Random Poems 32: Applesauce And Other Poems

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RANDOM POEMS 32: APPLESAUCE AND OTHER POEMS

-saiom shriver-

The apple thinks it

not a cross

when he's cored

and made into

applesauce.



Nor does he cry

when made into pie.



But his father

tree..

has feelings

.. and the bees

say leave him

alone to sway in the breeze





APPLE TREE



The apple tree

does not sign

the fruit she gives entire

.. only a unique constellation

of seeds her signature







BEES



When blueberry bees

cavort in the breeze

their honey

tastes like blueberries



When peachtree bees

go where they please

their honey tastes

like peaches



When we stop eating honey

we free the bees

to do as they please









**

a British rabbi said many bees are smashed

in the racks.. the wings of the queen bee

are clipped to enslave her

and sometimes whole hives are killed

in the winter that their honey go to humans









SPEARMINT



God does not

inflict pain or

experiment

when healing beings

or growing spearmint.*



*spearmint plants

have a right to live

without being untimely

ripped



WIPE THE CHALICE



I shall wipe

the chalice of

my mind

that it not

pollute the thoughts

of God.

I shall cleanse

the altar of my heart

.. and air

out the shrine

of my soul

that the Divine Lover

indwelling all beings

be able to breathe.









GOLD LIGHT



What is the word

for the radiant lambent

light of evening

which paints

everything

in gold acceptance?



(crepuscular does not sound like the

right word for a different phenomenon:

the parallel bars of light from the sun)









WE LEARN FROM YOU



as a train's light and sound precede

its advent

so you

send light clouds

to melt the cruel

and nets of positive thought

to engulf the violent



DEMOCRATIC ADVENT



When Democrats

are in power

there are fewer

panhandlers

in the panhandle



CHANGE FOR THE GOOD



Replace the

war profiteer

pillagers

who rape

the rural villagers



ALL GOD



He first found power

when authority

he defied

and then found

greater when

all he deified







POTEMKIN SCARECROW



The groundhog

was not dissuaded

by the fierce

scarecrow

not by dog hair

borders

nor by the wire

fence..

and as he crept

into the Godgrown

garden

he ate to his

heart's content

.. left the remains

for the servant

ants to clean up

and with gratitude

in his heart

scurried away



JADE BUDDHA



Does he love more

the carved jade Buddha

.... seated eternally

in cool green meditation



or his infinite compassionate

heart.. confined to no

stone..

no form









EYE OF SHIVA



the moving shakti of high winds

surrounds the immovable eye

of Shiva

Every gust is controlled by Him

He is Mercy Incarnate

.. those freed from the

body by his gusts

exult





PRAYER SHAWL



a wedding veil

does not prevent

a meditation

prayer shawl







CACI, TITAN, BLACKWATER,

SAS, ETC



through torturers'

kicks, sleeplessness,

beatings, intimidation

one can get anyone

into

self incrimination







(Ribs and larynx of tortured victim of Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz-Bushcheney

military have been found in 2 different places: Germany.. autopsy

freezer

and Washington.



the military had contended the evidence was missing.



The crushed larynx and ribs show torture.)









ASKEW



By not polling

younger cellphone users

Even Pew

does toward Bush skew

while Gallup ABC

and Newsweek

respond

to war profiteers' cues



.













KOREAN SLEEVE



A sunrise of

Korean sleeve

parallel bars

each varied hue

Soon sun Himself

gilds

all the leaves

Each day

He arrives

on cue



We are grateful

that he has

not thrown off

his faithful yoke



(to Kim, H & C)





WHAT TO SEE IN AMERICA



the 3000 year old redwoods..jade temples of time

a morning rainbow bridging the Grand Canyon's chasms

Old Faithful geyser in Utah's Yellowstone

the majestic Rocky Mtns of Colorado

parallel bars of sunrise over North Carolina skies

Pennsylvania's blue hills

the wide Mississippi at its mile widest

the stone cliffs of Yosemite in California

the Lincoln Memorial.. even pacifists enter it

as into a church

the Statue of Liberty... visible from parts of NYC now that the WTC

is gone

Philadelphia: home of nonviolent Quakers

Ohio.. where died out the celibate Shakers

Chicago.. where dwell many Polish bakers

Washington.. apples grown by the Maker



the American people

with their aquarian moon

and a heart for all



(to Wali)









FREEDOM



He had developed

strong arm muscles

from being indentured

into the fanning

of the king

..and used them

to climb away







GALLUP AND GALLIPOLI



Please Think Gallipoli

When you hear

Gallup 'Poll'

the amplified lies

of Fox and Gallup and

CNN

erased by 110 million

women, and young,

black red gold and white

Texas Latinos

Chicago Poles

-------------------------------

.

where nearly a million men

died.. based on phony

numbers from Churchill

who lost

his post

as a result. Later as Secretary of War Churchill would be

turned down by the UK cabinet in his request to poison

gas 'the uncivilized tribes' of Iraq and would instead bombmurder

9000. Later still he would direct the bombing of noncombatants

in Dresden as described by Vonnegut in SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE.

Public" Radio Uses GOP PR Masked as pollsters.



Gallup's GOP PR, called 'polling' is not taking into account

20 swing states. North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado

are becoming purple (when blue is added to red)



--------

Gallup Oct 26 through election gave a 7 to 13 point

lead to Bush.. a lie

Gallup.. does not proportionately poll young cellphone users

Gallup: GOP PR, not a pollster



CLELAND AND CLEVELAND



Unbeatable: the coalition

of vets like Max Cleland

and the people of

Memphis, St Louis

and Cleveland









FOUR ELEMENTS



charcoal filters

water purify

but when

burned pollute

the sky







GIRIDHAR AND GARUDA



Beneath the mountain

lifting it up is Giridhar



Soaring above the mountain

is Garuda



EQUITY



An agreement between

two of unequal power

is not a contract

but a submission









DIPLOMACY



those without brakes

drive more cautiously



.. elders in abusive

nursing homes..

become diplomats







PEAPICKERS



Plumpluckers

and Peapickers

Pearplanters



know one can't purloin

from a peachtree

because she gives it

all away



(to peapicker)



SWORDFISH GRACE





Freed from the net

was the swordfish

not by his own sword

but the grace of the Lord



SEPTEMBER SCEPTRES



September sun

with its rays

grants Peace her

sceptre

as focus turns to

Texas weapons

by world's inspectors



FREEDOM



He was so good

at copy and pasteups

He abandoned

former paystubs









IOWA POLITICS



Charles Grassley

wanted baby chick

females and males

unprotected on load dock

classed as mail



Little acts of kindness

change the world

Example of Art Small

the power of the small



The voters of Iowa

hearken

to the voice

of populist Harkin







CHICKNAPPING



taking an egg out of a nest



a. the way it's always been?

b. theft?

c. kidnapping? from the mother









PLEAS OF THE POWERLESS





North Carolina

baby pigs' Moms

ask for

votes for Tenenbaum.

Iowa baby chicks

with chirps so small

ask for votes

for Dem Art Small.

Ohio's

migratory birds

with feathers

make finger huts

and pray for votes

for Eric Fingerhut.

Oklahoma roosters

are Carlson boosters.

Vote Knowles

Alaskan whales

both females or

males.

Dolphins knifed

near Yokohama

ask you to vote

for Illinois' Obama

The cows of Texas

want no delay

Vote out all GOP

especially Delay.

Missouri rooster

Chanticleers

Vote Nancy Farmer

their chant is clear

Everywhere

every animal

suffering in

a trap

or shocked

and poisoned

as a lab rat

asks that you

vote for kind

winds of change

... vote DEMOCRAT















TEXAS GOVERNOR



A Texas death

room gurney

is the altar

of political

ambition and desire

on which he

proved

himself

to his father as

he sacrificed

150 innocent, juvenile,

unrepresented, black,

international citizen,

reformed or other

Texans. The world

watched in horror

as the altar

became a gurney

on which Texans

were wheeled to

the American Abu

Ghraib rooms of

state sanctioned

murder.

That was the

beginning of the world's

campaign to remove

him from his

stolen throne.

Yet death was

like an overhead

glass ceiling grid..

occasionally

the metal blocked

the sun's rising..

but soon it

appeared in

new glass chambers

filling them

with light amber.

And the altar

the bloodyred stone

promoted by

Sumner Redstone

will melt away like

an iceberg

in the sea's sway.







SPIRIT POUR



The mother's

milk starts

to flow at the

calling of her baby



The spouse's

eyes pour with

love.. at sight

of the beloved



Truth rises

to the throat

as courage

demands speech.



Healing hands

are hot

with heartheat



---------



COLONEL



are wastelage

and dead animals

mixed in with the

corn kernels

fed to the captive

chickens

jammed 9 to a cage

and bought by the

Colonel?



(Factory farms all across

the US are feeding

parts of dead animals

to chickens, generating

Mad Chicken prions)



http://www.madcowboy.com

http://www.kfccruelty.com









SAVANNAH



Not far from

the seas

is Savannah

People there

eat

much less

of savanna

More vegans

who are Flemish

.. they have

less of the phlegmish

and the kind

in Budapest

with the vision

of Buddha

see none as pests.





(Sanskrit:

sava corpse

anna food

corpse food

or flesh)







DIVIDED LOTS



In St Louis and Cleveland

Memphis, Richmond,

and all over America

money meant to lift

the poor is stolen

for war profiteers.

The carless are evicted

and become homeless..



they watch as others

pick through their

belongings and

divide their lots

amongst them.









ABBA SAID



While more soldier

virgin sacrifices for Iraq

volcanoes

are

advocated

by General

John Abizaid

angels of

God

remind us humans

"Thou Shalt Not

Kill" is what

Abba said



(Abba: Aramaic

for God the Father)











INTELLIGENT INVESTOR



She sold McD shares on

advice of

brilliant Warren Buffett

When McD

dropped

market waves did

not her buffet

A vegan

Only nonviolent food

on her buffet

Only uncut flowers

on her table bouquets



PLANTS LOVE FRUITARIANS



plants prefer

one use the sickle

after the frost

has stilled life's tickle

and

pain is quieted

by icicles





NOT SO FAR FROM ANKARA



Off the coast

far from

Ankara

the ship did cast

its anchor

and the slapping

of the waves against the ship

took away the

woman's anger





PRAYER



God, forgive me for any time I have hurt the hearts of

others.. in the past present or future.



As hundreds of square miles of ice shelf fall into the sea

so do our sins drop into Your erasing forgiveness.



O GOD You are at the beginning and end of every path

to You. You answer every name by which You are called.

You are Omnipresent and therefore You Indwell Every Being. No error

of ours is more than a cloud which sooner or later passes on,

revealing Your Light shining in us all.



YOU are LOVE INCARNATE



GIVE all beings now the knowledge grace and desire to plug in to Your

currents of LOVE



Bring peace joy love nonviolence supply focus to all beings

now and forever.



Bless the listmembers,

the listmembers' loved ones and all

with joy and victory. Give victory to the peacemakers

in all elections who rely on Your word to pursue

spiritual solutions to conflict.. now and forever.





FAITHFULNESS



Now falling leaves

of many trees

goldstar the pine's

green fidelity





RELEASE





By dawn drawn

..

dandelion down

is falling down

falling down









SETAG



Texas' Setag

.. reverse of Gates

as also

turns round Bill Gates

who won't fund Duke's

abuse of primates

that all may enter

heaven's gates





PYONGYANG



May Pyongyang

find his

Pyongyin



TRUTH WILL OUT



Media and

Flesh companies

battle

to suppress the truth

about Mad Cattle



http://www.madcowboy.com





PROTECTED BRAIN CELLS



Reborn

now Thackeray

avoids all daiquiris

and also any

Atkins whore

quackery





(research has shown

that vegetarians

and vegans have

virtually no alcoholism..

General Boorth of the Salvation

Army treated alcoholics with

vegetarian diet.. to sever

the mutual flesh-booze craving..

one highly yang.. the other

highly yin)

http://groups.msn.com/atkins1.msnw





MELTING ICE



Spring does unroll

her ancient scrolls

yond power of

winter's

cold control









MULBERRIES



Birds love to

cull berries

of the

violet mulberry









SAD



Grateful

are the cattle

that they

did not wear

the saddle

and are not

minesniffers

in the battle







NERUDA WINGS



as Krishna is borne

on the wings of Garuda

so Spirit is borne

on the words of Neruda







MARCOS



No longer does

Imelda Marcos

buy shoes made

of cattle's carcass



But still does

brutal Nieman Marcus

sell shoes of

animals' murderee carcass





MUCKBUCK



muckrakers now

rake the muck

of GOP factory farms

begun for the bucks















SEABISCUIT KERRY



Seabiscuit Kerry

.. stronger with each stride

.. closing more powerfully

than a chess master









NO LONGER A SHIELD



the oak tree mourned

that she could no

longer wear

the tiny pot

in which she

as a sapling grew

..

until she saw

the oak tree

next to her









A FEW SECONDS OF FREEDOM



Thousands of pheasants

they cage

and watch them as they

sadly age..

until 1 day they are scooped

up in nets..

suddenly there is release

suddenly a man them frees

.. for a few seconds

before the guns blaze away

.. men their feathers pluck

and their bodies freeze



( Dick Cheney has drafted Secret Service personnel as bird dogs.

In just 1 day in Ligonier Township, Pennsylvania, thousands of cage

raised

net released pheasants were set free in front of him, only to be

gunned

down by him, Senator Cornyn, and others. 81 birds were killed in 1

day

by him. His love of killing has cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

The birds' dead bodies were plucked and vacuum packed

and put in Air Force Two freezers. God give Dick Cheney a heart for

all beings )







HOLY AROMA



Wartime dissent:

Divinity sent..

frankincense..

and angels' scents



IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING



That one

was a 'born again'

whore of war

but in all holy fora

peace yields new flora













ALMIGHTY'S WINDS



Almighty's winds

.. 9 twisters

freed Smithfield pig

and her sisters



http://www.hogwatch.org



BRAIN FOOD



He found in avoiding

acid flesh's fermentation

his mind was faster

.. strong his mentation



(Jesus, Buddha, Einstein, DaVinci, Ramanujan, Tolstoy, Gandhi

and hundreds of millions of anonymous women have

avoided flesh food.)



http://www.pcrm.org



WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES?



Almost every fax

smells of woodskill ax















A SON'S PRAYER



Father I would

like the chance

to be free

to sing and dance

not to harm my

brother humans

with gun or missile

knife or lance.









THE SMALL CONTAINING ALL



Tiny nut brown

acorn orb

.. may tire wheels

not crush his

world

.. it contains

ten thousand

groves of oak



DAISY PARASOL



A fallen daisy

.. her petals the parasol

for the tiny

little mouse

Demishells of coconut:

new chambers for her

house



(G B Shaw: I love

little children too but I don't

cut off their heads and

stick them in vases)



HICE



Why is it

that many mouses

are mice

while many houses

are not hice



VOW



I love you unconditionally

forever and always

I love you totally

and in all ways.



(to all beings)









VIOLET HEATHER



In all kinds of weather

out of love's ethers

sun spins new feathers

on the violet heather



(to Heather S of

Boston)



NOT ALONE



A fleecy baby lamb

cloud all alone in the sky

.. lo.. there is her

mommy

coming to join her



WINGING FLIGHT



As geese on

a pond do alight

and of a sudden

are winging flight

so is the body entered

by soul

who will someday

return to GOD's lovelight



INEVITABLE FORGIVENESS



the slow slide of

a glacier in to the sea

.. as souls gently

peel layers of

self unforgiveness



ONE SAID



One said

All criticism is

projected self indictment

.. since we can only see

what we are..

and another replied

that God sees only

that we are all made

of divine love



WHEN A VERB



When does a verb

mean killing a noun?

When the verb

is whaling, fishing,

sealing.



(Norway, Japan, Iceland

and USA still slaughtering

whales.

http://www.embassy.org/embassies)









GOD GORE GANDHI AND GASKINS



Ten by ten see

the people of Tennessee

.. and soon 6 million

Tenneseeans see

and choose God, Gore,

Gandhi and Gaskins

over Eli LIlly's indicted Medicare billionaire Frist,

the weaponized anthrax research of

Battelle, the WMD nuke production at Oak Ridge,

the FedEx unionbusters in Memphis



http://www.gandhiinstitute.org

(Leonard Horowitz: The CIA gave 1 billion

to primate abuserBattelle to develop weaponized anthrax)





WAR PROFITEER POLLSTERS



War profiteer PR

called "pollsters"

their pipers profit

from missiles to holsters



GALLUP, WASHINGTON POST, ABC, CBS ETC



He who pays the piper

calls the tune

He who pays the piper

makes the numbers











HIGHEST GATE



When we finally

leave our body shrines

God let our consciousness

permit release

through the highest

temple gate.



BAGHDAD BOMB



A bomb was dropped

on Baghdad..

and left Iraqis and

Americans dead.



Many other bombs

went off.. .. news bombs

shattering the hearts

of victims' loved ones.





ONLY PEACE CAN PREVAIL



In the temple of

The god Mars

divided are the

pillars of war.









SPOKES OF THE SUNWHEEL



Spokes of the

sunwheel

paint all of the sky

canvas gold with love.

All things of earth

fade into insignificance.





NIGHT TRAIN



God is a nighttrain

who uietly rolls us

out of 'the shadows of

the valley of death'

as we sleep in one

of His infinite laps



MONARCH AND MILKWEED



Once a caterpillar now

A monarch butterfly

she on the milkweed alights.

Soon winged seeds of

the milkweed

too will be able to fly.



NO FENCES



Neither birds nor wind

nor sun nor Spirit

can be barred by

earthly fences

nor can the heart

against the Lord of

Love, ever

building lasting defenses.





MONOCHROME



The sea garbed in blue monochrome

is ever to the shores singing her Om

while in the duskskygloaming

gulls wheeling and swirling as they roam

see the evening and look

to the trees of home.







*Sai Baba said the ocean is ever engaged in omkar

or the repetition of Om

For the purpose of rhyme, the poet has

ignored the infinite shades of blue and green

and transparencies in the sea



RED CLOUD



The sunset dyed red cloud

like Jesus' Turin shroud

rinsed by night of blood

in purity shines outloud.









SAMSKARAS



Past life memories

called samskars

indicated by the patterns

of our stars.....

unfreed memories

painful scars

erased forever

by the Avatar



(to those made angry by these

poems...Jai Bhagwan)



SAMSKARAS ERASED

(revised)



Past life memories

called samskars

indicated by the patterns

of our stars.....

unfreed memories

painful scars

lives beneath boots

of caesars and tsars

erased forever

by the Avatar





KARUNA



The purple light which flows from

   her ilght and hands has swirled around

    her, folding into the swaddling

     of the Divine Child





(to K. Anderson)







FROST'S BROKEN BATON



Where there are

zillions of trees

Frost's baton

no longer stills the

treefrogs' chorus

nor snuffs

cricket choirs

They need not leave their

bodies to sing

  in kinder realms



*



FRANCIS THE FRIAR



Francis the friar

called no bird a fryer..

placed no avian body

over burning fire



    

LOVE GROWS



Long past youth's

bridal procession

and lifelong

fidelity vow

profession

gently slowly

continues to grow

love's eternal

progression



*



(to Paul and Marianne)



LEONARD COHEN



Why do we love Leonard?

Is it the rhythm..

Is it the rhyme?

as mysterious as

rain turning

to juice of lime?

the distilled brevity

of eternal truths?

or his soul... never harsh

always ruth











GOD HAVE MERCY



Myriad are the ways God

You can make us suffer.



Some cannot see their children, a sunrise,

or beautiful art

Some cannot hear the sea or

the birds or music of

Mozart

For their children some

work in drudgery

unable to do

the lovework of their hearts.

Some in stress cannot sleep.

Some for unrequited or lost love weep.

Some sit in refugee camps, homeless,

too hot or too cold.

Some sit alone and lonely

arthritic and old.

Some are ashamed that they

cannot read.

Some no longer walk

and wheelchairs need.

Some smitten with throat cancer

can no longer swallow

while others im poverty have

nothing to eat.

Some struck by strokes

cannot their souls speak

while some in each moment

must struggle to breathe.

Some with Parkinsons

shake as they write

Some shake in fear..

they are beaten wives.

Some with depression

are paralyzed.

Some think themselves ugly,

fearing each pair of eyes.

Some no longer

touch or make love,

bombburned

amputees

Some sit in prisons

filled with despair

unable to move in

the springwarm air

Some writhe in

intense sciatic pain

Some in military camps

repeat "I thirst".



God keep Your promise now

to awaken in each

the fountains of joy.

Have mercy now.

Teach all of us now how to

Lift each out of hell.









    

ALL ARE POETS BUT NOT ALL

KNOW IT



Dickinson, Rumi

Shakespeare, Tagore

Lao Tsu, Wilbur, Dove

E.B.Browning, Cohen



As Droupadi's sari

never came to an end,

each can

wand words

into endless koans.



As in an acorn

are endless trees

of leafy cloak..

millenial forests

..pillars of oak



so they put infinity

into poem nutshells

.. their words of love

lift souls out of hell











(This is dedicated to the expressed

or silent poet inside you.)



(* Cohen is Leonard or William or all

the women poets Cohen.

There are endless other poets to list..

Yogananda, Milton, Swami Rama,

and you.)



    

GOD'S ARTISANS



Trees

lightning-chiseled,

beaver-chewed,

woodpecker-sculpted,

flood-blanched,

sea-carved..



by no human hand

axed.







    

GOD THE INDWELLING SUN



This answered his spiritual

parent

to the random doubt of the

querant:

God is totally in each being

  inherent

despite ephemeral veiling

storm clouds errant









THE INDWELLING DEITY





This answered his spiritual

parent

to random doubts of one of

his

querants:

God is totally in each being

inherent

despite ephemeral veiling

storm clouds errant













FRUITARIAN FORKS





Fruitarian forks

like Shakespeare's

forceless flowers,

sunfaced,

rend no beings.







FORCELESS



Antlers unsheathed

Corn unsheaved

All heads halo-wreathed

Life Inbreathed

Vows believed

Trees newleaved

Silkworms unharmed

And cocoonsleeved

Prisoners reprieved

Sungifts received

Joy ungrieved

Twilight purple-eved









*Thank you to Wm Shakespeare

for writing of tusks with no

sheaths









FORCELESS



Antlers unsheathed

Corn unsheaved

Vows believed

Trees newleaved



Grapevines newweaved

Joy ungrieved

Silkworms unharmed

And cocoonsleeved



The jailed reprieved

The lost retrieved

Sungifts received

Pain relieved



All halo-wreathed

Life Inbreathed

Twilight purple-eved

Night birds eaved







Saiom Shriver





*Thank you to Wm Shakespeare

for writing of tusks with no

sheaths



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#2325 From: "letmesowlove27"

Date: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:54 am

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FOREST FLOWERS



Shy shaded flowers flourish

on the floor of the forest,

who, cutting no phlox or

blooming flags

is the best of all florists.





#2298 From: "letmesowlove27"

Date: Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:51 pm

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NIGHT TRAIN



God is a nighttrain

who uietly rolls us

out of 'the shadows of

the valley of death'

as we sleep in one

of His infinite laps









MONARCH AND MILKWEED



Once a caterpillar now

A monarch butterfly

she on the milkweed alights.

Soon winged seeds of

the milkweed

too will be able to fly.







    

NO FENCES



Neither birds nor wind

nor sun nor Spirit

can be barred by

earthly fences

nor can the heart

against the Lord of

Love, ever

building lasting defenses.









  MONOCHROME



The sea garbed in blue monochrome

is ever to the shores singing her Om

while in the duskskygloaming

gulls wheeling and swirling as they roam

see the evening and look

to the trees of home.







*Sai Baba said the ocean is ever engaged in omkar

or the repetition of Om

For the purpose of rhyme, the poet has

ignored the infinite shades of blue and green

and transparencies in the sea



    

RED CLOUD



The sunset dyed red cloud

like Jesus' Turin shroud

rinsed by night of blood

in purity shines outloud.









SAMSKARAS



Past life memories

called samskars

indicated by the patterns

of our stars.....

unfreed memories

painful scars

erased forever

by the Avatar









(to those made angry by these

poems...Jai Bhagwan)







SAMSKARAS ERASED

(revised)



Past life memories

called samskars

indicated by the patterns

of our stars.....

unfreed memories

painful scars

lives beneath boots

of caesars and tsars

erased forever

by the Avatar









KARUNA



The purple light which flows from

   her ilght and hands has swirled around

    her, folding into the swaddling

     of the Divine Child





(to K. Anderson)















*



*



FRANCIS THE FRIAR



Francis the friar

called no bird a fryer..

placed no avian body

over burning fire





FROST’S BROKEN BATON



In lands of

zillions of trees

Frost's baton

no longer stills

the treefrogs' chorus

nor snuffs

cricket choirs

They need not leave their

bodies to sing

in kinder realms











LOVE GROWS



Long past youth's

bridal procession

and lifelong

fidelity vow

profession

gently slowly

continues to grow

love's eternal

progression



*



(to Paul and Marianne)



LEONARD COHEN



Why do we love Leonard?

Is it the rhythm..

Is it the rhyme?

as mysterious as

rain turning

to juice of lime?

the distilled brevity

of eternal truths?

or his soul... never harsh

always ruth











GOD  HAVE  MERCY



Myriad are the ways God

You can make us suffer.



Some cannot see their children, a sunrise,

or beautiful art

Some cannot hear the sea or

the birds or music of

Mozart

For their children some

work in drudgery

unable to do

the lovework of their hearts.

Some in stress cannot sleep.

Some for unrequited or lost love weep.

Some sit in refugee camps, homeless,

too hot or too cold.

Some sit alone and lonely

arthritic and old.

Some are ashamed that they

cannot read.

Some no longer walk

and wheelchairs need.

Some smitten with throat cancer

can no longer swallow

while others im poverty have

nothing to eat.

Some struck by strokes

cannot their souls speak

while some in each moment

must struggle to breathe.

Some with Parkinsons

shake as they write

Some shake in fear..

they are beaten wives.

Some with depression

are paralyzed.

Some think themselves ugly,

fearing each pair of eyes.

Some no longer

touch or make love,

bombburned

amputees

Some sit in prisons

filled with despair

unable to move in

the springwarm air

Some writhe in

intense sciatic pain

Some in military camps

repeat "I thirst".



God keep Your promise now

to awaken in each

the fountains of joy.

Have mercy now.

Teach all of us now how to

Lift each out of hell.











ALL ARE POETS BUT NOT ALL

KNOW IT



Dickinson, Rumi

Shakespeare, Tagore

Lao Tsu, Wilbur, Dove

E.B.Browning, Cohen



As Droupadi's sari

never came to an end,

each can

wand words

into endless koans.



As in an acorn

are endless trees

of leafy cloak..

millenial forests

..pillars of oak



so they put infinity

into poem nutshells

.. their words of love

lift souls out of hell















(This is dedicated to the expressed

or silent poet inside you.)



(* Cohen is Leonard or William or all

the women poets Cohen.

There are endless other poets to list..

Yogananda, Milton, Swami Rama,

and you.)



GOD'S ARTISANS



Trees

lightning-chiseled,

beaver-chewed,

woodpecker-sculpted,

flood-blanched,

sea-carved..



by no human hand

axed.











GOD THE INDWELLING SUN



This answered his spiritual

parent

to the random doubt of the

querant:

God is totally in each being

  inherent

despite ephemeral veiling

storm clouds errant













THE INDWELLING DEITY





This answered his spiritual

parent

to random doubts of one of

his

querants:

God is totally in each being

inherent

despite ephemeral veiling

storm clouds errant









FRUITARIAN FORKS





Fruitarian forks

like Shakespeare's

forceless flowers,

sunfaced,

rend no beings.











FORCELESS



Antlers unsheathed

Corn unsheaved

Vows believed

Trees newleaved



Grapevines newweaved

Joy ungrieved

Silkworms unharmed

And cocoonsleeved



The jailed reprieved

The lost retrieved

Sungifts received

Pain relieved



All halo-wreathed

Life Inbreathed

Twilight purple-eved

Night birds eaved













*Thank you to Wm Shakespeare

for writing of tusks with no

sheaths

    

FOREST FLOWERS



Shy shaded flowers flourish

on the floor of the forest,

who, cutting no phlox or

blooming flags

is the best of all florists.







BAMBOO BAMBINO BLOSSOM



Bamboo bambino blossom

bursts forth into the

beginning of its benign being









OAK MISTLETOE





The oak ribboned by mistletoe

Nearby it the wild thistle grows

Pines..the wind's whistles blow

neath the stars' epistle glow







IONA F



She stood at the bus stop.

A passerby commented on

the dirt on her clothes.

It was the dirt of the

rich whose homes she

cleaned 6 days a week.

She had 3 children awaiting

her arrival after dark.

Her path was not as painful

as the Palestinian's who

was hung on a cross for 3

hours.


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