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CHRISTY

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Did God turn the CAT in caterpillar
to the FLY in butterfly?
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LOON CATS

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In the same litter..
.. the little boy and girl
kitten were placed together..
grew up together..
grew so close
that when one is alone
to the other
he calls like a loon

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SECRET LOVERS

Like two trees
whose branches do not touch
while their roots
are entwined
are these two youths whose

families don't approve

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DIVINE SEED PROTECTOR REVISED

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He makes tomato seeds
slippery beyond the
crunching teeth to slide

He clothes mango seeds
in saffron silk strands
that they discarded
catch the dew and
with life ignite

and gives maple seed
samaras
helicopter propellers
to take them far

He gathers dandelion seed spears
into a snowy perfect sphere
that the wind may
blow them to points far and near.

The almond he
bequeaths a hard shell
that it survive
winter's cold hells

Cockleburs He created
to travel, sticking to clothes
which gave someone the idea
for adhesive velcro.

The palm tree's coconuts
.. which might drop into the sea
He plasters with a hard husk
guarding inner coconut milk sea

and sends apple seeds unharmed
through the bodies of birds...
these seedstorks..
drop them into chimneylike
chutes in distant climes

The seed of beech
which falls near beach
.. has spokes to cling
to stable things.

The seed inside
soft avocado
is hard and
incommunicado
until the tiruna
when it will delve
into the earth

He seeps sap out of
female pinecones to
attract male pine cone
pollen.

Black watermelon seeds
He packs in pink satin
along with captured stormdrops
that they both quench human thirst
and nurse the seeds.

Unlike the peachpit
hard as granite
soft and sweet..
seeds .. pomegranate...
Their ruby juiced beauty
multiplies them.

and weaves inside cornhusks
the light of dusk
revealing corngold
easily unsheathable
for humans and crows

(to CR and TK)

MEDITATION DIP

In meditation
into God he dips
and when emerging
with grace he drips

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MUZZLED BUZZ

All the peonies beckoned him
with their purpled petals
and their dizzying fragrance.
Slowly enfolded by their satin
he blissfully guzzled while
muzzled was his buzz

TIBETAN GONG

As a mallet
strikes a Tibetan gong
so his voice tells my heart
where I belong

TIDES EBB AND INRUSH

The moon waxes and wanes
Tides ebb and inrush.
Hearts beat and then rest.
Sun sets, then rises
with pink brush.

INFINITE FREQUENCIES

Infinite frequencies...
There are so few that humans
can hear or see..
and yet some say
there is no Divinity

KIND AURA

When she waved her hand

a trail of purple light

poured behind it

(to Karin A)

QUIET ICICLE

Silence... a rule in many ashrams
and monasteries...
a prescription for dinner tables in
which discussion is of politics, sex,
or religion...

and yet
some are like quiet icicles..
... only when they start to drip
with melting do they have melody..

To help the frozen to speak
is a good thing.

VISION OF LOVE

Love sees only
indwelling divinity
Hate sees only
a list of iniquities.

CHERRYPICKERS

Climb ladders
must cherry pickers
while avoid prickers
must blackberry pickers
Then there are peach

pear and plumpluckers

ABE LINCOLN AND HONEYBEES

What Lincoln said to slaveholders...
"They toil. You eat"
can be said to beekeepers..
and honeyeaters....
"They slave... and humans steal
and eat the fruit of their labor."

THROWING TEDDY BEARS A CRIME?

Jaggi Singh threw teddy bears over
a wall in Quebec. He was arrested
and spent many days in jail.
He was attempting to focus attention
on the petroplutocracy meeting in
Canada. None of the oil dacoits
were arrested.

TARIK AZIZ AND THE DISCALCED FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Tarik Aziz, a Christian
member of Saddam Hussein's
government, has on the wall of his
home an oil painting
of St Francis.
It is of Francis donning bells on his
feet to warn insects in his path of
his advent.

The shoes of tanks and daisycutter
bombs, drones and missiles
warn no one.

God protect Tarik Aziz and all
others unjustly accused.
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Footnote:

a. A British rabbi vegan wrote that a. bees are often crushed when the racks are
pulled in and out

b. sometimes whole hives are killed rather than feed them their own property
through the winter

c. sometimes the queen bee's wings are clipped to kidnap her effectively

While sugar is a monosaccharide causing diabetes as well as the karma of farmers
burning the animals in the field when they burn the cane, and aspartame (diet
sodas etc) causes brain lesions and was originally marketed as an antkiller,
fruit sugars in uncooked apples, pears etc have polysaccharides, disaccharides
and monosaccharides for even energy flow. Fructose which according to Marian
Burros, syndicated food writer for the Post and Times, requires no insulin
in metabolizing whereas other sugars do, is sweeter than sugar and its crystals
sparkle more. Fruit sugar (whether date palm sugar or any other) is the only
sweetener which is neither artificial nor requires killing plants. Therefore
fruit sugar helps reforest the world.

OMNIBUS TWO

The dusk sun golds each.
The merciful rain cleanses all.
Wind symphonies through beetlebored

reeds are for all

Fruit trees give free to everyone
Bird concerts are played for all.
From their love, holy ones exclude none.

ENTOMOLOGY IS MOSTLY NECROLOGY

Biology teachers ask children to put
living bugs in glass jars and bring them
to class. The powerless insects die of
heat, thirst, smashing, hunger, and
loss of the will to live. Thus do
human little ones learn the first steps toward
killing in war, the execution chambers,
or the dinner table dead turkey
with his rotting flesh amber.

GREEN THE DESERTS

The world once had
an unbroken green mantle.
Where there are deserts
much killing of people,
animals, birds, frogs, fishes
has occurred, as well as the
axing of billions of trees...
from the felling of the Cedars of
Lebanon to Roman destruction
of Carthaginian forests for
boats of war.
Where there is little of the waters
of love, there is little physical water.

The way back is the reversal of
the way out...planting and irrigating
trees, loving ones neighbos of
different faiths.

TRIAGE OF PINECONE RESCUE

First he rescued the ones in the
gutter before the rains could sweep
them away or brutal metal brushes
of mechanical streetsweepers
crush them.
Next he picked up those
on sidewalks
or in sports fields.
Finally those where
green plants were
unconsciously mowed down.

PINK BOMBS

Women's rights are cited by
the military as a reason to
invade Muslim countries,
cited by the very men who
are bombing the women and
children of those countries
to smithareens.

Many 'prolife' priests and pastors
are silent.

ARCHBISHOPS SILENT

The archbishops were silent
about abortion by bomb...
pregnant women and their unborn
killed by
fire from the sky.

ENVELOPES WITH NO LOVELETTERS INSIDE

The seabottle comes to shore
with no letter.
The fortune cookie arrives
with no destiny words.
Envelopes arrive with
no love letters inside.
The crystal ball is
quiet.

Why?
Because advanced souls
write their own tickets,
make their own way.
One need make no
linear path
across the spherical
ocean of being.

Foonote:
Inspired by Slanfia's poem "Carrier Pigeon Without A Note"

SOFTENING THE NEXT

When trees are axed
empty birds' nests roll.
So does toilet paper,
once tree corpses, roll.
At least in death
the trees can soften
baby mice' nests.

DAFFODILS

Sunlight spills
on the hills.
Light distils as
gold daffodils.
Despite March chill
in dawn still
burst silent trills:
trumpet daffodils.
The cheery glow
and lacy frills
of daffodils
do all thrill.
Falling dew
for bees fills
the gold cups
of daffodils.
The sun wills
that Jack Frost bow
to the angels of
sweet daffodils.

REFORMED BUNNY

Dark chocolate melted.
It had been the form of an
Easter bunny.
He went out and bought
an Easter bunny mold...
heated the chocolate
and poured it in to the frame.
Love trumps broken trust.
Love recreates trust.

INFINITE SECOND CHANCES

We are told to forgive seventy times
seven. God's forgiveness
is of Infinite second chances.

PILGRIM ON THE ROAD TO LOVE

Divine Love
all indwells.
Only outer shells
hold passing hells.
Errors are
dark clouds
blocking our
internal Sun.
They can only
for a short time block
the Omnipotent,
All-Loving One.

-saiom shriver-