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His affection for all was so great, none could be unaffected.
JOY
She no longer feels sad that her body is bound by gravity .. as she
wings the hearts of millions.
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Icicle rows dripping in the light.. lines of exclamation
points!!!!!translucent with sun joy
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Spring willow streamers... the tree cheerleads the birds in branch
bleachers
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Into shards the dreams have shattered.. the pain
in the dream... has not mattered.
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From the chalice of his heart I drink love and joy. It is
the only draught which quenches my soulthirst.
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The sight of him! long needles of light knit.. of a sudden
weaving wings for my heart!
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As the pure bright mirror transmits the morning sun
we need not understand God.. but only pass God on
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The morning birds' melodies.. the woodpecker does counterpoint
How is it that his ceaseless drill... shatters the barriers to
peace?
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Bursting blooms of bluebonnet to the sun sing silent sonnets
A beetlebored bamboo flute.. Yonder wind plays upon it
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Around the corner from the flesh food coroners,
August field's coronation of a cornucopia of corn
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The touchdown points of the rainbow are obscured
by grey fog, but as blue and sun appear, the fog has been
absorbed.. into new figs.
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Laundry dances in the wind on the clothesline... empty scarecrows...of whom no bird is frightened
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The curvenecked clover lamps hang oer a London sidewalk's cobbles shedding purple light in their wee world
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Spring rains raise the wells
Every one does upwell
.. merging as they overspill
A new joy river they do swell.
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Saddened by the plaintive sounds of the mourning dove,
he decided to be silent or cheerful when he spoke.
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Feared lightning became the silver lining
of the cloud of good change.
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Water spiders, skaters ..gliders, blissdarting shooting stars without
external guiders
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October when each leaf is a stained glass aperture
in the cathedrol of autumnal light
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Squirrels spiral up the church spires
and down again to the spirea
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Alighting and taking off from the tiger lilies and phlox and
sunflowers are hummingbirds and butterflies and bees,
with no air controllers and no accidents.
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Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled
okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.
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White morning glories translucent in the sun..bloom fabric
stretched on its ribs like Japanese
rice paper lanterns shining with light
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The fields are filled with crystal balls of morning dew,
each revealing your destiny: the morning sun
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As a shaft of light sweeps down a sootfilled chimney
is God's delight available to all.
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When the couple midnight swam in the quarry,
waving were the skies' reflections starry.***
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The ice sculpture fish has melted into his waters of completion.
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Melted the ice sculpture quince.. and flowed into
roots.. swelling new quince.
RESURRECTION
Reborn... Sappho... wears monks' saffron.
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How awesome How sublime That out of muck and mud and slime God makes
lemons God makes limes.
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Oh Julie .. God's sun is shining She is grapevining
and the grove tree now she's liming
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Out of the pain of hell so low..
was born of goodbye the sweetest hello
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the bee the purple blooms did rape .. and now there
are sweet violet grapes
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Glass shatters.. neath sunfire.. each shard reflecting his orb entire
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The Great Lord can behind him twirl... vast universe' gyrating
swirl... that his rebellious insurection
.... become his glorious resurrection
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No lid for the cups of sunlemony buttercups..
they just infold to escape night cold..
but in the morn... once again unrolled... their cheery gold
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One upright pier pillar after another yields in the night to the hegemony of the tide.
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Those who took opposition roles...
were midwives of her strengthened soul
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The sun arises and rouses the rose. In raspberries,
His arisen rays are rose.
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A wee teardrop reflects a star. The tears dry.. remain the stars.
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Meet the sea the icebergs melted
.. and now reflect the sunrise molten
Transmuted scorpio's sanctuary is the Spirit Eagle's aerie.
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Every dawn a straight rainbow of promise is on the horizon
...heralding each heartsun's rising.
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As resoldered metal is stronger than when first forged,
so the resurrected are paradoxically more perfect than
the Godcreated original
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The soul's essence is ever in God's presence, and unharmed by the
fires of creation or the ashes of cremation.
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He was so loved by all creatures that when it rained
a cloud served as his umbrella.
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Filling every inch of the line of floodcracked cement
is a thread of velvetjade moss
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In the empty chalice of the rivercarved grand canyon
dawn has drawn with gold pink orange light crayons.
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Candle flame fear not results if you ignite
the snuffed candle's reborn light.
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As a clock with no hands can register time as the sun
plays across its face, so Spirit needs no body in order
to manifest its power.
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The apple tree's each barren branch.. burst to
wands of blooming blanch
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At the base of the birdfeeding pole, a perfect circle frames
it... the lace trace of birdprints, as they ate the
seeds which had a precipitous fall
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God the Divine Genie is waiting in the bottles of all hearts
to answer wishes.
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On Ararat rests the ark. A rainbow is born in the dark.
Out of silence bursts the joyful song of the lark.
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EQUITY
Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder Sometimes it
was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunder..
and made them beat... empathic in pain.
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A bee willing to hang upside down in drooping blooms
will harvest more honey. But the converse is not true..
those who work the hardest are not those who make the money.
WIND
Wind chimes play not on time but when Wind Spirit moves
through the grove of lime.
The South Wind has for the evening donned jasmine scent
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The wind weaves many white caps so quickly for the blue sea
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Mother Wind moves the water rocker
to and fro on the stormy sound's deeps. On the boatcradle by lapping
waves she is softly lulled to sleep.
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Will, your winded wings will win.
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Clouds' whitewaterweave covered the sky.. and yet
everywhere there was a patch of blue.. it was a different
hue... here aqua.. there cerulean... or teal or indigo
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The east wind blowing westward marries the falling rain
turning her attention elsewhere
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Crosswinds quilt the Connecticut River ever so slightly
but stil the waters flow to the sea.
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As gauzy veils lie on the shoulders of the slender, as avalanche
clouds pour through tall firs, as morning mist
rolls through ship masts, do monsoon clouds flow
over the peaks of the Himalayas
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Froggie croaks on his rock dais encircled by dizzy daisies
throughout summer days. The wind makes them wave in applause.
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The wind has blown away the cloud cover..
and he pond's reflection from grey to blue clover
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Spirit Wind when talking with wind chimes
strikes not on the hour nor at the 'right' time
PROJECTION
When someone projects negativity , it's as if
a painter invaded his victim's home and painted that ones kitchen black.
Masters don't mind such projections.. nor are the kitchens
of their solar plexi affected.
BEAUTY
Young souls love beauty. Older souls worship the beauty of Love
From the Bubble Blower, the moon rises and floats
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Foamwake disappears from the whale tail.. dries up.. the snailtail
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Hawaiian breadfruit... shed your Joseph's coat of many colors..
your 1000 panes of stained glass mosaic.. and become 10,000 breadfruit
trees
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10,000 brush strokes of the master artist... equal not the perfect
paintings of the pure mirror
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Fall's leafless orange berried bush foiled by blue sky.. a pointilist
painting
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The goddess of the sun retires for the night through clouds spreading
her fan made of rays of light
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Cut the Diamond river swords through the whiteblanketed greensward
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The fragrance of a rose does enthrall
every Rao, Smith, Ali and Rosenthal
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The white rose of Uganda has the same aroma
as the deep purple rose which grows in Roma.
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Beautiful the scent of the tobacco flower
but the leaves which helped weave the fragrance
are excluded in many places. Is she advertising smoking
by releasing her aroma to the air? Who can divorce her
from slaveowners?
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God who painted living oysters' shells with crushed pink pearl
wants them left alone
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It is the Lord's leela, He who lets
unscroll lilies and lilacs and violets
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Fernfurl, chrysanthemumcurl, lilyswirl, wisteriawhirl
and sunflowertwirl
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With early stars have fireflies
asterisked the evening skies
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The greenleaved grapevine does a tightroping straight
line... along the windstirred clothesline
and a wavy Miss Penn banner on the young pine
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The old ailanthus many humans found peccable
but the woodpecker delighted in her status peckable
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The wind paddled the puddles, the lily padded ponds, and played the
pea'd pods and
pansies pied.
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lily pad plates... spheres with rims.. raindrops fill
them to the brim
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A grey cloudcloak mutes the crimson leaves of oak.
Scarlet embers shrouded by grey ash and smoke.
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Did not the apple blossoms fall, there'd be no cider in the
fall.
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The sun paintbrush dapples the woods into apples
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A clover veil.. violets the vale neith skies cloudclad or when ultraviolet sun prevails.
The full moon has spilled her silver paint cans onto the seastage. Some has splattered onto the cloud curtains
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Flames of mornlight... the cotton clouds do ignite
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The curvenecked clover lamps hang oer a London sidewalk's cobbles shedding purple light in their wee world
PEACE
61 died that day in the 1st infantry in Vietnam. Rows of bodybags, the
fruit of war.. drying in noonday sun.
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Oh God to You we give thanks... that in time Polish horses... defeat
Nazi tanks (to Alex Hershaft)
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How many have been frozen bombed starved or blown apart by Hitler,
Bush, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or Bonaparte?
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Weary worker ants rest on moss pillows while a
family of ducks floats on lake billows
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Pansies fringe the rusting panzers
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Ivy and violets vy not with the violent.
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As the unchanging blue waters of the lake reflect
the gold, crimson, pink and saffron of the changing fall
so the peaceful soul absorbs the ups and downs of those
in crisis
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Above a battle grey with smoke and crimson with blood in silent
contrast break pastels from the palate of sunrise.
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The groves of life randomly grow
but Arlington's deathbloom
graves... are set in rows
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a deep pool at every waterfall base
.. postcrisis waters of God's resting grace
Shakti has become shanti Power has become peace
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God will rearrange the stars into a special script for you...
a fortune cookie strip of joy. a secret message, a puzzle
solution.
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There are the stars of purple framed night
streaming peace, pouring light
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Some call occupying oil, pharmaceutical and war profiteer cartels
"the US" but we the people of America
from Sacramento to Schenectady
reject such syndecdoches
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One by one in many countries they break through the ice of fear.. cups
of crocuses .. stand up in caucuses .. East to West from Africa to the
Caucusus and show their eternal allegiance to the maker of their sun:
Creator of all of us.
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Those who wend their way on the opposite
side of the road are not our foes. Each stays within the
lines as peace on both sides goes.
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One has to choose tween bomber pilot's wings
and the whirring help of angel wings
PRAYER MEDITATION
Spiraling blue spruce spires... their steeples point to blue star fire.... yet the Breath of Spirit is its lyre
Out of the sea the sun aborning Not adorned but all adorning
With His awesome light of morning Says to you "Come! My Mavoorning!"
(to Ethel Lynch)
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O God Dweller in the Heart of Every Being, release now and forever the
joy latent in all
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Jack in the Pulpit has taken up silence.. to his new sermon none said
'ahem' ...many said 'amen'...
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Pen chisel carves tunnel out of feelings' mine cavein
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God and humans both know of love unreturned. The difference is: about
this God is unconcerned.
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Held the dew the concave butternut better than the convex buttercup
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Dawn drawn dandelions sun-summoned... spread gold parasols
... another sundown will bring.. a diaspora of dandelion down
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From all eyes shines God's light ... from every human, bird, fish and mite
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The mind of a genius is a sky piled high with lightning
forked thunderclouds. The desireless mind of a master is blue with nary
a cloud.
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She was not forced to walk the plank into the ocean of her Self
... she was ready to jump
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Deity winds blow into the Lungs, the Temple of Breath
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Sipping from a teacup he mulled over the day's deeds
... from a teacup brewed from red clover seeds
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Trees of January like Job continue to lift their arms in prayer
though they are powerless, unable to speak or move, their leaves stolen.
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He took off his boots, but still the discalced elephant
caused harm and so he decided to meditate in the pond.
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As a telescope turns the pinprick of light
into the jewel of Jupiter, meditation gives tangible
proximity to God who indwells all
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He feared when he died he would slide to hell
down a slippery funnel but God told him he'd rise
to him... through a lightfilled tunnel
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the bees' buzzing omkar to blooming little stars
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One thought Britannia once ruled the waves. Another thought: India rules the quiet depths.
GRACE
Arun arose awash in rose.. spreading His rays oer Aaron Rosen
All Beings His chosen
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A spiral swirl of windwed weed Each tiniest wheat-huedneedle
caught a globe of dew.. a crystal rosary
of 59 beads already goldchained inside
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Tree of Olive... Altar of Allah.. on it He has grown... olives for all
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In kind Budapest.. the small and powerless are safe... for
in the eyes of Buddha.. none is a pest
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Cattails weave escape ladders for drowning bugs
while a friend's safety net of words.. enough to catch a falling star
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Of a purple eve, the goldglowing church tower clock, both hands at
six, in the rain slowly drips on thirsty flowers below.
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Snow silent swift ...as skydown softly sifts.... and turns cloud
gifts... into earthblanket drifts.
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Through the night...miracles we did not see
.. icebergs of resistance slipped silent into the sea
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Past lives' whispers turned to buttons keeping
my clothes on me.
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Do rain arrows come from the rain bow?
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As angels' inspiration descends it becomes clad in words.
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The low river from afar is invisible
but its green line of disciple willows is visible
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The woodpecker was able to make in the tree a nave
.. but only the sea's waves can carve sea caves
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Jesus said to 'consider the lilies of the field.. they toil not nor
spin'. It is the sun which them spun.
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At the end of the season cornfields are downmown
The raintree remains secure in his throne.
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The limehued silk of the corn.. each strand wand catches
the dew of the morn.
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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
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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
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The raindrop slides down the lily leaves, taking none
of the jade from their green sleeves
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To parched peach tree roots unbidden
come silent streams.. underground, hidden
Almighty is He who ignited the luster in each and every
graped cluster.*
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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.
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Rainblessed, afoot! is a root.. the ailanthus grown a foot
PAIN TRANSFORMED
a child's cries in the store
disappear with a cruel parent walking him out the door
but ....the cries remain in the heart
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Humane slaughter.. an oxymoron.. from those who don't
know.. oxen aren't morons
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As small flowers bloom at the tips of glaciers so do
children unluckier than I survive around cold parents.
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Crocodiles shed crocodile tears which blend invisiblly with riverdrops
when they are underwater. They cry perhaps when they are hunted.
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Margaret, when we see the Pieta, we think of you. But the
frozen marble of pain has turned to rising joy.
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The ice does not in pain scream when in the sun he melts into stream nor does he scream when he climbs into spiraling steam.
GIVING
Shelter workers.. so patient.. for elephants in folding their tents..
take a little longer
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Oh Clara T.. a mind of perfect clarity.. heartfont of pouring charity
.. as in the woods of Cherokee.. grows
allfruit giving cherry tree
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Kudzu, unthanked, hangs her tapestries..
on every telephone pole and happy tree.
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Fir sentinels stay and stand tall
guarding the space where the waters fall.
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She is a projected table rock in a waterfall..
always pouring out what she receives
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Santa's sleigh silhouettes the moon
above sylvan
framed snow.. the moon's silver slivers are everywhere
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The torch never diminishes its own fire.. when enkindling
other torches through giving entire
METAMORPHOSIS
Four Flowers: The sun in morning glory arose with his goldenrod
wanding violet to rose
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You dwell where dreams immortal are ushered through
materializing portals
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When day's azure blues become eve's purple hues
then violets are not blue.
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That flourish the forget me nots
God fastens roots to stems with knots
and ties the fragrant honeysuckle
to her twigs with seamless buckles.
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How did the sweet rain transubstantiate to juice of pear?
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We want all others to love him because we love him.
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The large mango seed makes an orchard mangotreed,
but the tiny acorn unfurls into much larger and thicker groves.
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Now the Red Sea of clover is Bee-cloven
But back to Queen Lover flies bee Beethoven
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Devoured by silkworms are jade mulberry leaves
... silkworms boiled alive for silk sleeves
.. worms and leaves.. for Spirit their bodies leave
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Birds sing the anthems of Spring. The faithful wind flaps
the flower flags.
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Gold centered pink daisies.. their buds little balls of
pink yarn.. used to weave the pink clouds of the rising sun
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polymorphous water.. reborn as rain ice snow fog and mist
dew puddles brooklets
ponds, lakes, bays, rivers, foam, spray, seas
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What is the shape of thunder? a cloud
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How amazing that Goddesigned slices of limes and lemons hold each
limedrop or lemondrop
jewel in its chamber until it is squeezed. Some of God's
gifts await in the wings just the slightest effort on our part.
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The bubble bursts into seaspray.. and then lifts off on
solar rays
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If God made too lovely the cocoon, would the caterpillar
want to leave his room?
COURAGE
Ominous night has silenced the mourning dove but not the nightingale
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The river encountered a boulder of will.. and in flowing
around him changed her destiny.
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It is not a shark fin but the triangular sail of
a toy boat.
MOTHERING
You are the nectar the hummingbird the clover. You are the bloom,
the bee,the Oerhoverer.
You are the beloved the Love and the Lover.
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a tree stormbent horizontal.. had 7 parallel branches growing
straight up... like a parent who sacrificed for her children
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saints know the love of 1000 followers does not equal
the love of God.. mothers know the love of many biological
or adopted children does not equal that of the beloved husband
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Eve angel does not evangelize. Mystic power flows from
the lovelight in her eyes.
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The fact that we love our own mothers.. does not mean
that we hate others'. We love our own lands and
faiths but we do not hate others'.
PATIENCE
Before the dandelions gold can their tents have unrolled
the black umbrella tents must unfold
To all beings manifests The mango tree... her manna gently and
gradually... Some rest as gifts in high grass baskets.
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He has changed.. he has grown... no longer bud tightly closed.... but
Love Fullblown
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We too can turn water into unfermented purple wine
by watering now our greenleaved allgiving grape vines.
POSITIVE THOUGHT
Willow branch fingers trace in the pond painting the water.. sunset gold
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As fog fragments and imagination's figments
swell trees and do new figs mint,
so every good wish is answered by God...
(yet 'the chains of gold bind as much as the chains of iron')
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Where aqua sky meets deep blue sea, the hearth of the
orange sun was in the west. Through the night miraculously
the entire fireplace was moved to the east, as resistant
thoughts can join winners between dusk and dawn.
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Rotting fruit contains living seeds which shelter infinite
orchards.
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Bright sunwands as they unfurl cause the chrysanthemum to uncurl
.. so cause loverays unbidden to ope heartchambers long hidden
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During rain or after sunset, sunflowers have their heads down..
but mostly they keep their sunnier sides up
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Because the water trough has several leaks
the apples on the tree nearby have rosier cheeks
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Santa may have 1 sleigh, but Abba's sleighs are infinite..
endless is the pouring of their gifts.
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It was not a peace officer's rooflight but the sun flashing
hello in the rear view mirror, saying the past of everyone
is holy.
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Look! how the roof leak has grown the lilacs!
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A patch of moss marred by a moose.. where
the rain pooled in his print, mice make merry
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The darkest before the dawn does the dew and daddies the
dormant doorman.
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The cornucopia within cornstarred cobs and cones of pine
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Out of great Nought, visualizing thought, electric blue prints
.. manifest for each
what she or he sought
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Every raindrop is a crystal ball
foretelling thoughts of perfect rainfall.
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Electrically thoughts magnetize matter's tiny particles
as the skeleton of a sunken ship attracts barnacles.
EGOLESSNESS
The scarecrow said the posies were sham poseurs .... night
brought them repose from his critique.. dawn made them re-posie
PROJECTION
The mirror finds many personalities projected onto her
by passersby.
Onto us God's projection of His own perfection
melts away our thoughts of rejection.
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Younger souls project darkness onto what old souls do
as waters reflect in darker hues, the aqua of sky
blue
LAW BOWS TO SPIRIT
Oer a traffic light of green and red, a birdie flies diagonally
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Not the will's resistance to surrender to God, but the Spirit's desire
to flow into Love, as a stream merges with a river and the river with
the sea
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The bee does not fly with honey on his wings.. matter is irrelevant
where the spirit rings
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As mater births son, so all material eventually brings forth Spirit
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To fight trophy hunters the hippos formed
an hippocracy.
They work to end the slaughter and lawmakers' hypocrisy.
FRIENDSHIP
I choose not a campfire's sparks but the sun
I chosoe not a puddle but the deep blue sea
I choose not balloonjailed air but the wind
and for my friend I choose thee.
UNITY
Common ground .. is holy ground
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As most countries have thrown out monarchs, so Americans
will throw out nonarchs.*
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Know Him who ordains all fountains
Know Him who maintains all mountains.
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The raindrop is separated from greathingyer, but the seabubble
is part of the sea.
VICTORY
A champion racehorse at the winning line, unattached, eating the
blooms of his victory wreath
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The apple tree's blooms spun by sun looms dropped for fruit to make
room .. swept away by wind broom
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Wishing order he'd been a cuthappy lust-er but entranced by tiger
lilies' lustre he began to leave alone God's surprising little clusters
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The iced sculpture fish has melted into his completing water.
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The conductor must choose between the proferred bouquet and
the baton, between the past and the future.
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A white heron flock flies across the jade cypress swamp canvass. A
script of winged words triumphant.
TRUTH
Lies have waning wings of wax. In the sun they do not wax.
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Pinocchio's nose, we are told, grows longer with each lie
.. but it also grows sideways for hypocrisy and upward for
cruelty
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The boats which to their slaughter ship sheep are seldom shipshape.
GRATITUDE
Little Tree, Little Tree, I wonder where you are
to thank you for the sweet pink fruit you did weave
from distant star.
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Birds chirp and cheep above the school chapel, for Chips
no longer serves chops to the chaps.
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Tiny wisps, the many teats on the grey cloud..
who nurses the trees as she passes out of form.
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Every day at six heures we thank God for enkindling Cesar
RELEASE
The rising moon ball... tossed by the uncaptive Matterhorn seal.
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Begins to emerge the bubble From the bubble blowing spear
Not til it leaves.. without fear will it be a perfect sphere
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spider web brothel cannot hold
the fallen petal's fading gold
nor icepalace' freezing chains
longer freed waterdrops hold
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The most radiant area in a master is the halo around her or
his head. But in an icicle it is the base from which it
slowly drips, each diamond drop jeweling in the light.
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Lust, the false love, handed her a hemlockian cuplet
which her heart distilled into a couplet.
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Before the rumbling thunder comes the crash of lightning...
with light the sky whitening as it is cloudburden lightening
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Why worry if the fleas bite us? It reduces cholesterol and
cures our phlebitis.*
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Yes writers are hypergraphic...the pen releases our minds'
traffic.
ETERNAL
As joyfully as steam spirals above a cup of berry tea
do souls leave their bodies and fly to the Lord
As softly as windblown dandelion down lifts from its
pedewstal to souls slip from earth's chains.
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Sufis and suffragettes have focused on preventing
the suffering of fish suffocation.
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It snows at sea.. melting designs... leave form... for All
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A speeding driver smashed the little skunk's body. He
was placed at the roadside under a flowering peony. His
unique smell entwined the fragrance of the bloom, but his
soul slipping away was more sweetsmelling than all flowers.
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Death is the release of the bird of the heart from the cage
of time.
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Those who focused on the shock of shards as the phoenix bird burst from his shell nearly missed the sight of his wondrous maiden flight as he soared up and away and out of sight.
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Buried as they are killed, beheaded dandelions, on the scythe their green blood lyin
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All will some day even those who have coronations
leave their bodies to crematers and coroners of their nations
SILENCE
Basho taught us the pond has no sound no refrain..
until violated by a frog, a stone, or fingers of the rain
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As one honking horn disturbs hundreds of ears,
so one angry word shatters peace into pieces.
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Dawn's breaking quiet begets bees' buzzing riot.
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3 quiets merge.. the silent snowsift .. night's fall swift
and the stillness of the wilderness
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God has said to revile none.. rather to revel as He
God as Love indwelling each reveals
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The pain inflicting doctors who play at science debark
their captive dogs so that they may hurt in silence.
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Yogis sometimes roll up the red carpet of welcome, the speaking
tongue.
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Bright orange trumpet flowers grow like clapperless bells..
as saffron clad monks prefer silence
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The boat leaves foam wake. The canoe, ripples. But geese
leave no trace as they fly.
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Misogynists wish women to be tongueless belles, as silent
as the meadow's tongless bluebells
FORGIVING
The clarified waters of Snowdrop Lake are
made of melted hexagonal snowflakes.
The heart unfrozen with new love flows
as new soulspace does forgiving make.
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As a sword has the illusion it slices the sun's beams
so do the unforgiving have the illusion they have been harmed.
*
Melt away now Valjean's pursuers,
who had chased him through Parisian sewers
THE SUN
He who gilds the fringed coast Of all buttercups the toast.
More ancient than all.. yet evernew His ray host.
*
The forces of night .. their vanishing might
.. melt away.. in dawn's vanquishing light
*
The sun's allgiving gold cheer.. has become the allgiving tree's
purple cherries.
*
Popping oer the mountains the dawn sun arose, unrolling through
windows welcome carpets.... of red rose
*
It is not the sweet nuthatch
but the sun
which hatches the nuts
of nut trees everyone
*
The sun thought about another's criticism that he lacked focus.. but
then began again to shine in all directions
*
moondown is sunup
*
Night can no longer suborn
first light's gathering morn!
*
The sun diamond stipples the ocean's wind ripples.
FIDELITY
Mother Earth has knitted strong knots in the faithful blue
forget me nots.
*
From your infinite eyes we drink Stars within skies of
blackest ink
Please don't eclipse us when you wink.. but hold us in
your eyes, Black Sphinx
*
He remembered that pricks of the branches of the mistletoe tree can
draw blood.
*
As fragile Queen Anne's Lace stretches in the sun among
rocks, she lived happily with her husband and his parents.
PERFECTION
Has made manifest, God, Weaving Master
the unfolded fan spheres of each purple aster
Her sermons on peace, silence and beauty
are more powerful than those of any pastor.
*
Healing are God's projections of God's own perfection
*
How perfectly level is the lake and the mist above it
and are the bottoms of the clouds above both
*
When raindrops slowly slide off of the rose
they take with them her fragrant ambrosia.
*
the sun leaves no residue when
in rising he melts the dew
WILL
Enpine the cone! Enoak acorn! Enpear the seed that inner
sun be freed!
*
The universe falls in line .. behind the will..
of a Godaligned spine
*
With his own soul's will lightning he is charging his
body into lightening
*
The stars change their courses and revolve
around those connected to omnipotent resolve
As sailboats have masts, the spine of will is in all masters.
The sunflowers are sundials swirling
while in the dell, daffodils
His light spin and spill
*
When her spirits were down because she thought her will low
she daw how easily rivers of grace were drunk by the willow
*
The dousing wand. The lightning rod. Conductor's baton. Will's aligned
spine. They find the water, invoke the lightning attract the music and
summon angels' help.
*
In a protected wood is a granite rock with white morning
glory vines streaming down all sides... like a mountain peak
with many falls. Someone asks the dreamer to cut the vines
and she refuses.
*
CHANGE
11 point maple leaves fall, and then 6 pointed flakes of snow..
but coming in a few moons.. the unpointed raindrops of spring.
As dim cellar caged yams send out pink roots into the dark
unknown, so do souls facing change stretch in trust to the
future.
*
The blueberries have become the bear.
*
He missed even the mire of the moors
when his dory was in strange moorings
*
Past Monday morns as the moon melted, he went to a job
he hated. But now he is his own master.
*
The maple donned the orange of October sannyas, but
in the spring returned to green.
*
An aqua oval of smooth form rests on jade moss
velvet as if a piece of azure sky had fallen on its pillow.
Suddenly it shatters, perfection robbing, to birth
the sweetest baby robin.
SIMPLICITY
The most beautiful places are the emptiest spaces
Birds are happy with the branches of a dead
tree on which to rest...dead sticks with which to build a nest.
In the sea, a zillion strong singing his own song,
each sweet sponge.
Archivists are wavecounters.
Fast weaving privacy screens, bamboo curtains
.. making the world beautiful.. it is certain
THEISM
He disproves his atheism, for he is a walking God.
TEACHER
The guru chick showed Michelangelo how to chisel
out of a marble egg prison.
The zealot in the woods is teaching morals
to the sorrel and to the mountain laurel.
Because they the most fragrant field flowers did become
it is to them that herself the queen bee comes
MUSIC
Like bells on a sleigh harness are pepper seeds strung
in the inner chambers of the belltower.
*
The birds have retired for the evening
but on goes the frog chorus played tirelessly for us
ART
The artist paints the lily.. water colors dry on the canvas
.. but the lilyroots remain wet
*
The present's fleecy cloud wrapping is removed revealing
the jewel Sun streaming His own ribbons.
INTERFAITH
The dawn birds sing before come the earliest beams
God's messengers come before He who all...... redeems
As in unmowed green pastures
grass is starred by wild asters
so the word of the peaceful master
will win oer silent priests and pastors
*
Before sparked the seed which Jesus said must die to live,
the hexagonal snowflake of form had to melt into formless
water.
EACH IS ALL*
Do not dismiss the puddle. She can transmit the light
of the morning sun.
*
NONJUDGING
Rigid judgmental opinions can block descent of Spirit's pinions.
******************
NEWER
THE SEA
Without equal, each wave sequel. Land is for eagles. The sea
is for seagulls.
FIDELITY
Serial womanizer Jack Frost had his face pressed to their windows.. asking them to come out and play.. before he disappeared again.
*
GRATITUDE
Winter when God's unseen gift of breath becomes visible.
PLAY
Like skydiver chains, some maple seedlings jump... locked
together.
BEAUTY
Before the falls, the sheen of shanti. At the falls
sheets of shakti.
*
On the stepping stones in the pool... snow has made
a pillow for each rock stool
*
Delilah's lilac'd fields Lilliputian the Lord of Love has many lilies put in
*
A feathergowned crane flies through the forest
like Cinderella fleeing the ball.. but now the Prince of Peace
comes into the hall
*
Dawn rhodescent, jeweled by moon crescent
DESTINY
What is destiny? The will of God. Since God is imprisoned
in the hearts of His beings, destiny is ones nonharming
desires.
EQUITY
He attempted to live by ten tenets.. he tried to all
to be tender, not to profit off of tenants
ETERNAL
He wished no induction into the House of Lords, but only
to return home to the Home of the Lord.
FIDELITY
Serial womanizer Jack Frost had his face pressed to their windows.. asking them to come out and play.. before he disappeared again.
*
FREE
Concern for ruples or rupees, pounds or rubies,
shillings or farthings is from God's heart a far thing
GRACE
Into the stream fell a samara shower, a flotilla of lifeboats
in time for the struggling bug
How is it that substance filled will and the empty flute of
music are both taurus? because the will which is surrendered
to God flows with the most divine energy
GRATITUDE
Winter when God's unseen gift of breath becomes visible.
JOY
Squirrels tossed away the chewed pine cones which they ate like
a cob with rows of gold corn
LOVE
Some criticized him for sharing his journal,, but most
were grateful that he had invited all into his heart
*
Roses are pink. Violets are violet. Our love for you
is forever inviolate
MUSIC
The applause for Pavarotti.. is as beautiful as his voice..
for it is the sound of many hearts beating as one
NONVIOLENCE
One need fear not the might of the tiny wellmeaning mite,
the queen of termites.. if one builds with stone or stucco might.
PEACE
As many like Uri Geller can with mindpower bend metal
so prayer and positive thought can melt weapons.
PLAY
Like skydiver chains, some maple seedlings jump... locked
together.
POSITIVE THOUGHT
The break of day! The crack of dawn! Look not at night's
shellshards but at the newbird sun!
*
What her omnipotent heart ordained, her obedient will obtained.
*
When comes eternal noon? When soul turns around each no. to on.
*
Rising waters in a quarry.. fill every niche and nave..
Spirit's rising waters grant each desire in heart cave.
*
A single silent green light empowered a line of awesome truck might. A single band of pink dawning light
pushed back the entire greyblanket of night.
*
Can one brake the break of day? Can one brook the coming dawn?
PRAYER
Spiraling blue spruce spires... their steeples point to blue star fire.... yet the Breath of Spirit is its lyre
*
Into the chasm of your desire God pours His divinity fire
... assumes His liquid gold the form of your wish mold
SACRED ARE ALL BEINGS.. ALL MATTER
Who besides a snake can swim in the grass?
*
Sooner or later even Satan's minions are beyond duality
opinions lifted by Love's universal pinions.
*
A playing boy's discarded stick became the father heron's
beakborn gift... for their nest a new twig ...
the rejected stumbling block.. to the temple's
cornerstone he lifts
*
Said the mother fly to the gay teen... long before they called
you a queer, a faggot... they called my children little maggots
*
Call no demon names. Focus on his divine core. See the gold
within his ore.
*
THE SEA
Without equal, each wave sequel. Land is for eagles. The sea
is for seagulls.
SUN
Sunrise is apple fall
WILL
The song of the whippoorwill says 'let it flow' .. don't
whip your poor will
(Spruce spires to the focused soul of Philip B) (Home of the Lord to B Rohner) Break of Day to David Wright Omnipotent Heart to M Brunner Inviolate to JB Rising Waters to D & M McGee Pink Band to JPB Unbrookable Dawn to TK and CR taurus poem to dpb Shanti: Sanskrit for peace Shakti: Sanskrit for energy 37
Poems Of 1 Or 2 Lines
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love 45 sea 35 earth 26 nonviolence 30 joy 27 resurrction 26 equity 2 wind 12
beauty 26 peace 16 prayer 19 grace 23 fredom 12 pain gone 6 giving 7 metamorphosis
16 courage 3 mothering 5 patience 4 potho 17 egoless 1 projection 3 law kneels 5 friends
1 unity 4 victory 6 truth 3 gratitutude 4 release 8 eternal 8 silence 11 forgive 3 sun 9
fidelity 4 perfection 6 will 9 change 7 simplicity 5 theism 1 teacers 3 music 2 art 2 interfaith 3 each is all 1 nonjudging 1
newer 5
Inviolate is to JB
Part II
SEMANTIC POLITICS
Salmon is a pretty color
but saffron says it better.
Salmon a choked fishie's shroud
while saffron is
a pastel cloud.
RAINWARD ROOTS
The tree's branched plumes
hold her purple plums
while deeper into earth
her rainward roots plumb.
OCHRE
Where has gone evening's light ochre?
into the leaves of the okra
into the blooming orchids
CHURCH BELLTOWER
A fire in the church belltower.
Since the structure was made of
stone and metal..
not a single bell
to earth fell.
TRANQUILITY
How does the lily
grow? In sweet tranquility
most tranquilily
SOLDIER'S BOSS
His captain was of human beings
a shallow imitation.
He specialized in intimations
of violent intimidation
and escalated to
incriminations
re perceived limitations.
DAILY HOLOCAUST
Guiltless animals
who no longer scream... are oft
baked in their own udders' cream
(Trillions of animals, birds, fishes are murdered
annually...)
KISS OF MORNING MIST
Tendrils of rising morning mist
met and mingled and kissed
downfalling sun rays
which melted them away.
ROMEO CHARGED WITH FELONY
Romeo, sixteen,
for loving Juliet .. charged
with a felony.
VINE OF HEAVEN
The invisible
vine of heaven... with endless
large brightberried stars
CARRARA WORKERS
Carrara workers.. unheralded sculptors...
with their giant cube chiseling ...
they midwife concave baptismal fonts,
marble lace trellises.
Michelangelo's David,
Footnote:
Note: men paid not enough to do hard labor in marble quarries
SOUL'S VOICE
Long after the man's
body has aged the soul's voice
endures unchanging
*
Footnote:
We might not recognize old friends by appearance.. but by hearing them speak
ALLCONQUERING AURA
They are no longer terrorized
by the shadows of the night.
They hold the hand of Him
who defeats darkness with His light
LUMINOSITY
He imbued all ludicrosity
with his blazing luminosity
GRACE FILLED VALEDICTIONS
All blessings, never
maledictions..
were the content
of his valedictions.
JUDGE NOT
All judging is based
on ignorance. Only God
knows all the factors.
AFRO NIGHTY
The Afro nighty
of Aphrodite:
on lavender evening
the star sequins
moving in sequence
© Saiom Shriver
-saiom shriver-
