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*Random Poems 90 7
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7 POEMS
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-saiom shriver-
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MILKWEED PURPLE
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This purple bloom
of milkweed..
its sphere made of
108? sixpointed stars
a sphere
made of spears
like the Buddha..
1000 lives
taking him to
his own perfection
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RAKING
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Removing autumn's
blanket leaves
makes living plants beneath
faster freeze
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CLAP OF THUNDER
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The thunderous clap gives way
to a rain of applause
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BUS BALLET
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More beautiful and powerful
than water ballet
a line of parallel parked buses
swerving out in unison
and leaving in a queue
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SHADOWING
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In the woods the fright
from the shade of night
each tree's shadowing
until realizing one
is ever neath
the Shadow of His Wings
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GRAVY IN THE GRAVE
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Unreported murder:
A human stomach
was the turkey's grave
His blood and fat
stirred into gravy.
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STIFLING
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The turkey's screams
they're stifling.
Not when his corpse
is stiffening
but when with rotting
it's softening
do they begin
him stuffing.
Richard Wilbur started this aspiring poet
on her odyssey..
with the poem Milkweed
one of its stanzas is