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18 POEMS

-saiom shriver-

ETHEREAL AND LYRICAL

His speech is ethereal and lyrical
His aura is large and bright and spherical
... his hand movements linear laser miracles

ANCIEN RICHE

Which is worse....
ostentatious wasteful
nouveau riche
or hoard-hiding
selfish ancien riche?
*
EPILEPTIC GHOST

Churchill spoke of someone as an epileptic ghost...
perhaps after having seen chickens beheaded at his place..
still running around... or having heard of voodoo's savage
chicken killings .. or having had nightmares about the millions of civilians he bombed..
the billions of animals and birds he bombed

KUWAITI SLAUGHTERHOUSE

In Kuwaiti slaughterhouses,
there is not waterboarding
but bloodboarding as cows and sheep
choke on their own blood after their throats are slit

NOT CORNSHUCKING

As unconcerned as if
cornshucking
he rips oysters from
their shells....
he is shelling
for the shillings

CRIES, DRILLS, ROARS

The piercing cries of gulls
.. woodpeckers' constant drills
... the roar of a cataract..
... the booming surf...
why do these sounds
give us peace?

DROVER DRIVEN

sheep... whipped by drovers,
trampled by horses, bitten by sheep dogs,
with too early fleecing
they are freezing
... shearers them to the ground slam
... shippers into boats them cram

KNOWN BY THEIR LIGHT

When a master walks into the room
he need not talk of peace..
his aura, his handshake his glance
and voice transport others into trance

LEAK PERFECTION

He lived in the woods.
The leak in his tiled roof
dripped into a 50 gallon
ceramic tub.
It kept him from having to go
to the stream for water.

THE RIVER REMAINS

The waters of the river
follow the path of the mountain base..
not for a long while..
before going onto another mountain...
but the river remains

WHITE AND BLUE

white foam on blue wave ..
white snow fringe on blue mountain
.. white cloud fleece in blue sky

LIGHTNING SKEINS

a silver curtain of rain...
threaded with lightning's gold skeins
and sunrise's pinking veins

CRICKETS DON'T LIKE CROQUET

Those who love bees, ants and crickets
don't play croquet, don't play cricket

OPEN PORTAL

As sunlight pours through an uncurtained window
so God's grace pours through an opening heart

WASH AND DRY

Cleansing the soul and mind with the waters of
universal love... then drying them with divine detachment
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DRIVER

Drive is to drove as the present is to the past..
Driver is to drover as the new is to the obsolete past

(drover... sheep herder)

FIVEFOLD

He abandoned counting and folding his fives to
taking the fivefold path to God

COMMANDING ANGELS

Those with holy confidence can command the angels..
can mold prana into desired forms

(prana: energy)

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