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* Poems To Grace Everfalling
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Grace AMBER CHAMBERS
As the sunlight himself spills
into corn's kernel cells
As the bees' gathered amber
is poured in hive chambers
so is God's grace
poured into mind's gridlace
(to Edmund and Julia L)
COCONUT ON HILLSIDE
The coconut palm
on a hill by the
sea..
dropped her coconut
into the sea..
his inner coconut sea
kept from the outer
by the husk
of the seed
.. but his mother
so wanted him
to become a tree..
for her sake
he floated to
the sands
and with root
strands
became a
tree on the
seagirt land
ERASER RAIN
as a downpour
does remove
a child's chalk
from a sidewalk
so does
a rain of grace
sadpast erase and
cruelty's face
by Love replace
as on
the easels
of time it
creates new space
SARO-WIWA
The political prisoner
sits in house arrest
but truth flows out
through the bars.
The hero seems
broken.. fallen
Yet his enkindling soul
enfires others..
even through his scars.
The lilac is
captive in mud
but her fragrance flows
to the shining stars.
The cabin tries to
wall in the light
but through the chinks
it flows to the bears.
Above wintry
graves of past heroes
new spring
grass green grows
in the ruts of dozer wars.
CARVED GIFTS
They passed by her
gifts unnoticed..
the cones she'd carved
through the year..
and dropped at their feet..
but a family of squirrels
picked up a few
.. and from their casual
crunching
new trees grew
Still other cones
encircled her
.. year after year
they grew to be greater
protectors
Some rolled down
the hill to
a stream..
SNOWSIFT
Snow silent swift
as skydown sprinklesifts
and turns cloud gifts
into earthblanket drifts.
FIREBIRD FEATHER
A flaming feather
of the Pluto firebird
fell to earth's floor...
a sign of God's guarding guiding grace..
for He loves us evermore
evermore
evermore
WATER LILIES
Born of will comes
vision in high places
Born of love to low
places comes grace
Such waters of love
gather in the depths
where shrines
of humility
nurture
water lilies
TREES AND CLOUDS
Angelbidden clouds
and winddriven trees
provide to holy ones
shade and breeze.
EL
There is no
eternal hell
but if there were
God who is omnipresent
would be there too..
the EL within hell.
ARROWS FROM THE RAINBOW
Do the arrows of rain
come from the rain-bow?
GRACE RAIN
Grace's raindrop beads
turn thought seeds
into realized deeds
QUENCHED FIREARROWS
As Krishna stops fire arrows
from piercing Arjun's marrow
As forgiving melts the residue
that blocks the healing of the dew
As the sun melts thickest snow
from fields of rose and yarrow
So does God's grace widen and smooth
the dangerous passes narrow
BEEHEADED
The scyther saw with wonder the
milkweed... beecrowned, beeheaded
and put down his scythe
leaving her.... unbeheaded
WEDDING GIFTS FROM THE SUN AND RAIN
Pies of date sugared pecan
Pies of berry
Pies of sweetest fig
Pies of cherry
PLANT PROTECTORS
Though a cruel
knight
had with sword smote
him into a deep
cold moat
he was saved by
the happy chance
of a weaving of
moatquaffing oats
CRIMSON TURNS GREEN
A traffic policewoman stands at
a red light.. waving
everyone through..
like visible grace
in the form of
an invisible guardian
angel.. turning
red to green
DEVIL RAYS PLAY THE ANGELS
Someone, an equal fan of both sides
in the stands was
watching the Devil Rays
play the Angels.. like
... the nonduality of God
who sees all conflict with
detachment..
but occasionally sends
in heaven's angels to help
the better side
(not an endorsement of
the politics of Rupert Murdoch
.. nor a preference for
Tampa or LA)
(May God make all stadium food
nonviolent, all prices nongouging, and turn many away from
spectator sports to the following of their own destinies)
HIDDEN LOVE
Her love for him was of pure spirit.
Times in the past she thought
she'd shut down... her love
was kept for her by angels..
hidden in the recesses of her
heart,
RAINBOW VECTORS
Do rain's arrows
come from the rain-bow?
PERFECT KNOWLEDGE
The tree need not query
on how to make cherries
She needs no tuition
to come to fruition.
FRONDFRAMED FRUIT
Juice for the
frondframed fruit
rises from coconut
palm's hidden roots
as water like grace
turns into leaf lace
GREAT LAKES GRACE
It's snowing in
the Great Lakes
Tangible grace
falling in flakes
as angels do alight
to help all win the fight
SPRINKLING GRACE
The loving sun arose
garbed in pink and gold and rose
sprinkling everywhere
lightdrop grace
from His endless and infinite rays
LAURIC ACID
Sometimes God's most
precious gifts are
the most difficult to
open, such as
His coconut.. containing
meditation juice.
Sometimes His presents
bring His immediate Presence
such as the light of the sun
reminding that He shines inside.
GODDROPS
Flowering grass spire, dew-wnnded,
green exclamation point!
Inverted birthday candle!
No more cake!
Quill from no bird, starpointed
with a drop of ink
AMBER CHAMBERS
BEEHEADED
CARVED GIFTS
COCONUT ON HILLSIDE
CRIMSON TURNS GREEN
DEVIL RAYS PLAY THE ANGELS
EL WITHIN HELL
ERASER RAIN
FIREBIRD FEATHER
FRONDFRAMED FRUIT
GODDROPS
GRACE RAIN
GREAT LAKES GRACE
HIDDEN LOVE
LAURIC ACID
PERFECT KNOWLEDGE
PLANT PROTECTORS
RAINBOW VECTORS
SARO-WIWA
SNOWSIFT
SPRINKLING GRACE
TREES AND CLOUDS
WATER LILIES
WEDDING GIFTS OF THE SUN AND RAIN
25 long 25 short
GRACE
June 21st: night's requiem is warbled by the robin's reveille
Cattails weave escape ladders for drowning bugs
while a friend's safety net of words.was enough to catch a falling star
*
Snow silent swift...as skydown softly sifts.... and turns cloud
gifts... into earthblanket drifts.
*
Through the night...miracles we did not see
.. icebergs of resistance slipped silent into the sea
*
Past lives' whispers turned to buttons keeping
my clothes on me.
*
Do rain arrows come from the rain bow?
*
As angels' inspiration descends it becomes clad in words.
*
The low river from afar is invisible
but its green line of disciple willows is visible
*
The woodpecker was able to make in the tree a nave
.. but only the sea's waves can carve sea caves
*
Jesus said to 'consider the lilies of the field.. they toil not nor
spin'. It is the sun which them spun.
*
At the end of the season cornfields are downmown
The raintree remains secure in his throne.
*
The limehued silk of the corn.. each strand wand catches
the dew of the morn.
*
As the river roared through the granite chute, it
fell onto 7 granite bowls...7 pools below 7 falls..
as shakti flows into the crown and then every other chakra
*
In earth's theatre, waiting in the wings
as he slowly sheds his angel's wings
sacrificing freedom, a great soul..
becomes a lovechild God you to bring
*
The raindropp slides down the lily leaves, taking none
of the jade from their green sleeves
*
To parched peach tree roots unbidden
come silent streams.. underground, hidden
Almighty is He who ignited the luster in each and every
graped cluster.*
*
He had a Harvard MBA degree and degree by degree
overcome by greed he had become Legree'd. Yet one sudden
day he saw.... that he and God were We'd.
*
Rainblessed, afoot! is a root.. the ailanthus grown a foot!
*
Arun arose awash in rose.. spreading His rays oer Aaron Rosen
All Beings His chosen
*
It is good luck to feed birds in flight
that they need not slow down nor alight
*
The Grace rain follows dry river bed hollows.
Soon are new shallows.. then deeps do all hallow
*
A gathering of grey cloud mass.. communion rain for
animals birds bugs trees and grass
*
as desert shadows are more defined than those of the woods
so the separation between good and evil is greater there
*
Raincloud flotilla, float not idly by, but rend yourself
with lightning... that your grace fall from the sky
*
-saiom shriver-
