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.