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MAPLE SAMARAS DESERVE A NOD

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Little parachute samaras..
maple seedlings..
gather in the gutters
of homes and streets
.. little treasure troves
.. which will become groves
.. if left alone
in places unmowed
Those who give them a nod..
let them burst from the sod
.. let them break from their pods
for they're sent by God
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NORM AND ETHEL
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They met at our parents' wedding..
and dated for several years...
then married. This year they
are both 97... and celebrating
their 72nd wedding anniversary.
When I called her last year ... she
was on her exercise bike. He
still teases her that she is older
... by 5 months. She said she stays
alive to cook and care for him.
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WHEN THE HEART IS STILL
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As the suffering oyster
makes pearls in his cloister
so when the heart is still
poetry from pain distils

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Footnote:
Michael Wilson of DC: When a man's heart is saddened
a poet's heart is gladdened.

P D James: I will celebrate your misfortune with
a new poem
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WHY DREAMS
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Nightmares are sometimes a way
to burn negative karma on a less
painful plane.

Recurring dreams are the soul's
gradual compiling of the pieces
of a problem puzzle

Sometimes dreams are precognitive
or prophetic.

Sometimes they are a smoothing
out of the day's emotional shocks.

At other times angels give solutions
to problems.

Still other times a shaking of the
kaleidoscope of memory shards
makes a new sequence and
new relationships.

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-saiom shriver-