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The Emperor Of Trash
The Emperor Of Trash
The Crown of authorship
of our own lives returns to our head
as we come into Right Relationship with
all natural resources,
including right relationship with each other.
This is a poem from
REKINDLING OF FAITH,
an autobiography I issue
about every ten years or less
with revisions.
Date: 9/2/2010 1:39:01 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1516 times
10:51 am
September 2, 2010
WHAT IS TRASH
AND WHAT ISN'T?
This is from
REKINDLING OF FAITH
THE EMPEROR OF TRASH
I am the Emperor of Trash.
This too, this too is holy in my Kingdom.
Torn tree trucks, upturned roots,
soil, cement covered now bulldozed
cracked through freed.
From the dumpster, the throwaway bin
these abundant prizes gathered
make my dominion on earth grow..
Banana peels,
fish scrapes,
all these my earthworms reconcile into new soil,
raising my spirits.
The God I pray to praises my work,
says keep mending the broken wholenes
that breeds discard people.
Keep turning up what lies stagnant,
buried.
Keep all Life moving.
February 29, 1984
TESTIMONIALS
for REKINDLING OF FAITH
"A Psalm that absorb some of Life's
suffering for all of us."
--Paul Brenner M.D.
"Urban Shaman,
Leslie Goldman
communes withGod
in his Magic Grden,
coaxing healing from herbs
and plants and writes
verse blossoms
that lift the heart,
touch thesoul
and somehow gladden
the wounded spirit
weeping in us."
--Rabbi Zalman M.
Schacter-Shalomi
"May we each become gardeners
tilling the soil of Leslie's sweet dream."
--Rabbi Wayne Dosick,
author, Rabbi Elijah Minyon
San Diego.
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THIS POEM IS DEDICATED
To the unraveling of
what it took to create
the Great Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch.
Some say it is a toxin laden
trash heap that formed,
perhaps because we did take
in the essence of
this poem
THE EMPEROR OF TRASH.
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