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BLUEBIRDS IN THE OPEN CAGE

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Why are bluebirds in the open cage?
Afraid of gateway to the stars?
Do they know the arch in cave ajar?
Do they love too much the brilliant bars?

No.. they are bound
by their love of their baby
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to V and D Landa

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THREE FALLS

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The pear tree
cried
..
Spring wind took
away my blooms.
September gravity
stole my fruit.
Now November
rain thieves
have hijacked
my leaves.

Her angel replied
"Do not grieve.
From April.. new
gifts you'll receive."

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PLUMERIA

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On what unpaid
seamstress' looms
have been knitted
plumeria plumes?

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(to Gopal's cousin)

http://www.mauiplumeriagardens.com/images/india.jpg

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TRANSCENDING

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Adult women conquer
the tendency
to neediness
to dependency

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ORION

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Now with
a lamb
lies Leo's lion.
Fewer
project hunting
onto glowing
Orion.
Growing everywhere
the power
of nonviolent alliance.

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ELECTRA

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She no longer competes
with her mother
for her father's love.
Now reborn is
radiant Electra
glowing with rainbows
and stars of all spectra.

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(to M)

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FATHER FORGIVE HER

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"Father forgive her
though she knew, yes,
what she did"
prayed the woman
whose best friend
stole her husband.

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PRAYER FOR FOES

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Don't deride
the slow progress.
Forgiving is often
a gradual process.
Praying for foes
extra grace bestows.

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SYLVIA PLATH

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A asked B
not to include Sylvia
Plath's poem "Daddy" in her
anthology, saying that
it was hatemongering
antithetical to "Honor
your father."

B replied
"The poem gave voice
to my unspoken thoughts.
I was no longer alone.
It unstuck me.
I was able to go through
and get to the other side."

-saiom shriver-

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