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As Mother Sea
turns hatred's
red lava
into green glass

as Mother Earth
turns
the blood of violence
into spring violets

so does the Mothering
Heart
transmute hatred
.. into love

*

Ivy vies not with violets

*

 

FOUR FLOWERS

 

The Sun Arose
in Morning Glory
with His Goldenrod
Wanding Violet
to Rose

 

(to C and R Davis
of Maryland)

 

GRAPE GLEANINGS

 

Purple Grape gleanings
spun from sun gleamings
.. like the violet sunrise
shining in the gloaming

 
 

DANDELION DIASPORA

 

The rain, weed-wed,
has
multiplied
these
gray haired flakeheads
and now

 

dandelion seeds float in the air..
by the Bubble Blower sent aloft..
which ones will mystically touchdown..
to root in our hearts?

 

 

 

BY LOVE'S POWER

 

He was a great healer
He had taken on so
many of others' burdens
that

 

His pain was intense
.. His body sick
His mind agony
great

 

People's hearts wanted
to grow wings with
which to blanket
him.. and him to shield

 

as their great love
touched his own
by his love's return power
was he healed

 

BUTTERNUT AND BUTTERCUP

 

Held the dew
the concave buttercup
better than
the convex butternut

 

as listening ears
have healing
in their cups

 

with what
chalice'd joy
does the buttercup
hold
the liquid sunup

 

(to J Miller, to L Yost and to others)

 

DAFFODIL CHALICE

 

Father winter
.. he did fill
the hopeful cup of
wee daffodil
with the cold
sorbet
of chill
the icing of
snowspill.

 

But it melted
quickly..
and soon to
the touch of
the sun
the daffodil
did thrill.

 

DO FLOWERS CHASE BEES?

 

Do flowers chase bees?
Does Mother Earth bite?
Do rivers run backwards?
Do
butterflies get speeding tickets? It is to the meditater at the
tree's base and not to the hunter that the gentle deer come.
***

 

(to bee attracting C Nevada who juggles 3 careers)DANDELION BLOOD

 

Dandelions' blood
is green..
Dandy lions' blood
is red
Because they hurt
They have bled

 

2 Roses is to Bernie Rosen and his wife

 

LILIES

 

His body's ashes lie beneath lilies
.. his suicide sparked by
Eli Lilly
but his soul did soar
and now he has merged
in his lost love Lily

 

MAXWELL PERIWINKLE BLUE

 

Stars
above & their twinkles
are mirrored by
ground periwinkle
.. they do not sparkle
as much as J's smile
breaking through
her cheek crinkles

 

to JMB

 

*****

 

GOLDSMITHED ROSE

 

All life is sacred
but one day he chose
that the Japanese beetle
was greater than rose.
Crawling in his greenmail* armour
over the Goldsmithed bloom
ready to turn gold petal fire
into pure insect flight.
He found when he chose
the bug oer the
rose
God gave him back
endless blooms of rose.

 

(*greenmail reference to the takeover attempt of Goodyear
by James Goldsmith, capital manipulater of the UK..
which cost its city, pensioners, employees & stockholders
95 million dollars
greenmail: an unfriendly move by a securities buyer who buys enough stock in a company to threaten a hostile takeover later agreeing to sell the stock back to the company at a higher price.)

 

OAK AND POPLAR

 

The centenarian oak
cares not
that less slender
is his body cloak
He cares not that
in gardens papal
more popular
are the poplars

 

(sparked by Jan's
heaering poplar
as popular)

 

PARACHUTES

 

The wind
releases
dandelion parachutes
They alight
and spark
a golden
pair of shoots

 

APPLE CHAPEL PINE SHRINE

 

Is God's favorite chapel
orchards appled?
Her Ichi Ban shrine..
trees of pine?
Her beloved mosque
vine covered kiosks?
Her best synagogue
a cranberry bog?
Her holiest church
woods of birch
***

 

BLUEMS

 

When chicory
and periwinkle

 

.. catching blue
star twinkle

 

bloom
... they're bluems

 

NO PRUNING

 

His plum tree
he did not violently
prune
and therefore
he had
many times more prunes

 

NO ADIEU

 

The bees need not
bid the blooms adieu
for the morn brings
new nectar and dew

 

DELILAH'S DAHLIAS

 

No longer need
Samson fear
Delilah's shears.
Reborn is
Delilah
..
.. safe are the curly heads
of dahlias

 

IN THE PRIDED WOOD

 

In the prided wood
the Lord of Luminescence
gives each fruit
a dewy tumescence
and with light each
lemon limns
and with love
each lime he lines.

 

2 ROSES DWELT ABOVE

 

Two roses dwelt
above
.. the meanest sharpest
thorns
So high they
swayed
in morning light
their petaled fleece
was never shorn

 

DANDELION DIASPORA

 

The rain, weed-wed,
has
multiplied
these
gray haired flakeheads
and now

 

dandelion seeds float in the air..
by the Bubble Blower sent aloft..
which ones will mystically touchdown..
to root in our hearts?

 

NOT IN CHAOTIC SHARDS

Not in chaotic shards
do dandelion seeds
burst from their ball.
Each part as perfect
as the whole.
Each each contains
the all.

 

BEETLE BITTEN BEE BIBBED BLOOMS

 

The beetle bitten blooms
are now beautiful of lace
The bees have bibbed
all the nectar
and the emptied bloom chalice
will now hold new dew.

 

BY LOVE'S POWER

 

He was a great healer
He had taken on so
many of others' burdens
that

 

His pain was intense
.. His body sick
His mind agony
great

 

People's hearts wanted
to grow wings with
which to blanket
him.. and him to shield

 

as their great love
touched his own
by his love's return power
was he healed

 

 

 

with what
chalice'd joy
does the buttercup
hold
the liquid sunup

 

(to J Miller, to L Yost and to others)

 

DAFFODIL CHALICE

 

Father winter
.. he did fill
the hopeful cup of
wee daffodil
with the cold
sorbet
of chill
the icing of
snowspill.

 

But it melted
quickly..
and soon to
the touch of
the sun
the daffodil
did thrill.

 

**
Al Couch, a Biblical scholar and farmer, took Genesis literally..
that there were no brutal weather patterns on earth when it was
covered with trees.. it is humankind, not God, he thought, who have
created the violence of freezing.

 

DO FLOWERS CHASE BEES?

 

Do flowers chase bees?
Does Mother Earth bite?
Do rivers run backwards?
Do
butterflies get speeding tickets? It is to the meditater at the
tree's base and not to the hunter that the gentle deer come.
***

 

(to bee attracting C Nevada
who juggles 3 careers)

 

PHLOX UNFURL THEIR FLAGS

 

The phlox unfold
their bee flagons
that busy bees
not be flaggin
The phlox unfurl
their flags of joy..
made of the caught
flames of the sun..
with hues
unique to no nation..

 

As the world warms
in the flux of love
there will be less need
for foxes' gloves
or phlox gloves

 

OLIVES OF WRATH

 

There are olives of wrath
as well... bulldozed
from their mother trees
in the groves of Palestine...
May God
Who is Nonharming
Who is Peace
change all ways
so that always
peace will be theirs and thine
peace will be for all .. for mine

 

MAXWELL PERIWINKLE BLUE

 

Stars
above & their twinkles
are mirrored by
ground periwinkle
.. they do not sparkle
as much as J's smile
breaking through
her cheek crinkles

 

to JMB

 

PICKPOCKET KUDZU

 

Kudzu pickpocket
crawling along
the pickets
and up the trunks
looking for caches
and caves of squirrel
seeds..

 

as Love climbs over
the heart.. looking
for chinks which will
let Him in

 

DANDELION BLOOD

 

Dandelions' blood
is green..
Dandy lions' blood
is red
Because they hurt
They have bled

 

THISTLE BLOWS

 

Tangent to the mistle toe
Near where the harbor whistle crows
she the dearest epistle knows
is watching down of thistle blow

 

Her favorite sermon
.. Jack In the Pulpit
surrounded by his
bee disciples

 

HOLLY HOCKS

 

Never will holly hock
the seeds of her
precious holly hocks

 

Their standards of cheer
are receivers of joy

 

GOLDENROD DUST

 

Dorothy has grown
since her trip to Oz..
she now prefers
a goldenrod powdered
wild trail..
to the yellow brick road
**
WATER LILIES

 

water lilies
offer landing pads to
dragonfly helicopters

 

SNAPDRAGONS

 

Snapping turtles
avoid eating
snapdragons
fearing
a return snap

 

STAR OF INDIA

 

The Star of India is within you..
said Yogananda to poster in meditation.

 

(The Star of India is one of the many crown jewels
not yet returned to its original owner India from
the British crown.)

 

*greenmail reference to the takeover attempt of Goodyear
by James Goldsmith, capital manipulater of the UK..
which cost its city, pensioners, employees & stockholders
95 million dollars

 

© Saiom Shriver(to the employees of Goodyear who fought James Goldsmith and his greenmail takeover. attempt.. Goodyear lost 95 million dollars and has never recovered. Stockholding members of the URW have been wiped out. Atty General Switzer of NY is building a coalition of AG's to fight Wall St. abuse Greenmail is a takeover tactic but now it has a better meaning: the promise of campaigns against Mother Earth abusers by environmentalists Some have said capitalism is inheently antidemocratic since the accumulation of power leads to bribery, fraud.

 

Please download on the web on rice, cotton, scrap, nontree paper, or 100% recycled Zelda Fitzgerald wrote her husband Scott that she had awakened to the present of the sun on the table of the world.. she opened it.. and things fluttered everywhere Dr Chandra Bose was knighted by Queen Victoria for proving plant feelings with his crescograph machine. Luther Burbank did also. The book Secret Life Of Plants has many interesting documentations of this.\ ** Al Couch, a Biblical scholar and farmer, took Genesis literally.. that there were no brutal weather patterns on earth when it was covered with trees.. it is humankind, not God, he thought, who have created the violence of freezing.