistled in the wind

but the bamboo shoots

.. empty of desire

they were God's flutes

They hoped the panda

bears would like

different foods.



CREATION SPACE



If you say it

he cannot.

Your speech

ties him in knots.

Your words

take up the space

the vacuum in which

his language is born.

Your spoken thesis

invites antithesis.

Your words are colors

blocking up the empty

canvass which invites

him to paint.



DAYBREAK DRINK



In the forest was a deer

maddened by thirst

but paralyzed by fear

.. afraid of mountain lions

he could not approach

the cool lake



The willow bent down

and in the water traced

his fingers with touch so slight

slighter than his touch was

tiny rippling wind sprite's

Slighter than she is the touch

of quiet

And non is quite as slight

as the touch of light

pon the face of night.



Now came a freedom from fear

for the gentle deer

who arched his neck

and humbly lowered it

to drink from master lake

his thirst pain to slake.



INTERTWINED



The ego is entwined

with the heart.

It is very difficult

to harm the ego

without hurting the heart.



LEMNISCATE



On the ice lemmings skate

leaving patterns

of lemniscate



but not too deep their etching

lest others from the icewater

them be fetching



SPARKLING STARS



Sparkling stars

speak not a word

but the loyal light

of their constellation

brings always

consolation



SLOWING DOWN



I drive more slowly

than before because

chipmunks,

skunks, the drunk

and lost monks

are likely to dart in front of my car



LAST WINTER



Last winter jeweled

snowflakes

aped the flat beetables

of Queen Anne's Lace

falling to the ground

with their muffling grace



DEPOSE



Who can depose

the silent rose?



THREE SQUARED



Three squared is nine

Sometimes obstacles

to communication

lead to higher communion











                         NIGHT PEACE



          The sea is rhythmically snoring tonight

          beneath a blanket of glowing moonlight.



               TRUTH BOWS TO LOVE                  



      Love is the highest form of truth

  Truth bows in silence to the demands

of love



BASHO



Basho taught us

the pond has no

sound, no refrain

until violated.. by a stone

  or frog.. or the fingers of the rain



THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING



"What is the sound of one hand clapping"

Striking the waters, the waves are lapping



THREE QUIETS MERGE



    3 quiets merge..

    the silent snowsift

    .. night's fall swift

    and the stillness

    of the wilderness.



ISLAND ISOLATION



Daily the rising tide

turned their high home

into an island.

Daily the ebbtide

made a bridge to the land.



GIFT FROM THE SKY OF GREY



How soft and swift

muffling snowflakes sift

onto deep drifts

and when melts away

the sweet sky's gift

it's seaward sent

by Mother Earth's thrift





RECALLING WORDS



A bullet fashioned from ice

can kill and melt in a trice

.. leaving no trace

of its icy lace



as cruel words

said in secret

can kill the heart of

another



God withdraw every cruel word

ever spoken.. now





PERFECT MIRROR



reflection  so perfect

that the sky's waterweave

becomes

lily petal weave



JADE FINGERS



After the storm,

Mother Earth's ten million

jade pine needle

fingers are dripping

grace.



BREAKING PEACE INTO PIECES



One neighborhood carhonk

shocks hundreds of sleeping ears

One volley of hunter drums

  sends thousands of birds away

   terrorized



BIRD FLIGHT



bell tongs chime

.. bird flight time



QUIET RIVER



The river's glide

is almost as quiet

as the descent

of Spirit Power

-saiom shriver-

  

. 3 Quiets Merge

. Asia

. Bamboo Shoots

. Basho

. Beneath The Wind

. Bird Choir

. Bird Flight

. Breaking Piece Into Pieces

. Bubbles of Joy

. Cacophony and Harmony

. Creation Space

. Daybreak Drink

. Dusk Hush

. Eve Angel

. Fear Not

. Frighten Not Little Ones

. Gift From The Sky Of Grey

. Guru River

. Impeach

. Intertwined

. Island Isolation

. Jade Fingers

. La Scala

. Last Winter

. Lemniscate

. Morning Hush

. Nonviolent Words

. Perfect Mirror

. Pond Palate

. Polarity of Thought

. Polytongued Flame

. Quiet River

. Recalling Words

. Seeing Red

. Shells Shed

. Slowing Down

. Silent the Sun

. Silent Music

. Sun Does Not Kiss and Tell

. Seal of Confessional

. Sparkling Stars

. Startling No Starling

. Swords of Speech

. The Sound Of One Hand Clapping

. Three Squared

. Truth Bows To Love

. Wind Fingers

. Volume Control





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