PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

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BOUGH

One said that
God looks upon
a broken vow
as on a river
not clinging to
lowhanging boughs

Another said
about those who
always tell the truth
always keep their word
Angels
materialize the words
of the vowkeepers
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BRIGHT GOLD FIELDS
*
Within the husk
are ears' bright seeds
containing future
gold fields of corn
*
Just so are grown
joy's bright kernels
inside the husks
of cruel scorn
*
WHAT ARE THE THISTLE'S EPISTLES

The seeds of the thistle
contain scrolled epistles.
They are the guided missiles
of future purple blooms of thistle.

He merely lets go of his seeds
and the wind scatters them
The rain enkindles them
The sun lifts them

06-24-2004 11:34 AM

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

His royal highness
Everest
sends his melted snowdrops
down to
His Royal Lowness the sea.

COBBLER OF THE SEA

I cobbled the sea,
said the wind.
I made the wind.
I am the cobbler of the sea
said God.

ROCKGIRT TIDE POOLS

Rockgirt tide pools
reflect the sun.,
Bonegirt eye depths
pour the light of the soul.

CLEFT OF GRACE

In the deep forest
a secret waterfall
A Cleft of Grace
Cascade of 1000 Steps

.. heavenward
ascending staircase
down which grace
descends

COLORS

He was blue
because his friends
were called
reds and pinkos
by yellow journalists
funded by plutocratic
blackmailers
who had caused
brownouts to achieve
power
and taken over
corporations
with greenmailers.

But then he remembered
that God was in control.

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PREMARGESHWARA

Prema Love
Marga Path
Premarga
Premargeshwara
The Lord of the
Lane to Love

RAINDROP PARABOLAS

Raindrops make quiet
circles in the river..
current wands them
into parabolas..
lingas of infinity

SANNYAS

Baba said a true
sannyasi
does not stay
in any place more than
3 days.. gives up
all desire motivated
action.. and would
give his most precious
possession to any who
asked...

his home
his last dollar
his partner
his name
his comfort
his sanctuary

The poster stands on the
pier of the ocean of
liberation.. and turns
back.. not yet ripe
enough fruit to
separate from the
tree of attachment

WHY CANNOT THEY SEE GOD

they cannot see God
because the blood they've spilled
becomes a thick curtain
because the lies they've told
weave into a veil
because the cruelty they've done
mutates to a screen
because the thefts have turned
into sunblocking clouds
because their disbelief
has become a darkening shroud

TRUE

He spoke only the true
so had nothing to rue

FACE IN THE WELL

He could not
see his face
in the dark well
until a rain
of grace
did swell
and cause
waters to upwell
.. then he
saw his
face
in the well.

DUCKS IN A POND OF ALGAE

a pond totally carpeted
with green algae..
ducks land..
and create trails

.. do they write
in perfect Sanskrit
or in perhaps
some other script?

SHIVA NEVER SHOVES

Shiva never shoves
but as His dawn light
fills Night's void
she finds herself
slowly... joyed
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LAID DOWN HIS ARMS

Many in armistice
have laid down their arms
but few like the Saint
of Shirdi have been
able literally to lay
down their arms
(throw them in the corner)
at night.

RAM HANUMAN

He dropped into the
sea mountain ramparts
Only in maya
did he from Ram part.

(It is interesting
that the Seychelles
unlike other islands
are made of granite,
and not of volcanic,
sedimentary, or coral
atoll origin)

SATYA LIGHT

said the fruit tree
please don't
try to organize
my sweet fruit flies
.. each mango orb
has its own satellites
.. each fruit fly flies
to its own Satya Light

SHEEP IN QUEUES

as the Jim Jones people were programmed by
Vacaville California prison behavior modification agents
of the US government to self destruct

so are the American masses programmed
to stand in queues and PAY for 'flu shot' pharmaceutical cartel
POISON

.. so do fish customers

PAY FOR POISON POISSON

so do sheep go meekly to slaughter in some cases
and in others.. they quiver.. and go Baa Baa

those who rationalize animal eating say
that at least their appetite gave cows a chance
to exist.. however our consciousness at the moment
of death is the most important of all..
slaughterhouses send animals to God in a state
of terror, agony..

at least the sheep are chanting the name
of God, Baa Baa, as they go to Him
http://www.nofishing.net
http://www.ivu.org

MOTHER BEFORE FATHER

In Sai Baba
Sai comes
before Baba
He is Divine Mother
before He is
Divine Father

GAYATRI MANTRA

when we chant
the Gayatri hymn
along with the Lord
of the Universe, Him
our voices His entwine
and rise to Heaven on
a Vine Divine

http://www.sathyasai.org/audio/audio.htm

to attackers of the Avatar who project onto Him, the Cosmic Mirror, their own souls and to the writer who is sometimes angry with the Avatar for the suffering in the world

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INDELICATESSEN

Sheep eyes, corned beef from the muscles,
salami from the intestines,
lamb stew with blood brew..
Not a deli
but an indelicatessen

HEART ARK

Heark! Heark!
I speak of the
ark
of my friend's heart
Unlike Noah's
it contains all beings
every cockroach
every lark

to Jan F

MOSES ROD IN EACH

Omnipotent God
can cause any rod
to strike fountains
from stone mountains
or the waters of love
which dwell in each heart

WANDERING JEW

The plant
of wandering Jew
has added more
leaves
to his tome
of poems
.. they
are of purple print
on pages of lime

MEDITATING SUN

The sun does nothing
but meditate.. yet flow
his rays
in 360 cubed ways.
He is focused on one
point, but his energy
transforms..
all points.

(to Marty Solomon)
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Snapdragons

Do snapping turtles
eat snapdragons?

(Catholics were murdered more by Nazis than any other group except Jews) (visions are symbolically true whether or not literally)

http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org The Bible Code was written by someone who passed Hebrew scripture through a computer and then warned the Israeli embassy of the impending assassination of Rabin. Heart Remaker is to Helen Schucman, transcriber of the Course In Miracles and faculty member at Columbia Presbyterian. Dandelion Diaspora is to J Ennis silent workaholic networker and funder of many compassion causes) Elohim is to Rabbi David Rosen, former chief rabbi of Ireland and vegetarian. Painter is to Dr. Marvin Katz, ethics professor, fruitarian, at the University of Akron in the 1960's and an organizer of Akron's international and dietary peace, one of 5 philosophy professors fired for taking a public stand against the war in Vietnam) Jewish Unhunter (dedicated to Debra Wasserman and Charles Stahler of Jewish Vegetarians) http://www.vrg.org

aum 06-24-2004 01:32 PM

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OH MARTIN

Oh Martin

Sometimes your voice was the thunder..
Sometimes it was the falling rain.
Always it burst our hearts asunder
and made them vibrate.. empathic in pain.

(to all inspired by the
life of MLK)
.
BIRD CHAUVINISM

He put out the bird feeder..
and was angry when squirrels
came..
.. he wanted only some
of God's creatures to eat

DICK GREGORY

Some put on a black
robe that they might
judge their brothers
but he donned a black
robe that he might
help all others.

http://www.dickgregory.com
author of Cookin With Mother
Nature For Folks Who Eat,
advocate of fruitarian diet,
peace, nonviolence, equal rights
for all

OUST THE THIEVES

BANKruptices
BANK robberies
BANK foreclosures
BANK domination of mutual funds
BANK thumbprints
food BANKS for the hungry

... signs of the growing poverty
caused by the GOP..
which we can turn around
with prayer, visualization,
votes, boycotts, networking,
media

....
SCARLET VEINS

The October brown leaf
and the November
gold leaf
both had scarlet veins
.. as those of
bronze and gold
hue
external
have the same
crimson blood
internal

OH OHIO

150 years ago
.. Our River Ohio
where you did flow
.. marked
the unlocking
of chains of slavery
.. as people crossed
to freedom
through bravery

FLESH MADE WORD REVEALED AS SPIRIT

The ravenwinged ones
those whose souls
slipped into black gloves
those heroes with
their clarion calls

..
far away they fly
and high high
into the sky

They disappear
.. their winged black script
devoured by the great blue
cotton paper of heaven's vault

She once again is empty
awaiting new penned mantras

as the Birds of Spirit
return to their One

MARY CHURCH TERRELL

At the age of 89
Mary created a picket line
.. to protest that
people of color
in certain restaurants
could not dine

SPORTS

They liked to support
spontaneous sports
where each had a port
to onfield play of sorts

BUSHRED GOREBLUE

All those states
of bushred hue
would have been
recorded as al gore blue
had the votes of the bronzehued
not
been stolen from view

24 blackbirds
dick gregory
mary church terrell
nelson mandela
oh martin
oust the thieves
richard pryor
sally hemings
white christmas
william wilberforce

?Saiom Shriver

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aum 06-24-2004 01:41 PM

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POEMS TO THE BUDDHA NATURE

POEMS TO THE BUDDHA NATURE

A PLACE OF PERFECT PEACE

A place
of perfect peace
slows
world's fast pace
which touches bluefires
of peace
and comes closer
to perfect peace.

There is infinite space
in such a small place.

BUDDHA IN CHINA

He walked toward
us.. this man born
in 1963 under Aquarius..
.. there was a cloud
of peace around him...
which lifted us slightly
above the ground..
severing our magnetism
with Mother Earth..
so that things of
the world receded..
we knew that he
cared for all beings..
we knew that he cared
for us as well.
He served us in
a Chinese restaurant..
the rice and coffee
became
bread and wine
in an ancient
sacrament of
initiation.

Some are stars
shining beyond
the cyclone..
the dry place
within the monsoon
.. the warm shelter
in the hurricane
.. the calm center
.. of the typhoon

but Buddhas reveal
to us
that we are all.

ISSA

Issa saw from
the great Buddha's
nose a starling
come flying out.
Perhaps in the desert
Jesus saw
a scorpion come
out of a skull's
nose hollow.
The great ones
look alike upon
attraction and
revulsion..
for they love
all beings
.. for they
have no desire.

ANGKOR WAT

Because he was
truly a follower
of the Buddha..
he valued living
creatures more than
stone deities..
he thought it a greater
sacrilege to remove
the vines which
covered the ancient temples

Because he was truly a follower
of the Buddha..
he would not repair the
roof of the Tibetan temple
.. with the felled pillars
of once living trees

THE WIND'S PRAYER WHEELS

The Buddhist saw that
when his wrist was tired
the Wind came and moved
his prayer wheel for him.

Breath comes and
goes
and the lung prayer
wheels
move to and fro.

(to J Gibbons)

KINDNESS RISES EVERYWHERE

The Tree and Bird Protectors
saw that
windmills and wind
dynamos were prayer
wheels moving in
divine current
.. and that more
and more were making
these dynamos birdfriendly

TIBETAN INCENSE STICK

Plumes of snow were smoking/
off the high peaks of Tibet..
incense sticks on the mountain
altars to the Buddha.
Eddies swirled in the
mountain streams..
eternal prayer wheels
actualizing dreams.

(to all Dalai Lamas)

SAPPHO WEARS SAFFRON

The white orange blossom
has become the orange orb fruit
and reborn, like California poppies,
Sappho wears monks' saffron

?Saiom Shriver

The Dalai Lama: The Only Religion Is Kindness

A Place of Perfect Peace is
to Thich Nhat Hanh

aum 06-24-2004 06:43 PM

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SILENCE QUIET SOUNDLESSNESS STILLNESS

HARMONY CACOPHONY

When more than 1 human
speaks at a time
some say
...cacophony

When birds and frogs croak
.. by the babbling creek
and the wind makes wood
instruments of the trees
some say....
harmony

FEAR NOT

We wish for a peaceful
quiet world
in which
no flea
need in fear flee
.. no fly
need in flight fly

POND PALATE

Fall trees
.. their pond reflections
are paintbrushes
dipped into the
pondpalate's rippling water
.. aswirl with colors
of crimson and pink
and gold and yellow
and orange
... the wind's rustle
and the splashing fish
only for a few moments
obscuring the
kaleidoscope

FRIGHTEN NOT THE LITTLE ONES

Some thoughts must be expressed
to be released.. put on paper..
so that emotions may flow
into release..
sometimes thoughts are so painful
that after written in the blood
of the past
they should be erased, burned,
torn up and flushed
as the sea
erases the scrawls
in the sand..
that their echoes
not others kill

NONVIOLENT WORDS

For many lives she
had expressed
anger with her fists..
but even now she
could see her angry
judging words..
becoming
others' fists..
and God whispered
to her..
that nonviolence in
thought and speech
is required of
aspiring pacifists.

DUSK HUSH

Gone the day's rush..
Gone traffic push....
Light scattered
by sunset paintbrush
.. Now valleys hush ..
and the birdies shush.
the valleys hush..
and the birdies shush.

(to poet S Steigerwald)

POLARITY OF THOUGHT

One thought that in presenting
his opinions he would attract
those of like mind.
The other thought that
if he presented an idea he did not
totally live up to, he would
turn people away. If he did live
up to his ideal, his thoughts
would spread effortlessly.

MORNING HUSH

mist lies in parallel
layers under the clouds
as satin sheets
lie under cotton blankets

EVE ANGEL

Eve Angel does never
evangelize..
but who can hide
the Godlove in her eyes

SLOWING DOWN

We go by much too fast
the hidden gates to see
.. the quiet love..
silent caring
.. anonymous frequencies.

(to M Radney)

WIND FINGERS

The wind's fingers
stroke the tree harp
and the tree's green fingers
in turn stroke the wind.

SILENT THE SUN

Silent the Sun
Speechless the Sea
Quiet the
Tree of Quince
Nontalkative the nut tree
Incommunicado
the avocado
Nonloquacious
the wind

VOLUME CONTROL

Her kind smile to him
when he asked her to turn
down her radio..
melted his heart

SEEING RED

It was a gift to be able to see
auras..
Once when she saw red
she knew the woman who
was pouring out her soul
had had second thoughts
..
like a criminal angered
that he had confided
in a priest

but she resolved
to be as silent
as the sea
... the sea
which turns red
rivers of sound
into ultraviolet
jewels

SUN DOES NOT KISS AND TELL

The sun does not
kiss and tell
but how can the
quince tree
hide
her new quints
in the dell?

(to John J Price and his
family)

STARTLING NO STARLING

Dawn's pastels stirring
as myriad silent star rings
birth day, sun-starring
.. with His quiet ways
startling
no robin or starling

(to C and S Harman)

SEAL OF CONFESSIONAL

all are bound by
the seal of the confessional
of friendship

GURU RIVER

As a river carries
fish to the sea
does a guru carry
secrets
.. giving them
to God the sea

SHELLS SHED

As she shed
all her shells
and dove past
the shards
of seashells
into
the depths
from ocean shelf
she was shshshed
into shanti

THE BIG GAME HUNTERS

They say Satan is the accuser
Criticizing trophy hunters
angers their
guardian angels..
.. harms the hearts of
their children..
.. offends all those
who share his surname

God sees only divinity

in each. The devil sees

only demons
Each is a
not yet unfolded rose
an icicle daggar dripping
and sparkling in the sun
.. by Love still incarnating

SILENT MUSIC

In a dream he said to me:
"I have never known a 3 string
guitar to be silent.."
as he pointed to an apricot
branch.. with 3 twigs..
each playing the music
of apricot making
***
La Scala

At La Scala, the opera house,
news that a diva is ill
and cannot appear.. causes
boos
Outside.. the stars play
their silent ecstasy

MOUSHIKA

The little moushika
in gnawing does
make musica.

BENEATH THE WIND

Beneath the wind
shivers the river
With lightbeam slivers
she does quiver

BUBBLES OF JOY

like joyspheres rising from a fountain
like moons being born of the sun
like round seeds floating in air
are the soul bubbles of God

IMPEACH

GOD does not preach
to the tree of peach
Without force..
Love He does impeach

. Cacophony and Harmony
. Dusk Hush
. Eve Angel
. Fear Not
. Frighten Not Little Ones
. Guru River
. I Have Criticized
. Impeach
. Morning Hush
. Nonviolent Words
. Pond Palate
. Polarity of Thought
. Seeing Red
. Shells Shed
. Slowing Down
. Silent the Sun
. Silent Music
. Sun Does Not Kiss and Tell
. Seal of Confessional
. Startling No Starling
. Wind Fingers
. Volume Control

?Saiom Shriver

aum 06-24-2004 06:49 PM

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Re: Poem Attempts

MIRACLES:

PLUCK A PLUM

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.

ABLUTIONS AND ABSOLUTIONS

Miracles are often a surprise
but Godplanned as the sunrise
and stand beyond the realm
of mathematical surmise.
They multiply solutions
Cause hurt's dissolution
They bring kind absolution
and rain reunion ablutions.

MIRACLES ARE MIRRORS

Miracles
are Mirrors
of God's
eternal love

WATER WILL

Water does not
impose its will
upon the banks
or on walls of well
unless it in flood
swell
unless it in outrage
upwell.

HONEYSUCKLE HERALDS

God needs no
chain or buckle
to link
the roots
of honeysuckle.
Her herald fragrance
runs ahead
as her seamless
threads
delve in new
beds.

SUNRISE SPEED

From the plane flying
east.. the sunrise is
sped up..
as miracles hasten
the end of suffering

WILLIE'S BOY

Willie's boy
is 3
and knows how
to achieve what
he wants without
opposing others
Perhaps he could
give me lessons

SHAFTS OF LIGHT

Shafts of light
from the window
at the top of the stairs
.. flash forth
.. reaching the bottom
.... without the drudgery
of engaging each step

REMINDERS

1. Positive thought
attracts. Negative thoughts
repel.
2. Dwelling on the common
ground..
3' Come let us reason together
4. Come let us achieve together

HOLIEST GROUND

The holiest ground in creation
says the Course In Miracles
is that where 2 foes have just
become friends. We thank You God
that the Mideast is now Your holiest
ground as universal forgiveness
prevails.

BEIJING SPRING

In Beijing
the I Ching
joyful sings
eternal spring

Birch bloom strings
wilent ring
Sun to all
quick'ning brings

GRASSHOPPERS

The grasshoppers found
the ants' selfrighteous
preaching a little
hard to take..
and prayed to
God
'please appear
now up here'
and God did so
..
SNOW DIAMONDS

Falling snow diamonds
so light and slight
each multiplies
the morning light

MERCEDES INDIA

All who love
animals are sympathetic
to those who provide
a leather synthetic

BABY STEPS OF AWESOME POWER

1000 cars go.. after l green light.
1000 tons of avalanche safely
move..
from l sound slight.
A thumbs up from Caesar..
saves the gladiator's life.
Make one phone call..
.. a call to reunite.

HEART

He wanted to give a
gift to everyone in the world

.. from the manger of
the Christ Child
the sleigh of Santa Claus
the upadhi of Droupadi*
None of them was as
limitless as his heart

(a vessel which was full of
food and could not diminished
.. until Droupadi at the end
of the day ate from it )

OUTRAGED WERE THE POOR PEASANTS

Outraged were the poor peasants
by the pretender prince's
carnage of pheasants
They prayed that in the very
present
God as a bow and gun destroyer
would show His presence
for knowledge of His presence
is the very best of presents

and God did
quickly show
His presence

ONE DEGREE

snow turns to rain
with 1 degree
as the sun takes
earth from 32 to 33

KINDNESS TO A BUG

Round wonders flow from
the tip of a magic wand.
Spherical music flows
from the tip of a baton.
A world of talk flows
from the metal of a plug.
Angels pay back infinitely
kindness to a bug.

NOT IRRATIONAL

To avoid animal products
is not irrational
One avoids getting
animals'
ear rash on all.

Ablutions is to Paul and Clare Barrett Obis who have every day created miracles for others. Miracle Point is to Tara B

EMPTINESS DETACHMENT DESIRELESSNESS LETTING GO

BUTTERNUT AND BUTTERCUP

Held the dew
the concave buttercup
better than
the convex butternut

as listening ears
have healing
in their cups

with what
chalice'd joy
does the buttercup
hold
the liquid sunup

(to Jeff Miller and his wife,
to L Yost and her partner
and to others)

ALCHEMY OF ATTRACTION

The criminal desperate for money mused over counterfeiting,
forgery, teleportation, alchemy, treasure hunting,
perusing bank blueprints
.. not leaving fingerprints

Another prayed, did acts of love, gave things away, and
planted fruit trees, free food machines.. these bore the fruit
of needs fulfilled.

A third did nothing, knowing that God his heart indweller,
knew his needs before he himself did..

LISTENING LOVE

One thought that because
the other listened
in silent love
she did with what she
heard agree
As if the polluted
rivers were in
accord.. with
the receiving sea

ODYSSEY TO LOVE

All the endless journeys
of the soul she saw
were for 1 purpose..
to melt the icebergs
of desire totally
in the Sea of Love..
that the sea return
to Itself..
that Frozen Love
become Liquid Love..
sometimes the iceberg
goes drip drip drip
.. slowly letting go
at other times
there is like Beethoven's 5th
a drip drip drip crash..
a sudden silent cataclysm
.. as a whole sheet
falls away..
drip drip drip crash
.. Beethoven's 5th
.. in the odyssey
of frozen sea
to flowing sea

FASTER THAN ONE THOUSAND BROOMS

faster than 1000 brooms
the Wind has swept.
As He passed trees
their petals wept

The wind has swayed
the bonnets of the blooms
faster than a million
hatteries

TARA

Tara is the emptiness
through which flute music pours
Tara is the queen throne zone
Tara is nonattachment's zen
Tara is desireless.. the
zeros which multiply
other numbers

BAMBOO BAMBINOS

Helen Blavatsky described
her trip to India..
60 ft. high stands of bamboo
were beetle bored..
and in the wind
these trunk flutes
sang the sweetest symphony

Bamboo have bambinos
effortlessly...
everywhere are the
new spears of life

BEETLE BITTEN BEE BIBBED BLOOMS

The beetle bitten blooms
are now beautiful of lace
The bees have bibbed
all the nectar
and the emptied bloom chalice
will now hold new dew.

COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN

Coins dropped into the
wishing fountain
its serene surface
splatter
.. as desire does
in the soul of
a master
his serenity shatter

INTO THE BREACH

Into the breach..
the seed of birch

the seed of beech
and the hardstoned
seed of peach
which wishes
to be impeached

POWER POINT

The action point of
a pen..
is that point with the
least mass, the least weight
.. said the pencil, speaking
of his own point.
And another replied..
The Mississippi at the delta
is more
powerful than the
Ohio.. for though he flows
more slowly he flows with
more power.

I DUB

I dub
the bud
the princess
of the bee
but not
his queen

DESIRE'S PRISMS

As long as one
sees the universe
through desires's prisms
one will be magnetized
after death
back to reincarnation's
prisons

LITTLE FROG

They watched the tiny
frog hop across the bike
trail..
Their decision to
walk rather than
bike
made safer his tiny tail

ERASER

God can delete
all negative reactions
to any of our mistakes
or errors or actions
God can unite
all the fractions
we have made
by the spirit of faction

SIX WAYS OF LETTING GO

Creating space is
of things letting go.
Losing weight is
of food
letting go.
Moving love is
of judging thoughts
letting go.
Meditative peace is
of the mind letting go.
Making time is
of plans letting go.
Miracles are of
money letting go

Letting go
Letting green unmolested grow
Letting friends listened to glow
Letting rivers uncontrolled flow
Letting the wind in windmills blow

(I was mentioning to
S Vance that I had
resolved daily to
create space and go
for walks.. she said
they were both forms
of letting go)

ANGELS RUSH IN

Angels rush in
where those perceived foolish
have created vacuums by
giving..
they fill the emptiness
with greater quantity
and higher quality

VISUALIZERS STOP THE WARRING

Visualizers
stop the warring..
security warnings
replaced by hearts'
global warmings

MUSIC'S ATTAR

sitars of Qatar
guitars from afar
The Avatar fills
with music's attar

. 5 ways to let go
. alchemy of attraction
. butternut and buttercup
. desire's prisms
. eraser
. faster than 1000 brooms
. listening love
. little frog
. odyssey to love

(GOD CALLING: The branch need ask no support from the vine)

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WOMEN ARE SPIRIT

SPEED AND INACTION

The mind is attracted
to speed..
the heart to the slowness
of listening.

FREED FROM FACT

A woman of liberation
without limitation
A woman confident
soaring bov imitation
whose ideas may soar
freed of a cage of facts.

(to Elizabeth Williams
who discovered Mad Deer Disease
25 years ago at a research
station in Colorado)
(Currently many say that
the Colorado Dept of Wildlife
spread Mad Elk Disease)
http://www.mad-cow.org
http://www.maddeer.org

PRIEST AND RED SEA (VISION)

A priest walked through a huge crowd which parted before
him like the Red Sea as he carried the lidded monstrance which contained within it the Host, the Eucharist, Christ as Bread.
He approached a woman and handed her the chalice. (Of the many possible interpretations one is that
whenever a soul is liberated, she is handed her own
divinity. Another is that women will inevitably
be priests.

DIEU NHAN

Little baby girl
crawling on the floor
past the toys your
mother placed for you
.. over to the pen..
the pen to women
forbidden..
over and over
to the pen..
as blood flows in
all beings
so the ink waiting
to be written
flows in all women.

(to the first recorded
Buddhist Vietnamese woman
poet)

BEV EYES

Bev's eyes are portals
to realms immortal
which her kindness rules

(to Bev)

BYERS AVENUE

On Byers Avenue in HIGHland
Square in Summit County
in Akron in O Hi O
there lived an abortionist..
He asked a little girl across
the street
and aged six
to weed his garden for
2 bits
She took out all
of a certain blue plant.
He told her to go back
and get the rest.. so she took
out another kind.. a bright
red weaving weed.. He told
her not to finish til all
were gone.. til there was just a muddy
pile.. where once there'd been
green growing life.. that
was the last time she killed
for money.

PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONIST

She saw a partial birth abortionist
on tv.. an American
pilot who had dropped a daisy cutter
bomb on a pregnant woman.

CINDERELLA PUMPKIN

This year an 1100 pound pumpkin
broke previous records..
... perhaps she is
sad to be trapped
in such a big pumpkin
shell
.. where her growers
have 'kept her very well'
but her size has so
blessed others
.. and soon Cinderella
will
burst out of
her private hell.

WATER MONUMENT

Next to the monuments to
famous men of action
are often reflecting pools
or lakes:
monuments to their wives..

a place of receiving
not of imposing

the stone in the statue
is inert while the water
continues to empower

It is not known by all that upon Thomas Jefferson's death over 200 of
his slaves were sold on the auction block.. slaves in many cases who
had worked for him their entire lives Jefferson fought to make
Missouri a slave state.. His legacy lives on as both Missouri and
Virginia are in the execution column of states with racist patterns
of imposing the death penalty

FULL MOON PITCHER

The full moon poured
pitcher after pitcher
of coconut milk
into the sea..
and the sea..
the sea silvered it all.

(to Ruth Thomas, peace
educator for 91 years so
far)

MOTHER EARTH GIVES HERSELF AN A

Flaming maple leaves
fall to earth..
and spangle every plant
as Mother Earth decides
to give herself
and all her children
an A in the fall
.. and in the spring
she gives each field
many gold stars..
of sunny smiling
dandy lions

HOW JESUS' SOUL CAME TO MARY

Like falling rain
oer lilyleaf tripped
Like pure moon into bright
cloud slipped
Like setting sun into
calm sea dipped
did Jesus' soul
come to Mary.

Like communion
chalice sipped
Like the river oer
fallsbrim lipped
Like dewdrop out
of buttercup dripped
was Jesus' soul
born of Mary.

(to Nancy M Wilson)

Sally E told us that there is an ocean of deep blue light which
immerses the entire Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington
DC. Nancy left for God in September of 2002.

SUN MOON AND STARS

When we were children,
we thought
our father was the gold sun,
and our mother the silver moon.
Not til earth set and
turned away from his sun, did we see
she was all the diamond stars.

(to our mother )

JILL OUT OF BOX

She liked sometimes to go to early morning
mass... when she was not a jack in the box..
told to stand up sit down kneel down
stand up sit down kneel down

And she was brave enough this weekend
to tell a man at the evangelical
gathering.. she no longer wanted
to be part of a flock of female
flamingoes..
or of sheep..
obediently following a hierarchical
male pastor..

She preferred alone
with God to confer
or in a circle of women
and men to concur

HEAD COVERING

Is it not odd
that in the holy temples
and mosques
head covering is donned..
while in churches
& chapels it is doffed?

Yet few change their hats
when they enter
the sacred ground
of Mother Earth
.. in spring greengowned
.. or in fall
when her leaves she
has offed
...........................
The Course In Miracles: the holiest ground is that in which
2 former foes reconcile

Paul's injunction that women cover their heads in church is still
a cause of controversy.. though his intention was perhaps that beauty
not distract others from worship

FIRE IN THEIR EYES

She could see
by the new fire
in their eyes
that she had lit
their souls

.. and yet
had not diminished
her own flame

(to Betty Friedan)

A 947 lb. pumpkin had been grown by a Smithville Ohio Carnegie
student 2 years ago and replaced by an 1100 lb. record breaker. God's
fruit yields 450,000 or more lbs. per acre.
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
http://www.egroups.com/messages/fruitarians not meant as an
endorsement of male oriented fairy tales but as an affirmation of the
infinite love within and around all beings

WOMEN INHERIT THE EARTH

The meek and women
shall inherit the earth
.. as macho male bodies
lie in the dirt..
while their souls have
gone to meet
the Maker of the Meek

Men live longer on vegan diet Men live longer when doing work they
love. Most heart attacks occur on Monday morning as people go to jobs
they hate.

GOD'S MAJORITY

Though her
inner voice
is only one..
by most a definite
minority
.. because
she is connected
to God
it ever is
God's majority
Though her sisters
around the world
sometimes feel
disempowered..
it is good to
remind each other
.. that we are
God's Majority

EVE RISING

Was it when Adam fell
or Eve fell
that
Eden fell
on a summer's eve?

Who knows?
but this we can tell
..
the bright moon
is on the horizon
and her
goddess Eve is Rising!!!

Fr Ron Lengwin of KDKA Radio: the apple was the heart of the first butchered animal

FELIX HELIX!

Eureka! Felix!
It's a helix!

to Rosalind Franklin whose research along with that of Linus Pauling
gave Watson and Crick crucial clues in their DNA discovery race

JEWISH WOMEN'S CAUCUS BOYCOTT OF MOSES

Before his death, her husband was sitting in the tub
musing one day.. and said "My wife organized the Jewish
Women's Caucus Boycott of Moses".. a few minutes went
by then.. "Wait! I am receiving a correction..! My wife
was the very last woman to join the boycott!"

Years went by.. and she wondered what he meant..
and began to realize that she was a latecomer to the women's rights
movement.. not having considered it as high a priority.. for she had
been saturated in love and empowerment by her parents And then came
the realization that she had wimped out on Vanessa Redgrave.. who was
ostracized for supporting a Palestinian state.

INVISIBLE WOMAN

More subtle is invisible
Unseen greater than the seen
High notes are soft but higher go
Jesus washed His disciples' feet.
Yond ego's pale
she left no tracks
Turned so fast she
seemed not to move.
The child in man
do women feed
for what is it
love has to prove
Who is the prime minister of love?
Who the president of caring?
Who the chief exec of Kind?
Who the highest head of sharing?
Male pyramids melt
in female fire.
Mens' skyscrapers stop
where women's sky begins.
Who advertise
the soul in their eyes?
Who do anonymous saints
immortalize?

Some day master learns
the faithful servant
was his guru..
Male foam wake of ocean liner
riding on a female sea.
Male speech echoes
in mate's silence
Soundless quiet which
holds all beings

©to Constantina Salamone of World Women For Animal Rights in
Brooklyn.. who coined the word speciesism and ecofeminist as she
built a network of 15,000 ecofeminists worldwide.. She passed out in
Manhattan in 1970.. pamphlets on women animals.. the vast majority of
abused animals.. whose milk and eggs are stolen ..She is an artist,
mountainclimber, and uncontainable mystic http://www.eggcruelty.com
http://www.notmilk.com http://www.veganoutreach.org
http://www.wfad.org http://www.meatout.com This poem is not meant as
an attack on the millions of sensitive men in the world.. Those who
believe in reincarnation often believe that we switch from one gender
to another, life after life, as we attempt to reach perfect balance
between our own yin and yang

TOMATO VINE

The tomato stake
was proud that
he was stable
.. upright disciplined
and able
.. but it was the
weak spineless tomato vine
who provided
all the food for the table

**********

Course In Miracles: paraphrased.. At a certain point God will ask you
to abandon rigid schedules.. to be more flexible to the calls of
Spirit

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MOON IN MIDST OF STARS

The harem man was a moon
surrounded by stars..
a moon because constant
preoccupation with the senses
had turned him into
the woman upon whom he focused
.. surrounded by stars.. harem
members
seemingly smaller in stature
but in actuality of much
greater spiritual size and light

PUMPKIN VINE DESCENSIONS

Nightly to heaven
their souls' ascension
To Heart Thrones,
heart queens' accessions
To lower boughs,
laden fruit trees' recessions.
To Earth Hearth
Pumpkin Vines' decensions

Now comes the Spirit
who frees
all women
from pumpkin shells
Now comes the Spirit
who liberates
women from sexist
Cinderelle.

to C Salamone, coiner of the word ecofeminist and builder of a
network of over 15,000 ecofeminists.. also coiner of the phrase human
chauvinism

KWON YIN

She was Kwon Yin,
a divine mother of mercy
.. but when she had to,
she could also be Kwon Yang.

(to Jan F, Jan B, Jan E
JBO and JP)

PEWS AND QUEUES

Women sat sheeplike
listening to men from pews
Women as slaves
for men's orders did queue
.. for the jails of pews
and queues
were our minded p's and q's..

Here and there we began
to gather clues
until from millenial
sleep .. out of the blue
we were awakened
by dawning freedom's

trumpet cue

1000 LIVES

One thousand male arrows
it takes
to make one maid
dandelion seed ball

After 1000 lives
as husband son and brother
God did trust him
with one lifetime as a mother

(and because of that life
he is now the world's
best father)
(to WHO)

(to M B Wallman) (Summit comes from summa which is Latin for high.. Akron from akros which is Greek for high) As the world with 6 billion people grows more crowded and green spaces are ever more precious .. many Catholics look to contraception .. Ed Markovich has reported studies of the pro choice prolife spectrum.. a. some think all abortion is wrong b. some think all abortions should be allowed c. some believe in first trimester d. some believe in first and 2nd trimester abortions. Sai Baba has said that often the soul does not enter the body until the quickening (first audible heartbeat)(usually in the 5th month) .. JBO recounts a NY Times obituary .. a pregnant woman tried to abort herself with a hangar .. the baby was born without arms or legs.. she went around Baltimore on a cart.. she had to prove to Children's Services that she was capable of raising a baby.. and demonstrated changing diapers with her teeth.. ... Story B: L had 3 abortions. She went to a spiritual healer who said that he saw a soul knocking on her door 3 times.. the 4th time she would let him in. L burst into tears, realizing she had not snuffed a life.. but only delayed a soul's entry onto the world stage May Democrats help ban partial birth abortions and pull Republicans into opposition to the partial birth abortion of war. to Wallace O Please download on the web on rice, cotton, scrap, nontree paper, or 100% recycled

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TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY ON A TUESDAY MORNING

He looked so sad as he walked..
a few minutes later .. there
he was again.. walking
with a 12 pack .. back
from the store...
to one of his parents?
on a Tuesday morning
..
Little man..
carrying the weight
of the world..
You have been handed
the wand of all power
.. bejeweled with
a trinity of Saturn and Neptune
and Uranus..
You will change the world
for the better.
God bless you and
those you love.

PLUTO IN CAPRICORN

The US born with Pluto in Capricorn..
it has never been back since..
in the Congress they sit
obediently
As the unelected leader
speaks of war they cheer

We prefer the British lion..
the Labour MP's 120 strong
.. as Blair tells his lies
.. they catcall they jeer

SPIRIT FLAMES

Out of Saturn's
boxing frames
burst infinite
Spirit flames

HANDI CAP

Perhaps Andy Capp
was by marriage
handicapped
but a Capricorn
is seldom handicapped
.. so handy is the cap
..so powerful the
will of the handy cap

GAS AND BRAKES

Capricorn has the gas
of will
to help him speedily up
the hill..
Aquarius needs more
good brakes
to keep him downhill
from landing in the lake

CAPRICORN COCONUTS

John Denver,
Martin Luther King,
Elvis Presley..
sweet capricorn coconuts..
with the hard shell
of discipline and
the pisces moon
of inner soul milk..
a love for every creature
which draws and opens hearts
as it enfires all to
change the world

AFRICAN VIOLET

Subsaharan Africa
is ruled by the sun
in pisces
and mercury in
aquarius..
infinite compassion
and unique names

ANTIQUARIANS

Capricorns are antiquarians
while Aries' breakouts
seem antiantiquarian
.. Friendly to both
are God and
kind aquarians.

AQUARIES

Aquaries:
that marriage
of aquarius and
aries
.. which multiplies
the power of each

FIREBIRD

Seen floating to earth
in blackest night
an orangered feather
as firebird passed
in flight.

A winglace ablaze
A flake aflame
Fiery waves
cross the wing lave
Yet remain inside
its glowing plume.

Firebird circles
every 2 l/2 centuries
enkindled when
he first touched God.

And to PoeRaven's
"nevermore"
he answers
.. to you his wings
he tips
to you his wings he dips
before flying back
to Pluto 248 years more

And drops
a redfernfeather
as a sign
"All Beings Love
You.. Ever More!!!"

FORGIVING HEALS CANCER

33 degree water
can be colder than ice
for it is not barred
from entering the skin

When Cancer forgives
cancer can disappear

LIBRA ZEBRA

To the woman zebra
God sent
a male zebra
.. with skin like
palmfronds in moonlight
and planets in Libra

HEGEMINI

Bob Hope.. with Pluto
and Sun and Neptune
in Gemini..

Hegemini

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OHIO

Happy 200th Birthday, Ohio..
countless millenia old..
made sacred by Erie and Shiawassee
Tuscarawas and many other tribes..

born to conquerors
on March 1, 1803..

with an infinite compassion
.. which lies in all..
but is especially easy
to access with Pluto
in Pisces.. conjunct
the sun!..
Pluto who takes more
than 2 centuries to return..!

Ohio! representing
the wand of miracles!
Pisces-Virgo..

Ohio! A Persephone
kidnapped by the underworld
A Sita kidnapped by the
Ravana of military
and corporate power..
but Your Rama is coming!!!

CONTROL FREAK SATURN

Where is the Saturn..
the control freak
.. in the chart..?
wherever it is
.. Pluto.. the
infinite.. will sooner
or later show
the only way
to hang on to all
.. is to let go

CAPRICORN MOON

The full moon
rose
hitting the left side of
the mountain
spreading a pink
glow
over the sparkling snow

as she further upward
did glide
it appeared that
the mountain and moon
never did collide

Firebird is to Tom and Bill Kinzie and their anonymous tireless animal rights clipping service, networking with vegetarian athletes, and compassion unbounded Women's groups say that past use of alcohol is the most predictive factor in domestic battering. Alcohol causes fatalities and paraplegics, shattered families, demonic possession as the aura is rent. It causes cirrhosis of the liver. The GOP is the party more funded by alcohol corporations. General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army treated alcoholism in London with vegetarian diet.. highly yin alcohol and extremely yang meat crave each other. His success in breaking alcohol addictions was a factor in the spread of the Salvation Army around the world http://www.egroups.com/messages/salvarmy/2 The lion eagle ox and angel of Revelation represent the fixed cross of leo scorpio taurus and aquarius.
RESURRECTION POEMS

EVERY LEAF

Every lovely leaf
in the rainforest
weaves clouds of
rain for us.

INEVITABLE

Scars have turned
to stars
The cross has
become the crown.
The rejected stone
is in temple installed.
The metal resoldered
is stronger than
original.
Wings have emerged
from cocoon.
The most sacred place..
where foes have
reconciled.

AMAZING GRACE

The cloud which blocked
the reveling sun
became a rain of grace
and in the barren
winter tree
has raveled to green lace.
The stone cold foe has
turned around
.. is now of hearts the ace
and out of the invisible
God
has given love
a face.
The world is now awahs
with love
.. arinsed with rains
of light..
everywhere has been
cleared away
.. the illusory
pain of night

ARBOR AND HARBOR

Of every leaf's placement
in any arbor
God is the
First and Final Arbiter

Of every lapping wave
in each sacred harbor
His birds
are the harbingers.

BEIJING SPRING

In Beijing
the I Ching
joyful sings
eternal spring

Birch bloom strings
silent ring
Sun to all
quick'ning brings

BLUEBIRDS ON A BARREN TREE

Bluebirds sit
on the barren
black branches
of a winter tree..
but it is not
their gentle touch
which will resurrect
him with lifespringing.
It is the God ever within himself.

BURSTING BRANCH

How has withered
winter ebony branch
become bursting flute
of bloomed blanche?
Though the kisses
of the sky's rain dance
and the wand of Sun's
most casual glance

They find no longer room
do the bursting blooms
in the branches' cocoon
Butterflies of purple
redbud
burst out of their tombs

(to J Dunlap)

CRIMSON RAINDROPS

Blood from the wounded deer
splattered everywhere..
it has become crimson
raindrops over there
.. raindrops which
to bright red berries
crystallized..
.. foiled more beautiful
by the bright blue air

when they fall to the
ground they become
greenleafed shrubs

BUTTERFLIGHT

Transubstantiate.. Metamorphose

Jesus miracles water into wine
Rain turns
to grapes violet upon
the vine
Willow trees are
born of flood
as acorn becomes oak
and kernel the corn
and the love of a father
in forlorn child reborn
and Tolstoy's ink
becomes Sathyagraha
which Gandhi thinks
and the murdered pig's
fat candle becomes
sacred enkindling flame
and the manure pile
becomes the pink rose
and moon's night
becomes sun's light
and crawling worms
become butterflight
So does the Holy Spirit Dove
turn anger into Love
and make us One with
OUR GOD who is Love

(not an endorsement for
butter stolen from cows
http://www.notmilk.com)

CROSSROADS

We came to a crossroads sign
and what did we see?
All directions pointing
to his heart's infinity.

(to Mahashakti D'Alessio)

NOT YET READY

Half worm
half butterfly
fearing death
of cocoon
is not ready
to fly
to come forth..
from the tomb

CHRYSALIS IS NOT CRYSTAL

The larva..
the chrysalis
is not translucent
bright crystal..
but hidden
in the dark
.. the dark night
of the soul
before emerging
as the Christ

**

inspired by Emily Dickinson's
"My cocoon tightens
colors tease
I'm feeling for the air
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear"
and by the questioning of Jan F

POISONED APPLE

By the abandoned
crystal casket
of Sleeping Beauty
are groves of trees
ignited by the
poisoned apple's seeds

And in the empty
Trojan Horse birds
are nesting

JUDAS IN HEAVEN

The world the silver moon
shattered into shards
in the shallows and
upon the seashore
has been gathered into
One
by the Resurrecting
Morning Sun!

RIVERCLOVEN

On the banks
of the valley
rivercloven
are fields of
daisy, phlox, and clover

APRIL RELEAF

Oh what a blessed relief!
to see April the trees re-leaf!
and a windbussed Noreaster
fragrant with Easter
melt away the last ice-lings
of grief.

(to Leonard B)

APPLE APERTURE

In the dirt
of Mother Earth
God had made
a hole of pain
.. into this aperture
fell apple seeds
which filled
Her now with
a grove of apple trees

(to Jean Giono, famed
French novelist, who
wrote The Man Who Planted
Trees about patient
treeplanting as a way
to reclaim desert)

SOUTH WIND

The south wind her
evening messengers
has sent
.. each donned with
her jasmine scent

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Nonjudging

BLANK BUTTON

Today the writer pricked herself
on the sharp point of
a Love Animals Don't Eat
Them button..
interesting symbolism

.. perhaps she was being told
by the universe to
wear a blank button..
carry a blank sign
.. to have no opinions
for this day

not to think that the
general shed tears
when the fabric of the
flag was
set aflame
but not when thousands
of Fred's were by bombs
set afire

ANONYMOUS

Executioners
in many states
have their
identities veiled
...
as in the name
of the state
the poor the angry
the helpless
they have impaled

PIER

The poles of the pier
enter the bay
.. hoping to bring
their steadiness
to her..
but after a few
hundred yards
they give up

GRIDMELT

thought grid
systems blocks the light
as
stained glass in
churches filters
the sunlight

CUP AND WATER WHEEL

It is the dharma of
the cup to hold the water.
It is the dharma of the
water wheel to let go.
It is the dharma of the ocean
to hold in the depths
and let surface waves flow.

It is the dharma of one
to go north and another to
go south..

of one to be silent
and another to speak

Index: Poems of Equity

Author's Notes/Comments:

Awry the Rye Grows is
to Rosalie Cohen Quine
and to SF

to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of wild lawns)
FOUR FLOWERS is to C and
R Davis of Maryland

LACKADAISICAL IS TO LAURIE OTTO
http://www.epa.gov/greenacres
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1."
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Faster than any stylus squiggling
Can write the sun in the water wiggling
But when the sea is perfectly still
it appears it was water which held
the quill.

DUNE GRASS BRUSHES

From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where they laid
to paint the blue sky
jade

HURRICANE KATE

Hurricane Kate
forced proud palms
to padnamasakar
the humble ocean

Because she the sea
everywhere has feet
it's not hard for them
to show their devotion

COCONUT PITCHER

The full moon poured
pitcher after pitcher
of coconut milk
into the sea..
and the sea..
she silvered it all.

SEA PITCHER

I gave him a pitcher.
With it he gave me the sea.
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FOAM LACE TABLE CLOTH

Mother Earth set daisy tables that
upon them bees might sit.

Mother Earth
set buttercups
that from them
bees might sip sunup

Mother Sea.. threw a foamlace
tablecloth over the flat rock
in the bay..
that her fishies might dine..
and when they were finished
she slid it off and sudsed the
rock clean with her surf.

SEA NILE

Where to salt water
turns the sweet
Where aqua becomes
royal navy
Where robins slowly
become sea gulls
And the linear
to spherical
gives sway

is where the
sea is wed
to Nile..
Some thought
the Nile
was senile..
but he was far beyond
earth's cares
merged in the ecstasy
.. of the ebbtide sea
.. only a murmuring
to say where he'd merged

LAVA TURNED TO JEWELS

She the sea
.. receives red hot
lava
and transmutes it
into green glass jewels.

She the listening compassionate
ear
turns anger into
love.

SEAS OF PEACE

*

The tides of the seas
do wane and cease
.. but the waves of the sea
have no surcease
.. Yet these restless waves
do give us peace
.. all on her sands healed
by her perfect peace

SHROUD TO SAIL

The shroud in which she did lie
is now sail for ship of joy.
Her tomb's boulder now
the cornerstone of resurrection.
The mist which clouded mirror
of soul
replaced by God's reflection
and ice of pain on sea did
melt..
it now flashes sun's perfection.

*

SEA RECEIVES ALL LONELY RIVERS

Receives all arrows
the universal quiver
as the sea receives
all lonely rivers
as the sea purifies
all polluted rivers
as the sea
calms all
ruffled rivers

*

PEACEMAKERS

At times they crash upon the shore
.. sometimes they gently lap
sometimes.. they roll
sometimes they scroll
these waves.. these peacebreakers
.. never breaking the peace..
these peacemakers

FOUR NATIONS

In poisonous prussic acid they
dipped
their lethal harpoon tips

and Norway's Svend Foyn
developed a gun torpedo
.. a karmic tornado
to whales with mechanical
harpoons
slay in calm or in typhoons

(to the people of Japan, Norway,
Iceland and the US .. please stop
this ancient barbarism as the last
5 nations to slay whales

OCEAN CROWN

Changing landscapes
but the seascape..
one cannot look at its surface
and know if it is 2003 BC or 2000 AD

Neath the wingweave
of gulls..

they tossed a wreath upon her
to give her a crown
How absurd.. this tiny little
crown.. upon her infinite
immensity

.. but she is not interested
in honors from earth..

and she swept it to the shore

NEPTUNE AND THE MOON

The full moon
is a
mate of Neptune
Into the silent
mirroring sea
was thrown a stone
which shattered her face
but calm was restored
and the healed icon
was ensconced
once again in her
watery throne...
He did her array
in azure seaspray
.. and made
a necklace
which heightened her
rays and
let no drop
go astray

*
ARRIVE SHE SHALL

Beyond shallows
where
conch has left
his shelter
for a less confining shell
Past sunslivers
quivering
in waves' gentle swell
Away from softly
lappin tidalpools'
diurnal upwell
Daily to her quiet
seasoul
for a brief spell
.. come she shall

*
3 WAVE STEPS

3 tiers
of waves
.. each of them
starred by the
diamond sun
3 rings
.. a triple crown
.. for the horse
as she entered the sea

CALL OF THE SEA

Ubiquitous is the voice of the Sea
in the steady raindrops'
beating of the leaky roof's
peachcan drum...
in the trickle of
spring's melting snow
..
in the brook's cheery chirping
wintershaking
as he seaward faster flows

in summer's lightning
and rainpour
in the waterfall's awesome roar

in powerful Mississippi's silent murmur
in the portal waves' omkar*

Millenial temple to Poseidon
stands on his shores..
its granite rectangles
crumbling.. while His
pourable Blueness remains.

Rockgirt tide pools,
and bonegirt eye depths
remind us of Him.

Down from his heights
His Royal Lowness Piscean
calls
his brother
Capricorn
From her crystallized opposition
with the magnetism of His
limitless pull
He calls Mother Earth.

How does he heal? the sea?
With his lowlying humility?
Proud rivers must stoop
to take padnamaskar.
In every conch shell
hear his gulls.
In every place where
lovewaters gather and pool..
hear his call..
summoning all to his
vastness his majesty

Sooner or later every drop
will
rush to His call.

(to the 12th chamber in everyone's
soul mansion)
* based on Baba's sentence
(to the Avatar and all His children drops)
(padnamaskar: touching the feet of the Guru)

*
COBBLER

I am the tree
which made the
peach which
became the cobbler,
said the peachtree.
I cobbled the street,
said the stone.
I cobbled the sea,
said the wind.
I made the wind
so I cobbled the sea,
said God.

*
SCHUYLKILL

The Schuylkill
does no fish schools kill
When she encounters a rock
the river never stops
never stops growing
.. she keeps rising
or seeping....or flowing
Past banks flowering she will flow
.. she will arrive
.. to merge in her Love, the Sea
and In him in joy to dive

*
DONEGALWAY

So many sires
he had in Donegal
.. so many
foremothers in Galway
..he was
made of
Donegalway
...in every
cell of his being
called the sea
to itself

*
DORIES ANCHOR

Quiet Peace of Eve
Fishing dories
anchor.. lapping
Grateful are fishes.

antiqua,palatino;"> of no motion

mirrors God's miracles
and mercy..
in the mere.
Even those moored
on the shore
harvest the bliss.

*
SERMON OF THE SEA

What is the silent sermon
of the sea
she bequeaths to each mermaid and merman
she in seaweed wreathes.
What is her legacy
in each leg of the sea?
Accept all lonely rivers..
Don't strive.. just be
Offer your self to God the Sun
Be at peace beneath
gulls' staccato shrieks.

*
WHAT ARE THE THISTLE'S EPISTLES

Merely let go of your seeds
and the wind will scatter them
the rain will enkindle them
the sun will lift them

*
DIRECTOR'S CHAIR

Pat asked God who her
teacher was and was
given a vision
of a director's chair
facing the ocean.

Perhaps it meant
only Her who can
control
the ocean's roll
or Him who can walk
on the sea's liquid
scroll

*
DREAM OF PIER

She walked to the edge
of the pier.. the
Sea of God beckoned
to her.. but she could
not bring the discs
she clasped in her
hand with her..
and sadly turned around
.. never mind.. there will
come a time
when her strongest urge
is with God to merge

SEA CRASHING UPON ROCKS

We do not always want
the sea
to be at peace
.. or to be specific
we don't always want
a pacific Pacific

at times we want to
stand on a mountain
above
and watch the waves
crash upon the rocks
.. the sound is
shakti itself

*****
3 Wave Steps
Arrive She Shall to Jan P B
Call of the Sea

Cobbler of the Sea to Bill Lance
Coconut Pitcher to Ruth Thomas, at 93 with 70 years of peace
education under her belt.. still going strong
Director's Chair
Dongegalway
Dories' Anchor
Dream of Pier

Dune Grass Brushes

Foam Lace Table Cloth to Betsy Frost
Four Nations
Gull Staccato'd
Hurricane Kate to EKB
It Snows at Sea (to J Denholm and David S)
Lava To Jewels (to L Lichty)
Mavoorning to Ethel L
Mere's Mirrors
Neptune and Moon
Neptune's Hair
Not Boat
Ocean Crown
Ocean Pitcher to C Lassell who got our water turned on
Peacemakers
Poseidon Temple to Ed and Nancy who have done so much
teaching others to cherish the sea
Rain at Sea
Rocking Cradle or Sagaradhar (to D and P Wilson)
Redundancy (to our father)
Sagaradhar to D and P Wilson
Schuylkill
Seacharge
Seas Of Peace
Sea Receives All Rivers (to E Hubiak)
SeaNile (to M and B Milcetich)
Sermon of the Sea
Shroud to Sail (to J B O)

Water Held the Quill (to Mark Braunstein)

Sagaradhar: Sanskrit for God as holder of the ocean
Padnamaskar: Sanskrit for the devotion of touching the Feet of the
Master
Omkar: repetition of Om
Ananda: joy
He in "Gull Staccato'd".. refers to Sai Baba
YOu're not the Boat is to Jan Wemni

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ONE PLUS ONE IS ONE.. POEMS TO LIFE PARTNERSHIP
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17 YEAR ENGAGEMENT

As baby elephants
are longest in outbreaking
Often the very best marriages
are longest in the making.

BRIDAL VEIL
TOSSED

She has tossed away
her bridal veil
.. lace of Milky Way
starjeweled with
comet trail
for the Moon
needs no array
of the sun's rays
when she is
One
with her husband
the Sun

(inspired by
poetry of Kabir)

MOON PENDANT

Sol The Cosmic Bubble Blower
blew..
and birthed a big balloon
.. a bubble ball moon
Of a sudden she floated up
and into the evening.
Above the flotsam
Now she floats
chainless pendant
On Night's throat resplendent
born of the light
of the Sun descendant
as he enkindled
her orb ascendant

BRIDAL TRAIN

The moon has wed
the sun, the Lord
of Light
.. but her bridal
train, the Milky Way,
is seen only
of the night.

LABOR OF LOVE

For a while she
was annoyed
that he enjoyed
while she
was employed..

until she got
a job she enJoyed.

I KNEEL

I kneel before the
heart of my Beloved..
within the shrine of
His soul..
It is never locked
to any being.

*
YEARLING

My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago.

*
LIGHT IS THE LOVE OF STARS

Light is the love of stars.
Warmth the love of fire
Fragrance the love of flowers
Fruit the love of desire.

Music the love of reed
Water the love of sky
Breath the love of angels
These two: the love of Sai

to Ginger Wynn and her
partner

*
FOR QUEEN ALONE

Fear not as the bee
trips merrily
from bloom to bloom
.. as he faithfully
at dusk zooms home
to the hive
it is apparent
for the queen alone
does he strive

*FRENCH CHERRY

The cherry tree
has donned a new chemise
.. jade hued..
studded cherise

*
FRANZ LIZST

Oh a womanizer
was Franz Lizst
.. who checked
women off his lists
.. yet was his
music
not linear
but spherical

*
LOVE POSSESSES NOT

Love possesses not
nor would Love
be possessed
but 2 rivers
together flow
and together
to the sea of
God they go

NEED

Need attracts
the mother
the brother
Needlessness
attracts
the lover

*
FIRST MOUNTAIN MARRIAGE

Clouds ring the mountain
peaks as
earth marries woven water
with air and fire as the
witnesses

*
SECOND MOUNTAIN MARRIAGE

A river flowing encounters
a mountain..
but in time
the squares become curves
.. and opposition
becomes encircling love

*

*

. 17 year engagement
. 1st mountain marriage
. 2nd mountain marriage
. Bridal veil tossed
. Moon pendant
. for queen alone
. bridal train
. light of love
. i kneel
. yearling
. light is the love of stars
. labor of love
. Lizst
. Love Possesses Not
. talking to each other

?Saiom Shriver

The Milky Way is the constellation, not the candy bar containing female hormones salmonella etc. http://www.milksucks.com http://www.notmilk.com http://www.pcrm.org 17 Year Eng: to C and R Davis Bridal Train: to Chris and Kel Muse for Bridal Train was a tv story about wills and a hobo who died leaving only his writing.. in it he spoke of the Milky Way train Please download on the web on rice, cotton, scrap, nontree paper, or 100% recycled (Moon Pendant to Sol Mark Braunstein and his love) (Srila Prabhupad: Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki as mysteriously as the setting sun in the west illuminates the rising moon in the east

Please consider downloading on the web on rice, cotton, scrap, or other nontree paper

working for marine mammals http://www.cousteau.org
http://www.seashepherd.org http://www.hsus.org
http://www.nrdc.org http://www.peta.org and thousands
of other groups

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*
HINDU POEMS

DROUPADI ROSE

Busy bees chased
the bloom chaste
Though
they crawled on her
clothes
her petals unfolded
and those held close
still ever faithful
to the sun
is the everpure rose

Whether her hue
is violet or rose
Whether she grows
in freedom or rows
ever to God
in waves arose
the love perfume
from the heart of the rose.

*
BROOK'S COMMUNION

The little brook
prays for the communion
of rain
its chalice to fill
that it might
over
the thwarting
dam
to the sea spill

Eye goblets can't
contain the thrill..
joy tears swell and
into rivulets spill

BY VIBUTHI SHIELD

By vibuthi shield
are we healed
By His grace
do we yield
Only He the Knower
Only He the Field
Only He ..sudarshan
chakra.. can wield

CHERRY TREE FLAG OF INDIA

Cherry Tree
with blooms white
in the spring
and leaves summer
greening
.. turning flame orange
in the fall..
withdrawing to
meditate in the winter..

you remind me of
the flag of nonviolent Bharat.

DEITY IN THE TEMPLE

Krishna, the dark seed,
Icon installed
in the temple..
of the apple..
in its aperture
.. foiled is the deep brown
by the light fruit
..
He, the Deity, will quicken
.. when given the attention
of the sun, the rain,
and Mother Earth

*
CLEFT OF GRACE

In the deep forest
a secret waterfall
A Cleft of Grace
Cascade of 1000 Steps

.. heavenward
ascending staircase
down which grace
descends

*
COLORS

He was blue
because his friends
were called
reds and pinkos
by yellow journalists
funded by plutocratic
blackmailers
who had caused
brownouts to achieve
power
and taken over
corporations
with greenmailers.

But then he remembered
that God was in control.

*
CUNNINGHAM FALLS

It splashed
It rippled
It sheetglassed
It soared
It babbled
It seeped
and it soaped
and it roared.
It pooled
..cascaded
It gurgled
seatoward
but at its purest
was bubbleless
whitefoamless

Soundless
it poured.

Cunningham Falls to the shakti, the healing power, Sri Sathya Sai Baba pours through Saiananda Shroyer

*

*
PREMARGESHWARA

Prema
Marga
Premarga
Premargeshwara

Lord Shiva is
The Lord of the
Lane to Love

*
RAINDROP PARABOLAS

Raindrops make quiet
circles in the river..
current wands them
into parabolas..
lingas of infinity

SANNYAS

Baba said a true
sannyasi
does not stay
in any place more than
3 days.. gives up
all desire motivated
action.. and would
give his most precious
possession to any who
asked...

his home
his last dollar
his partner
his name
his comfort
his sanctuary

The poster stands on the
pier of the ocean of
liberation.. and turns
back.. not yet ripe
enough fruit to
separate from the
tree of attachment

*
WHY CANNOT THEY SEE GOD

they cannot see God
because the blood they've spilled
becomes a thick curtain
because the lies they've told
weave into a veil
because the cruelty they've done
mutates to a screen
because the thefts have turned
into sunblocking clouds
because their disbelief
has become a darkening shroud

*
TRUE

He spoke only the true
so had nothing to rue

*
FACE IN THE WELL

He could not
see his face
in the dark well
until a rain
of grace
did swell
and cause
waters to upwell
.. then he
saw his
face
in the well.

*
DUCKS IN A POND OF ALGAE

a pond totally carpeted
with green algae..
ducks land..
and create trails

.. do they write
in perfect Sanskrit
or in perhaps
some other script?

*
SHIVA NEVER SHOVES

Shiva never shoves
but as His dawn light
fills Night's void
she finds herself
slowly... joyed
****
brook's communion
by vibhuthi shield
cherry tree flag of india
cleft of grace
colors
cunningham falls
deity in the temple
ducks in a pond of algae
face in the well
premargeshwara
raindrop parabolas
sannyas
shiva never shoves
true

*
LAID DOWN HIS ARMS

Many in armistice
have laid down their arms
but few like the Saint
of Shirdi have been
able literally to lay
down their arms
(throw them in the corner)
at night.

*
RAM HANUMAN

He dropped into the
sea mountain ramparts
Only in maya
did he from Ram part.

(It is interesting
that the Seychelles
unlike other islands
are made of granite,
and not of volcanic,
sedimentary, or coral
atoll origin)

*
SATYA LIGHT

said the fruit tree
please don't
try to organize
my sweet fruit flies
.. each mango orb
has its own satellites
.. each fruit fly flies
to its own Satya Light

*
SHEEP IN QUEUES

as the Jim Jones people were programmed by
Vacaville California prison behavior modification agents
of the US government to self destruct

so are the American masses programmed
to stand in queues and PAY for 'flu shot' pharmaceutical cartel
*
POISON

.. so do fish customers

*
PAY FOR POISON POISSON

so do sheep go meekly to slaughter in some cases
and in others.. they quiver.. and go Baa Baa

those who rationalize animal eating say
that at least their appetite gave cows a chance
to exist.. however our consciousness at the moment
of death is the most important of all..
slaughterhouses send animals to God in a state
of terror, agony..

at least the sheep are chanting the name
of God, Baa Baa, as they go to Him
http://www.nofishing.net
http://www.ivu.org

*
MOTHER BEFORE FATHER

In Sai Baba
Sai comes
before Baba
He is Divine Mother
before He is
Divine Father

*
GAYATRI MANTRA

when we chant
the Gayatri hymn
along with the Lord
of the Universe, Him
our voices His entwine
and rise to Heaven on
a Vine Divine

http://www.sathyasai.org/audio/audio.htm

?Saiom Shriver

to attackers of the Avatar who project onto Him, the Cosmic Mirror, their own souls and to the writer who is sometimes angry with the Avatar for the suffering in the world

?Saiom Shriver
to Tal B.. may the Yugavatar turn you around and give you the grace to tell the truth

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JEWISH TEACHERS

ROOT IN OUR HEARTS

The rain, weed-wed,
has
multiplied
these
gray haired flakeheads
and now

dandelion seeds float in the air..
by the Bubble Blower sent aloft..
which ones will mystically touchdown..
to root in our hearts?

NOT IN CHAOTIC SHARDS

Not in chaotic shards
do dandelion seeds
burst from their ball.
Each part as perfect
as the whole.
Each each contains
the all.

ABSALOM

Oh Absalom
Oh Absalom
we will not bid you
goodbye
but say shalom
as your father learns
the ways of peace

NORTH AND SOUTH

If Absalom had cut
his hair it would not
have caught on the branches
of a tree.
If Samson had not cut
his hair he would not
have lost strength
to Delilah's wiles.
For each soul God
has a different path.

MARVIN KATZ

He expanded so many
from affection
for dogs and cats
to a love encircling
all beings..
did Marvin Katz

FIRE IN THEIR EYES

She could see
by the new fire
in their eyes
that she had lit
their souls

.. and yet
had not diminished
her own flame
**

to Betty Friedan and to Doris Haddock, Granny D, who at the age of 90 walked 3000 miles across the US to bring about clean $ in America http://www.grannyd.com

Only the maker can make
the shoe.
Only the wearer
can tell if it fits.
This is the argument
for democracy..
said to his students
David Spitz.

* Dr Spitz taught his students that
the US Senate, Supreme Court, and
United Nations were inherently undemocratic.

DAVID'S MERCY TO GOLIATH

We know not the fruit's hue
from that of the bloom.
Gold tomato blossoms
become red spheres.
The pointed yellow star
becomes the linga
of the cucumber.
The red blood of Nazi
camp suffering
has been transmuted in
most..
to an awesome forgiveness.

By this mercy
did David
convert
the heart of Goliath

/strong>

ELOHIM

He needn't reach the stars..
stars' light reached to him..
He needn't climb to God.
Inside him ..... Elohim.

HEARTREMAKER

Some are heartbreakers
She is a heartremaker.

YEHUDI MENUHIN

Released from clouds
by peasized dry ice
were thousands of pounds
of snow wedding rice.

Released from clouds
by wee tips of forked lightning
the rain's awesome downpour
.. sky sighed in lightening

The kiss of King Charming
Sleeping Beauty sparked
Total love's touch
to Beloved arced.

The words of the rabbi
resound in the mind
Guru shaktipat
forever opes crown.

The sun's rays
wand alive the iris
Waterdrops waken
the starseeds of Isis.

The notes of
Menuhin's
heartsky piercing violin
cause frozen tears
of pain
uncontrolled to rain.

Shaktipat: Over 20,000 year old Sanskrit word for the touch of the guru which awakens the thousand petaled lotus or the crown chakra.. Yehudi Menuhin was a vegetarian who worked for peace many decades..

HEART ARK

Heark! Heark!
I speak of the
ark
of my friend's heart
Unlike Noah's
it contains all beings
every cockroach
every lark

to Jan F

MOSES ROD IN EACH

Omnipotent God
can cause any rod
to strike fountains
from stone mountains
or the waters of love
which dwell in each heart

WANDERING JEW

The plant
of wandering Jew
has added more
leaves
to his tome
of poems
.. they
are of purple print
on pages of lime

style="font-family:
**
Snapdragons

Do snapping turtles
eat snapdragons?

(Catholics were murdered more by Nazis than any other group except Jews) (visions are symbolically true whether or not literally)

?Saiom Shriver
http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org The Bible Code was written by someone who passed Hebrew scripture through a computer and then warned the Israeli embassy of the impending assassination of Rabin. Heart Remaker is to Helen Schucman, transcriber of the Course In Miracles and faculty member at Columbia Presbyterian. Dandelion Diaspora is to J Ennis silent workaholic networker and funder of many compassion causes) Elohim is to Rabbi David Rosen, former chief rabbi of Ireland and vegetarian. Painter is to Dr. Marvin Katz, ethics professor, fruitarian, at the University of Akron in the 1960's and an organizer of Akron's international and dietary peace, one of 5 philosophy professors fired for taking a public stand against the war in Vietnam) Jewish Unhunter (dedicated to Debra Wasserman and Charles Stahler of Jewish Vegetarians) http://www.vrg.org

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EQUITY POEMS

FIRST LADY SALLY HEMINGS

The reflecting waters..
around the Jefferson
Memorial.. are your liquid
monument..

as seas receive slaps
without responding
so you absorbed
over and over
.. the humiliation
of waiting on your lover's
children.. while they
treated you
as Flora
and Isabella
treated
Cinderella..
you watched as he showered
his white children with love
ignoring in public his
mulatto progeny
you heard the news
of Jefferson's White
House dinners..
as you were kept out
of sight in Monticello
...he broke your heart
again.. as he broke his
promise.. to free your
children.. 200 of
your fellows were auctioned
off in slavemarkets..
... you grew tired of
reflecting him..
in your next life
you mirrored kinder
faces..
as your waters flowed
past the cold marble

24 BLACKBIRDS

"Four and twenty blackbirds
baked in a pie"
the old English sing..
of Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King
Rep Mickey Leland
and Secretary Ron Baker
of Ken Saro-Wiwa
and Steve Biko
and all the other martyrs
to the racist power structure

Even so like a party
person springing up out of
a vegan birthday cake..
they all spring back to us
in new forms.. with resurrected
and multiplied power

OH MARTIN

Oh Martin

Sometimes your voice was the thunder..
Sometimes it was the falling rain.
Always it burst our hearts asunder
and made them vibrate.. empathic in pain.

(to all inspired by the
life of MLK)

THROWN OFF TRAINS ..
MOVED TO BACK OF BUSES

Rosa Parks refused to give up
her seat on a US bus.. and the
world was changed.

Mohandas Gandhi was thrown
off a train in South Africa,
and the world was changed.

Lee Archer was moved from a
general to a nonwhite
traincar in Washington DC.. before
he became a war hero*.

Neem Karoli Baba was taken
off a train in Neem Karoli India
and the train could not move.**

WHITE CHRISTMAS

They sing White Christmas
in the stolen White House
.. their guestlist includes
.. General Tommy White
(62 million richer from
Enron)
.. they send
their ambassador
to the UN
dominated by
4 nations
predominantly white....
and they invite
GOP governors white
who execute black
inmates
much more than white
.. they invite Supreme
Court nojustices..
who have executed
more black prisoners
than white..
.. they invite Ashcroft
.. a racist imprisoner
and Missouri executioner
of nonwhites
...
and the Confederate Museum
in Texas.. with its
money from George Bush
and the Bob Jones Univ
with its visits from George
Bush.... he
has sealed the papers
of the library of Ronald
Reagan.. who gave a code to
Mississippi whites..
he called his racism
"states' rights"..
George Sr. will be there
.. his Willie Horton
ad campaign
broadcast hate of nonwhites
...
They'll have Jeb
who disenfranchised nonwhites
.. and General Tommy Franks
who bombed from a distance
nonwhites
as if he were playing
a video game

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE

His will became law's
force
as William Wilberforce
was the driving force
behind ending British slavery
in history's river course.

RICHARD PRYOR

For a time
the falling snow
white
clouded the
brilliance
of the morning light
but then the clouds
melted away
and then snow white
multiplied the
brilliance
of the morning light

(to Richard Pryor.
one of the billions
of victims of a
racist world)

NELSON MANDELA

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
your name is a mantra
which invokes great
courage.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
your face: a mandala

BALLOTS

Bogus ballots
backed by bullets
.. and belligerent
bullies .. who
want our baby boys
body bagged in Baghdad
... for the buillion
of billionaires

BIRD CHAUVINISM

He put out the bird feeder..
and was angry when squirrels
came..
.. he wanted only some
of God's creatures to eat

DICK GREGORY

Some put on a black
robe that they might
judge their brothers
but he donned a black
robe that he might
help all others.

http://www.dickgregory.com
author of Cookin With Mother
Nature For Folks Who Eat,
advocate of fruitarian diet,
peace, nonviolence, equal rights
for all

OUST THE THIEVES

BANKruptices
BANK robberies
BANK foreclosures
BANK domination of mutual funds
BANK thumbprints
food BANKS for the hungry

... signs of the growing poverty
caused by the GOP..
which we can turn around
with prayer, visualization,
votes, boycotts, networking,
media

....
SCARLET VEINS

The October brown leaf
and the November
gold leaf
both had scarlet veins
.. as those of
bronze and gold
hue
external
have the same
crimson blood
internal

OH OHIO

150 years ago
.. Our River Ohio
where you did flow
.. marked
the unlocking
of chains of slavery
.. as people crossed
to freedom
through bravery

FLESH MADE WORD REVEALED AS SPIRIT

The ravenwinged ones
those whose souls
slipped into black gloves
those heroes with
their clarion calls

..
far away they fly
and high high
into the sky

They disappear
.. their winged black script
devoured by the great blue
cotton paper of heaven's vault

She once again is empty
awaiting new penned mantras

as the Birds of Spirit
return to their One

MARY CHURCH TERRELL

At the age of 89
Mary created a picket line
.. to protest that
people of color
in certain restaurants
could not dine

SPORTS

They liked to support
spontaneous sports
where each had a port
to onfield play of sorts

BUSHRED GOREBLUE

All those states
of bushred hue
would have been
recorded as al gore blue
had the votes of the bronze
not
been stolen from view

24 blackbirds
dick gregory
mary church terrell
nelson mandela
oh martin
oust the thieves
richard pryor
sally hemings
white christmas
william wilberforce

?Saiom Shriver

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POEMS TO THE BUDDHA NATURE

POEMS TO THE BUDDHA NATURE

A PLACE OF PERFECT PEACE

A place
of perfect peace
slows
world's fast pace
which touches bluefires
of peace
and comes closer
to perfect peace.

There is infinite space
in such a small place.

BUDDHA IN CHINA

He walked toward
us.. this man born
in 1963 under Aquarius..
.. there was a cloud
of peace around him...
which lifted us slightly
above the ground..
severing our magnetism
with Mother Earth..
so that things of
the world receded..
we knew that he
cared for all beings..
we knew that he cared
for us as well.
He served us in
a Chinese restaurant..
the rice and coffee
became
bread and wine
in an ancient
sacrament of
initiation.

Some are stars
shining beyond
the cyclone..
the dry place
within the monsoon
.. the warm shelter
in the hurricane
.. the calm center
.. of the typhoon

but Buddhas reveal
to us
that we are all.

ISSA

Issa saw from
the great Buddha's
nose a starling
come flying out.
Perhaps in the desert
Jesus saw
a scorpion come
out of a skull's
nose hollow.
The great ones
look alike upon
attraction and
revulsion..
for they love
all beings
.. for they
have no desire.

ANGKOR WAT

Because he was
truly a follower
of the Buddha..
he valued living
creatures more than
stone deities..
he thought it a greater
sacrilege to remove
the vines which
covered the ancient temples

Because he was truly a follower
of the Buddha..
he would not repair the
roof of the Tibetan temple
.. with the felled pillars
of once living trees

THE WIND'S PRAYER WHEELS

The Buddhist saw that
when his wrist was tired
the Wind came and moved
his prayer wheel for him.

Breath comes and
goes
and the lung prayer
wheels
move to and fro.

(to J Gibbons)

KINDNESS RISES EVERYWHERE

The Tree and Bird Protectors
saw that
windmills and wind
dynamos were prayer
wheels moving in
divine current
.. and that more
and more were making
these dynamos birdfriendly

TIBETAN INCENSE STICK

Plumes of snow were smoking/
off the high peaks of Tibet..
incense sticks on the mountain
altars to the Buddha.
Eddies swirled in the
mountain streams..
eternal prayer wheels
actualizing dreams.

(to all Dalai Lamas)

SAPPHO WEARS SAFFRON

The white orange blossom
has become the orange orb fruit
and reborn, like California poppies,
Sappho wears monks' saffron

?Saiom Shriver

The Dalai Lama: The Only Religion Is Kindness

A Place of Perfect Peace is
to Thich Nhat Hanh

aum 06-24-2004 06:43 PM

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SILENCE QUIET SOUNDLESSNESS STILLNESS

HARMONY CACOPHONY

When more than 1 human
speaks at a time
some say
...cacophony

When birds and frogs croak
.. by the babbling creek
and the wind makes wood
instruments of the trees
some say....
harmony

FEAR NOT

We wish for a peaceful
quiet world
in which
no flea
need in fear flee
.. no fly
need in flight fly

POND PALATE

Fall trees
.. their pond reflections
are paintbrushes
dipped into the
pondpalate's rippling water
.. aswirl with colors
of crimson and pink
and gold and yellow
and orange
... the wind's rustle
and the splashing fish
only for a few moments
obscuring the
kaleidoscope

FRIGHTEN NOT THE LITTLE ONES

Some thoughts must be expressed
to be released.. put on paper..
so that emotions may flow
into release..
sometimes thoughts are so painful
that after written in the blood
of the past
they should be erased, burned,
torn up and flushed
as the sea
erases the scrawls
in the sand..
that their echoes
not others kill

NONVIOLENT WORDS

For many lives she
had expressed
anger with her fists..
but even now she
could see her angry
judging words..
becoming
others' fists..
and God whispered
to her..
that nonviolence in
thought and speech
is required of
aspiring pacifists.

DUSK HUSH

Gone the day's rush..
Gone traffic push....
Light scattered
by sunset paintbrush
.. Now valleys hush ..
and the birdies shush.
the valleys hush..
and the birdies shush.

(to poet S Steigerwald)

POLARITY OF THOUGHT

One thought that in presenting
his opinions he would attract
those of like mind.
The other thought that
if he presented an idea he did not
totally live up to, he would
turn people away. If he did live
up to his ideal, his thoughts
would spread effortlessly.

MORNING HUSH

mist lies in parallel
layers under the clouds
as satin sheets
lie under cotton blankets

EVE ANGEL

Eve Angel does never
evangelize..
but who can hide
the Godlove in her eyes

SLOWING DOWN

We go by much too fast
the hidden gates to see
.. the quiet love..
silent caring
.. anonymous frequencies.

(to M Radney)

WIND FINGERS

The wind's fingers
stroke the tree harp
and the tree's green fingers
in turn stroke the wind.

SILENT THE SUN

Silent the Sun
Speechless the Sea
Quiet the
Tree of Quince
Nontalkative the nut tree
Incommunicado
the avocado
Nonloquacious
the wind

VOLUME CONTROL

Her kind smile to him
when he asked her to turn
down her radio..
melted his heart

SEEING RED

It was a gift to be able to see
auras..
Once when she saw red
she knew the woman who
was pouring out her soul
had had second thoughts
..
like a criminal angered
that he had confided
in a priest

but she resolved
to be as silent
as the sea
... the sea
which turns red
rivers of sound
into ultraviolet
jewels

SUN DOES NOT KISS AND TELL

The sun does not
kiss and tell
but how can the
quince tree
hide
her new quints
in the dell?

(to John J Price and his
family)

STARTLING NO STARLINGDawn's pastel stirring
as myriad silent star-rings
birth day, sun-starring
.. with His quiet ways
startling
no robin or starling

(to C and S Harman)

SEAL OF CONFESSIONAL

The virgin nonvegetarian
and the nonvirginal vegetarian
both agreed
not to discuss
which animals
had in the past been chewed
..

for all are bound by
the seal of the confessional
of friendship

GURU RIVER

As a river carries
fish to the sea
does a guru carry
secrets
.. giving them
to God the sea

SHELLS SHED

As she shed
all her shells
and dove past
the shards
of seashells
into
the depths
from ocean shelf
she was shshshed
into shanti

I HAVE CRITICIZED
THE BIG GAME HUNTERS

I have satirized..
that is to borrow
Satan's eyes...
.. and have angered my victim's
guardian angels..
.. harmed the hearts of
his children..
.. I have offended all those
who share his surname

.. and added to the clouds
of anger which hide
the Sun of Love

I have not seen him
as God does..

Am I angered by the
not yet unfolded rose
by an icicle daggar dripping
and sparkling in the sun
.. by Love still incarnating

?Saiom Shriver

SILENT MUSIC

In a dream he said to me:
"I have never known a 3 string
guitar to be silent.."
as he pointed to an apricot
branch.. with 3 twigs..
each playing the music
of apricot making
***
La Scala

At La Scala, the opera house,
news that a diva is ill
and cannot appear.. causes
boos
Outside.. the stars play
their silent ecstasy

MOUSHIKA

The little moushika
in gnawing does
make musica.

BENEATH THE WIND

Beneath the wind
shivers the river
With lightbeam slivers
she does quiver

BUBBLES OF JOY

like joyspheres rising from a fountain
like moons being born of the sun
like round seeds floating in air
are the soul bubbles of God

IMPEACH

GOD does not preach
to the tree of peach
Without force..
Love He does impeach

. Cacophony and Harmony
. Dusk Hush
. Eve Angel
. Fear Not
. Frighten Not Little Ones
. Guru River
. I Have Criticized
. Impeach
. Morning Hush
. Nonviolent Words
. Pond Palate
. Polarity of Thought
. Seeing Red
. Shells Shed
. Slowing Down
. Silent the Sun
. Silent Music
. Sun Does Not Kiss and Tell
. Seal of Confessional
. Startling No Starling
. Wind Fingers
. Volume Control

?Saiom Shriver

aum 06-24-2004 06:49 PM

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Re: Poem Attempts

TEACHERS: 25 POEMS

THEY WHO DID OUR MINDS IGNITE

They who did our minds ignite
with the blazing of their light
whose will enkindled
our control
with the power in their souls
They who torched our hearts
with the fires of their love

They are whether in the
body or freed...
with us now
.. helping us

we hear their whispers
through the fog wisps
their constant praise
as for us they pray

they still warm us
with their soul rays

to them now our cups we raise

(to our foremothers forefathers
saints gurus loved ones
friends all beings)

HALLOWED WHERE YOU STAND

From the Scottish highlands
to the low hills of Holland
from heights Himalayan
to desertdepths of Holy Land
there is no more hallowed
land
than that upon which you stand

FIRST THE LIGHTNING THEN THE THUNDER

First comes lightning
then comes thunder.
First may come the light
of a master
and then the Voice.
In aspiring to be like
Him or Her remind us to
send light and prayer
before we speak

BLANK SIGN

He went to vigils and
protests with a blank sign..
to allow viewers to
write their own thoughts
upon it

HERALD HEARD THE HARK

After many many ages
hearld heard his heark
Afer eons his own song
listened to the lark
Finally learned the teaching
of his own emphatic preaching..
Words from his own mouth
to his own soul did arc.
Not what was to him
obvious or unknown he taught
but what was them betwixt
His own soul's limit
touchstones
Ideas which him transfixed.
What we ourselves should do
we project to them and teach
not what's within our grasp
but our aspiring reach.
Our whistles are what
we've attained
Our sung notes higher still
out of whistles' range
Past life butchers
are 21st Century activists.
Prussian warriors
are 21st Century pacifists.
Mental patients.. some
are saints..
others were timeclocking
gatelocking
electroshocking
psychiatrists.
Present dharma's past karma.
It's the key to our own hearts
which our eyes magnetize.

(to the kindness of
the Pondas who live
the ancient compassion
and nonviolence of India)

HIS EYES SHINE

His eyes pour out in torrents
the light of GOD
They shine with the dew
of His kindness.
and glow with delight in
His ways.
His spirit focuses and
the wind is invoked
In wind's train
comes his consort rain.
His compassion draws
broken hearts to be
healed.
It magnetizes to him
shy forest animals.
Of a silent sudden appears
his visage in our third
eye vision,
framed in cobalt blue.
His voice heals by its power
and gentleness.
His ways teach the path
of peace.
He gives us wings to soar
beyond the grid of judgment.
When we return
we work to pour mercy
into the law.
He takes us on the
infinite journey
from our minds to our hearts.

LADDERS OF LIGHT

They point us to
the stars' light lattice
yet they let us
make
the choice of ladders

LIGHTHOUSE STAR COMPASS FOGHORN

The lighthouse which guards from rocks
The star which guides by night
The compass needle pointing north
The foghorn calling through the mist
The ship arriving upon the horizon
The pathfinder leading through trees' maze
.. sent by the infinite love of God
in which we are always immersed

ODE TO RICHARD WILBUR

The greyheaded
dandelion's shattering
and westwind's winged
scattering
.. wed to the rain's
sweet splattering
.. now gold blooms
all over
spattering

ROSEPURPLE MELODY

She was criticizing me..
the words hurt.. yet rivers
of rosepurple light flowed from
her hands and feet..
like a song whose lyrics
were lost in the exquisite
melody

ROYAL BLUE DRAGONFLY

A Sligo Creek dragonfly
of royal blue
seemed to mate the
back of the neck
of one of aqua hue
As does to
him and to me and to you
shakti flow
from the holy guru

TEACHER OF VARIATION

The ough in cough
she said not to do
when listening in public
to Rachmaninoff.

The ough in through
she taught rhymes with do
as in 'keep all animals
out of the zoos'.

The ough she said
as in 'ready and rough'
rhymes with Roosevelt..
Teddy so tough.

Rhymes with a vow
.. does the ough in bough
as in 'vow not to eat
fishes but
fruit from the bough'

And the ough in dough
is oh... so so
It's better to eat tomato
and 2 toned avocado.

(to my mother who
taught 1st grade
for many years
as she took care
of her invalid
husband and children..
and taught us too..
the many sounds of 'ough')

WINGED GUIDES

As he journeyed,
birds flew in front
of him to guide him..
at night spiders were
peaceweaving
messages to him in
their webs
.. the trees worked
with the wind to fan him
.. the sun gave him
unconditional warmth
.. everywhere all
beings returned the love
he gave.

BUDDHA IN CHINA

He walked toward
us.. this man born
in 1963 under Aquarius..
.. there was a cloud
of peace around him...
which lifted us slightly
above the ground..
severing our magnetism
with Mother Earth..
so that things of
the world receded..
we knew that he
cared for all beings..
we knew that he cared
for us as well.
He served us in
a Chinese restaurant..
the rice and coffee
became
bread and wine
in an ancient
sacrament of
initiation.

Some are stars
shining beyond
the cyclone..
the dry place
within the monsoon
.. the warm shelter
in the hurricane
.. the calm center
.. of the typhoon

but Buddhas, sometimes
wordless, reveal
to us
that we are all.

FOUR ELEMENTS

Some carry air
.. a cloud of peace
.. others are water
.. flowing with empathy
.. still others are earth
.. rock solid.. and faithful
.. and then there is fire
.. warming the cockles of our
hearts with the power of love

BECKONING BEACONS

Beacons beckoning..
stars summoning
comets calling
Light lifting
Milky Way invoking
our upward look

(to Madge D )

WE SAY WHAT WE MUST LEARN

How is it that preachers
are the most arrogant of teachers
.. that some police like war
.. the martial like some police
more than being officers of peace
that male gynecologists
lose their lustre
when they become
powertripping lusters

EMILY'S WALNUT TREE

If Emily were given
a prize
for poems
of the most brevity
.. she might reply
.. her teacher
was the walnut tree..
Most times his
gifts of nut are most
neatly shellwrapped..
but ribbonless..
unlike the sun
with rays ribboned
or the sea
with rivers ribboned

JACKS IN THE PULPIT

Pastor Jack
in the Pulpit preached
that stealing was not
of the Gospel of God
while standing in the
stolen skins
of cows his feet were shod

Meanwhile in the fields
the Jacks In Pulpit grew
..spinning bright finery
for themselves
easily from the sod

ZEN MASTER

When he saw the rock of
himself waver in the rippling
reflection of the master's
pool.. he thought
he had chosen an unstable
teacher.. one not
well grounded..
until he realized
his master was melting
his rock.

SHEPHERD'S VOICE

The lighthouse which warns of rocks
The star which guards by night
The compass needle which points to north
The native pathfinder through
trees to the light
Calling through the mist
the welcome foghorn
The ship arriving upon the horizon
morn

this is what.. she is to
her loved ones.

(to Ruth G. G.)

UNBIDDEN COMES LOVE INCARNATE

Unbidden comes Love Incarnate,
the Teacher of Love.
Uncalled comes
the key which magnetizes
and unlocks
all hearts.
Unsummoned comes
the mate of the soul
responding to
unspoken agony
or to a pervading
peace.

ENLIGHTENING MOON

"Last night the moon
came dropping her clothes in the streets"
said Rumi.
Others enlightening
as her own load she is lightening
It is seldom she is
seen with lightning.

The great poet Kabir says the rishi Swapacha was a tanner by trade.
Only God can judge actions. John Travolta has acted in a film on
trichloroethylene and other toxins pouring out of tanneries into the
waters. http://www.vsdc.org

DROPLETS

Sunwands turn rain droplets
into blackberry drupelets
as enkindled okra seeds
acknowledge heliocracy

HIS VOICE

If Moses' angels were
to make us cleave
the mirror of the Purple
Sea
and coerce us into choosing
a single strand of his
spiraling music strings..
would it be the
melodies through
which God rings..
or lyric elegies
angels sing..
or the master fingers
dancing through
submissive strings..
....we would pass
these by
.. his voice to hear
.. its chariot
does.. his soul
to us bring..
it is the 'sound of
many waters'

?Saiom Shriver

Hallowed Where You Stand to V Potter
NOTES ON UNBIDDEN COMES LOVE
INCARNATE (Bhagavad Gita: When the student is ready, the teacher
comes. Dream of K S Hoare.. a key to open gates floated toward
someone. Screenwriter of a movie: You need not seek Love. Love will
find you.)

aum 06-24-2004 06:57 PM

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Re: Poem Attempts

MIRACLES:

PLUCK A PLUM

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.

ABLUTIONS AND ABSOLUTIONS

Miracles are often a surprise
but Godplanned as the sunrise
and stand beyond the realm
of mathematical surmise.
They multiply solutions
Cause hurt's dissolution
They bring kind absolution
and rain reunion ablutions.

MIRACLES ARE MIRRORS

Miracles
are Mirrors
of God's
eternal love

WATER WILL

Water does not
impose its will
upon the banks
or on walls of well
unless it in flood
swell
unless it in outrage
upwell.

HONEYSUCKLE HERALDS

God needs no
chain or buckle
to link
the roots
of honeysuckle.
Her herald fragrance
runs ahead
as her seamless
threads
delve in new
beds.

SUNRISE SPEED

From the plane flying
east.. the sunrise is
sped up..
as miracles hasten
the end of suffering

WILLIE'S BOY

Willie's boy
is 3
and knows how
to achieve what
he wants without
opposing others
Perhaps he could
give me lessons

SHAFTS OF LIGHT

Shafts of light
from the window
at the top of the stairs
.. flash forth
.. reaching the bottom
.... without the drudgery
of engaging each step

REMINDERS

1. Positive thought
attracts. Negative thoughts
repel.
2. Dwelling on the common
ground..
3' Come let us reason together
4. Come let us achieve together

HOLIEST GROUND

The holiest ground in creation
says the Course In Miracles
is that where 2 foes have just
become friends. We thank You God
that the Mideast is now Your holiest
ground as universal forgiveness
prevails.

BEIJING SPRING

In Beijing
the I Ching
joyful sings
eternal spring

Birch bloom strings
wilent ring
Sun to all
quick'ning brings

GRASSHOPPERS

The grasshoppers found
the ants' selfrighteous
preaching a little
hard to take..
and prayed to
God
'please appear
now up here'
and God did so
..
SNOW DIAMONDS

Falling snow diamonds
so light and slight
each multiplies
the morning light

MERCEDES INDIA

All who love
animals are sympathetic
to those who provide
a leather synthetic

BABY STEPS OF AWESOME POWER

1000 cars go.. after l green light.
1000 tons of avalanche safely
move..
from l sound slight.
A thumbs up from Caesar..
saves the gladiator's life.
Make one phone call..
.. a call to reunite.

HEART

He wanted to give a
gift to everyone in the world

.. from the manger of
the Christ Child
the sleigh of Santa Claus
the upadhi of Droupadi*
None of them was as
limitless as his heart

(a vessel which was full of
food and could not diminished
.. until Droupadi at the end
of the day ate from it )

OUTRAGED WERE THE POOR PEASANTS

Outraged were the poor peasants
by the pretender prince's
carnage of pheasants
They prayed that in the very
present
God as a bow and gun destroyer
would show His presence
for knowledge of His presence
is the very best of presents

and God did
quickly show
His presence

ONE DEGREE

snow turns to rain
with 1 degree
as the sun takes
earth from 32 to 33

KINDNESS TO A BUG

Round wonders flow from
the tip of a magic wand.
Spherical music flows
from the tip of a baton.
A world of talk flows
from the metal of a plug.
Angels pay back infinitely
kindness to a bug.

NOT IRRATIONAL

To avoid animal products
is not irrational
One avoids getting
animals'
ear rash on all.

?Saiom Shriver

Ablutions is to Paul and Clare Barrett Obis who have every day created miracles for others. Miracle Point is to Tara B

EMPTINESS DETACHMENT DESIRELESSNESS LETTING GO

BUTTERNUT AND BUTTERCUP

Held the dew
the concave buttercup
better than
the convex butternut

as listening ears
have healing
in their cups

with what
chalice'd joy
does the buttercup
hold
the liquid sunup

(to Jeff Miller and his wife,
to L Yost and her partner
and to others)

ALCHEMY OF ATTRACTION

The criminal desperate for money mused over counterfeiting,
forgery, teleportation, alchemy, treasure hunting,
perusing bank blueprints
.. not leaving fingerprints

Another prayed, did acts of love, gave things away, and
planted fruit trees, free food machines.. these bore the fruit
of needs fulfilled.

A third did nothing, knowing that God his heart indweller,
knew his needs before he himself did..

LISTENING LOVE

One thought that because
the other listened
in silent love
she did with what she
heard agree
As if the polluted
rivers were in
accord.. with
the receiving sea

ODYSSEY TO LOVE

All the endless journeys
of the soul she saw
were for 1 purpose..
to melt the icebergs
of desire totally
in the Sea of Love..
that the sea return
to Itself..
that Frozen Love
become Liquid Love..
sometimes the iceberg
goes drip drip drip
.. slowly letting go
at other times
there is like Beethoven's 5th
a drip drip drip crash..
a sudden silent cataclysm
.. as a whole sheet
falls away..
drip drip drip crash
.. Beethoven's 5th
.. in the odyssey
of frozen sea
to flowing sea

FASTER THAN ONE THOUSAND BROOMS

faster than 1000 brooms
the Wind has swept.
As He passed trees
their petals wept

The wind has swayed
the bonnets of the blooms
faster than a million
hatteries

TARA

Tara is the emptiness
through which flute music pours
Tara is the queen throne zone
Tara is nonattachment's zen
Tara is desireless.. the
zeros which multiply
other numbers

BAMBOO BAMBINOS

Helen Blavatsky described
her trip to India..
60 ft. high stands of bamboo
were beetle bored..
and in the wind
these trunk flutes
sang the sweetest symphony

Bamboo have bambinos
effortlessly...
everywhere are the
new spears of life

BEETLE BITTEN BEE BIBBED BLOOMS

The beetle bitten blooms
are now beautiful of lace
The bees have bibbed
all the nectar
and the emptied bloom chalice
will now hold new dew.

COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN

Coins dropped into the
wishing fountain
its serene surface
splatter
.. as desire does
in the soul of
a master
his serenity shatter

INTO THE BREACH

Into the breach..
the seed of birch

the seed of beech
and the hardstoned
seed of peach
which wishes
to be impeached

POWER POINT

The action point of
a pen..
is that point with the
least mass, the least weight
.. said the pencil, speaking
of his own point.
And another replied..
The Mississippi at the delta
is more
powerful than the
Ohio.. for though he flows
more slowly he flows with
more power.

I DUB

I dub
the bud
the princess
of the bee
but not
his queen

DESIRE'S PRISMS

As long as one
sees the universe
through desires's prisms
one will be magnetized
after death
back to reincarnation's
prisons

LITTLE FROG

They watched the tiny
frog hop across the bike
trail..
Their decision to
walk rather than
bike
made safer his tiny tail

ERASER

God can delete
all negative reactions
to any of our mistakes
or errors or actions
God can unite
all the fractions
we have made
by the spirit of faction

SIX WAYS OF LETTING GO

Creating space is
of things letting go.
Losing weight is
of food
letting go.
Moving love is
of judging thoughts
letting go.
Meditative peace is
of the mind letting go.
Making time is
of plans letting go.
Miracles are of
money letting go

Letting go
Letting green unmolested grow
Letting friends listened to glow
Letting rivers uncontrolled flow
Letting the wind in windmills blow

(I was mentioning to
S Vance that I had
resolved daily to
create space and go
for walks.. she said
they were both forms
of letting go)

ANGELS RUSH IN

Angels rush in
where those perceived foolish
have created vacuums by
giving..
they fill the emptiness
with greater quantity
and higher quality

VISUALIZERS STOP THE WARRING

Visualizers
stop the warring..
security warnings
replaced by hearts'
global warmings

MUSIC'S ATTAR

sitars of Qatar
guitars from afar
The Avatar fills
with music's attar

. 5 ways to let go
. alchemy of attraction
. butternut and buttercup
. desire's prisms
. eraser
. faster than 1000 brooms
. listening love
. little frog
. odyssey to love

(GOD CALLING: The branch need ask no support from the vine)  

Re: Poem Attempts

WOMEN ARE SPIRIT

SPEED AND INACTION

The mind is attracted
to speed..
the heart to the slowness
of listening.

FREED FROM FACT

A woman of liberation
without limitation
A woman confident
soaring bov imitation
whose ideas may soar
freed of a cage of facts.

(to Elizabeth Williams
who discovered Mad Deer Disease
25 years ago at a research
station in Colorado)
(Currently many say that
the Colorado Dept of Wildlife
spread Mad Elk Disease)
http://www.mad-cow.org
http://www.maddeer.org

PRIEST AND RED SEA (VISION)

A priest walked through a huge crowd which parted before
him like the Red Sea as he carried the lidded monstrance which contained within it the Host, the Eucharist, Christ as Bread.
He approached a woman and handed her the chalice. (Of the many possible interpretations one is that
whenever a soul is liberated, she is handed her own
divinity. Another is that women will inevitably
be priests.

DIEU NHAN

Little baby girl
crawling on the floor
past the toys your
mother placed for you
.. over to the pen..
the pen to women
forbidden..
over and over
to the pen..
as blood flows in
all beings
so the ink waiting
to be written
flows in all women.

(to the first recorded
Buddhist Vietnamese woman
poet)

BEV EYES

Bev's eyes are portals
to realms immortal
which her kindness rules

(to Bev)

BYERS AVENUE

On Byers Avenue in HIGHland
Square in Summit County
in Akron in O Hi O
there lived an abortionist..
He asked a little girl across
the street
and aged six
to weed his garden for
2 bits
She took out all
of a certain blue plant.
He told her to go back
and get the rest.. so she took
out another kind.. a bright
red weaving weed.. He told
her not to finish til all
were gone.. til there was just a muddy
pile.. where once there'd been
green growing life.. that
was the last time she killed
for money.

PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONIST

She saw a partial birth abortionist
on tv.. an American
pilot who had dropped a daisy cutter
bomb on a pregnant woman.

CINDERELLA PUMPKIN

This year an 1100 pound pumpkin
broke previous records..
... perhaps she is
sad to be trapped
in such a big pumpkin
shell
.. where her growers
have 'kept her very well'
but her size has so
blessed others
.. and soon Cinderella
will
burst out of
her private hell.

WATER MONUMENT

Next to the monuments to
famous men of action
are often reflecting pools
or lakes:
monuments to their wives..

a place of receiving
not of imposing

the stone in the statue
is inert while the water
continues to empower

It is not known by all that upon Thomas Jefferson's death over 200 of
his slaves were sold on the auction block.. slaves in many cases who
had worked for him their entire lives Jefferson fought to make
Missouri a slave state.. His legacy lives on as both Missouri and
Virginia are in the execution column of states with racist patterns
of imposing the death penalty

FULL MOON PITCHER

The full moon poured
pitcher after pitcher
of coconut milk
into the sea..
and the sea..
the sea silvered it all.

(to Ruth Thomas, peace
educator for 91 years so
far)

MOTHER EARTH GIVES HERSELF AN A

Flaming maple leaves
fall to earth..
and spangle every plant
as Mother Earth decides
to give herself
and all her children
an A in the fall
.. and in the spring
she gives each field
many gold stars..
of sunny smiling
dandy lions

HOW JESUS' SOUL CAME TO MARY

Like falling rain
oer lilyleaf tripped
Like pure moon into bright
cloud slipped
Like setting sun into
calm sea dipped
did Jesus' soul
come to Mary.

Like communion
chalice sipped
Like the river oer
fallsbrim lipped
Like dewdrop out
of buttercup dripped
was Jesus' soul
born of Mary.

(to Nancy M Wilson)

Sally E told us that there is an ocean of deep blue light which
immerses the entire Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington
DC. Nancy left for God in September of 2002.

SUN MOON AND STARS

When we were children,
we thought
our father was the gold sun,
and our mother the silver moon.
Not til earth set and
turned away from his sun, did we see
she was all the diamond stars.

(to our mother )

JILL OUT OF BOX

She liked sometimes to go to early morning
mass... when she was not a jack in the box..
told to stand up sit down kneel down
stand up sit down kneel down

And she was brave enough this weekend
to tell a man at the evangelical
gathering.. she no longer wanted
to be part of a flock of female
flamingoes..
or of sheep..
obediently following a hierarchical
male pastor..

She preferred alone
with God to confer
or in a circle of women
and men to concur

HEAD COVERING

Is it not odd
that in the holy temples
and mosques
head covering is donned..
while in churches
& chapels it is doffed?

Yet few change their hats
when they enter
the sacred ground
of Mother Earth
.. in spring greengowned
.. or in fall
when her leaves she
has offed
...........................
The Course In Miracles: the holiest ground is that in which
2 former foes reconcile

Paul's injunction that women cover their heads in church is still
a cause of controversy.. though his intention was perhaps that beauty
not distract others from worship

FIRE IN THEIR EYES

She could see
by the new fire
in their eyes
that she had lit
their souls

.. and yet
had not diminished
her own flame

(to Betty Friedan)

A 947 lb. pumpkin had been grown by a Smithville Ohio Carnegie
student 2 years ago and replaced by an 1100 lb. record breaker. God's
fruit yields 450,000 or more lbs. per acre.
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
http://www.egroups.com/messages/fruitarians not meant as an
endorsement of male oriented fairy tales but as an affirmation of the
infinite love within and around all beings

WOMEN INHERIT THE EARTH

The meek and women
shall inherit the earth
.. as macho male bodies
lie in the dirt..
while their souls have
gone to meet
the Maker of the Meek

Men live longer on vegan diet Men live longer when doing work they
love. Most heart attacks occur on Monday morning as people go to jobs
they hate.

GOD'S MAJORITY

Though her
inner voice
is only one..
by most a definite
minority
.. because
she is connected
to God
it ever is
God's majority
Though her sisters
around the world
sometimes feel
disempowered..
it is good to
remind each other
.. that we are
God's Majority

EVE RISING

Was it when Adam fell
or Eve fell
that
Eden fell
on a summer's eve?

Who knows?
but this we can tell
..
the bright moon
is on the horizon
and her
goddess Eve is Rising!!!

Fr Ron Lengwin of KDKA Radio: the apple was the heart of the first butchered animal

FELIX HELIX!

Eureka! Felix!
It's a helix!

to Rosalind Franklin whose research along with that of Linus Pauling
gave Watson and Crick crucial clues in their DNA discovery race

JEWISH WOMEN'S CAUCUS BOYCOTT OF MOSES

Before his death, her husband was sitting in the tub
musing one day.. and said "My wife organized the Jewish
Women's Caucus Boycott of Moses".. a few minutes went
by then.. "Wait! I am receiving a correction..! My wife
was the very last woman to join the boycott!"

Years went by.. and she wondered what he meant..
and began to realize that she was a latecomer to the women's rights
movement.. not having considered it as high a priority.. for she had
been saturated in love and empowerment by her parents And then came
the realization that she had wimped out on Vanessa Redgrave.. who was
ostracized for supporting a Palestinian state.

INVISIBLE WOMAN

More subtle is invisible
Unseen greater than the seen
High notes are soft but higher go
Jesus washed His disciples' feet.
Yond ego's pale
she left no tracks
Turned so fast she
seemed not to move.
The child in man
do women feed
for what is it
love has to prove
Who is the prime minister of love?
Who the president of caring?
Who the chief exec of Kind?
Who the highest head of sharing?
Male pyramids melt
in female fire.
Mens' skyscrapers stop
where women's sky begins.
Who advertise
the soul in their eyes?
Who do anonymous saints
immortalize?

Some day master learns
the faithful servant
was his guru..
Male foam wake of ocean liner
riding on a female sea.
Male speech echoes
in mate's silence
Soundless quiet which
holds all beings

©to Constantina Salamone of World Women For Animal Rights in
Brooklyn.. who coined the word speciesism and ecofeminist as she
built a network of 15,000 ecofeminists worldwide.. She passed out in
Manhattan in 1970.. pamphlets on women animals.. the vast majority of
abused animals.. whose milk and eggs are stolen ..She is an artist,
mountainclimber, and uncontainable mystic http://www.eggcruelty.com
http://www.notmilk.com http://www.veganoutreach.org
http://www.wfad.org http://www.meatout.com This poem is not meant as
an attack on the millions of sensitive men in the world.. Those who
believe in reincarnation often believe that we switch from one gender
to another, life after life, as we attempt to reach perfect balance
between our own yin and yang

TOMATO VINE

The tomato stake
was proud that
he was stable
.. upright disciplined
and able
.. but it was the
weak spineless tomato vine
who provided
all the food for the table

**********

Course In Miracles: paraphrased.. At a certain point God will ask you
to abandon rigid schedules.. to be more flexible to the calls of
Spirit

**************()

MOON IN MIDST OF STARS

The harem man was a moon
surrounded by stars..
a moon because constant
preoccupation with the senses
had turned him into
the woman upon whom he focused
.. surrounded by stars.. harem
members
seemingly smaller in stature
but in actuality of much
greater spiritual size and light

PUMPKIN VINE DESCENSIONS

Nightly to heaven
their souls' ascension
To Heart Thrones,
heart queens' accessions
To lower boughs,
laden fruit trees' recessions.
To Earth Hearth
Pumpkin Vines' decensions

Now comes the Spirit
who frees
all women
from pumpkin shells
Now comes the Spirit
who liberates
women from sexist
Cinderelle.

to C Salamone, coiner of the word ecofeminist and builder of a
network of over 15,000 ecofeminists.. also coiner of the phrase human
chauvinism

KWON YIN

She was Kwon Yin,
a divine mother of mercy
.. but when she had to,
she could also be Kwon Yang.

(to Jan F, Jan B, Jan E
JBO and JP)

PEWS AND QUEUES

Women sat sheeplike
listening to men from pews
Women as slaves
for men's orders did queue
.. for the jails of pews
and queues
were our minded p's and q's..

Here and there we began
to gather clues
until from millenial
sleep .. out of the blue
we were awakened
by dawning freedom's

trumpet cue

1000 LIVES

One thousand male arrows
it takes
to make one maid
dandelion seed ball

After 1000 lives
as husband son and brother
God did trust him
with one lifetime as a mother

(and because of that life
he is now the world's
best father)
(to WHO)

. 1000 LIVES
. BEV'S EYES
. BYERS AVENUE
. CINDERELLA PUMPKIN
. EVE RISING
. FELIX HELIX
. FIRE IN THEIR EYES
. FREED FROM FACT
. FULL MOON PITCHER
. GOD'S MAJORITY
. HEAD COVERING
. HOW JESUS' SOUL CAME TO MARY
. INVISIBLE WOMAN
. JEWISH WOMEN'S CAUCUS BOYCOTT OF MOSES
. JILL OUT OF BOX
. KWON YIN
. MOON IN MIDST OF STARS
. MOTHER EARTH GIVES HERSELF AN A
. PEWS AND QUEUES
. PUMPKIN VINE DESCENSIONS
. SUN MOON AND STARS
. TOMATO VINE
. VISION OF MONSTRANCE
. WATER MONUMENT
. WOMEN INHERIT THE EARTH

(to M B Wallman) (Summit comes from summa which is Latin for high.. Akron from akros which is Greek for high) As the world with 6 billion people grows more crowded and green spaces are ever more precious .. many Catholics look to contraception .. Ed Markovich has reported studies of the pro choice prolife spectrum.. a. some think all abortion is wrong b. some think all abortions should be allowed c. some believe in first trimester d. some believe in first and 2nd trimester abortions. Sai Baba has said that often the soul does not enter the body until the quickening (first audible heartbeat)(usually in the 5th month) .. JBO recounts a NY Times obituary .. a pregnant woman tried to abort herself with a hangar .. the baby was born without arms or legs.. she went around Baltimore on a cart.. she had to prove to Children's Services that she was capable of raising a baby.. and demonstrated changing diapers with her teeth.. ... Story B: L had 3 abortions. She went to a spiritual healer who said that he saw a soul knocking on her door 3 times.. the 4th time she would let him in. L burst into tears, realizing she had not snuffed a life.. but only delayed a soul's entry onto the world stage May Democrats help ban partial birth abortions and pull Republicans into opposition to the partial birth abortion of war. to Wallace O Please download on the web on rice, cotton, scrap, nontree paper, or 100% recycled

A FELLOW CREATURE

FIVE HOURS: REACHABLE STAR

Henry went to hospital
Twas Bethesda Naval
and took a picture of an ape
in a restraining chair.
And took it to an international
picture wire
called Black Star
which sent it round the world..
and Gandhi saw and knew
that violated was the treaty
.. and she cancelled monkey export
.. because Henry in 5 hours
.. cared to reach for
.. one bright and reachable... star!

CITIZEN'S ARREST

"A citizen may make an arrest
if she witnesses a felony
being committed", said Rockford.
"Quick!! Hurry!! Arrest him! "
He's swallowing
the evidence of his murder..
.. said Momma Cow
and Poppa Sow
as their piglets and
calves
were swallowed
by the farmer.

ROUTE 80

The freezing winter winds rip
through down from mountain
passes through the open slats of
the slaughterhouse trucks
on Route 80..
.. the sick are on the truck
floor, called downers.
The frightened low
and low.

In the summer time, their
tongues hang out from thirst
.. some of them suffocating
in the fetid air.

BLESS THE BEASTS

In Poland they slaughtered sows.
In Argentina they killed cows.
In Mexico they beat up donkeys.
In Zaire they caged up monkeys.
In Galapagos upended tortoise.
In Japan they knifed the porpoise.
In Utah trapped mated raccoons.
In Congo caged baby baboons.
Norway & Iceland hunted whales.
In Ohio they crushed chick males.
In England the princes hunted fox.
At church gatherings they roasted ox.
In Maine boiled lobsters alive.
They advertised flesh on Channel 5.
Maryland taxes suffocated crabs.
Boston queen of cruel labs
In Korea they ate the dogs..
while in France they de-legged frogs
Iowa and Manitoba
North Carolina and Minnesota
all have tortured hogs.
In Littleton Colorado they poisoned
prairie dogs.
In Germany they choked
the geese.
In New Zealand
froze sheep unfleeced.
In Canada they clubbed the seals.
In Ireland they killed the eels.
In China for spare parts they farmed bears.
In Michigan for pleasure they killed bears.
In Saskatchewan they made Mad Elk & Deer
by feeding to the living the parts of dead deer
Near the feedlots of Amarillo
They try to hit the armadillo.
In Wisconsin they separate cow mothers
from their daughters, from their brothers.
In College Park for Frank Perdue
UM taught skinning rabbits.
In Virginia from stolen skin
they made their riding habits.
In Rehovot they featherless chicks bred
In Jerusalem at checkpoints they shot
dogs and donkeys dead.
In Egypt they ate
old faithful slave camels.
In Mecca they slaughtered
countless millions of mammals.
In Florida boats defin manatee.
In W. Virginia groundhogs
poisoned on the golfing tee.
50,000 mice and dogs
drowned at U of T.
In Cuba cut off eyes of shrimp
At Cornell they shocked the chimp.
In Australia clubbed kangaroo..
Hippo choked on tennis ball
at the Detroit Zoo.
At the stampede in Calgary
they create for calves a Calvary.
Kentucky horses die in barn fires.
Kentucky horses break legs in the mire.
Water skiers marauded nests of powerless
floating loons.
Careless walkers smashed the nests
of terns in grassbraid dunes.
Bull fights they waged in Madrid Spain..
a most public brutal kind of pain..
Chanel for civet harmed the cat
but who torchtortured more than rat?
Ermine tongues to greased
traps in Siberia froze.
In Italy calves made veal..
.. especially loved.. flesh of rose.
Oregon cuts 1000 year old trees
while smashing their squirrels birds and bees.
Many hate her.. but none
poach
the gentle little cockroach.

Said one "I think they're coming
to feed us!"
"No by God! they're coming to eat us!"

Everywhere they're dismembered subdivided
drawn and quartered crucified.
This hell will end... heart by heart..
as each soul wills to do its part.

BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS

We have nothing to offer
you.. say the cows of
their gravy.. but our
blood, sweat, and tears.

How is it that their
tears..
are crystalline and clear
when they are made of
crimson blood and torn
from their broken hearts?

How is it that such tiny
orbs.. can contain
a globe of suffering?

CHANEL NO. 41

Chanel.. this perfume
numbered five
.. since so many
animals.. lost their
lives?

Ambergris from the
sperm whale
Castor from the Canadian
beaver
Civet from the civet
cat rotated in a drum
to make her afraid and
secrete
and 36 musk oxen
castrated.. for 1 ounce
of musk
.. should it have been
called Chanel No. 41

(Thank you to Andrew Linzey
for including this poem
in his anthology)

PUPPY OF ANGEL BEAR

Little puppy of Angel Bear
chasing a butterfly brightwinged
His hat: floating dandelion fluff
spilling away as he canters
through the green rough
.. Little bear puppy
head cocked to concentrate
on the silent music he hears.

Nonzoophagous

Mohammed was monogamous
Gandhi was nonzoophagous
Maybe a rhinoceros
and a hippopotamus
are polygamous
Maybe a lion
and a tiger
are carnivorous
but human beings
are designed
to be frugivorous
and monogamous.

White Fire

Many times the hunter's
gun had suddenly
with its white fire
aborted the lives
of squirrels and groundhogs,
deer and bears.

The path out.. from
the gun .. was the return
path taken by
the forked electricity.

When news came that
he had died of lightning
some thought it
was his metal rifle:
a lightning rod

Others thought the
lightning
a Divine white fire:
the moving
finger of God

St. Anthony Preached To The Fishes

St. Anthony found
when humans didn't listen
that by the seashore
fishes ever listened
They did not need him
them to christen
since they're immersed
in lovewaters' baptism..
and swim in joy..
neath lighted seas' glisten

http://www.nofishing.net

Methods of Mouse Killing in American Labs

Some suffocate them in plastic bags.
Other use little Purina mouse sized
guillotines, advertised in the
magazine Lab Animal.
Still others break their necks.
The sadistic feed them to snakes.
Those in denial delegate the task.
Some mice are needled to death.
Some are given poison.
Some die with their tiny fingers
caught in mouse traps.
Some die in agony after having
cancer or caustic chemicals
introduced into their bodies
.. or in forced sleeplessness
or forced swimming experiments
.. or having had their limbs
cut off.
All the little ones.. go straight to GOD

http://www.neavs.org http://www.navs.org http://www.aavs.org
http://www.animalsagenda.org http://www.friendsofanimals.org
http://www.peta.org http://www.collegeactivist.com
http://groups.msn.com/ar9 http://www.egroups.com/messages/veganway
http://www.egroups.com/messages/animal-life

Tom Turkey

2 years ago the moving
finger of God manifested
as a tornado..
and ripped the roofs
off the factory farms
in Croton Ohio.. revealing
to the world the misery
of the birds..
6 to a cage.. some still
alive after 9 days without
food and water..
debeaked so they would not
peck each other to death
from the overcrowding

This month the Finger
went through Van Wert
settling its force
near Cooper's Turkey
Farm

In the November holiday
of Thanksgiving
.. she promised
to give the turkeys
something for which to
be grateful..

no longer to eat their
flesh..
no longer to wish on
their bones..
when their wishes
could not be fulfilled.

DOGS OF PANDEVA

They can't read
save the sounds
of his soul
They can't write
except on his heart

WINTER HERON NESTS

In the high barren
winter trees..
along the river's bank
.. they wait..
empty heron's nests
.. soon will come
the Flock of Spirit
to make of the
waiting hearts
a home

PURLOINED

Every pork loin
is from an innocent
victim
purloined
Every pork chop
from a piggie chopped

ELEPHANTS

Elephants are the symbol
of the GOP
... of those
big game hunters
who kill oxen for musk
of those Safari Club
men
who shoot and saw off
the tusk
.. as easily as
if removing
ears of corns husks..

http://www.matthewscully.com
(Matthew Scully Bush speechwriter
doesn't seem to worry about the
animals bombed by B 52's,
or shot at Sharon checkpoints
.. )

ASK NOT

Ask not what's for dinner
but whom

Father Mother God, we do not know
the name You gave this animal lying
dead before us.. or where she played
.. or whom she loved.. or what
were her favorite times..
or how she was gotten on the truck..
bound for slaughter.. by rope..
by kicks by shocking rod
.. We only ask for Your infinite
blessings for her.. that You erase
from her memory the cruelty she has
received at the hand of human-kind
..as You now erase every slaughterhouse
and fishing net and pharmaceutical or other
animal lab and trap from the earth

?Saiom Shriver

http://www.hogwatch.org (to Henry Spira of Manhattan.. maritime worker organizer, public school teacher, effective animal rights worker whose mentor Peter Singer wrote a biography of him.) (Henry has left for God) a restraining chair holds primates captive for months at a time. They sleep and evacuate tied to the chairs .. in astronaut studies. Dr Donald Barnes resigned rather than irradiate primates at Barnes Air Force Base. Matthew Broderick filmed Project X, a movie about Don Barnes' refusal

STARSCRIPT

TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY ON A TUESDAY MORNING

He looked so sad as he walked..
a few minutes later .. there
he was again.. walking
with a 12 pack .. back
from the store...
to one of his parents?
on a Tuesday morning
..
Little man..
carrying the weight
of the world..
You have been handed
the wand of all power
.. bejeweled with
a trinity of Saturn and Neptune
and Uranus..
You will change the world
for the better.
God bless you and
those you love.

PLUTO IN CAPRICORN

The US born with Pluto in Capricorn..
it has never been back since..
in the Congress they sit
obediently
As the unelected leader
speaks of war they cheer

We prefer the British lion..
the Labour MP's 120 strong
.. as Blair tells his lies
.. they catcall they jeer

SPIRIT FLAMES

Out of Saturn's
boxing frames
burst infinite
Spirit flames

HANDI CAP

Perhaps Andy Capp
was by marriage
handicapped
but a Capricorn
is seldom handicapped
.. so handy is the cap
..so powerful the
will of the handy cap

GAS AND BRAKES

Capricorn has the gas
of will
to help him speedily up
the hill..
Aquarius needs more
good brakes
to keep him downhill
from landing in the lake

CAPRICORN COCONUTS

John Denver,
Martin Luther King,
Elvis Presley..
sweet capricorn coconuts..
with the hard shell
of discipline and
the pisces moon
of inner soul milk..
a love for every creature
which draws and opens hearts
as it enfires all to
change the world

?S N Shriver

AFRICAN VIOLET

Subsaharan Africa
is ruled by the sun
in pisces
and mercury in
aquarius..
infinite compassion
and unique names

ANTIQUARIANS

Capricorns are antiquarians
while Aries' breakouts
seem antiantiquarian
.. Friendly to both
are God and
kind aquarians.

AQUARIES

Aquaries:
that marriage
of aquarius and
aries
.. which multiplies
the power of each

Firebird

Seen floating to earth
in blackest night
an orangered feather
as firebird passed
in flight.

A winglace ablaze
A flake aflame
Fiery waves
cross the wing lave
Yet remain inside
its glowing plume.

Firebird circles
every 2 l/2 centuries
enkindled when
he first touched God.

And to PoeRaven's
"nevermore"
he answers
.. to you his wings
he tips
to you his wings he dips
before flying back
to Pluto 248 years more

And drops
a redfernfeather
as a sign
"All Beings Love
You.. Ever More!!!"

FORGIVING HEALS CANCER

33 degree water
can be colder than ice
for it is not barred
from entering the skin

When Cancer forgives
cancer can disappear

LIBRA ZEBRA

To the woman zebra
God sent
a male zebra
.. with skin like
palmfronds in moonlight
and planets in Libra

HEGEMINI

Bob Hope.. with Pluto
and Sun and Neptune
in Gemini..

Hegemini

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OHIO

Happy 200th Birthday, Ohio..
countless millenia old..
made sacred by Erie and Shiawassee
Tuscarawas and many other tribes..

born to conquerors
on March 1, 1803..

with an infinite compassion
.. which lies in all..
but is especially easy
to access with Pluto
in Pisces.. conjunct
the sun!..
Pluto who takes more
than 2 centuries to return..!

Ohio! representing
the wand of miracles!
Pisces-Virgo..

Ohio! A Persephone
kidnapped by the underworld
A Sita kidnapped by the
Ravana of military
and corporate power..
but Your Rama is coming!!!

CONTROL FREAK SATURN

Where is the Saturn..
the control freak
.. in the chart..?
wherever it is
.. Pluto.. the
infinite.. will sooner
or later show
the only way
to hang on to all
.. is to let go

CAPRICORN MOON

The full moon
rose
hitting the left side of
the mountain
spreading a pink
glow
over the sparkling snow

as she further upward
did glide
it appeared that
the mountain and moon
never did collide

Firebird is to Tom and Bill Kinzie and their anonymous tireless animal rights clipping service, networking with vegetarian athletes, and compassion unbounded Women's groups say that past use of alcohol is the most predictive factor in domestic battering. Alcohol causes fatalities and paraplegics, shattered families, demonic possession as the aura is rent. It causes cirrhosis of the liver. The GOP is the party more funded by alcohol corporations. General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army treated alcoholism in London with vegetarian diet.. highly yin alcohol and extremely yang meat crave each other. His success in breaking alcohol addictions was a factor in the spread of the Salvation Army around the world http://www.egroups.com/messages/salvarmy/2 The lion eagle ox and angel of Revelation represent the fixed cross of leo scorpio taurus and aquarius.

Resurrection Poems

EVERY LEAF

Every lovely leaf
in the rainforest
weaves clouds of
lovely rain for us.
INEVITABLE

Scars have turned
to stars
The cross has
become the crown.
The rejected stone
is in temple installed.
The metal resoldered
is stronger than
original.
Wings have emerged
from cocoon.
The most sacred place..
where foes have
reconciled.

AMAZING GRACE

The cloud which blocked
the reveling sun
became a rain of grace
and in the barren
winter tree
has raveled to green lace.
The stone cold foe has
turned around
.. is now of hearts the ace
and out of the invisible
God
has given love
a face.
The world is now awahs
with love
.. arinsed with rains
of light..
everywhere has been
cleared away
.. the illusory
pain of night

ARBOR AND HARBOR

Of every leaf's placement
in any arbor
God is the
First and Final Arbiter

Of every lapping wave
in each sacred harbor
His birds
are the harbingers.

BEIJING SPRING

In Beijing
the I Ching
joyful sings
eternal spring

Birch bloom strings
wilent ring
Sun to all
quick'ning brings

BLUEBIRDS ON A BARREN TREE

Bluebirds sit
on the barren
black branches
of a winter tree..
but it is not
their gentle touch
which will resurrect
him with lifespringing.
It is the God ever within himself.

BURSTING BRANCH

How has withered
winter ebony branch
become bursting flute
of bloomed blanche?
Though the kisses
of the sky's rain dance
and the wand of Sun's
most casual glance

They find no longer room
do the bursting blooms
in the branches' cocoon
Butterflies of purple
redbud
burst out of their tombs

(to J Dunlap)

CRIMSON RAINDROPS

Blood from the wounded deer
splattered everywhere..
it has become crimson
raindrops over there
.. raindrops which
to bright red berries
crystallized..
.. foiled more beautiful
by the bright blue air

when they fall to the
ground they become
greenleafed shrubs

BUTTERFLIGHT

Transubstantiate.. Metamorphose

Jesus miracles water into wine
Merciful rain turns
to grapes violet upon
the vine
and the communion giver
turns that wine into
Jesus' blood
as willow trees are
born of flood
as acorn becomes oak
and kernel the corn
and the love of a father
in forlorn child reborn
and Tolstoy's ink
becomes Sathyagraha
which Gandhi thinks
and the murdered pig's
fat candle becomes
sacred enkindling flame
and the manure pile
becomes the pink rose
and moon's night
becomes sun's light
and crawling worms
become butterflight
So does the Holy Spirit Dove
turn anger into Love
and make us One with
OUR GOD who is Love

(not an endorsement for
butter stolen from cows
http://www.notmilk.com)

CROSSROADS

We came to a crossroads sign
and what did we see?
All directions pointing
to his heart's infinity.

(to Mahashakti D'Alessio)

NOT YET READY

Half worm
half butterfly
fearing death
of cocoon
is not ready
to fly
to come forth..
from the tomb

CHRYSALIS IS NOT CRYSTAL

The larva..
the chrysalis
is not translucent
bright crystal..
but hidden
in the dark
.. the dark night
of the soul
before emerging
as the Christ

**

inspired by Emily Dickinson's
"My cocoon tightens
colors tease
I'm feeling for the air
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear"
and by the questioning of Jan F

POISONED APPLE

By the abandoned
crystal casket
of Sleeping Beauty
are groves of trees
ignited by the
poisoned apple's seeds

And in the empty
Trojan Horse birds
are nesting

JUDAS IN HEAVEN

The world the silver moon
shattered into shards
in the shallows and
upon the seashore
has been gathered into
One
by the Resurrecting
Morning Sun!

RIVERCLOVEN

On the banks
of the valley
rivercloven
are fields of
daisy, phlox, and clover

APRIL RELEAF

Oh what a blessed relief!
to see April the trees re-leaf!
and a windbussed Noreaster
fragrant with Easter
melt away the last ice-lings
of grief.

(to Leonard B)

APPLE APERTURE

In the dirt
of Mother Earth
God had made
a hole of pain
.. into this aperture
fell apple seeds
which filled
Her now with
a grove of apple trees

(to Jean Giono, famed
French novelist, who
wrote The Man Who Planted
Trees about patient
treeplanting as a way
to reclaim desert)

SOUTH WIND

The south wind her
evening messengers
has sent
.. each donned with
her jasmine scent

. amazing grace
. apple aperture
. april releaf
. arbor and harbor
. beijing spring
. bluebirds on a barren tree
. bursting branch
. butterflight
. crimson raindrops
. crossroads
. chrysalis not crystal
. inevitable
. judas in heaven
. not yet ready
. poisoned apple
. rivercloven

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Nonjudging

BLANK BUTTON

Today the writer pricked herself
on the sharp point of
a Love Animals Don't Eat
Them button..
interesting symbolism

.. perhaps she was being told
by the universe to
wear a blank button..
carry a blank sign
.. to have no opinions
for this day

not to think that the
general shed tears
when the fabric of the
flag was
set aflame
but not when thousands
of Fred's were by bombs
set afire

ANONYMOUS

Executioners
in many states
have their
identities veiled
...
as in the name
of the state
the poor the angry
the helpless
they have impaled

PIER

The poles of the pier
enter the bay
.. hoping to bring
their steadiness
to her..
but after a few
hundred yards
they give up

GRIDMELT

thought grid
systems blocks the light
as
stained glass in
churches filters
the sunlight

CUP AND WATER WHEEL

It is the dharma of
the cup to hold the water.
It is the dharma of the
water wheel to let go.
It is the dharma of the ocean
to hold in the depths
and let surface waves flow.

It is the dharma of one
to go north and another to
go south..

of one to be silent
and another to speak

 

Emily Dickinson: a whiplash unbraiding in the sun (unconditional love unties the knots of resentment)

Silver Screen Projection
is to Susie M C

Author's Notes/Comments: 

1st 10 checked

Awry the Rye Grows is
to Rosalie Cohen Quine
and to SF

to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of wild lawns)
FOUR FLOWERS is to C and
R Davis of Maryland

LACKADAISICAL IS TO LAURIE OTTO
http://www.epa.gov/greenacres
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1."