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Pluck A Plum, Who Is He, Divine Alchemist, Bamboo, The Linden Tree
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Fruit Tree Poems *
WHO IS HE?
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Who is this
who is all giving of his food
.. with legendary patience
.. always an openarmed and allaccepting
sanctuary
.. granting a space of privacy
..like Gandhi constantly weaving yet
..ever peaceful and grounding
.. who purifies his surroundings
... whose tenacity prevents destruction
.. he is silent and confers silence
.. he is a rainmaker who gives wealth to an ever expanding
circle
...he is strikingly beautiful
.. creating from out of nothing
He is the centenarian fruit tree
who supports bird choirs
singing to angels
and himself sings
when moved by the Spirit Wind.
(dedicated to M Mason)
PLUCK A PLUM WHERE THERE IS NO TREE
God who freed
from fruit the seed
can pick a pear
from a baby tree.
God who sired
the hallowed fig
does harvest fruit
from a barren sprig.
God made blooms pastel
and bright fruits
and can a kumquat take
from a tree of quince.
Who made Pluto and
the Pleiades
can pluck a plum
where there is no tree.
(to Senator George Mitchell
.. tireless worker for peace
in America and Europe)
The Sanskrit word for the Wish
Fulfilling Tree is Asritakalpalateeka.
It is spoken of in Revelation.. the
tree with 12 kinds of fruit.)
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DIVINE ALCHEMIST
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The omnipotent
Alchemist
has fashioned gold fruit
from sun earth and mist
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BAMBOO
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The pandas want to
steal his shoots
The flutist wants
his wood for flutes
but bamboo wants
to find new routes
to deepen and widen
his lifegiving roots
THE LINDEN TREE
Not far from
the luminescent
lime lichen
ever spinning
is the tree of linden
pouring forth his
leafy linen.
(to Rourk Himmelfarb)
-saiom shriver-
