Positive Thought and other poems

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POSITIVE THOUGHT


MAST REFLECTIONS

In the sea
the mirrored
mast spears
can do no harm

She turns
wavy
their
frozen force

(to Kenny Richey
.. may the Ocean of
God's mercy melt
the force of your
foes and give you
immediate release)
http://www.kennyrichey.org
(Kenny is an innocent Scot
being illegally held
in Ohio's death row)


LES COEURS

It is not
le coeur de la mer
but les coeurs de la mer
for the sea
has hearts beating
everywhere


BIRDFRUIT

Every mature tree
from twig to root
yearns to be home
for flocks of birdfruit.

MASSED THUNDER

In the mountains...God has
massed his thunder
Your faith can ...
help the power break asunder

ROSENTHAL

God make the
sight of a rose
now enthrall
the soul of prosecutor
Chuch Rosenthal
.. so that he
resigns
from his killing hall
so that he
resigns from his
killing hall

BLAZING STARS

To the bitter
the blazing stars
seem sky's scars
To the sweet
the heart's scars
seem gold badge stars.

ETERNAL NOON

When comes eternal noon?
When soul turns around
each no... to on.



BLUE FLOWER FLAME

To see the divine
in everyone
is akin to
turning a pilot
light
into a multipetaled
blue flower flame







FLASHING LIGHTS

Behind me
in the twilight
I saw flashing lights
.. oh oh
an officer of the law
I thought
but it was
the sun inbetween
clouds flashing
HELLO



BREAK OF DAY

The break of day!
The crack of dawn!
Look not at night's
shellshards
but at the newbird sun!

(to David Wright)



SPIDER WEB BEJEWELED

A spider web
dew bejeweled
.. shining necklace
hung on the throat
of dawn..

though its builder
means it as a deathtrap
for innocents
.. God has other plans

CATCH A FIRE IN THE SKY

Catch a fire in the sky
with water.
Catch sun father
with liquid daughter.
Water is not the foe
of fire.
Together rainbows they
do sire.


SUN ARRAYS HIMSELF

Over the lip of the earth
broke into night the sun.
A little cloud
.. a baby herald
ran and told everyone.
Each little cloud seemed to
catch the sun
and to steal his homerun.
But as they were later
rained away, we knew
his ball has gone
further than anyone's.
Himself sun arrays
in His own rays
and as He arises
and all birds He arouses
His rays are of
pink and purple and rose.

(to MBC of Columbus)


OBEDIENT ANGELS

Angels are obedient
to our wishes.
They are genies
in the bottles of
our hearts,
waiting to be prayed
into appearing..
waiting to
make concrete
our deepest desires.

IN MAY TO BLOOM COME THE BEES

She prayed and
into inviolate ethers
suddenly came
ultraviolet feathers
delicate gossamer
wings of thought
turning to real
all maybes and oughts
turning the verb of may
to that of be
as surely as in May
.. to bloom come the bees


DESIRE IS DESTINY

The foghorn sounds in the mysterious
mists.. a lonely call for his mate.
The train whistles
beckon to our desire which is our destiny.
The sea sings to the shore.
In Siberia snow falls soundlessly.
In a world beyond time
horses' hooves on cobbled stones,
the crash of the cataract,
the boom of the ocean,
the cheerful babbling of the brook,
.. the first trill of absolute joy
from a predawn bird.. a trill
which is a sword to
Dracula's night curtains.

First and last, God is in our
ears.

CHARGING THOUGHTS

Garbs her thoughts does Marge
with a positive charge
as surely as
putting things
in a bag of white
more than a dark one
reflects the light..
as surely as
rainbows striking
resin's dew
leave hope
as their residue


CLEMENT STONE

Pain is the clement stone,
the hard seed within soft fruit.
Those who chip away at it destroy life.
Others shine on it with sunlove
and rain mercy upon it..
and watch as green fire tongues
forklaugh through the hard
shell and to a sapling grow
.. which to a tree gives sway
which gives away
all her free food of life
From her fruit come unnumbered
pastel bloomed
and bright harvest orchards.

EASTRIDGE

Over the mountain's
Eastern ridge
Of a sudden came
mornlight's dawnbridge
Which distilled into
matter
and became
a light ladder
transporting
them..
wherever they wished

IN FRONT OF 8 BALL

We are all
in front of eight balls..
never behind them..
because we act with all power of God
all evil
vanishes from our presence
as the shards of night
vanish before morning light





A DUPRE

Oh once fired
was A Dupre
for giving all
of his students
an A
.. for living
beyond the judgers' realm
above the
Ivy League vines
and winter elms

FEW MORE SECONDS

She knows Dawn is coming
She saw his pink violet light suffuse the air
and though the sky is now
depressingly grey..
from a stray ephemeral
passing cloud
in a few seconds
oer the horizon
will pop
the blazing eternal sun!

(to Cathy Marshall)

INVIOLATE

Roses are pink
Violets are violet
Our love for you
is forever inviolate

(to JB)


RAISE HELL

---
Raise hell..
raise it to heaven
... use to lift it aloft
... love's airy leaven
the same place
.. are hell and heaven
.. only eyes of varying
frequencies
will difference see
Those immersed in ecstasy
.. see only divinity

RED LIGHT TO GREEN

the red light to green goes
fixed ice melts to water flows
to yes is wanded all the no's
now allies are all former foes

each thought
magnetically with
plus..
turning lack into
surplus
each thought
surcharged
with divinity
empowered

linking
connecting
through the
will God-aligned
as divine currents
flow down the spine


Love drops
its garb of hate
..the nine emerges
from the eight

allow not
the slightest doubt
to unplug current
or put light out

reaching out
to the Love in each
.. as each does
his own love teach





LOTTERY TICKETS

He thought himself unlucky
but it was positive
thoughts he
must unlock..
as he sat by
the abandoned
lottery tickets..
broken dreamshards
but near them
in a puddle
the sun beams
gleam
.. infinite
stems of the sunstar
asking him
to change the angle
of his vision

FORTUNE COOKIE SHARDS

Some impatiently pull
out the fortune
anxious to devour
the fortune cookie shards
Others care more for
the fortune
and abandon the cookie
shell
Still others make their
own good luck.

REMINDER TO MYSELF


Come from the mind to
the heart
.. to cool drinks
which quench thirst
.. not everquesting salt water
Extinguish the fire of
greed not by feeding
it but by walking away
Exhaust yourself not

in ever ending
multiplication of twigs of trees
but rather love their unity
Love less the
external
form everchanging
than the internal
Spirit neverchanging.
Still the endless ocean
waves
by dwelling in seadepths
Love less the ocean's
foamy pieces
than its deep blue peace.

RISING WATERS IN A QUARRY

As rising waters in a quarry..
fill every niche and nave..
so do Spirit's rising waters
grant each desire..
dwelling in heart cave.


(to the McGee's)


SIBERIAN SNOWDROPS

She was in the
north after the sun went down..
toward a snow machine's path
in the snow.. which ended
in vast measureless signs
of Siberian silence

of frozen dark cold wasteland
.. hell was cold not hot


But in the morning she looked
south.. and saw
the avalanches melting
into snowdrops
which would nurse
the headwaters
of the rivers of
joy and supply

Cold hell
is heaven's shell

God was telling
her for the thousandth
time.. to look upon
the bright side..



SPANGLE THE RODS

A grass spire
dewcrowned
reflects the entire sun.
Spangle the rods.
A stick discarded
or used as a club
becomes a magic wand
if it is starred
with the physics of
positive thought.
We write what
we must learn.

SUN'S YEAST RAISING THE EAST

It was the time of
the sun's yeast
raising all the East
... and he could
not understand
how quickly the
sky's hue
changed to sunrise pink
from blue..
until he realized
he had changed directions.


TOUCH DOWN SPIRIT

Angel Air..
lift our wordwings
into the realm of
reality.
Connect the dots
between our wishes and
their
fulfillment.
Color in our dreams.
Manifest our God
planted desires.
Materialize our
prayers.
Alight,
Spirit! Touch down!
into our
hearts

WE

We.. who are
dwarfs or giants or
paraplegics or
who have not been
by headturning beauty graced
or who have neck lines
of time beneath the face
we who haul extra weight
.. or are afflicted
by painquelling addictions..
or sit in prison..
or face bankruptcy
..or do not know where we
will lay our heads tonight..

we are among the first
to realize that the soul
is not the body machine
through which it pours..
and that beauty is not
Divine Love, that
the 999th match after 998
tries.. is enough to
set the world aflame
with Spirit Fire
...

WHAT HER OBEDIENT HEART ORDAINED

A magnet was her spine
attracting all to its line.
What her omnipotent heart ordained
her obedient will quickly obtained.
Around her granite resolve
worlds began to revolve!

WHAT WE THINK TOGETHER

What we
together think
manifests as
words in ink
.. and builds to
critical mass
.. more lasting
than the sphinx



WISH BECOMES WILL

Wish becomes Will
becomes action
becomes reality
as dreams touch down
.. 6 points
for all

Beneath his gaze
the impossible
became improbable
and then implausible
.. and then plausible
and then possible
and then probable

until that it would not
manifest was impossible

FILAMENT

A tiny piece of metal
plus the radio into
the universe.

A slender silk filament
of grass was enough
to bridge the vine
to a water trough..
as her prayer wishes
for loved ones
help them
in invisible ways

YOU ARE STRONGER THAN URI

As many like Uri Geller
can with mindpower
bend metal
so prayer and positive thought
can melt weapons.




GANGRAPES


The sun's sharp sword
rays
.. were like many gang rapes
.. yet in the end
they gave purple grapes.
The sun is a lust-er
and yet and yet
his brilliant lustre
is now graped cluster.

(to LM)

EVER PROTECTED

She sits neath
the tree's
apples uncored
All round her
her angels sing
mantra's sweet chords
All beings
united in one sweet accord
to protect and to
guard
their love L McCord


HELLO

Out of the darkest
night
is born the
dawning light.
Out of the greatest
pain of
hell
so low
is born of goodbye
the
sweetest
hello
(to E)

BOUNDARIES

You don't respect
boundaries
complained the mineshaft
as daily at noon
sent the sun
into his dark
her freeing light shafts.

LEMONS AND LIMES

How awestriking
How sublime
that out of slime
God makes lemons
and God makes limes.

LIME WEAVE

The lime tree weaves the light
into limes on loom of night.
Some in theatre limelight
seek to hearts ignite
and others desire only
to weave lime-light.

(to Michael Lightweaver
whose email is Lightweave@aol.com)

WASHING WISHES

If we wash our wishes
they will sooner
whooooosh into reality.
May God now wash Washingon..
through grace and miracles
cleanse it of greed and
violence, lies and
dictatorship, racism
and cruelty.

WHAT ARE PRAYERS?

What are prayers?
. the insistent ringing
of loud suffering
. desire seeds planted by God
springing.. greening
.. love leaving its birthplace
heart... as perfume
.. the incense of wishing all well
from the soul's wishing well

We pray Father Mother God
that the
ringing bell
does not crash down
calling us to
bellum's hell
but calls us to the
shrines of peace
.. most holy calm and belle


THE PINE DOES NOT OPINE

The spruce, the fir,
the evergreen, the pine
does not to the air
or peers opine
and attracts more quickly
Spirit bird pinions
than those of more
Procrustean opinions.
**

Forgiving is Fore-giving.. Giving First

GREEDY CATERPILLAR

May I forgive remaining
greed in me..
by seeing it as a voracious
caterpillar soon to cocoon
himself..the greedeaten
green leaves turned to wings

THE RIVER TARRIES NOT

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


TECUMSEH MUSEUM ON A HIGH HILL

A Tecumseh museum .. on a high
hill.. full of axes, scalps
and knives..
A person 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 puffs
from many chimneys.. all
smoking the pipes of peace.

(to all Native Americans
and settlers who have suffered
in the past)


ICICLE POINT

The frozen daggers of
unforgiveness..
icicles..
they shine in the light
but it is the orb
of forgiveness
.. the miracle
point at the drip
of the icicle tip
which does reflect the sun


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



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
April's apricot apron
and apple blooms
and then she exclaimed
"You violet me!"

(to N Nickol)


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

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.

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.


BALL TO BALLLOOOOON

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



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.




AS MOTHER LOOKS ON HER 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
***********


ALTARS OMNIPRESENT

In doubt or
hesitation
do not falter
at Abba's
omnipresent altars
where
God forgives
all us knaves,
all defaulters

IF YOU

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


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

STAR SHAPED SCARS

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

Each little scar
turned to miracle star

BOUGH

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


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

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



FORGIVING FOREGIVING

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

FLOW INTO FOE

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

SCARLET LEAVES ORANGE BERRIES

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

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


CLUBHOUSE

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

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


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.

VIETNAM

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

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


THE STONE SHE HAS THROWN

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





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 Patty and Charles D)

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.

FISHNET FORGIVEN

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

(to J Lehman and his work)

ARIZONA RAIN

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

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.

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?

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



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 L Lichty whose friends are gently diverted when they criticize others in her presence

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





.................



Joying.. 19 Poems to Cheer, Ecstasy

BEES AMBULATE THROUGH AMBER

Bees randomly ambulate
through the blooms' amber
gates

GEYSER FALLS

The several waterfall
geysers
arise out of
flat grey stone
.. and transport
some who view them
in Spirit
to
Yellowstone

(sparked by the
geyser waterfalls
in River Park,
Cuyahoga Falls)

SUNSHINE

Sum's laugh
becomes
the new life
in each leaf

GRIEVING WINTER

The happy croci
of spring
are to winter
as unconscious visitors
of cheer
are to a funeral
griever

ALLELUIA

You are the ring
of the hands of caring
You are the sing
of the bright sun rising
You are the king
of all hearts waking
You are the wing
of songs most flowing
You are the lia
of Alleluia

LOOKING UP

A joyful chorus
of a birdflock
caused us up
to look

and we saw at the
very top
of a very tall
fir tree
clusters of pine cones
.. like a genius
ready to give his
mind's gifts to all

RIVER WEDS TIDE

Where the outgoing
delta wide
meets the incoming
salty sea tide
the visible eddies
portray the ecstasy
of the river
meeting the sea

BEYOND SOUTHERN CROSS

From Northern skies
one cannot the Southern
Cross spy
.. for not suffering
but joy
do the silent stars ring

SPIRIT HAS ALL KEYS

Where earth barriers
have blocked and barred
admitted is the laugher
admitted is the bard



WHEN I'M SAD

When I'm sad...

some walk..or run
or listen
to music..
or talk to someone
.. or write out feelings..
or go to a 123 step meeting
or meditate.. do a new yoga
exercise..

LAUGHTER

God's daughters
did not want laughter
to rhyme
with slaughter..
since from God
comes laughter
and from butchers
comes slaughter.

(to A Slaughter of
Princeton.. may she
no longer promote
war)

CALL TO PRAYER

God passes
light through
the brushes of
Michelangelo
God passes
Word made Flesh
through the pens
of Maya Angelou
God passes
the Sound
of the Call
to Prayer
from minarets
and synagogues
and temples
and the bells
of the Angelus..
for by all names
called respond
the angels

NOT A THRONE OF THORNS

Your home
is not a throne
of thorns..
you were made for
joy

FLOCK TO FRUIT

A flock of blackbirds
came to a peachtree
.. each orange orb
mated to a different
bird
as each soul
to a different
angel guardian.

BELLS OF COCKLESHELLS

In the bells of
cockleshells
Wind
silently rings

(Goethe:
Architecture is
frozen music)

CAVES OF JOY

only time determines when
we enter our own
inner and infinite
caves of joy

CLOTHESLINE EXCLAMATIONS

On a March clothesline
.. transparent icicles in a row
in the bright sun
they drip and glow

Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!!


.. crystalline exclamation points of joy
.. each exulting in the light

.. .. at the end of each melting dagger
a watery globe..

they say.. this silent xylophone
with their quiet exclamations
Spring is coming
they say without explanation

(to kind L Umana)

CLOTHESLINE JOY VERSION TWO

a row of icicle daggers
melt
and turn to nursing
watergivers
drops slide down
the obelisks and
in the sun they become
bubbling christmas lights

the xylophone of crystal
is disappearing

they are a row
of exclamation points of joy



KEEBA SMITH

Keeba
when you smile
the 2 corners
of your mouth
lift the shades
and light from your
soul
pours through your eyes

Miracles 39 poems

SEASLIP

Through the night
...miracles we did not see
.. icebergs of resistance
slipped into the sea


SIGNPOSTS OF MIRACLES

What are the signs of breaking miracles?
They are beyond linear in realms
spherical..
They are beyond
matter.. in places spiritual
They're
not logical .. not empirical ..
They
are joyful .. they are lyrical *****


(to the miracles which flow
through the intercessory prayer of
K S Hoare.)


NO LECTOR

the bee needs no lector
to read him the sector
where blooms of great nectar
pour forth fragrant vectors


APPLE MIRACLE

How are the gold sun
brown earth
crystal rain
and blue sky
wanded into
the crimson orbs
of apple-y
Northern spies?
By their positive
thought creed
which takes
but 1 seed

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 )



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.

ALL SEAS CLEAVE

Every sea is
a Red Sea cleaving..
parting for you
and yoursailclad clipper
All you need do
is embark.
Every crowd is a
parting Red Sea
giving way to
your Love's authority











saiom shriver


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Posted by saiom on 03-24-2004 01:44 PM:

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.




BEGGING BOWL

Miracles occur in the large sized
begging bowl of the dumpsters.

CRICKET KNEES

As the ears of crickets
are near their knees
so those to God surrendered
hear angels in the breeze.


HEART RADIO DISPATCHER

The mind is a radio dispatcher
which can through prayer
send angels
to those in need.
But her heart..
need do nothing at all..
the angels
respond.. to unspoken calls.



(to Louise S)

BLOSSOM VENUTIAN

At Blossom Center,
they seldom play
martial music
for God does not
arm blooms


CIGAR TREE

Wind reminded tree
the tree on the heath
now in
total giving to bequeath
to the little
ones crawling beneath
a subtly fragrant
blossom wreath

WITHOUT SEEN TRACE

Without seen trace
comes God's grace..
once.. twice
.. miracles thrice
creating plenty
out of space
.. and the mirror
reveals to you
GOD's
tangible face




saiom shriver


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Posted by saiom on 03-24-2004 02:04 PM:

SYNCHRONICITY

God's highlighted
synchronicities
seem to come in
multiples of three..


RIPPLING RIBBON

Arrayed against all
the darkest night
With all the arms
and secrets and might
comes a rippling ribbon
of dawning slight..
an omnipotent band
of dawning light

WATER FROM STONE

From the rodstruck rock
water comes forth
From the centenarian vine
comes forth new wine
From a blue sky
comes forth rain
From the tomb
comes forth Lazarus
From the God struck
heart of stone
comes forth infinite LOVE.




PHYSICS NOT MIRACLE

When A highly charged aura spherical
which transmutes all to spiritual
has weapons thrown against it
..
they boomerang

This is physics, not miracle

The nonviolent
are protected
by their own
ultraviolet

WAYS TO MAKE A RAINBOW

Spray with water plants
in the afternoon sun
Hang a prism
in the window
for everyone.
Notice the tears
in the eyelight
of those suffering
in pain.
See the oilspot
glisten
in the puddle
in the rain


SEEK YE FIRST THE
KINGDOM OF GOD

Because in God
is grounded her taproot
With love for all
she does upwell
and so each
of her heart's desire fruits
on her soul tree
in satiety swells.


WATER MIRROR

He thought
'it's just another water
mirage'..
but it was the
water mirror
of the rising sun
.. in her reflections
creating miracles

RAMPS

We work to mandate for
the spiritually handicapped..
access ramps for
easier entry into heaven

We hope in so doing
to be lifted there
by mercy's
universal leaven


INSTANTANEOUS MIRACLES

Raise the blind..
the room floods with light
Plug in the lamp..
gone the night.
Light the cotton..
it's gone in fire
God's mercy does
fill
every desire






BLOOM POEMS
NO LECTOR

the bee needs no lector
to read him the sector
where blooms of great nectar
pour fragrance in vectors


*****

FOUR FLOWERS

The sun arose
in Morning Glory
with His Golden Rod
wanding Violet to Rose


GOLDSMITHED ROSE

All life is sacred
but one day he chose
that the Japanese beetle
was greater than rose.
Crawling in his greenmail* armour
over the Goldsmithed bloom
ready to turn gold petal fire
into pure insect flight.
He found when he chose
the bug oer the
rose
God gave him back
endless blooms of rose.


(*greenmail reference to the takeover attempt of Goodyear
by James Goldsmith, capital manipulater of the UK..
which cost its city, pensioners, employees & stockholders
95 million dollars
greenmail: an unfriendly move by a securities buyer who buys enough stock in a company to threaten a hostile takeover later agreeing to sell the stock back to the company at a higher price.)




OAK AND POPLAR

The centenarian oak
cares not
that less slender
is his body cloak
He cares not that
in gardens papal
more popular
are the poplars

(sparked by Jan's
heaering poplar
as popular)

PARACHUTES

The wind
releases
dandelion parachutes
They alight
and spark
a golden
pair of shoots




APPLE CHAPEL PINE SHRINE

Is God's favorite chapel
orchards appled?
Her Ichi Ban shrine..
trees of pine?
Her beloved mosque
vine covered kiosks?
Her best synagogue
a cranberry bog?
Her holiest church
woods of birch
***


BLUEMS

When chicory
and periwinkle

.. catching blue
star twinkle

bloom
... they're bluems

NO PRUNING

His plum tree
he did not violently
prune
and therefore
he had
many times more prunes



NO ADIEU

The bees need not
bid the blooms adieu
for the morn brings
new nectar and dew






DELILAH'S DAHLIAS

No longer need
Samson fear
Delilah's shears.
Reborn is
Delilah
..
.. safe are the curly heads
of dahlias

IN THE PRIDED WOOD

In the prided wood
the Lord of Luminescence
gives each fruit
a dewy tumescence
and with light each
lemon limns
and with love
each lime he lines.


2 ROSES DWELT ABOVE

Two roses dwelt
above
.. the meanest sharpest
thorns
So high they
swayed
in morning light
their petaled fleece
was never shorn


DANDELION DIASPORA

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
do dandelion seeds
burst from their ball.
Each part as perfect
as the whole.
Each each contains
the all.


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.


BY LOVE'S POWER

He was a great healer
He had taken on so
many of others' burdens
that

His pain was intense
.. His body sick
His mind agony
great

People's hearts wanted
to grow wings with
which to blanket
him.. and him to shield

as their great love
touched his own
by his love's return power
was he healed

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 J Miller, to L Yost and to others)

DAFFODIL CHALICE


Father winter
.. he did fill
the hopeful cup of
wee daffodil
with the cold
sorbet
of chill
the icing of
snowspill.

But it melted
quickly..
and soon to
the touch of
the sun
the daffodil
did thrill.


**
Al Couch, a Biblical scholar and farmer, took Genesis literally..
that there were no brutal weather patterns on earth when it was
covered with trees.. it is humankind, not God, he thought, who have
created the violence of freezing.


DO FLOWERS CHASE BEES?

Do flowers chase bees?
Does Mother Earth bite?
Do rivers run backwards?
Do
butterflies get speeding tickets? It is to the meditater at the
tree's base and not to the hunter that the gentle deer come.
***

(to bee attracting C Nevada
who juggles 3 careers)


PHLOX UNFURL THEIR FLAGS

The phlox unfold
their bee flagons
that busy bees
not be flaggin
The phlox unfurl
their flags of joy..
made of the caught
flames of the sun..
with hues
unique to no nation..

As the world warms
in the flux of love
there will be less need
for foxes' gloves
or phlox gloves

OLIVES OF WRATH

There are olives of wrath
as well... bulldozed
from their mother trees
in the groves of Palestine...
May God
Who is Nonharming
Who is Peace
change all ways
so that always
peace will be theirs and thine
peace will be for all .. for mine





MAXWELL PERIWINKLE BLUE

Stars
above & their twinkles
are mirrored by
ground periwinkle
.. they do not sparkle
as much as J's smile
breaking through
her cheek crinkles




to JMB


PICKPOCKET KUDZU

Kudzu pickpocket
crawling along
the pickets
and up the trunks
looking for caches
and caves of squirrel
seeds..

as Love climbs over
the heart.. looking
for chinks which will
let Him in


DANDELION BLOOD

Dandelions' blood
is green..
Dandy lions' blood
is red
Because they hurt
They have bled

THISTLE BLOWS

Tangent to the mistle toe
Near where the harbor whistle crows
she the dearest epistle knows
is watching down of thistle blow

Her favorite sermon
.. Jack In the Pulpit
surrounded by his
bee disciples


HOLLY HOCKS

Never will holly hock
the seeds of her
precious holly hocks

Their standards of cheer
are receivers of joy

GOLDENROD DUST

Dorothy has grown
since her trip to Oz..
she now prefers
a goldenrod powdered
wild trail..
to the yellow brick road
**
WATER LILIES

water lilies
offer landing pads to
dragonfly helicopters

SNAPDRAGONS

Snapping turtles
avoid eating
snapdragons
fearing
a return snap

Poems About Christ

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 the 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)

FOUR FLOWERS

The Sun Arose
in Morning Glory
with His Goldenrod
Wanding Violet
to Rose

(to C and R Davis
of Maryland)

HONEYSUCKLE

They said that
honeysuckle
was a parasite
but the bees
who in
the honeysuckle
liked honey to suck
said that cutting it down
would be parricide


MANNA MANGO COMMUNION LOAVES

Each tree of mango
is His new manna
Each nut tree the Love
in His multiplied loaves
In each piece of toast
lives the Holy Host
and the infinite supply
of the Holy Ghost
Consuming
His sacred bread
I forget the
gifts
.. immersed
in the Giver

MIRACLE EYES

Because he sees
with miracle eyes
things begin
to multiply
things begin
to materialize

BOAT OF SPIRIT

The woman felt that the male
hierarchy of her church
was an irrelevant boat
which on the sea of Spirit did float

BY LOVE'S POWER

He was a great healer
He had taken on so
many of others' burdens
that

is pain was intense
.. His body sick
His mind agony
great
People's hearts wanted
to grow wings with
which to blanket
him.. and him to shield

as their great love
touched his own
by his love's return power
was he healed

ANGEL FEATHERS

When angels see someone
risk his own safety to
speak the words of truth
and peace
they give of their own
feathers to wing his words.

And God then multiplies
their wings.

ANGELS FIRED HIM

Because he could have
had a heart attack
from overwork
angels did not
intercede when
he was fired..
and the resulting
free time
his soul did
enfire

ERICA'S VOICE

A poetry reading..
words minted
from music
flow through
her throat
and sprinkle
everywhere

(to Erica Jong
whose voice
has power and
beauty)

CHIPPER HARVESTER TRASH TRUC

Out with the green sheaves
in the harvester
comes the scarlet blood
of innocent groundhogs
and redwinged blackbirds
.. Out with the green leaves
of utility company chippers
comes the crimson blood
of innocent squirrels
and robins


ANGELS' BLUEPRINTS

Angels leave
solution blueprints
.. thoughts the trace
of invisible wingprints



ANSWERED PRAYERS

As he saw.. his fears
were allayed..
for there was the sun
in mornlight arrayed
.. there were the trees
with springblooms sprayed..
.. answered were all
prayers.. that he had prayed

CLEMENT LEMONS

In the holiest of climes
where the trees to heaven climb
.. the sweet sweet rain
turns to sour juice of lime

and the dew skysent and clement
is the source for sour lemon

so do the words of the Peaceful
Master
become the tirade of
warmonger pastors

(this poem was dedicated to
John Clemente before his death)


CHRISTIAN COCKROACHES

" No room at the Inn"
they said when His cockroaches
were born.

and in the middle of their
lives.. the cockroaches
loved by the Son of Man, like
Him have no place to lay their
heads.

And at the end
"Father Father why hast Thou
forsaken us" they cried
.. as they died

nailed by the shoes
of the unripe

And then their souls
to Him soared in bliss

Only Love can be
created by the Source
of All Love

JESUS' FIG TREE

He did belittle you..
but soon he'll bebig you..
and in the spring
with blooms he will wig you..
in summer he'll summon
a jade garb
to resprig you..
and in the fall with fresh fruit
he'll refig you



JOHN CANDY

Each time angel wings stirred his genius
the Bethesda Pool of his Heart
was able to heal not just
one but all who entered.

He is no longer bodybound .. and when we hear
the wind stir the lake
.. we will know.. he is calling us to joy.



PETER PUT DOWN YOUR SWORD

"My kingdom is not of this world.
Peter put down your sword."
Stoners put down your stones.
Thus saith Christ, Christians' Lord.
Not missiles nor bombs nor guns
but Grace and Love and God's word.
It is 'blessed peacemakers'
and not warmongers who to God
move forward.

Did Moses need an army
when God parted the Red Sea?
Did Joshua need anything
but his horn
at the battle of Jericho?
When God multiplied
lamplight oil for the Maccabees
did God need Mideast oil?
Was a fleet of trucks needed
to deliver manna from the sky?

Was DeGaulle protected by
an earthly power
when 93 shots fired
by a crack shot assassin
missed?
Surely Fidel Castro has been protected
by angels from the many soldiers and assassination plots
sent against him.

Was not the chant of millions
singing "Allah Akbar"
enough to bring down
the puppet throne?
The hunger pangs of Ramadan
fasters turn into arrows
which strike the heart of
Allah with mercy.

And the suffering of hundreds of
millions of Hindus.. mobilized
by the heart of Mahatma Gandhi..
did it not give an example to the
world in the power of
nonviolent resistance?


MINGLED BLOOD

On Calvary Hill Jesus' blood drips from the cross..
With the raindrops it mingles.. and pours
into ruts before noon .. made by the dragging cross...
then into rivulets it goes
which to creeks flow
and to streams grow
.. to rivers.. to great rivers.. to bays and gulfs
til finally in ocean seas it merges.
The blood is everlasting.
Even this evening it enters as the residue..
in pine resin.. and mornglobes of dew.
Beetles bib and bees sup
it from each buttercup.
Hummingbirds sip it
in each trumpet flower goblet
It fills the cheeks of little plover
Alice
draughting of a cherrybloom chalice.
Each chrysalis is washed
in the crucible of Christ's rainblood.
Now winds are winding round cocoons
unwinding.
Each lake, every pond, yea every puddle
and rain drop.. is the Holy Grail
holding the Savior's
everlingering blood
and reflecting the SunSon of God.



WHAT MOST HURT JESUS' HEART

Was it the scourging? the crown
of thorns? the carrying of the
cross? the thirst? the sleeplessness...
Those in the Sanhedrin who lied about
Him?
Was it Pilate's cowardice?
His followers who slept through His
agony?
His followers who ran away?
the betrayal of Judas?
the denial by His chosen successor Peter?
(the crumbling of His chosen Rock?)
No.. it was the few seconds
on the cross when He thought
Abba had abandoned him.

(More of His women followers were faithful)


SANDI PATTY

Perhaps she sometimes
feels sad
that her body is bound
by gravity
.. as she
wings the hearts
of millions.



THE REVEREND BILLY GRAHAM

First the lightning bolts
of spoken word and then
the rain of grace

As clouds from ocean clashed
gainst peaks of Hawaii and
turned into rain and waterfalls
and down slopes
poured to the waiting sea

so seekers to Billy come
.. their hearts melt in fire
.. from above
they pour down cascade aisles
and fall to the
ocean of God's love



(Abba in the name of Jesus cause all Christians to support
nonviolence in international conflict.. .. for "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
is not asterisked with exceptions and this direct word of God to
Moses is the path, not "there is a time to kill" of polygamous
Solomon. "Peter put down your sword" said Jesus. )

KNOCK

Jesus was knocking
on my heart's door
I told Him to come
back later..
and then discovered
He lived Inside.

God indwells every
being..
no matter what
we have done..
tiny clouds on earth
can't bar
the blazing infinite
Sun





WOUNDS ARE NOW WANDS

Whether widowers or wed,
windkissed we wend
along
the winding way.
What a wonder to see
His wounds.. and ours too!
have become
magic wands.
Wednesday is no longer
for woe.

BLACK EYED SUSAN


"Take Me.. Take Me
Take Me" waved
each bloom
to the bee
..but he went
to the one
who was needless
and free


CHOSEN

Who are the chosen people?
After the Messiah
came to earth,
the chosen people
became
those who recognized
Him

CHALICE VISIONS

1. Heard in meditation: "Inside the chalice of wrath
is the blood of Jesus."

2. Vision of a Y of streets.. at its intersection
in the bricks.. there was blood

3. Was told by someone that a common symbol is 2 swords
upside down in a chalice. This can be 2 former enemies
united in the chalice of communion.. or
a triangle of 2 men and 1 woman the painful effects
of which must be worked out or else cancelled through grace.

FOUR MURDERERS GIVEN CLEMENCY BY GOD

Moses murdered an
Egyptian in anger
David murdered Uriah
in lust.
Cain murdered Abel
in jealousy.
Paul murdered Christians
in obedience to
a cruel state.
All suffered afterward.
Yet God spared their lives.





FAITH BECOMES KNOWLEDGE



Faith did upward
from the heartrocks
spring..
and run through ryefields
into rivers of knowing
which
did merge in
the sea's community..
before upward assumed
by God Sun into unity


ARC OF THE ARK

For 2 of each species
was Noah's Rainbound Ark
For all everywhere
is Noah's Rainbow Arc

Fear not, O Joan of Arc
for the rainbow's gold
..in the covenant arc
is caught in the gold
of the Ark of the Covenant
You will ne'er again
be harmed.

CRUX OF LUX

Southern Cross
Far above
the ocean's flux
.. glows in
silence Southern Crux
fear it not..
it's made of lux

STEEPLE CRUMBLING

Steep steeples
they are crumbling
.. in many churches
belltowers tumbling

not on the exterior
but in the soul
.. where they
do not listen
to Peter

to put down the
sword
nor to many other
of Jesus' words

The exterior
of the church
was perfect
...




ACCORDION LUNGS

Accordion lungs
move in and out
with air filling
then air expelling
playing the music of life
to the beating heart


WHY COULD HE NOT RECOGNIZE GOD

he cannot see God
because the blood hespilled
becomes a thick curtain
because the lies he told
weave into a veil
because the cruelty he did
mutates to a screen
because the thefts have turned
into sunblocking clouds
because disbelief
has become a darkening shroud
all of which can be instantaneously
rained away by the lightning grace of God





DID GOD GIVE THEM FEELINGS

Some think that God the Creator gave rats and
snakes and bugs and weeds
life and then did not give them
feelings



NORWAY SPRUCE

The Norway spruce
at night become
tall towers of babel
attracting birds to their free inns
.. to rest commune and babble
God Let these towers stand

.. as they weave their
green lace strands





CORAL GABLE

Off the shore
near Coral Gables
they build their
homes of coral gable
.. they add pink turrets
and saffron tunnels
rose arches
too
as there is a mansion
for each creature
in the Home of God


RIVER WINE

River water
turns Christ wine
at the falls
as it pours onto
the altar rock.

(to George B)




ELEVENTH HOUR WORKER

Why should the 100th lamb
receive more love
than the 99 who
never strayed
and never disobyed

Why should the 11th hour
worker with just 60 minutes
receive the same pay
as those who worked all day?

Only love.. like his..
knows the answer..

but this we can say
Our pain was in the
longer way


(to M McDermott)







WHEN IS THE OPERA OVER?

The opera is not over untli
Satan himself sings..
until the Luciferian stone
of ego is melted in God's love..
until the diabolical cold
becomes the warmth of Divine
Love

Every being will be saved..
including the most powerful
demon

JESUS BEYOND TIME

Jesus is beyond time.
When He forged the keys
to hell in the chalice
of his suffering
they were for all time
.. past present and future.
He has already let all
out of hell forever.

SAMSON PILLARS

Need not fear,
the caterpillar,
the falling of
the Samson pillars
for he has become
a butterfly.

And leaves need
not squirm
round caterpillar
worm
for he has become
a noleafeating
butterfly.

JESUS PREFERRED
STABLE TO STEEPLE

Jesus preferred
stable
to steeple

The animals loved
Him..
they were not coming
to show off their clothes
.. to act as human sheep
following 1 male pastor

RESONATE

Her acting is so real
others resonate
to the echoes of
the pain she recreates..


(to Meryl Streep)

Heart Of The Buddha

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.

BURIED IN CHICKEN FEATHERS

the statue of the
Buddha Compassionate
is buried
in chicken feathers

(Thailand has killed 34 million chickens
in avian flu campaigns
Thailand is one of the 5 biggest
exporters of chicken bodies
in the world.
It is a 1.5 billion dollar business
Thailand has banned logging.)

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.

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.



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





(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



BUDDHA NO PEST

No creature is
thought a pest
in compassionate
Budapest..
so great there
is Buddha's Spirit
in allembracing Budapest.


Saiom Shriver


Footnotes:
The Dalai Lama: The Only Religion Is Kindness

A Place of Perfect Peace is
to Thich Nhat Hanh
Prayer Wheels is to J Gibbons



HINDU POEMS



PREMARGESHWARA

Prema
Marga
Premarga
Premargeshwara

Lord Shiva is
The Lord of the
Lane to Love

(prema love
marga path
eshwara, ashwara or
ishwar at the end of a Sanskrit
word makes it 'GOD OF')




ATTAR OF JASMINE

Creator of all petals
is the Avatar
His endless aura imbued
with jasmine attar
He plucks
nary a flower star
.. but all blooms are His
.. near and far

He lives where lands
are warmed
by the rays of Surya
..He dwells in the hearts
of all beings

PONDICHERRY CHERRIES

By the Po and Potomac
and in Pondicherry
are many trees of cherry
with many scarlet cherries
.. each a cheery chariot
of future trees of cherry

They cherish and plant
the stones of Cherry.

(to C and P DiFazio)

VEGANESHA

Ganesha
ViGanesha
VeganEsha
Michiganeshwar

LORD OF CATS AND RATS

Brahma is the Lord of
the Rats
Shiva is the Lord of the
Cats.

YOGANANDA


To him of unconquerable will
they said 'it's impossible'.
A few days later they
remarked it was improbable..
and then implausible..
and as they watched
the gathering mass
of his visualizing power

they had to say it
was plausible
and then possible
and then probable
until they finally
witnessed his
thoughts clothed
in reality,
his vision's touchdown to earth..
.. his spirit's alighting
power. All of his words
became flesh, enkindled
by Waccha Siddha, the mystery that the words of
the truthteller by angels are made true.

(to Yogananda, who
first brought the theory
of positive thought
to the US)

POORNAVATAR

In the cosmic mirror
of the Poornavatar
described himself
the reflected pornagrapher
while in the same cosmic mirror
in the Poornachandra
another was sent
into poornananda

STAR OF INDIA

Baba, cause the Star of India,
the crown jewel of all nations,
to be rubbed into new brilliance.

(Yogananda: The Star of India
is within you. Once Baba
in front of His devotees teleported
the Crown Jewels, those not yet
returned to the India from which
they were taken, so that they
could look upon them. Then He
teleported them back. The Star of
India, her dharma, is threatened
by execution sentences and
dolphin research.)


*****

EACH IS ALL

When we think of
Baba Sai Gopal
we think of
EACH IS ALL

Whenever someone
has taken a fall
or failed to
catch a homerun ball
or is paralyzed
with anger's blocking gall
she always answers
a hurting heart's call.



(to GOPAL, female
devotee of Swami)

IGNITER OF THE STARS

The BabAvatar
is .. the Author of all Action
.. the Architect of all Apples
.. the Arbiter of All Accord

How can GOD be accused of plagiarizing
that of which He is the source..
This is akin to the lion's mouth
in the fountain claiming
to create the water which
through it flows.

(Lahiri Mahasaya said
"Oh God who ignites the stars"

PORTAL TO THE IMMORTAL

He was criticized by one
for being a control
freak.. when he put
Baba's picture on his altar
for wanting to contain
the Infinite, the Name
within a paltry
square frame


another accused him of
being idle
in the pursuit of
worship of idols

but he knew that
Baba's form
was a portal
to the endless
and immortal

SANDHYA TIME

Nyctitropic plants
toward the darkness curl
as in pain does my soul
into inward God unfurl

WORK FOR PEACE IS AN OXYMORON


Is there
a frame for Infinity.
Never slakes the thirst
.. the bitter
sal****er near mother earth.
.. never satiated is the
belly of many tongued Fire
.. Never filled the soul
afflicted with unGodward desire.
Never at rest.. the
mercurial mind.

Only the heart immersed
in the waters of God
is at peace.


(to Yogananda, teacher
in a past life)

MANY VOICES OR ONE VOICE

Sometimes the hearing
of many voices is a symptom
of being possessed.
But hearing One Voice only
is a gift from the Avatar
.. a gift from GOD.

DIAMONDS FOILED BY BLACK VELVET

tiny white snow flakes softly
settle and melt into the ultraviolet
sea of Baba's hair..

as He receives
into His infinite seas
.. the souls
who prefer His peace


MURALI SARAH BRIGHTMAN

Her throat is the flute
of Krishna..

the ears it enters it
heals

Her voice is
Garudeshwara

.. its wings
lift us
to heaven

THE PROMISE OF THOMAS

Came the ambassador
of Christ.. in 58 AD
.. to Madras
.. the Apostle Thomas
.. that Shiva and Jesus
are 1... was his
eternal promise.

(The book The Jesus Sutras
speaks of Thomas going to
China after India.. In Madras
there are several million Catholics
.. increasingly realizing that
Hinduism and Christianity are one..
the Father and the Son are one)
(Ambassador Lalit Mansingh mentioned
in a talk in Cleveland that
Thomas came to India in 58 AD
and that India is the only country
which has had no incidences
of anti Semitism.)

DAWN DARSHAN

Tier after tier of
clouds..in the sky
stadium wait expectantly
.. and begin to glow
with love as the Avatar
sun gives dawn darshan..

He causes us all to rain
away our egos

..







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Each night
the Tree of Nut
out of naught
knits neat nuts.

*

The bees'
favorite couplet:
a sunup brimming
buttercuplet.
*


How awestriking.
How sublime..
that out of muck and mud
and dirt and slime
God makes lemons
and God makes limes.

*

4 flowers:
The Sun Arose
in Morning Glory
with His Goldenrod
Wanding Violet
to Rose

*
Love, not force,
rides the horse.


*
The ocean:
rocking cradle of the world,
sunset stairway to the stars
.. only by great masters trod,
only written on by God.

*

O Lord to You
we give thanks
that in time Polish horses ...
defeat Nazi tanks.

*
They called the wind
lackadaisical..
but because he in freedom blows
the world will never
lack for daisies..

*

It snows at sea..
quiet....
falls in flakes *
melting designs
**
*
leave form
for All.
*


How do the words
of the Peaceful Master
become the tirades
of warmonger pastors?

*

The South Wind
has for the evening
donned
jasmine scent.

*

The trees of life
randomly grow
but the graves of Arlington
are set in rows.

*
As she hears
the confessions
of all rivers
those on the shore
hear the sea..
accepting all
she calls no thing
hearsay
nothing heresy.

*

He has changed
He has grown
No longer bud
but Love Fullblown.

*

A little birdie flew overhead
a traffic light of green and red.
From her diagonal point of view
she saw both crimson and lime hue.
Obey traffic rules?
Birdies need not.
Masters listen only
to the inner voice of God.
*


A jade curtain of
willow fronds
parts world of
green earth
from that of blue pond


A grey curtain
of morning mist
separates turquoise waters
from blue sky

A more slender
veil is
at the portal
hiding the paradise
of the immortal.

*


Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step taken oh so slight.

*

Love, not force,
rides the horse.
*
*

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.*

(Of MLK)

*


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

*

A clover veil..
violets the vale
neith skies cloudclad
or when ultraviolet
sun prevails.

*

When God's green grows
it's rarely in rows
Awry the rye rises ..
unruly the rose.
*


We gave him a pitcher.
He gave us the sea.

*

On a March clothesline
.. transparent icicles in a row
in the bright sun
they drip and glow
Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!!
a sentence of
joyful exclamation !!!!!!!!"


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

*
My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago
*
A rose fullblown
is the opentoall heart
.. fragrance flows from it
.. the perfume of love.

Oh a cockroach is better luck
than a cricket upon the hearth
for she magnetizes to your home
those who love every heart.
*

Weeding is plant racism.
*

How many have been frozen
gored starved or blown apart
by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan,
Churchill, or Bonaparte?
*
Does he say novenas
for those with no venus



One by one
in many countries
they break through
the ice of fear..
cups of crocuses
.. stand up in caucuses
.. East to West
from Africa to the Caucusus
and state
their eternal
allegiance
to the Creator Sun.

*
61 died that day
in the 1st infantry..
in Vietnam..
two? rows of body bags..
the fruit of war...
drying in the sun.

*
They did the little boy turkey named Art... choke
and then served his dead body with artichokes.

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When God's green grows
it's rarely in rows
Awry the rye rises ..
unruly the rose.

**


How awestriking. How sublime..
that out of muck and mud
and dirt and slime
God makes lemons
and God makes limes.


*

We gave him a pitcher.
He gave us the sea.

*


They called the wind
lackadaisical..
but because he in freedom blows
the world will never
lack for daisies..

*


Each night the Tree of Nut
out of naught knits neat nuts.


*
The racist mob
beat the
throngs
gathered for the song
of Paul Robeson

Whitebodied thugs
did not recognize
God when He came
with His black robes on.

*

How do you do?
said the rose to the bee.
On the dewclad rose
said the bee to the rose
I would rather do
than to be.

*

Reborn, Sappho
wears monks' saffron.


*

61 died that day
in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam..
rows of body bags..
the fruit of war...
drying in the noonday sun.

*

*
"He was alive
because on that day
in Niijima
the skies were gray


(a student came up to an
American teacher of English
in Japan and told her he was born
on Aug 6, 1945 in Niijima. Because
of overcast skies, Nagasaki was
selected as the 2nd target for
the only reported atom bomb
dropped on a human population).


*

They did the little boy
turkey named Art... choke
and then served his dead
body with artichokes.


*
The bee's favorite couplet:
a sunup brimming buttercuplet.


*

The tide sent into
the cleft of rock Neptune's
polyfingered hand of
welcome.

*



"The olive tree is
the altar of Allah.
On it Allah has placed
olives free for all.

May Allah allow none
to alter His altars.


*
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.


*

"The South Wind
has for the evening
donned
jasmine scent.

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


*

As she hears
the confessions
of all rivers
those on the shore
hear the sea..
accepting all
she calls no thing
heresy.



*

He has changed He has grown
No longer bud but Love Fullblown.


*

Four flowers:
The Sun Arose
in Morning Glory
with His Goldenrod
Wanding Violet
to Rose



*

The trees of life
randomly grow
but the graves of Arlington
are set in rows."

"It snows at sea..
quiet....
falls in flakes *

melting designs**
leave form for All."

How do the words
of the Peaceful Master
become the tirades
of warmonger pastors?
*

A little birdie flew overhead
a traffic light of green and red.

From her diagonal point of view
she saw both crimson and lime hue.

Obey traffic rules?
Birdies need not.

Masters listen only
to the inner voice of God.

*

A jade curtain of
willow fronds
parts world of
green earth
from that of blue pond

A grey curtain
of morning mist
separates turquoise waters
from blue sky

A more slender
veil is
at the portal
hiding the paradise
of the immortal.


**
Those who focused on
the shock of shards
as the phoenix bird
burst from his shell
nearly missed the sight
of his wondrous maiden flight
as he soared up and away
and out of sight.

**
Hitler and Bonaparte
retreated...
by
cold Russian snows defeated
by cold Russian snows
and hot Russian hearts.

*
Do you want to be
with your love by the sea
hearing the gullsong
smelling the salt air
feeling the sand
beneath your toes
and the seaweed
the sea's legacy?
watching the rise
oer the bay of the moon
and then ascent
of the Sun.. oer neptune?

*
Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step taken oh so slight.


*
"He needn't reach the stars..
stars' light reaches him..
He needn't climb to God.
Inside him .. Elohim.

*
The ice does not in pain scream
when in the sun he melts into stream
nor does he in pain scream
when he higher climbs into spiraling steam.


*
As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of moon and stars
so can a poet's long rainbow
of words
play our heartstrings from afar.

*
Weeding
is
plant
racism.

*

The chalice is ephemeral.
Jesus' blood eternal.
*
Thank you dear reader
that you to life ignite
these fallen words
with your holy eyelight.

*
The sun with light umber
touches vined cucumber
The more he tickles
the more there are pickles.

*
Jesus' Fig Tree

He did belittle you..
but soon he'll bebig you..
and in the spring
with blooms he will wig you..
in summer he'll summon
a jade garb
to resprig you..
and in the fall
on patient twigs
with fresh fruit
he'll refig you.

*

How many have been frozen
gored starved or blown apart
by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan,
Churchill, or Bonaparte?

*

My rigid and
judgmental
opinions
can block descent
of Spirit's pinions.

*

Out of the sea
the sun aborning
Not adorned but
all adorning
with his awesome light
of morning
says to you
Come! My Mavoorning!

*
Does he say novenas
for those with no venus



(to Dan Brown).
*


A match does not
on an iceberg ignite
nor does a waterdrop survive
in a forest fire
We are influenced by
the company we keep.
*

The dousing wand
The lightning rod
Conductor's baton
Will's aligned spine
They find the water,
invoke the lightning
attract the music
and summon angels' aid.


*
War profiteer cartels
and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime
are called The United States
by warwhore news teams.
Everywhere including
peace loving Schenectady
the American people
dislike such synecdoches.


*

To pass through the mines
liarseeded
in the field of truth...
sing the truth.. or make a joke of it
or create portraits with words
or paint without the lilygilding
of criticism
or be as calm as Noam Chomsky.

*
He decried that any would
"add another hue
unto the rainbow"
yet we would ope to
saffron and jade
and pink and rose
and olive and tan
scarlet and indigos



**

(the quote is from Shakespeare's King John.)

*
One by one
in many countries
they break through
the ice of fear..

cups of crocuses
.. stand up in caucuses
.. East to West
from Africa to the Caucusus

and state
their eternal
allegiance
to the Creator Sun.

*
Carpe Diem
they said
as they carpe'd Diem

(Diem of Vietnam, murdered
in a coup).




Kudzu pickpocket
crawling along
the pickets
and up the trunks
looking for caches
and caves of squirrel
seeds..

as Love climbs over
the heart.. looking
for chinks which will
let Him in



Saiom Shriver

Eternal

VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL

Carved in the marble dark grey
of the Vietnam War Memorial..
are the names of 58,000
of the known Americans who died in Vietnam.

Their names are supported
by the uncarved marble
of the 4 million Vietnamese
who died.

*
POSIES

One said that
the posies
were sham posers
.. ignored him
the posies
and kept on posie-ing.


...
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Love, not force, rides the horse.
*


The ocean:
rocking cradle of the world,
sunset stairway to the stars
.. only by great masters trod,
only written on by God.
*