Everyone Is Perfect

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Patience

Why do I mind more

the unripeness in others and me

than I mind

the green fruit on a sweet tree?



Not until God's

appointed hour

will fruit be beesweet

and not be sour



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BIRDS ON A WIRE



Birds sit watching

from the theatre's brick

parapets

waiting for me to

finish eating and feed

them the rest



AWAKENING



Mother Earth has

begun to respond

to the awakening

gentle nudges

of the longfingered sun

as the people of the earth

are responding

to the awakening of

their powers of selfrule.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Ramana Maharshi's ashram
fed first the animals,
then beggars, then visitors,
then residents, and finally
the guru.
*
The Torah says to
feed animals before
humans.
*

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