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143 Poems Of Forgiving

-saiom shriver-

VIOLET ME

As the sun poured into
her niches and naves
and
her coves and her caves
Mother Earth cried
"You violate me!"

But weeks went by
and she spied

purple iris and lavender lilacs
and then she exclaimed
"You violet me!"

TECUMSEH MUSEUM ON A HIGH HILL

A Tecumseh museum .. on a high
hill.. full of axes, scalps
and knives..
Someone enters and
walks around opening all
the shutters..
light pours in
One is then
aware.. only of the
supernal radiance.

And from the high hill
distance one sees white smoke
from many chimneys.. all
puffing the pipes of peace.

ICICLE POINT

opponents are
like huge
daggar icicles
hanging up high
.. ready at the
slightest sound
to crack down

Time passed..
they drip
.. they glow
in the morning sun
.. crystal..
exclamation points
of joy
with magic wand drops at the
bottom

.. water no longer
caged by frozen
form
... now the former foes
help trees to grow

4
GREEDY CATERPILLAR

May I forgive remaining
greed in me..
by seeing it as a voracious
caterpillar soon to cocoon
himself til his own transmutation
..,,,the devoured sacrificed
green leaves of spring
turned to translucent
feathery invulnerable wings

OARCLEFT

Birds have oerleapt
the sea oarcleft.
But she has
not been harmed

Bee has petals
of clover cloven
but she has
not been harmed

She confers her
drops of grace
on the shaft which leaves
without a trace

6
CONNECT THE DOTS

When I asked my father not to fish
I did not connect to the meat on my plate
or seeing the brutality to pigs in the film Mondo Kane
When I saw the cow on the high school blackboard
marked with dotted lines I did not connect those dots
When I saw the picture magazine with a hyena's face frozen
in terror right before he was killed by a lion I did not connect
When I met a vegetarian I resisted
The different chambers of my brain did not speak to each other.
I now forgive myself.. for having been unripe fruit..
hard and green...unconscious... unawakened to suffering.

7
THE RIVER TARRIES NOT

The river tarries not
over the stones of karma.
To seaward joyfully running
is her destiny's dharma

SILVER SCREEN PROJECTION

She never feels rejection
by others' projection..
as they describe their
own faces..
found in her soulmirror's
reflection...
when they cast
their negative movies
upon her luminous silver
screen. Its very purity
invites the process..
as a blank page invites
pen scrawl.
as a sea receives
rivers. Slowly
others learn it is their
own movies on her screen..
their own faces in her mirror.

(to MSC)

HE IS CHANGING

You cannot see how he is changing
He is a growing baby eagle
with an unmoving shell
and within him does unseen

the force of Godlove swell.
He is water melting within
the towering iceberg spires
He is coldform becoming formless
through the touch of GodSunFire.
He is the April Aries apricot
leaf ready to unfold
.. which will calyx the fruit
as it turns to gold

THUNDERSTORM

His storm

in the fruitladen

tree released

her grace gifts

early.

11
CROATIAN CREATION

Crocuses are blowing
with the news..
crows are crowing it
and frogs are croaking it..

A most sacred place
in all Creation
is the forgiving ground
of Bosnian Serb & Croatian

12\

SEACHANGE IN HEART WATERS

There are signs of the tide's inrush

into stands of bullrush
as the gulls come closer..
as the sound of laves wapping brings
peace
.. and in the waters of the heart
is a subtle seachange

13
TWO NEGATIVES A POSITIVE MADE

As two negatives when multiplied
a positive do make
.. former foes who seek
each others' good
cause miracles forth to break

14
BEING KIND

Those who refuse to harm
the hearts of others
with humor involving
ridicule or cruelty
or searing revenge
.. are able to call
on the aid of the guardian
angels and parents
who do not forgive
as quickly as their
human charges.

15
BALL TO BALLOOOOON

The ball got lighter and lighter
as she shed more and more
of her insides of the past..
until she became an invulnerable
balloon.. and soared away
wherever she wished
.. alighting whenever she wished

16
GREAT UNCLE

She was able to forgive
the hunter who shot
her great aunt
in the woods
when angels gave her
a dream.. and showed
her the hunter had
let her aunt out
of earth jail...
and ushered her
into the world
of ecstasy.

17
AS MOTHER LOOKS ON A TODDLER'S FALL

God looks on error
as a mother looks on a toddler's fall*
.. or on her daughter's making mudballs
or as the sun
gazes upon sour fruit soon to be sweet*
.. or upon a blow which releases
water from ice freezes

God does not send loved ones to hell
for acting on drives from the outer shell

God is more forgiving
than the daily snowfall which
erases
many human footfall traces
.. more forgiving than
the sea
which holds onto no boat wake
.. more forgiving than
the sky..
which forgets the path of clouds
or the fire
which devours the mistakes of
the past

Divine Love made us
.. anything which is not
of Divine Love
.. is not you.. is not me

(the asterisked first line

is paraphrased from the discourses

of Sathya Sai Baba)

deleted by author

19
IF YOU

If you do now
your heart unlock
I promise in the future
I will knock

20
ICICLES

Our enemies..
they were huge
daggar icicles
hanging up high
.. ready at the
slightest sound
to crack down

Time passed..
they dripped
and grieved
at their own
passing

More time passed
.. they glow
in the morning sun
.. crystal..
exclamation points
of joy
with drops at the
bottom

Now all the ice
is gone
.. water no longer
caged by frozen
form

21
STAR SHAPED SCARS

As she began to focus
on the grace rather
than the pain

Each little scar
turned to miracle star

22
BOUGH

God looks upon
a broken vow
as on a river
not clinging to
a trailing bough

23
BRIGHT GOLD FIELDS

Within the husk
are bright seeds
containing future
gold fields of corn

Just so God grows
joy's bright kernels
inside the husks
of cruel scorn

24
DIVINE PAINT

The blue paint
of the third eye
cannot be chipped
away..
The blue eraser
of the 3rd eye
cannot be overlaid
It cancels all
mistakes of the past
.. all dark portraits

25
FORGIVING IS FOREGIVING

To forgive
is to release
to let go
to fore-give
to give first.

26
FLOW INTO FOE

When you can flow
into your foe
and witness his
most bright soulglow
love replaces
the wavering
of to and fro

27
SCARLET LEAVES ORANGE BERRIES

We passed a scarlet leafed
orange berried bush
..crimson leaves turn
to softer fruit..
Anger.. into Love

28
CLUBHOUSE

He gradually realized
that when the gang of
thugs kicked him out
of their clubhouse..
they released him
from jail

29
CANCELLED STAMPS

God can forgive even
a general's or president's
millions of caused deaths
more quickly than
President Eisenhower's
image on a stamp
can be cancelled... once
a heart decides never
again to cause suffering.

30
SOLUTION TO THOUGHT POLLUTION

When anger at warmongers
creates thought pollution
prayer for them and me
is a possible solution

Rather than let anger's winds
blow my raft away
I can cross the bridge
over thought's separations

31
TO UNDERSTAND ALL IS TO FORGIVE ALL

He who rescues an ox
from a ditch might
be muddy for a time
as the lake in which
the lion washed his blood
is for a while
crimson with his anger.

32
VIETNAM

The soul humbling forgiveness
of the Vietnamese
brings our hearts
to our bending knees

THE STONE SHE HAS THROWN

The stones
she has at others thrown
have become the cornerstones
of her Divine Love throne.

34
CHERISH THE CHERRYSTONES

Cherish the
hard cherrystones
.. inside each is
scarlet lettered code
They are
.. the crimson chariots
of future
cherries
transformed into rubies
by the
sun's cheer..
for every Chinawoman
and Cherokee
.. every child
young or old
For them.. every year
is a jubilee

(to P and C DiFazio)

(not meant about killing

clams but about fostering cherry trees)

35
RAM DASS

The Asian Indian Ram Dass
says that good and evil
are a projection of my mind.
Therefore it is myself
I must forgive.

36
ARIZONA RAIN

The feathers of the Phoenix
bird are not always
flakes of fire..
sometimes they are mercy's
falling waterdrops

37
NINTH STEP

She was very upset to find that the
woman to whom she wanted to make amends
had died.. Later she found
that by miracle.. a friend
had made amends for her.

38
BEYOND CRIMSON SCARS

Above earth's crimson
scars
shine the diamond stars
Beyond earth's greyest
clouds
shines the great sunstar
Beneath his angry mouth
beats his peaceful heart
A paradox is it
.. that his angry words
are written with the ink
of love

39
HATE METASTASIZES

Revenge destroys
the brain with fire
It is terror and cancer
cells' multiplier
.. the great
metastasizer...
will you choose to focus
on the rose
or on the thorny briars?

40
FORWARD BUTTERFLY

The butterfly does
not look back
to the cocoon
of caterpillar.
She does not
want to be
a Lot's wife
bitter pillar

41
WILL I EVER BE

Will I ever be
like the peony
which responds to storms
heavensent
by gifting all with her scent?

42
LAVA TURNS 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.

(to Lois Lichty
whose friends were gently diverted

when they criticize others in her presence)

43
PRAYER

Thank You
for Your descent
Holy Spirit.. Dove
with Your transforming
Touch of Love
in the heart of each
killing general and
judge
prosecutor and gov

FISHNET FORGIVEN

The fishing net has
straightened out
.. and become a dreamcatcher

45
PLANTS FORGIVE

Some day
the acacia leaves
will forgive giraffes
and in the presence
of koala bears
bamboo shoots will laugh
.. the cows will
be welcomed by
each blade of grass

46
SNOWMEN

"Snowmen drop unassembled from the sky" *
some created by sculpting child's play
.. their life models men frozen into cruelty by
pain

*(said the anonymous email..)

47
DEWDROP METAMORPHOSIS

The hanging ice daggers
slowly drip drip drip
and one by one they
do drop
until finally the last
one.. melts and plops..
some day .. it will
be dewdrops

48
BLUEPRINTS AND WIND

Of our past transgressions..
The Divine Wind away blew prints
and the Sun made reality
of wish blue prints

49
FORGIVING GOVERNMENT,
CORPORATE AND OTHER AGENTS

Some were threatened physically
or their loved ones threatened.
Some were released early from
jail in exchange for services.
Others had hearts' desires for
money, addictions, a person
etc dangled in front of them

50
NONDUALISTS FORGIVE GOD

Nondualists who think that
God is the only Doer..
believe that God is the only one
they need forgive.

51
SHADOWS SCURRY

Entities who the dark
path represent
do forgiven images
re-present.
They scurry away
when
the Name of God
is present.

52
IS GOD GUILTY

If God is the only Doer
then..
even a killer is an actor
saying his preordained lines

53
CONNECTING THE SYNAPSES

When Kissinger declines to hunt boar with Brezhnev
but arranges the bombing of Cambodia... this is a disconnect
in the chambers of his heart

When Churchill directs a ladybug to be saved
and bombs hundreds of thousands.. this is
a disconnect in the chambers of his heart

When Hitler directs that animals be freed
from the Berlin Zoo during the bombing
but kills millions.. this is a disconnect
in the chambers of his heart

Howard Zinn speaks of the disconnect
of bomber pilots who cannot
hear the screams, smell the blood
nor see the limbs being blown
off .. as they are 30,000 feet up

When people stand in freezing cold
for peace.. and then go home
to dead bodies on the dinner plate
this is a disconnect

When teachers show their
cooking classes graphs
of animals divided into
steaks.. it is a disconnect

All these illustrate the disconnect
of distance.. they cannot kill
whom they know but can
objectify beings they do not know

It's not sin or lapse
but disconnected synapse

54
GRASS SEED

She often had to plant
grass seed where
her volcanic explosions
had occurred.

55
TAN

Dracula was running
from the dawn
.. on vines he tripped
and by temple dogs
was trapped
.. and found as the
sun rose
that he too by Sunlove
was tanned

56
EDITING

It is easier to
edit what is written
on paper than what is
carved in stone.
Easier still to edit
what is written on
sand or water.

57
RED DRESS

Unforgiving..
a desire for redress
can become the soul's
vengeful red dress

58
FEMORAL

On pot he looked down
at the chicken bones
femoral
of innocent birds
with lives so ephemeral
and decided from the
moment of that day
to attempt nonviolence
in every way

59
RELEASE

When her pluto ruled
underground springs
upwelled into Sagittarian
joy geysers
she was able to forgive
Nazi children of the Kaiser

60
TREE TEMPLE ROSEBUSH RIGHTS

Some archeologists

destroy living tree temples

In order to resurrect old rocks

CRADLE ROCKED

When the pond was smashed

by his clenched fist..

it became a cradle rocking

for little fish.

Anger is the ore for lovegold.

MAGNIFICAT

Is the painting less beautiful

because it’s a forgery of Van Gogh’s?

Is sunset lakemirrored less awesome

because reflected light glows

Does the moon deny in the night

that stolen is her light?

INVISIBLE GARLAND

Each of us wears an invisible

garland of skulls.. for all

the souls we have in this

or other lives killed, injured,

neglected, for all those beings

whose hearts we have hurt.

God’s mercy sometimes

instantly, sometimes through

centuries, turns all the skulls

to jewels.

NIAGARA FALLS

Two rock divided branches of the

same river of God

approach a cliff.

They are not waterfall foes.

They do not each other oppose.

As each roars over the cliffside,

unhurt they emerge as one,

some drops rising as mist

to bless riparian trees.

Made of the Mist

are new leaves.

(to the people of the United States and Canada)

HEATHER

The falling snow erases

the criminal’s footprint traces

The seas do not record

the weedcleaving swords

of the unknowing oared....

nor does the heather neath

highland mist

seek to remember the

heavy tread

which for wee moments

crushed

her violet head

KIND SURGEONS

there are kind surgeons

who stitch up sturgeons

and release them to the open seas

when the high tides are surgin

THE SUN AND THE MUDCLOD

The sun did shine in 360

degrees.. blessing all with her

rays.. one particular clod of

mud.. refused her love.. did

not answer the door to her radiant

silent knock .. did not.. the

gate of his clodheart unlock..

so she held back one of her

infinite rays.. but after a while

realized that it was silly

to waste energy ..

and so let her rays shine

in all directions as before. Letting go

caused more energy to flow:

And the mudclud, the hundredth lamb..

did eventually his heart unlock.

PEACE TEMPLE LIGHTNING

Carved in stone in the Peace Temple

was ‘those who live by the sword

shall perish by the sword’

but the caretaker of that temple

had so learned his lessons that

.. a God-dispatched lightning

bolt.. erased those words

and wrote in their place

“Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

PUPPETEER

Those who believe

God is the only Doer

believe that the Puppeteer

punishes His puppets.

FORGIVING MYSELF

In the days before 1968

I stood for peace

but sat down to violence

.. vigiled for an end to war

and dined on blood turned juice.

UNIVERSAL

His posts were

usually off topic

and quite misanthropic

but they forgave him

and invited him back

to their paradise in

the tropics

VICTORY OVER TIME

As the physical magnetism

of some can affect wrist watches

so the spiritual magnetism

of the holy

can erase time’s karma

LIGHTNING SWORDS

As swords of lightning

cannot cleave the sky

the personality cannot harm

the God in which it lies

HEART OF THE DEER

A tiny percentage

stalked the deer

to eat their hearts

But billions worked

to guard

the love flowing

from those hearts

(in the US, less than

4% of the population hunt..

hunters are down one third

among those 18 to 24)

DEICIDE IS IMPOSSIBLE

The neonazi changed.

He did decide

that if God is light

noone can commit deicide

NO HARM NO FOUL

A message bottled

within each sparkling sunbeam..

‘no harm, no foul’

because it’s a dream.

WOLLESLEY BEAR

I promise you Wollesley

Bear.. wherever you are

.. that next time I brake

for a butterfly

I’ll make sure you

have your seatbelt

(Wollesley Bear, temporarily

in golden retriever form)

SNOWS OF THE MOUNTAIN CRAGS

As mountain crags do

hold the snow

though on it mightily

the sun does glow

so does it longer take

for some souls

to release pain which

long ago froze

FRUIT OF CRITICISM

What is the fruit of criticism?

The receiver’s heart shuts down.

There is an urge to counterattack.

The ego and the heart are intertwined

so both feel judged and begin

to marshal defenses and to fight back.

(Thaddeus Golas: “In response to

pain, expand”)

(Course In Miracles: When I defend

myself I am attacked)

FORGIVE ME LITTLE VIOLETS

Forgive me, little violets,

that in smelling lilacs

I did unconsciously step on

your shy little heads ..

with of sensitivity a lack.

FLOTILLA OF BIRDS

On the lake float

a flotilla of all direction flying

birds

neath a flotilla of 1 direction

clouds..

Some had landed first on ice

.. others differently upon the

water

.. In February Mother Earth

forgives sooner than

Father Water..but he too

will melt

DEBT ERASED

It had snowed

and the criminal’s

footprints showed

the path to him.

However it was the

same snow.. knowing

he had changed

.. which again fell

erasing the tracks

to a judicial hell

FEBRUARY

A sudden February freeze

arrested the raindrops

on the branch

like a snapshot..

stopped them in their flow

but the afternoon sun frees

drops from the morning freeze

… gone the frost

nothing was lost

DIFFERENT RIVER

We are rivers who have changed

in this second..

some of us all has emptied

into the sea..

some is being renewed

in headwaters.

PENTACLES MELT IN THIRD EYE

In meditation he watched

black pentacles

melt in the cobalt blue

of the third eye

and knew someone’s

past karma was being

erased

GOD KEEPS NO FILES

God keeps no files

on reformed pedophiles

.. Spirit

creates learning

situations..

with action’s consequences..

but God sees

all bodies

as Divine Love phials

and can each soul

undefile

as She erases

all prison files

BOUND BY LOVE

2 former competitors

for the same man,

not yet aware of their

eternal spirit love

for each other

were yet bound

by their love for him

FROM ANY POINT ON THE WHEEL

God can catapult someone

from the most fallen states

into liberation.. while

another remains stuck

in orbital shells

not realizing his

complacence is a hell

THIRTY THREE DEGREE WATER

33 degree water

can be colder than 32 degree ice

for it is not barred

from entering the skin

When Cancer forgives

cancer can disappear

PATIENT TREES

Patient trees

receiving the blows

of elephant tusks, lovers’ initialing

knives, ‘pruning’ shears, moose antlers,

lightning bolts, tornado winds,

utility axes, lumbermen’s chain saws

never themselves holding up

branches defensively to fend

off the blows

CLEMENCY

I ask you tenderly

to grant me clemency

as polluted rivers’ tendencies

are purified in clement sea.

COLD GOLD

The people’s land

was given to the mineowners

at firesale prices.

They hired slaves at

less than minimum wage…

and when the fire

at their deathtrap mine

took the lives of many

it refined

the cold gold.

LOVING FOES

God told us to love our

neighbor as ourselves.

Jesus told us to love our

enemies.

Therefore we are told

to love our enemy as ourselves.

RELEASE THE WASTE

The body should not hold onto

toxic waste

nor should the mind or soul

cling to past hates.

ABOVE FREEZING

To frost had firmed the fog

which veiled the cranberry bog

but now iced crystal jewels

melt into Spirit’s drops

LIQUID DECK OF CARDS

Iceberg spires and turrets of

crystallized pain

melt in warm waters

off the coast of Spain.

FOUR ELEMENTS

God’s water washes away transgressions.

God’s fire burns errors to ash.

God’s earth buries mistakes.

God’s air scatters them

into harmless fragments.

ICEBERG

Paradoxically an iceberg overhang

is more dangerous when melting than

when frozen. As evil is breaking

up it can be more unstable

and threatening. The wise

avoid proximity in such

cases.

100

PEAR TREE RESPONSE

The dump truck with driveby violence

slapped the pear

tree in her branch face

releasing a shower

of her sweet fruit grace

as a holy one responds

to hate with love

moving onward

in his Godward race

101

PRAYING FOR FOES

Durga decided to pray for a foe.

That night God came to her in the

form of her foes, giving her an answer

to a riddle upon which she’d been working.

102

GUZZLING BEE

Embezzled heart, can you forgive the guzzling bee

who has taken all your nectar? “He knew not what he did”,

young little bee.

103

DESPERATE

Those in despair do desperate things.

Indeed, the word 'desperate' comes

from 'despair'.

104

MOONLIGHT WHITEWASHING THE SEA

Aboard the ocean liner they see

moonlight whitewashing the sea

as do glances and shadows

of saints

in goldwashing our stains

pour radiant absolution

everywhere

105

RADIUS RIVER

The radius river

moved..

fanning into a delta

before becoming

the circle sea

106

UNIVERSAL AMNESTY

God’s universal verdict

is “Not guilty”

as all blessing as the

late afternoon sun

ever gilding trees

107

WHO KILLED THE GREAT SNOWMAN?

Who has the giant snowman killed?

he who has all around him chilled?

Was it the one who threw pots of

hot liquid upon him?

or the rainclouds who sacrificed

their being pouring their waters

upon him?

or the sun whose rays

were swords knocking off

different of his parts?

Now he is many drops of water

.. pooling at his former base

.. each drop reflecting

the sun he had hated

108

COBRA LIBERATOR

The bite of a cobra

awakened him from a nightmare

dream

to an awakened world

through which sunbeams gleam

And he saw

that he was not

a ray of the Sun..

but the Sun itself

and with God One.

Then he was able

to thank the snake.

109

GREAT BEAR FREE

The sun has melted

a trespassing bear’s pawprints

near a beehive’s honey

storehouse.. frozen

in the snowlace.

Free now the great

bear prince.

110

LES MISERABLES

Melt away now Valjean’s pursuers,

who had chased him through Parisian sewers

111

IGNORANT SWORD

As a sword has the illusion it slices the sun’s beams

so do the unforgiving have the illusion they have been harmed.

112

MULBERRIES

The bike rolled through the

mulberries on the sidewalk

leaving several purple streaks..

but some of the tree’s babes

fell into the meadow..

and became new mulberry trees

(trees whose silkworms were

protected)

*1 Like myriad snowflakes entering a tropical sea are the attacks of temporary foes upon your royalty.

*2
The sandalwood tree gives fragrance to the killing lumberman.
The pine in fire warms those who have slain her.
The cow gives calories, albeit toxic, to those who have murdered her.
*3
In Luke we are told "Her sins, which are many, are forgiven" What of the opposite... those who are the greatest forgivers? those who humble us all with their willingness to release the past?
*4
Beach footprints by high tide erased. Snow footprints by the sun melted away without a trace. With the pulling of the switch, metal filings are released. So do the forgiving melt transgressions.
*5
Niagara Falls: Two branches of the same river of God approach a cliff. Rocks cause the foes each other diametrically to oppose. As they roar
over its side, unhurt they emerge as one, some drops rising as mist to bless riparian trees.
*6
Embezzled heart, can you forgive the guzzling bee who has taken all your nectar? "He knew not what he did", young little bee.
*7
Long ago, his forgiving Lord turned his 30 pieces of silver to eternal gold.
The moon shattered silver into shards in the shallows and upon the seashore
But they've been gathered into One by the Resurrecting Morning Sun!
*8
The spouse saw his love entangled with another.... instantaneously demonic alchemy turned
love into hate for his lover. But slowly in time he let go... of the scarlet dye which had colored
the waters of his soul.
*9
When one can flow into his foe and witness his most bright soulglow
then love replaces the wavering of to and fro
*10
The tree's leaf plumes dangle with plums.. even for plutocrats
*11
As the sun poured into her niches and naves and her coves and her caves Mother Earth cried "You violate me!" But weeks went by
and she spied April's apricot apron and apple blooms
and then she exclaimed "You violet me!"
*12
The river tarries not over the stones of karma. To seaward joyfully running is her destiny's dharma
*13
When the pond was smashed by his clenched fist..it became a cradle rocking for little fish.
Anger is the ore for lovegold.
*14
The frozen daggers of unforgiving icicles.. shine in the light but it is the orb of forgiveness
.. the miracle point at the tip where the icicle drips which most clearly reflects the sun
*15
Crocuses are blowing with the news..crows are crowing it and frogs are croaking it..
A most sacred place in all Creation is the forgiving ground of Bosnian Serb & Croatian
*16
There are signs of the tide's inrush as the gulls come closer..as the sound of wavelave lapping brings peace.. and in the waters of the heart is a subtle seachange
*17
As two negatives when multiplied a positive make.. former foes who seek each others' good
cause miracles forth to break
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God looks on error as a mother looks on a toddler's fall* .. or on her 4 year old child's making mudballs or like the sun gazing upon sour fruit soon to be sweet*.. or upon a blow which releases water from ice freeze
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If you do now your heart unlock I promise in the future I will knock
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Does God look upon a broken vow as on a river not clinging to bough?
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Within the sheath are bright seeds containing future gold fields of corn
Just so grow joy's bright kernels inside the husks of cruel scorn
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The blue paint of the third eye cannot be chipped away..The blue eraser of the 3rd eye
cannot be overlaid. It cancels all mistakes of the past.. all dark portraits
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The seas do not record the weedcleaving swords of the unknowing oared.. nor does the heather neath highland mist seek to remember the heavy tread
which for wee moments crushed her violet head
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The river has changed in this second.....some of him has emptied into the sea.. some is being renewed by waterfalls in headwaters
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As a sword has the illusion it slices the sun's beams
so do the unforgiving have the illusion they have been harmed.
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Melt away now Valjean's pursuers, who had chased him through Parisian sewers.
Now he lets go litigious suers... for his soul and heart are newer
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She the sea.. receives red hot lava and transmutes it into green glass jewels.
She the listening compassionate ear turns anger into love.. with every word she hears.
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You cannot see how he is changing. He is a growing baby eagle with an unmoving shell
and within him does unseen the force of Godlove swell. He is water melting within
the towering iceberg spires He is coldform becoming formless through the touch of GodSunFire.
He is the April apricot leaf ready to unfold .. which will calyx the fruit as it turns to gold
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The clarified waters of Snowdrop Lake form from melted hexagonal snowflakes.
The heart unfrozen with new love flows as new soulspace does forgiving make.
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1st of the year snow had covered everything muffling harsh noises
softening ravine chasms with its silent anthems of peace.. its flags of quiet grace... Its visible amnesty, tangible absolution,.. muffling division.. resurrecting purity and forgiveness
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The sun came across an unreceptive clod who would not receive her beams.. She began to withhold 1 of her infinite rays from this dirtball..
but decided this was silly... and began to shine again.. universally in directions all.

33 Degree Water

Above Freezing

Arizona Rain

AS Mother Looks ON A Toddler’S Fall

Ball TO Balloooon

Being Kind

Beyond Crimson Scars

Blueprints AND Wind

Bough

Bound BY Love

Bright Gold Fields

Cancelled Stamps

Cherish THE Cherrystones

Clemency

Clubhouse

Cobra Liberator

Cold Gold

Connect THE Dots

Connect THE Synapses

Cradle Rocked

Croatian Creation

Debt Erased

Deicide IS Impossible

Desperate

Dewdrop Metamorphosis

Different River

Divine Paint

Editing

February

Femoral

Fishnet Forgiven

Flotilla OF Birds

Four Elements

Forgive ME Little Violets

Forgiving IS Foregiving

Forgiving Govt AND Corp Agents

Forgiving Myself

Forward Butterfly

Flow Into FOE

From ANY Point ON THE Wheel

Fruit OF Criticism

GOD Keeps NO Files

Grass Seed

Great Bear Free

Great Uncle

Greedy Caterpillar

Guzzling BEE

Hate Metastasizes

HE IS Changing

Heart OF THE Deer

Heather 52

Iceberg

Icicle Point

Icicles

IF YOU

Ignorant Sword

Invisible Garland

Is God the Only Guilty Party 59

Kind Surgeons 60

Lava Turns TO Jewels

LEW Miserables

Lightning Swords

Liquid Deck OF Cards

Loving Foes 65

Magnificat

Mulberries

Moonlight Whitewash 68

Niagara Falls

Ninth Step

NO Harm NO Foul

Nondualists 72

Forgiving GOD

Oarcleft 73

Patient Trees

Peace Temple Lightning

Pear Tree Response

Pentacles Melt In Third Eye

Plants Forgive

Prayer

Praying FOR Foes

Puppeteer 81

Radius River

RAM Dass

RED Dress

Release THE Waste 85

Scarlet Leaves Orange Berries

Seachange IN Heart Waters

Shadows Scurry

Silver Screen Projection

Snowmen

Snows OF THE Mountain Crags

Star Shaped Scars 92

Tan

Tecumseh Museum ON A High Hill

the River Tarries NOT

the Stoned Woman

the sun and the Mudclod 97

Thunderstorm

TO Understand ALL IS TO Forgive ALL

Tree Temple Rosebush Rights

TWO Negatives A Positive Made 101

Universal

Universal Amnesty

Victory Over Time

Vietnam

Violet ME

Waste Release

WHO Killed THE Snowman

Will I Ever BE

Wollesley Bear 110

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god looks on sin includes 2 of sai baba’s parables and a dream of j freundschuh stars in “as mother looks on a toddler’s fall” are based on the teachings of sai baba as is the parable that we should be like rivers flowing over sharp rocks tecumseh museum is to all native americans and settlers who have suffered in the past) (years after dreamer had this dream on the early morn of december 7 she heard broadcast on c span a description of a mohican museum.. followed by the song you are my sunshine) mallik arjunan: from any point on the wheel one can be liberated notes on as mother looks on a toddler’s fall .. title based on a quote by saint of shirdi .. mudballs based on a dream by jan f (we are all tecumsehs: look not at our past but at the divine light within each of us as we forgive ourselves)* the stars indicate concepts transmitted to writer by the words of sai baba silver screen projection is to susie m c if you is to t jackson

footnotes:

saint of shirdi: never harm a snake or

a scorpion.. he will only harm you if ordered

to do so by god. if so ordered there is nothing

you can do about it

anne perry: when people are close sooner or later they will hurt

each other.

jan f: i was being told to take my complaint to the playwright, not

the half brain-dead actor on the stage.

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