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Silver At Dawn, Wedding Flowers, Japanese Maple, Epiphany
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Poem Strings 4 Poems
SILVER AT DAWN
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Cars of silver
cars of gray
like deer
harder to see at
dusk and break of day
as when merge
the sky and seamist
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WEDDING FLOWERS
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Petals ephemeral
torn from leaves emerald.
Cloth blooms
do not fade,
nor violate sentient plants,
nor require fallen petals to be
swept away
nor trap bees in their
folds
nor divert from wallets
so much gold.
Footnote:
George Bernard Shaw:
I love little children but I don't cut off
their heads and stick them in vases.
Sathya Sai Baba: Why pluck a flower
and hasten its death.
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JAPANESE MAPLE
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The scarlet leaves
of the Japanese maple..
stand alone in
a sea of summer green.
Unlike Italian Americans
Unlike German Americans
Japanese Americans were
confined in World War Two
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EPIPHANY
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The Christian
witnessed in a dream
his past life as a Buddhist.
The Jew was given
a vision of her past
life as a Muslim.
The Hindu saw that
in another life he had
been an atheist.
They shed their ephemeral
and divisive roles,
in the revelation that they
were All.... One.
saiom shriver
