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.
*

News of
the arrival
of hate's new rival
As pink
dawn approached
night feared his survival.


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


*
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.

**
"FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH


Fire has left the hearth
Nautilus climbed from shell
Perfume flowed from bottle
Prisoner gone from cell

Butterfly flutterbied cocoon
nor hand restrained by glove
Jesus away from manger
Cage left by Spirit Dove.

Sparklings soared away from wand.
Chick's egg become the bird.
Omkar sung from out the throat
Violin's notes now heard.

Buddhist temple pine cone
tabernacle'd godlet seed
Shattered that it might manifest
thousand forests of fir tree


Eternal snow of mountain top
now nurses meadow flowers.
Shining never held by sun
relentless melts ice towers.

Love has left its
spring the heart
Is now a liquid pond
Host stolen from the chalice
consumed in mouth of God

Starlight abandoned star
a billion years ago
Left that tonight you
might
have its sight
and know

Know Love is forever
no drop of God ever dies
Lover not bound by form of love
God's bodies are not God's souls

(to his wife and children
on the death of Robert S)
(Baba Hari Das: is the author
of love is more powerful than
lover for love is not bound by
form)."
"We have nothing to offer
you.. say the cows of
their gravy.. but our
blood, sweat, and tears.


(cows' blood.. contains
sweat or uric acid.. pre urine.. trioxypurine
correlated to heart problems and to arthritis
It contains adrenal protein enzyme fright hormones
as terrorized animals hear the screams of their
fellows being butchered.. these protein enzymes chains
have some links broken
http://www.pcrm.org
by cooking but many remain intact so that eating meat
is the biochemistry of eating anger and violence)."

**

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


**

An elephant waded into
a pond covered with lotuses
.. His weight pushed them aside
and in the water
instead of gold lily stars
one saw the blazing Milky Way.

*
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."
"Those who work for plant rights
don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers.
They plant papayas,
and peppers.
Their pulpit is the popular
not the papal but poplars.




(not in the sense of ephemeral fame
but what the people want.)

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

*
You don't respect
boundaries
said the mine shaft
as each day between
eleven and one
sent the sun
into his darkness
her light shafts.

*
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 he magnetizes to your home
those who love every heart.

*

You are the nectar,
the hummingbird, the clover.
You are the bloom, the
bee, the OerHoverer.
You are the child,
the bond and the mother.
You
are the Love, the Beloved, the Lover.

(to our mother).

Miracles

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

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


STAR OF INDIA

The Star of India is within you..
said Yogananda to me in meditation.

(The Star of India is one of the many crown jewels
not yet returned to its original owner India from
the British crown.)

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



GRASSHOPPERS

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

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

MERCEDES INDIA

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

BABY STEPS OF AWESOME POWER

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


HEART

He wanted to give a
gift to everyone in the world

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



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

OUTRAGED WERE THE POOR PEASANTS


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

and God did
quickly show
His presence

ONE DEGREE

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

KINDNESS TO A BUG

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

NOT IRRATIONAL


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




Peace Poems

PLATTSBURGH MIRACLE

1970, the Fifth of May
One day after
the Kent State Four.
The Plattsburgh students
decide to act
from their hot heartcores.
They say that in league
with those at Kent State
They will march to
the SAC Air Force Gate..
to witness that they
want peace evermore.
to say 'no more blood
no more gore'.
The SAC commander
now decrees
that any who touch
the Air Force gate
will be summarily shot..
And as the students file by
what a miracle is in store.
Out of base homes come
the Air Force wives.
Holding their babes
they offer their lives
and stand between
the young and the armed
and by their courage
is peace reborn.


(Plattsburgh New York, USA)

OLIVE BRANCHED DOVE OVER ARROW GRASPING EAGLE

They chose the Dove
with her olive branched beak,
hope made tangible,
rather than the eagle's arrow-
holding claws,
the mistletoe
of love
over limelight's
laurel leaves the
apple seeds of
free food,
the pine cones of
beauty
the acorns of
reforesting oaks
over the asphalt
of the control
of Mother Earth.

FDR'S WAR MEMORIAL

The Arizona, metal grave
of the 900 men drowned
in the bombing
in Pearl Harbor.

REMORSE

Most of his peers
in the Senate
had remorse
that they had not
voted for peace
with Wayne Morse.

And left his body
has Senator Gruening
but in his footprints
the world keeps greening.

(to John Thaw)

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 and his followers)

CROPDUSTERS ARE ECOTERRORISTS

"Ecoterrorists" is what
euphemism busters
might from now on
call 'cropdusters'.
And those who drop
bombs on civilians
from the air..
are they not terrorists
aerial
whether their names
are Norman
or Ariel?
May all Uriahs be
protected from now
on.. by
archangel Uriel

TOLSTOY'S CHILDREN

As he saw among his
words' resisters
.. a child or 2
and a sister..
he did not know at
the time
more children were
in distant climes..
Mahatma Gandhi
and Martin Luther King
Dorothy Day
with more every day

JESUS PETER ISAIAH AND GOD

Jesus told stoners to put down their stones
Jesus told Peter to put down his sword.
Turn them to plowshares.. were Isaiah's words.
Thou Shalt Not Kill.. to Moses told Lord


BLOSSOM MARTIAL

At Blossom Center,
they will be playing martial
music..
as if one were
to arm blooms
***

HIGHER FIRE

He was not drafted to warships
but summoned to worship..
not to soldiers' gassing
by 'friendly fire'
or corporate hire and fire

but called to the
Higher Fire

For His God whispered to him:
I have said you cannot have
2 masters. Pledge
allegiance only to My Voice..
I have not asterisked with
exceptions My command
not to kill.
I told Peter to put down his
courageous
sword and the executing
mob to put down
their stones.
I have told you to transmute
anger into love.. that
is the meaning of "Turn
the other cheek".
You are the Ocean of Spirit
which all rivers hallows..
no matter how polluted
.. no matter how shallow.

3000 MILES

The Peace Pilgrim..
and Dick Gregory
and Doris Haddock
have walked and run
across America
..with each foot
step.. on the loom
of America
weaving peace.

IVY LEAGUE

Hidden in buildings
behind the quad
lurk vivisectors
.. and spy squads

DOVES AND FLAGS

Four doves riding
on the wings of true
eagles.. flew down
and picked up in
their beaks the American
flag out of the mud
and out of the blood
and took it to
the shrines of peace.

PEACEMAKER

If 5% of Muslims
think all Christians infidels
and 5% of Christians
think all Muslims go to hell
.. are there 90% in between
.. peacemakers..
non ideologues?

PEACE OFFICER

As you walk with
a tear gas cannister,
a stun gun, handcuffs,
a club, a gun, bullets
.. do you convey
that you are an
officer of peace?

(inspired by the following drawing)

http://www.drawingresistance.org/new_page_20.htm

HOLY GROUND

Moses took off his sandals
and put down his rod
as he tred on
the sacred sod:
the Burning Bush
of God

The Poor Clares became discalced..
to follow the Poverty
path of their
founder..

Ramakrishna went oer the sod
with feet unshod
because he did not want
to harm the goldenrod.

Barefoot Buddhist monks
sweep forest paths
with feather brooms..
that they disturb..
no bug or bloom.

The brilliant boy
with the headache found
when he removed his socks
Mother Earth had healed him
by absorbing
his excess energy

It is time
for Sharon to remove
the metal tank shoes
from the sacred ground of Bethlehem.
It is time for George Bush
to remove metal tank shoes
from the sacred soil of Iraq
and everywhere else
that armed men from another
country are not welcome.

GOING HOME

15 soldiers on the Chinook
helicopter thought they
were going home
and found of a sudden
that
they were going
Home

(as they left their bodies
for God evicted by a shoulder fired
missile)





*39 Poems To the Sea




RAIN AT SEA

Rain on the sea....
a redundancy?

as are reflected fires
neath ignited stars?

giving back a tiny
peace
of the love God pours

MAVOORNING

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


WATER HELD THE QUILL

Faster than any stylus squiggling
Can write the sun in the water wiggling
But when the sea is perfectly still
it appears it was water which held
the quill.



HURRICANE KATE

Hurricane Kate
forced proud palms
to padnamasakar
the humble ocean

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

COCONUT PITCHER

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

SEA PITCHER

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

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

Mother Earth
set buttercups
that from them
bees might sip sunup

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




SEA NILE

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

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

LAVA TURNED TO JEWELS

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

She the listening compassionate
ear
turns anger into
love.


SEAS OF PEACE

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


SAGARADHAR

Rocking Cradle of the World
Sunset Stairway to the Stars
Only by Great Masters Trod
Only Written on by God.

IT SNOWS AT SEA

It Snows At Sea
Quiet Falls

in flakes

Melting designs

leave form for All.

SHROUD TO SAIL

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

SEA RECEIVES ALL LONELY RIVERS

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

PEACEMAKERS

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

FOUR NATIONS

In poisonous prussic acid they
dipped
their lethal harpoon tips

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

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



OCEAN CROWN


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

Neath the wingweave
of gulls..

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

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

and she swept it to the shore

NEPTUNE AND THE MOON

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

ARRIVE SHE SHALL

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


3 WAVE STEPS

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

CALL OF THE SEA



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sooner or later every drop
will
rush to His call.


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

COBBLER

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

SCHUYLKILL

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


DONEGALWAY

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

DORIES ANCHOR

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


POSEIDON TEMPLE

Millenia ago
sealovers built
to Poseidon
a temple by the
sea..
they hoped
it might outlast the sea..
with its marble pillars
by the sea's wave pillows
with its rockhard stability
..and unfishy sterility
by the sea's
ancient senility..
As it has crumbled
into seagirting sand
it seems to have
multiplied everywhere..
in blue wavewashed tidal pools
..(resembling blue eyes
set within noble brows)
.. they lead
to their master:
the Sea Eternal

GULL STACCATO'D

He says the sea
forever chants omkar
as she abides
reflecting the stars..
.. gull staccato'd
.. their screams counterpoint
her invulnerable ananda.

NOT THE BOAT

You're not the boat
.. you are the sea

SEACHARGE

The sea
charges the shore
and withdraws
to charge some more.

NEPTUNE'S HAIR

Neptune's hair
its wavelet strands
melted the castles
in the sands
but further inland
with his tidal hand
sent coconuts
onto the shining sands
which have become
a palm tree stand

MERE'S MIRRORS

A storm tossed sea reflects
a fractured Sun
as if God were chaotic

The silent ocean
of no motion

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

SERMON OF THE SEA

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

WHAT ARE THE THISTLES' EPISTLES

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

DIRECTOR'S CHAIR

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

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

DREAM OF PIER

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

SEA CRASHING UPON ROCKS

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

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

ENTERING THE TEMPLE

Children enter the temple
of the
sea
splashing raucously
Older souls enter
with reverence
slowly silently
They enter
the shrine of the sea.





Path of Patience

MANGO MANNA

The mango tree manifests
to woman and mankind
her manna gradually
.. and gently


MOTHER BIRD BE AT PEACE

Sweet little Mother Bird

why worry?
don't hurry
don't scurry
no flurry

Your babies.. they are safe.

IMPATIENCE ARE PATIENT


Impatience
are often patient
.. waiting for
a brighter day.
Impatience
blooms
woven on the
sun's vast looms

are not annuals
she found when she
.. brought them
in from the cold
.. and saw they
were perennials



SPIDER WEB

He waited til winter
to help clean up
the woods ..
rather than disturb
the spider web
in the trash tire

LOOKING FOR IT

I know God gave me
patience..
I have been looking
for it..
near where I lost it





EVERYONE IS PERFECT


Why do I mind more
the unripeness in others and me
than I mind
the green fruit on a sweet tree?

Not until God's
appointed hour
will fruit be beesweet
and not be sour

***
BIRDS ON A WIRE

Birds sit watching
from the theatre's brick
parapets
waiting for me to
finish eating and feed
them the rest

AWAKENING

Mother Earth has
begun to respond
to the awakening
gentle nudges
of the longfingered sun
as the people of the earth
are responding
to the awakening of
their powers of selfrule.

PATH OF PATIENCE

Some enter
God's realm
through the gate
of generosity
others the portal of
peace..
still others the door
of discipline
or the arch of ahimsa
She attracted what
she resisted..
ingoing through
the passage of patience


ICE LOSES TO SUN

The ice is melting below
but still treacherous on the
surface.
Said one:
Wait for sunclocks
to open icelocks.
A second advised
to go slowly on the ice.
A third .. with the aura
of the sun..
melted each obstacle
as he went forth.


SWEET REFRAIN

The quiet fall
of the rain
.. dripping
merciful refrain
.. bringing peace
peace peace
in its train

BEAUTY SHINES THROUGH


RACHMANINOFF AND MALININA

Tatiana Malinina
soars on earth
and in air
.. on and off
on and off
to the Godly music
of Rachmaninoff


IRISH IRIS

Because he was a magnificent
actor he was called upon
to play the role of
a villain in a play..
but who could
ever disguise
the awesome goodness
in his eyes

those Irish irises
.. so small
those Irish irises
which contain the all

(to S. Gleason)


XUE SHEN AND HONGBO ZHAO

2 heavenly swans
alight on the lake
that they might glide
as swans
to the music of Swan Lake
.. they flow more perfectly
than the Tao
.. as their skill
sparks chills
and causes tears to fall
in the people of the West
... and more rare..
in the eyes of Chinese






VERONICA'S CLOVER VEIL

Veronica and clover veils..
do violet the vale
neath skies cloudclad
or when the
ultraviolet sun prevails




ROTTEN APPLE

Any rotten apple's
core-freed seeds
can clothe the earth in
orchards apple-treed.

Of honey bees it is the creed
that the sweetest dew
lies in hearts of
the most rejected weeds.


APPLESAUCE 2

Spherical firm apples
are sold as is.
Bruised misshapen
apples more quickly
become applesauce.
Wave smashed water
more quickly becomes mist.
The imperfect
are sometimes
more quickly liberated.





FLITTING THRUSH

Have you ever seen a saffron field
full of bright orange stars
a tiger lily meadow blush
strewn with dottings of paintbrush
a fruited tree studded with
a flock of flitting thrush

(to Nancy L whose father gave
each of his children a flower..
hers was the tiger lily)



IRIS PARCHMENT

As always of old
the iris bud unfolds
her gilded parchment
of background gold

but the eye's iris
will unroll
the endless scroll
of her own soul
past where sea
foals
past the shoals
past dry land's
attempts to control

DAWN GREETING

dusk clouds setting
the sun did firesinge
gold fingered glowing
with adoring tinge
and then he slid away
but brought out his final rays
..
a light filled syringe
squirted last cloud with
a rosy fringe
and then he was gone
or so we thought
until he dripped through
morning's gate hinge



A HEART FULLBLOWN

A rose fullblown
is the opentoall heart
.. fragrance flows from it
.. the perfume of love

WINTER PALATE

Dawn instantly paints
all the earth gold
Snow brushes the world
with amnesty's white
and Thoughts
of Love
bathe the globe
in rosepink light

TIME THE MIRACLE MAKER


The ugly duckling has
grown to swan

The worm's
purple wings
were by Love drawn

Night's spawn
has birthed
the dawn

Sleeping Beauty is
awakened
by the King's pawn


JASMINE SCENT


The South Wind
for the evening
has donned
jasmine scent



BLOOM AND BUTTERFLY


The bloom and butterfly
ask not which is
clad in more beautiful
clothes


.. ones shining wings
the others pastels....
how beautiful when she
arose
from the petals of the rose


BEAUTY MAGNET


As many chipped away
in building ladders,
Ganesha on a high hill
looking oer the thousands
on the plains below..
unfurled his infinite trunk
and selected her of the
most beautiful heart..
for that was what
drew his magnet

..wound his trunk around
her waist..
and lifted
her up to the plateau
of grace

(to Jan)






GIFT OF BEAUTY


She did not want
in that life that
beauty be bequeathed

..

she did not want
the wrapping
to be more beautiful
than the gift..

nor the unwanted lust
of men following her

as if she were
a dog in heat..
nor the jealousy of women

to bar her from their

hearts.... nor
to see her body as

any more than the glove
of Spirit

but she found the test
too strong


FIR TREE IN THE SUN


Branches of the fir
tree still covered in
snow..

but melting in the sun

.. are both snowlace shawl

and jeweled rhinestones

.. yet it is the melting

drops

which in the sun glow



BEJEWEL WITH DEW


With her 8 thimbles

on hands so nimble

she weaves through

the night

... but not til

dawn is her web

bejeweled with dew

.. shining with

the sun


***





MISS MOSS


Miss Moss
.. has been busy
for many years
painting many rocks
jade.. some tree trunks
iridescent green
... water is always
on her brush

She works
from dawn's blush
to soft evening's hush
ever helped by
angels'

wingrush





AARON SHIKLER


Do angels sit on the head of a pin?
Some souls of those whom Aaron paints..
sit on the point of his brush..
others hover round the room

.. in their portraits..
the eyes.. are the gates


BEAUTY

a beautiful child
is sometimes pedophiled
a fancy car
does thieves attract
the loveliest blooms
are sometimes plucked
beauty is by self rejecters attacked


INSPIRATION'S OARS AND LIME DRIPS


The oars of inspiration
dip gently into the lake of memory
stirring up the past..
while a semi-lime rains
gently into a cup of berry tea


Clover Veil is to Veronica L. T.
Sundaram is Sanskrit for beauty





Saiom Shriver



[Edited by fishcantscream on 12th April 2004 at 18:40]

[fishcantscream]

ALLAH'S ALTAR AND OTHER POEMS OF ISLAM


ALLAH'S ALTAR

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

May Allah
none allow
to alter
His altars.

RUBIES OF RUBAIYAT

One needs no rubles
One needs no rupees
to mine the Rubaiyat
and extract Khayyam rubies


RUMI

.. If ones heart is
infinitely roomy
it may contain
the wisdom of Rumi




KABIR KASHMIR
..
the emeralds of Hafiz
glow forever
but these are foothills
in the mountain range
of Kabir

.. they give ear
to Kabir
from Khartoum and Diyarkabir
to Kerala and Kashmir

ALLAH'S INCENSE

Allah, You have planted
seeds of desires
in the hearts of
all Your creation.
From all hearts rises
incense as prayers to
You. Be merciful to all.

RAMADAN SUNSET

As eagerly as the
faithful faster
of Ramadan
looks to sunset
and moonrise
not to the dawn
is the faithful
husband
to his loving
wife drawn

SCROLL

Alone Allah controls
the waves' endless roll
as they unwind
an infinite scroll
for those who along
His seashores stroll

MALIK ALLAH

Malik Allah
Owner of All
in each heart altar
mercy install





FORGET ME NOTS

The forget me nots
flourish neath minarets
and the lilacs
by the temple.
The roses grow
framing the mandir..
all of them unconscious
of the political
statements to which
others ascribe them.

OASES MARRY LAKES

There was a woman in
Libyan lands
who planted in the
thirsty sands..
a baby tree of date palm.
.. each day she
came
and gave him water alms..
..and watched him grow
and grow..
and stretch his roots
to an oasis..
She planted more and
more..
and the mist they
released each day
became clouds..
and rain..
which pooled
in a new oasis
.. which married
the first..
to become a lake..
More and more soul
torches were enkindled
in witnessing this..
and each planted
many green torch trees
.. reclaiming the desert
.. turning it back
into paradise.


SUFI RING

Mere illusion
is suffering
to the masters
in the Sufi ring..
who see pain
as a nightmare
from which one has
been awakened


ALLAH AKBAR!

Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!
Allah Akbar!

Trumpets brought
down Jericho's walls
Allah Akbar!
brought down
the walls of the Shah

Allah Akbar!
now
brings down violent walls
in the hearts
of nearly all
Allah Akbar! brings
down walls
barring Palestine
from its own grapevines
and Palestinians from
their own olivefall.

BETHLEHEM BOMBER

The suicide bomber from Bethlehem
said he had a right to
reach out from the body cage
with his wings.. and unopen
its latch.. to release the
birdsoul of himself and others..

He said that the Bethlehem
Babe mangerborn..
was not obeyed ..
that many who call
themselves followers of
Christ
blindly follow
homicide bombers and
that the sacred soil of
Palestine was desecrated
by the metal shoes of
tanks.

but Allah the All Merciful
whispered to him:
I do not write My victories
in the bloodink within
finger pens torn from
innocent children.



Saiom Shriver

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http://www.murshid.net/eastern-rose....ism.html<br />
http://www.eat-halal.com
http://www.islamicconcerns.com
IN AN EASTERN ROSE GARDEN

http://www.egroups.com/messages/drbashiruddin/1
olive oil sells for $19 or more dollars a gallon.. money does grow on trees as the price of avocados, macadamia nuts and pecans indicates http://www.islamicconcerns.com http://www.egroups.com/messages/sufi_poetry http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow/119 Baba: in v 11 pg 211: in a stone image, the cloth worn.. even the smile .. are stone.. all is one substance Baba: the foot of a gold idol (if it weighs the same) is as valuable as the head G B Shaw: We are the living graves of murdered beasts


All paths to God are sacred. The poster is ignorant of many aspects of the Quran
and of Islam

Poster is ignorant about God's will for Kashmir.. whether Hindu, Muslim, or
autonomous

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POEMS TO JEWISH TEACHERS

NOT IN CHAOTIC SHARDS

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

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?

ABSALOM

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

NORTH AND SOUTH

If Absalom had cut
his hair it would not
have caught on the
branches of a tree.
If Samson had not cut
his hair he would not
have lost strength
to Delilah's wiles.
For many souls God
has opposite paths
but not paths
which oppose.

MARVIN KATZ

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

FIRE IN THEIR EYES

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

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


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

THE TORAH SAYS TO FEED ANIMALS FIRST

The Torah
says to feed ones
animals before
oneself.
They are voiceless
and need help
in bringing food
down from the shelf.


**
to D and H Newman
who follow this command in their lives.





DAVID SPITZ


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

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

DAVID'S MERCY TO GOLIATH

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

By this mercy
did David
convert
the heart of Goliath

HELEN SCHUCMAN

She saw her parents
making love..
her mother
and father dew bejeweled..
and heard God say
"Do be Jewed"

(Helen Schucman was
the agnostic amanuensis of the Course
In Miracles. She heard herself
say to God about her agreement to take
birth "Surely I will go, Father,
for it's for such
a little while."

ELOHIM

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

HEARTREMAKER

Some are heartbreakers
She is a heartremaker.

INDELICATESSEN

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


PAINTER ONE WITH HIS PAINTING

The painter's smock is daubed
with the pastels of his palate.
He has become one with his painting.
While his portrait is concentrated
and Virgo specific
his abstract smock is light-full
and Pisces pacific.

YEHUDI MENUHIN

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

NUNS TEND ROSEBUSHES
AT HITLER'S GRAVE


A Jewish friend who has become a Hindu had a vision of a rose bush at Hitler's grave tended by 2 or 3 Catholic nuns.

Did it mean
a. that all sentient beings including rose bushes have rights..
no matter where planted
b. that Hitler's body was becoming the leaves and flowers of a rose bush
c. that all embodied beings including Hitler are temples of atma or GOD encased in the impermanent..
d. that Catholics did not do enough to prevent the holocaust
e. that many Catholics are not responsible for the actions
of Pius XII

MEDITATING SUN

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

(to Marty Solomon)
**
SNAPDRAGONS

Do snapping turtles
eat snapdragons?









saiom shriver

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The Bible Code was written by someone who passed Hebrew scripture through a computer and then warned the Israeli embassy of the impending assassination of Rabin Elohim is to Rabbi David Rosen, former chief rabbi of Ireland and vegetarian. Painter is to Dr. Marvin Katz, ethics professor, fruitarian, fired by a state university in Ohio along with 5
other philosophy professors for taking a public stand against the war in Vietnam)
In her most previous life, writer was in a Jewish body.
In this life socialist philosophy, fruitarian diet, and introduction
to Hinduism were all introduced to her by Jewish teachers.
"Each is all" was said by Sai Baba to L Hill when Hill asked Baba
"How can I Love You More?"




Sites webmastered by teachers of Jewish nonviolence:
http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org
http://www.peacenow.org
http://www.batshalom.org
http://www.vrg.org
http://www.meatout.com
http://www.notmilk.com