Re: Brief Poems

Brief Poems by Saiom Shriver Part 3

PRAYER MEDITATION

*1
Blue spruce spires... their steeples point to blue star fire
*2
Out of the sea the sun aborning Not adorned but all adorning
With His awesome light of morning Says to you "Come! My Mavoorning!"
(to Ethel Lynch)
*3
O God Dweller in the Heart of Every Being, release now and forever the joy latent in all
*4
Jack in the Pulpit has taken up silence.. to his new sermon none said
'ahem' ...many said 'amen'...
*5
Pen chisel carves tunnel out of feelings' mine cavein
*6
God and humans both know of love unreturned. The difference is: about this God is unconcerned.
*7
Held the dew the concave butternut better than the convex buttercup
*8
Dawn drawn dandelions sun-summoned... spread gold parasols
... another sundown will bring.. a diaspora of dandelion down
*9
From all eyes shines God's light ... from every human, bird, fish and mite
*10
The mind of a genius is a sky piled high with lightning forked thunderclouds.
The desireless mind of a master is blue with nary a cloud.
*11
She was not forced to walk the plank into the ocean of her Self ... she was ready to jump
*12
Deity winds blow into the Lungs, the Temple of Breath
*13
Sipping from a teacup he mulled over the day's deeds ... from a teacup brewed from red clover seeds
*14
Trees of January like Job continue to lift their arms in prayer
though they are powerless, unable to speak or move, their leaves stolen.
*15
He took off his boots, but still the discalced elephant
caused harm and so he decided to meditate in the pond.
*16
As a telescope turns the pinprick of light into the jewel of Jupiter, meditation gives tangible proximity to God who indwells all
*17
He feared when he died he would slide to hell down a slippery funnel but God told him he'd rise to him... through a lightfilled tunnel
*18
The bees' buzzing omkar to blooming little stars
*19
One thought Britannia once ruled the waves. Another thought: India rules the quiet depths.
*20
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.
*21
As he saw.. his fears were allayed..for there was the sun
in mornlight arrayed.. there were the trees with springblooms sprayed....answered were the prayers.. that he had prayed
*22
Sunrise does night shadows shatter.. for all sre Spirit
not their bodies' matter
*23
Knowing that if he took any more animals in his ark would
sink, he began to pray.
*24
Flowers don't chase bees. It is to the safe meditator at the treebase and not to the hunter that
the shy deer comes. Her serene quiet heart magnet.. like a crystal ball
invokes the form she desires.
*25
As rivers slowly deposit their sands in the sea... and suddenly there is a new sandbar..
so God's angels stream slowly into our minds.. suddenly a complete vision appears
*26
Faster than God answers when His Name is invoked are His
responses to cries of agony whether silent or sounded.
*27
Dreams are messages in a bottle washed upon our shores from the ocean of God. They are scr1pt of the night seeded by angels.
*28
Is it easier for meditaters to focus on a form than on the void?
How can one pinpoint infinity?
*29
"They tangle the edge of the river with vines", to me in meditation said the Divine... not meaning that one should walls de-vine... but attachment reduces the current of shakti He reminds.
*30
"Not in the morning (mourning) pond does the Lion wash his blood", He said to writer in meditation. So many meanings of this koan... one of which was that the evening pond, pink with the glow of the setting sun, does not reflect the blood on the lion's muzzle. Listeners should see only the divine in others.
*31
The dawn is dewing. The awakened, doing. The bee is beeing. The yogi, being.
*32
A willow grows by living waters but a lotus lily is by them surrounded
*33
As the branchweave is a grid through which we see the sky
so does the mindgrid the One reality distort and divide
*34
Only God is God fullblown. The rest are God in bud.
*35
Visualizing gentle weather... billions together.. humanity becoming one bird flock
moving together

PROJECTION

*1
When someone projects negativity , it's as if
a painter invaded his victim's home and painted that ones kitchen black.
*2
She came across a mirror crying and she did ask him why..
he paused.. and then..this was his reply:
the warrior says I'm violent The courtesan that i'm a slut
The little boy: I'm immature.. The overweight.. likes not my gut
*3
Onto us God's projection of His own perfection
melts away our thoughts of rejection.
*4
Younger souls project darkness onto what old souls do
as waters reflect in darker hues, the aqua of sky blue

PURITY

*1
Some people are Mirror Lake, sparkling in the sun's reflection.
But don't dive in... for there are hidden sharp projections.
*2
One cannot add enough Antibiotic powder to make safe coprophagous clams' chowder
To abstain from beings of the main is safest in the main
*3
The flame of both lard candles and pure ones can transmit fire... and glow with spirit light.
Nevertheless he bought only pure ones..... because pigs and cows have rights.
*4
Among nature's purifiers are wind, water, earth, and pure fire
*5
John Kennedy wanted a Mercury mission, but not mercury emissions
*6
The health department establishment tell us to wash our hands frequently...
yet re the filth of eating animal cadavers... they're on a silent frequency
*7
To abstain from beings of the main is safest in the main

QUIET

*1
As one honking horn disturbs hundreds of ears, so one angry word shatters peace into pieces.
* 2
Dawn's breaking quiet begets bees' buzzing riot.
*3
Three quiets merge.. the silent snowsift.. night's fall swift and the stillness of the wilderness
*4
God has said to revile none.. rather to revel as He God as Love indwelling each reveals
*5
Raindrop circles expand in the pond.. echoes of the silent splash
*6
Yogis sometimes roll up the red carpet of welcome, the speaking tongue.
*7
Bright orange trumpet flowers grow like clapperless bells.. as saffron clad monks prefer silence
*8
The boat leaves foam wake. The canoe, ripples. But geese leave no trace as they fly.
*9
Misogynists wish women to be tongueless belles, as silent as the meadow's tongless bluebells
*10
Basho taught us the pond has no sound no refrain.. until violated by a frog, a stone, or fingers of the rain
*11
The pain-inflicting doctors who play at Science debark captive dogs so that they may hurt in silence.
*12
Love's quiet triumphs over hate's loud trumps
*13
Mums outlast lilies. Her silence always outlasted speech.
*14
Sunny dandelion tents collapse for the night. Birdwings infold in the purple twilight.
Shutters close but peeps through the inner light. Eyelid screens fall.. for dreammovie delights.
*15
The sweet echoes of the green-girt geckos sweetly foil the sound of silence
*16
Near the jade pepper temple hung with quiet white chimes
grows the citrus tree weaving translucent veils of lime
*17
Fluffy flakes fell, flickering in the starlight, flecking the lamplight.

RESURRECTION

*1
Oh Julie .. God's sun is shining She is grapevining and the grove tree now she's liming
*2
Oh what a blessed relief! to see April the trees re-leaf! and a windbussed Noreasterfragrant with Easter melt away the last ice-lings of grief.
*3
the bee the purple blooms did rape .. and now there are sweet violet grapes
*4
Jesus said 'greater power shall I give to you'.... the power to be resurrecters..... only confining thoughts can limit our actions
*5
A fallen petal of a purple rose fell onto the clover... I thought until I spied
it was a butterfly.. who unfolded her wings and flew up high
*6
Glass shatters.. neath sunfire.. each shard reflecting his orb entire
*7
The Great Lord can behind him twirl... vast universe' gyrating
swirl... that his rebellious insurection
.... become his glorious resurrection
*8
No lid for the cups of sunlemony buttercups..
they just infold to escape night cold..
but in the morn... once again unrolled...
once again their cheery chalices of gold do dewy dawn hold
*9
One upright responsible pier pillar after another yields in the night to the
hegemony of the flowing tide.
*10
Those who took opposition roles...
were midwives of her strengthened soul
*11
The sun arises and rouses the rose. In raspberries,
His arisen rays are rose.
*12
A wee teardrop reflects a star. The tears dry.. remain the stars.
*13
Meet the sea the icebergs melted
.. and now reflect the sunrise molten
*14
Every dawn a straight rainbow of promise is on the horizon
...heralding each heartsun's rising.
*15
As resoldered metal is stronger than when first forged,
so the resurrected are paradoxically more perfect than
the Godcreated original
*16
The soul's essence is ever in God's presence, and unharmed by the
fires of creation or the ashes of cremation.
*17
He was so loved by all creatures that when it rained
a cloud served as his umbrella.
*18
Filling every inch of the line of floodcracked cement
is a thread of velvetjade moss
*19
In the empty chalice of the rivercarved grand canyon
dawn has drawn with gold pink orange light crayons.
*20
Candle flame fear not results if you ignite the snuffed candle's reborn light.
*21
As a clock with no hands can register time as the sun plays across its face, so Spirit needs no body in order to manifest its power.
*22
How has each apple tree's barren branch.. burst to wands of blooming blanch?
*23
At the base of the birdfeeding pole, a perfect circle frames it... the lace trace of birdprints, as they ate the seeds which had a precipitous fall
*24
God the Divine Genie is waiting in the bottles of all hearts
to answer wishes.
*25
On Ararat rests the ark. A rainbow is born in the dark. Out of silence bursts
the joyful song of the lark.
*26
Night swallows the swallows' trails and swallowtails. Dawnfire resurrects them
entire.
*27
Within all beings the Spirit dwells removing all cursing spells, creating tongs for soundless bells, wanding every halfshell into full shell.. causing stone hearts with love to swell..
*28
The feathers of the Phoenix bird are not always flakes of fire..
sometimes they are mercy's falling waterdrops
*29
Out of the pain of hell so low.. was born of goodbye the sweetest hello
*30
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.
*31
As he graces moated castles with spring's pastel tassles, the sweet pea king is beyond peeking
into power behind thrones in Peking or who will be the British king
*32
Bluebirds sit on the barren black branches of a winter tree.. It is not their gentle touch which will resurrect him but the God ever within himself.
*33
Out of the humus, born of humility.. springs the lily.
*34
to 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 jade garb to resprig you.. And this fall with figged twigs he'll refig you

RIVERS

*1
From the Palisades we saw a diamond backed rattler radiant in the sun
.. rippling his rattle arcing to strike the Cuyahoga Valley to evergreen life...
.. in every drop of his river flux shining with the sun's own lux

SACRED ARE ALL BEINGS.. ALL MATTER

*1
Who besides a snake can swim in the grass?
*2
Call no demon names. Focus on his divine core. See the gold
within his ore.
*3
Sooner or later ...even Satan's minions ...are beyond opinions lifted by Love's universal pinions.
*4
A playing boy's discarded stick became the father heron's
beakborn gift... for their nest a new twig ...
the rejected stumbling block.. to the temple's
cornerstone he lifts
*5
Said the mother fly to her gay child..... be strong when the cruel
call you a maggot faggot
*6
Dawn tiptoes... and treetoads' toes.... she tips with rose
*7
The spilled seeds swept out the door became corn on the cob from corn on the curb.
*8
Light passes through trillions of unique beings' prisms. Each
prism casts a unique pattern of light. But every one of them is
light. Everyone is truth for that being.
*9
In every weed the angels nod, as she spins her lace from sod. Only boundless love is fit for God.
*10
The ants who build wee little hills in the cracks of sidewalks trust in the gentleness
of humankind.

SANCTUARY

*1
In the cartoon a man with a manicured crewcut perfect lawn shook his rake at a stray puppy and yelled 'go home!'. A cartoon scr1pt bubble pointed to the dog....as she was
thinking "I don't have a home."

SIMPLICITY

#1
The most beautiful places are the emptiest spaces
*2
Birds are happy with the branches of a dead
tree on which to rest...dead sticks with which to build a nest.
*3
In the sea, a zillion strong singing each his own song,
every sweet sponge.
*4
Archivists are wavecounters.
*5
Fast weaving privacy screens, bamboo curtains
.when alive.make the world beautiful.. it is certain
*6
Not dressed in uniform is the rose.. but she is clad in civilian clothes. Informants
thought she must be working under cover.. with some of her petals furled and close.
*7
Such a simple thing... a ball of string ... to help the vine grow.... to the spring

SUPPLY COMES AUTOMATICALLY

*1
Never did the tree of beech or the palm on the beach or the orchard's fragrant peach
.. of the sun his light beseech
*2
By the babbling brook and the bubbling fountain near the bobbing buoys
and boats with baby boys birds are bibbing dew
and bees are bibbing too

TEACHER

*1
We go by much too fast the hidden gates to see
.. the quiet love.....silent caring.. anonymous frequencies.
*2
He makes the microscope... a macroscope..
as he magnifies for mere mortals the rights of the minuscule
*3
Maple leaves... gold stars.. gently fall down.... Mother Earth giving everyone an A
*4
She was criticizing him. the words hurt.. yet rivers of rosepurple light flowed from
her hands and feet.. like a song whose lyrics were lost in the exquisite melody

TRUTH

*1
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.
*2
The squid ink of war’s imbedded journalists.. is meant not to clarify but to obscure with dark clouds.
*3
Amod told me of Waccha Siddhi...which means that one always tells
the truth, devas and angels turn his words into reality.
*4
Mirrors do lie ... they fail to show God the Indweller... residing in each being.

UNION

*1
As their voices are one in sound so the choir's uniforms convey they act as one, whether it is humans in a church chorus or frogs in a seaside symphony.

VICTORY

*1
A champion racehorse at the winning line, unattached, eating the
blooms of his victory wreath
*2
The apple tree's blooms spun by sun looms dropped for fruit to make
room .. swept away by wind broom
*3
Wishing order he'd been a cuthappy lust-er but entranced by tiger
lilies' lustre he began to leave alone God's surprising little clusters
*4
The iced sculpture fish has melted into his completing water.
*5
The conductor must choose between the proferred bouquet and
the baton, between the past and the future.
*6
A white heron flock flies across the jade cypress swamp canvass. A
scr1pt of winged words triumphant.
*7
My Jesus is the Lover of the Prodigal Son, the 100th lamb, the leper, the sinner, the prostitute,
the demon possessed, the crucified thief. His sacred heart sees only how to end the suffering.
*8
The grape vine's love has the junk yard conquered
.. greenpeacing its metal with grapes of concord
*9
There are many paths over the bay.. the stone bridge.. the foam wake of boats..
.. the glowing path of the sunset..
*10
Icarus, after several tries, is now one with the sun. Sisyphus, first helped by angels, and
then on his own, has taken the stone to the hilltop. Juliet, schooled in the holy art of
resurrection, has vivified Romeo. Duryodhana is a hero of nonviolence now and the
Indian revolutionaries who were by their occupiers cannonized... are now canonized.

WILL

*1
Music is invoked by baton Lightning drawn by the rod Miracles come to magic wand and Will does summon God
*2
Will, your winded wings will win.
*3
The wind whispers to the willow wisps... they grow with new will
*4
Love whips not our poor wills.. but summons hearts like whippoorwills
*5
The stars change their courses and revolve around those who align to omnipotent resolve
*6
Over a summer God turned the soundless dew into juice of lime. Long ago in an instant Jesus turned water into wine. Now in a moment the Higher Power of the surrendered alcoholic turns wine.. back into water.
*7
Let me not eat the fortune within the cookie nor the mango's seed
.. nor through indiscipline fork myself in the heart
*8
He never takes no for an answer He mines for love
with a diamond drill.. His endurance is an act of will
*9
Grace and hope the parents of will There are no walls Where there is will.
*10
A full moon face shining with empathy for all... a profile as craggy as the Himalayas
*11
Said the vine of her wine: "I can't I can't. I shall not recant. It is
not I who abused my grapes....but she who did the bottle decant"

WIND

*1
Wind chimes play not on time... but when the Spirit moves through trees of lime.
*2
The South Wind has for the evening donned jasmine scent*
*3
The wind weaves many white caps so quickly for the blue sea
*4
Mother Wind moves the water rocker to and fro on the stormy sound's deeps. On the boatcradle by lapping waves she is softly lulled to sleep.
*5
The wind has blown away the cloud cover.. and the pond's reflection from grey to blue clover
*6
Clouds' whitewaterweave covered the sky.. and yet everywhere there was a patch of blue.. it was a different hue... here aqua.. there cerulean... or teal or indigo
*7
The east wind blowing westward marries the falling rain
turning her attention elsewhere
*8
Crosswinds quilt the Connecticut River ever so slightly but still the waters flow to the sea.
*9
As gauzy veils lie on the shoulders of the slender, as avalanche clouds pour through tall firs, as morning mist rolls through ship masts, do monsoon clouds flow over the peaks of the Himalayas
*10
Froggie croaks on his rock dais encircled by dizzy daisies all the day long.
The wind makes them wave in applause.

WOMEN

*1
They thought her a clinger and him upright and stable. But it was the tomato vine and
not the tomato stake which put all the food on the table.

INTERFAITH

CHRISTIANITY
#1
In Christ's crib, the crimson was not yet visible. His blood became
the crimson light of dawn.
*2
Inside the soft peach flesh lives hard peach pit. Inside the hard peach pit.. eternal pink peach fire.
Inside the sheep's clothing lives hard heart wolf. Inside the wolf's belly the wolf planned the lamb.
But instead.. inside wolf's heart the Lamb of God.
*3
The sunset dyed red cloud like Jesus' Turin shroud
rinsed by night of blood in purity shines outloud.
#4
On an Asheville spring hillside.. the divine lamplighter
ignited the mountain laurel's purple candelabra.. with her
constant praise to the Son and Abba
*5
A spiral swirl of windwed weed Each tiniest wheat-hued needle caught a globe of dew.
.. a crystal rosary of 59 beads already goldchained inside...awaiting only the Jeweler
of Morning to forge thislinkling and lift this love aloft to the Lord
*6
If it's kind and in prayer you ask it, God has it for you in an Easter basket... and rarely this even involves... raising someone from her casket.
*7
The Angel of the Annunciation cared not about Mary's enunciation

HINDUISM

*1
O Ganga in Bangladesh may you never again be the goddess of
death.
*2
The glow of Poornachandra... gives birth to Poornananda.
*3
After God ordered ocean to quaff the flooded world He sent a ribboned rainbowto say Never More...But when Neelakanta drank venom of the globe He sent polyribboned rainbowl:
a sky of liquid ore!
*4
His biographers said that Ramana Maharshi first fed the animals at his ashram, then the beggars, next the visitors, then the ashram
residents and finally himself.
*5
Her rattles Kali snake in a dance does shake When she strikes the curtain falls and maya is shown as a fake
*6
The cloud darkens, Indra drops gray grace. Baba's fingers will and drop vibuthi gray grace
*7
In the distance mighty roar many leagues birds flew to see onto which the Ganga pours
Shiva's brow Almighty. Eternal mist of cataract Wed to Light of Iswar's eye
bears Ganesh of Parvati.. Rainbow of Eternity

ISLAM:

*1
The olive tree is the altar of Allah. On it Allah has placed free olives for all.
*2
Does anyone yearn for sunset more than a pious person fasting during Ramadan?
*3
A dreammaker whispered this to dreamer: "Hazrat.... Love for this came humankind into the world. Seeking and finding it they need
come no more
*4
Drawn to morning prayer, a flock of birds, not having removed their
shoes, dance an airborn minuet round and round the minaret
*5
Oh Bawa Muhaiyaddeen... my friend was right in saying that you filled your simple mosque in a poorer part of town with white light... your love so strong that babies crawled to you from their mothers.
*6
The Quran says many times that Allah is All Merciful. The mercy of Allah embraces all.
*7
It was said of Mohammed that he came across a mother cat and her kittens sleeping on his
cloak. Rather than awaken and move her, he cut away for himself only that portion of the
cloak on which she did not lie. He had been a camel driver. He would allow none to beat
camels, and reminded others to feed them well.

JUDAISM

*1
Buddha was a Hindu. Jesus was a Jew. Getting caged in labels.. blocks the God in
me and you.
*2
God's lightning cleaved the heaven's asunder.. and out of them S/He spake in thunder...
"There is no such thing as a Jewish hunter!"
*3
The Torah says to feed ones animals before oneself. They are voiceless and need help
in bringing food down from the shelf.
*4
They accused Noah of being an animal hoarder... but his heart
had no other options
*5
Jan F had a vision of a rose bush at Hitler's grave tended by 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 some who are unforgiving still equate the half billion Catholics with the actions of Pius XII

BUDDHISM

*1
The Buddhist saw that when his wrist was tired the Wind came and moved
his prayer wheel for him. Spirit Breath comes and goes
and the lung prayer wheels move to and fro.
*2
A 3 year old baby girl..in a Chinese restaurant.. wiping the window glass for her parents.. in desirelessness she refused pennies, paper, toys....her radiant smiles clothing all in her joy
*3
This purple bloom of milkweed.. its sphere made of 108? spears
symbolic of the Buddha.. 10000 lives taking him to perfection
*4
No creature is thought a pest in compassionate Budapest..so great is Buddha's Spirit in allembracing Budapest.
*5
Day by day the vine has crept While others soundly slept.. up the trellis she has stepped,and where climatis has for joy her petaled purples wept Buddhists have only with feather brooms swept
*6
Saffron robed monks Buddhist are seldom seen in seaside camps nudist
*7
Light ribbons from the Buddha's full moon do his holy shrine festoon. His Spirit moves the
bamboo grove... by the lagoon.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

*1
A Tecumseh museum... with axes and knives hanging from the walls. His Spirit walks through the large highup room opening each
shutter. One is then aware only of the supernal blazing light.

TAO

*1
The way of yielding water.... flowing.. being never preaching is the teaching of the I Ching

ATHEISM, AGNOSTICISM

*1
All beings Love Spirit enfolds within infinite wings of blazing gold.

NONVIOLENCE UNIVERSAL

*1
A gentle cow reading Leviticus found that cloven hoofed animals
are forbidden for food. And so she did cleave each of her four.
*2
Above.. the starstrewn sky Below.. a landmine-sown earth lies.
Above the pastel spray of breaking day... below the battlefield's crimson and gray
*3
At a defense contractor luncheon, the eagle ice sculpture drips water
from his melting beak. Frozen form
becomes all form. The waters of peace are flexible.
*4
May no illegitimate
leader's illegal wars hasten any 'til death us do part'
*5
Babe issued a press release.. "they tell fibs..
.. I have no ribs to spare.. no spare ribs"
*6
Because of her the world will sooner bring.. a world of no more
suffering.. where none are swallowing....a chicken's or a swallow's wing
*7
Butchers unthinkingly smash the hour glasses of mammals' lives.
*8
Do plants have feelings? said one and the other replied:
Wallflowers must have broken hearts.
*9
Emma Wood said 'animals love vegetarians'... It's also true that
plants love fruitarians.
*10
Factory farmed hens: unloved they are born.. nameless they
live... innominate they die... ungrieved in stomachs they are buried
*11
He stopped fishing for reasons of mercy
and saved himself from radiation, worms, lead and mercury.
*12
How do the words of the Peaceful Master become the tirades of
warmonger pastors?
*13
How many daisies does a daisy cutter bomb cut?
*14
In India the bloody footprint of Alexander's throne
lasted as long as a twig cleaves the sea into which it is thrown.
*15
It is not recorded in the words of Tennyson
that Ben Franklin got sick when he ate venison
*16
Kneeling to God, all weapons' Wielder, he became a
weapons yielder.
*17
Lambs go more quietly to their murder than pigs. Pigs fight
hard against the knife wielders.
*18
Less likely to suffocate fishes or cause their suffering
are suffragettes and meditative Sufi rings.
*19
Little chick fertilized within the eggshell basket
.. Of Thee God he asked it... that none turn the little shell into a marble casket
*20
Many are the harshly shod footprints which have trod smashing little ones between the booted and the sod
*21
Neither the barbs of the blackberry bush nor the thorns protecting the rose act aggressively.
*22
NASA secreted hundreds of mice into the hold of the shuttle. Each was a
spacemouse.. each was a scapemouse.
*23
Neath obsolescent mower it used to be that crickets make a final peep.
Fireflies' lanterns snuffed beneath the skies. Bumblebees' pollination
stops Caterpillars do not become butterflies
Seldom are birdwatchers seen... in factory farms
*24
Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth.. for
she magnetizes to your home those who love every heart
*25
That general bombed so many into bodiless realms stygian. Now his stone statue has
new epaulets... the droppings of the pigeons
*26
Robins need not squabble over a stick for their 2 nests.. for there are dead sticks everywhere.
*27
Spaniards are ending the waving of red flags toward crucified bulls, as everywhere the white flags of mutual surrender to God flap, and the wind rustles the pink flags of thyme......
all flags of earth peaceful in time
*28
She defends not only underdogs but undercats, undercows, and underpigs, underchickens and underfishes.
*29
The boats which to their slaughter ship sheep are never shipshape.
*30
The fire in the mob's hate torches does not always color within the lines.
*31
The God indwelt beetle sanctifies the holy rose.
*32
The trash truck comes around, its treeslapping height
leaving a mobile of severed spring leaves in its wake... its mechanized pickup
not knowing what living tiny mice or human corpses might be inside
*33
They cleave off innocent pigs' cloven hooves
... yet the scarlet blood does not crimson
the purple fields of clover
*34
If his heart is a bud.. not yet fullblown will he understand the iris' unfolding sermon
or care about how they freeze the tongues of captured ermine... will they know yet
that rats and mice are not vermin
*35
Trillions of animals' agonized cries through the years echoing in our ears....
in agony beseeching God "When will you hear?"
*36
Up peep and pop the poppy pods.
Does their scotching and scorching please Papa God?
Can not heroin be controlled without harm
to Mother Nature's plants and sod?
*37
We have nothing to offer you say the cows of their gravy
but our blood sweat and tears.
*38
Weeding whispered the Great Spirit...is plant racism
*39
A bee willing to hang upside down in drooping blooms
will harvest more honey. But the converse is not true..
those who work the hardest are not those who make the money.
*40
The horse has run her heart out for her 'owner''s bank
account.. and her reward? the slavery of a stall
*41
Ralph Nader works for consumers, Casey Kasem for consum-ees
*42
Angels please make more clever plants of clover... that they hide from cleaving mowers
*43
Once when a riverflood had created many beyondbank pools in which thousands of fish were trapped as waters slowly receded..he spent 3 nights and days\ bucketing them back to the mainstream..and to life.
*44
The hound was haunted by the hind he had hunted. Over the months God to him hinted he should no longer hurt any harts nor harm any hinds.. Now he, the hound, no longer hunts and so by hinds is no longer haunted.
*45
"Straighten up and fly right" said his father..but his son misheard it as 'fly rights' and sallied forth to organize the untouchable maggots of the world
*46
The portable dairy of the mother dromedary..Is it meant for humans or the baby dromedary?
*47
That baby boy squirrel eats the apple peels.. turning them round and
round with his tiny hands..like someone chewing on a new thoughtfrom all angles.... but
he eats pine cones like corn on the cob
*48
When a horse is hanging upside down in an abbatoir, is the building called a slaughterhorse?
*49
The bright orange wings of the Baltimore Oriole are not as radiant as his spirit's aureole
*50
Chanel Number 5 had ambergris from sperm whales, civet from the civet cat, musk, (38 musk oxen castrated for 1 oz of musk oil), and castor from the Canadian beaver.
Should it have been called Chanel Number 41?
*51
She picked up only vacant seashells on the shores of the Seychelles...
for chambered nautili hollow were minnow castles in the shallows
*52
Some of the chores of the scullery maid..... to throw tiny birds' skulls into the trash
and then to store the marmelade
*53
Little parachute samaras.. maple seedlings.. gather in the gutters of homes and streets. Little treasure troves.. who will become groves.. if left alone in places unmowed. Those who give them a nod.. let them burst from the sod.. let them break from their podsfor they've been sent by God
*54
A. asked "Which fork is used in proper etiquette
to spear the animal's flesh?" B replied: "Not one... not a single one"
*55
Pearls are sphered articles.. mucus covered sand particles
'untimely ripped' from coprophagous oysters
.. themselves torn from their gentle cloisters
*56
What is a quadrapus? An octopus after run over
and vacuumed up by a suffocating fish trawler
*57
Human cannibals eating castrated bulls’ canned balls hoping to
become hard cannon balls merely cause themselves prostate cancer
*58
He needed no special logic to intuit how to raise the low life expectancy of Inuit
*59
Tolstoy was monogamous..Gandhi .. nonzoophagous. Maybe a rhinoceros or hippopotamus
are polygamous Maybe most lions and tigers carnivorous but human beings are designed
to be monogamous... Humans designed frugivorous
*60
Every pork loin is from an innocent pig purloined. Every pork chop from a little pig painfully chopped
*61
In the sea, a zillion strong singing his own song, each sweet sponge
*62
Noah was saved on the ark from the quandary of accepting sharks.
For they could swim in the seas and not harm those inside the barque.
*63
God has put a 'do not disturb' sign over the green shelled limpets cozily nesting in lime waters limpid
*64
The semantics of human chauvinism.... verbs and a noun to obscure the murder of animals..
scotch, dispatch, cull, harvest, euthanize*, thin, bag, sticking
*65
It is dormancy and not hypocrisy to eat cows and object to hippophagy.
*66
The frightened calf Harriet saw the cowboy as Iscariot mounted on a slavehorse chariot
twirling his neckbreaking noose lariat.
*67
For their fur coats men murdered ermine
A little mouse whose name is Herman they called by the most cruel name vermin
*68
Out of each creature's eyes in each being's body shrine do light and love divine for every being shine
*69
Some day the acacia leaves will forgive giraffes and in the presence of koala bears
bamboo shoots will laugh.. while the cows will be welcomed by each blade of grass
*70
Does God prefer to see caterpillars eat to create their wings.. rather than fiight snuffing humans
eating others creatures' wings
*71
Croquet balls near wickets, golf balls in thickets, are seldom respecters of the rights of crickets
*72
The sound of the raptor wings of the kestrel is not to other birds music orchestral
*73
Was he a suicide bomber bee.. protecting his hivefellows from the heavy tread of human boots
and the polycidal insecticide planes? Was he a David bee taking on a Goliath 10,000 times his size? Yet he flew away without being killed.. nor did he kill the man he stung
*74
Caged the yellow winged cockatiel. Crushed for redcoats the cochineal.
*75
Millions more do not fish.. (a verb made from killing the noun)
They're not suffocating creatures.. no beings strangling... no longer angling... not causing
panicked beings' dangling in deathlines entangling
*76
Re factory farms Californian to Carolinian and Virginian, puppet pastors with paid for opinions say humans over animals have dominion, as butcher minions chain saw bird pinions.
*77
He thought it better to have canneries for cranberries than canneries for canaries

STARSCRIPT
*1
Capricorns are antiquarians while Aries' breakouts seem antiantiquarian
.. Friendly to both are God and kind aquarians.
*2
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 pastels light-full and Pisces pacific.
*3
A flaming feather of the Pluto firebird fell to earth's floor... a sign of God's guarding guiding grace..
for He loves us evermore evermore evermore
*4
33 degree water can be colder than 32 degree ice for it is not barred from entering the skin
When Cancer forgives and has no fear... cancer can disappear
*5
Aries spring each being frees from capricorn's winter freeze
*6
Where scorpio's silent underground springs burst into joy as sagittarian geysers..
there she dwells and everywhere
*7
Neptune opposes red mars.. his angry glow melts near other stars... as daily the sunball
dips his fire... into the sea entire... resurrected mars is more pacific... less target specific

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Job 38:31 (KJV) "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
The first Gentiles to worship Jesus were the magi astrologers. Only a self realized master
can truly read an astrological chart, and even he or she cannot necessarily foretell God's
mercy and grace as He/She rewrites the play after lessons are learned.

-Saiom Shriver-

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APOLOGY
Forgive any offense, error or other disruption caused by these words. All
speech truncates reality, trying to contain the Infinite in the infinitesimal.
. If you see a duplication please email the author. God is beyond gender. Please forgive references to God in masculine gender which
is less cumbersom than S/He or His/Her. All Names for the One God whether God, Allah, Shiva, Great Spirit, Divine Mother, YHWH or
other refer to the same God, imho. Because I grew up as a Christian and have spent most of my
life in a predominantly Christian country, there are more poems for people of that faith.

DEDICATION These poems in entirety are dedicated to my loved ones who helped make
them possible, to God and other muses, and to you, beloved reader, for igniting them to life
with your eyelight.

FOOTNOTES:
Pearls do not refer to those from an oyster
cruelly and untimely ripped)
The sandalwood tree parable is from my teacher

DEDICATEES
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LOVE
Crossroads is to A D'Alessio/ Assister is to MSC
Arthur's stone is to Bea Arthur...who had the charisma to pull Guinevere's stone
from Arthur's heart
Friend to all is to Jack McDermott/ Beloved Phyllis is to Phyllis B
Empathic Heart is to P Borlo
A Yearling Became is to JCL// Maynard is to M. Clark
Landlord poem is to Wilbur Werline who in the midst of homes running 700 to 1200
a month... refused to charge more than 250, thinking God did not want him to
profit from others' need//Purifier is to the divine love and purity of
Father Charles Ogada of Nigeria and of Dr George Amoako of Ghana
Soaring Eagle is to Ben B/ Lilac Perfume is to M.A. Wyatt
Sunspill is to A and S Thakur/ The Little Baby is to E
They cannot read is to Ted Zagar//Inviolate is to Jess A/ Listener is to M Kolb
More A's is to unconditionally, deeply universally loving Maury Reishtein
Butterfly is to the focused enduring compassion of Dick S//
Persimmon philters is to the Kim H family, the Kim B family, the Kim S family
Chakra Rainbow is to J. B. Clair
SEA
Effervescence is to Jan and David We Gave Him A Pitcher is to C Lassell
Rocking Cradle of the World is to D and P Wilson
Faster than Any Stylus Squiggling is to Mark Braunstein//Donegalway is to Ed L
Receives All Arrows is to E Hubiak/ Blackberried Tarts is to Betsy Frost
Poseidon Temple is to EL and NL/ Mavoorning is to E Lynch// It Snows At Sea.. is to David Shriver and Julie Denholm
re the death of their mother Sylvia Dobkin Shriver
The rain in Maine is to poet William Cohen and all who live in or love Maine/Rookery is to Walt Rave
Sea Cradle is to Kim Bartlett/ Seychelles is to my mother/ Flags of fog is to MKJ//Love the finescreen is to K S Hoare
Sun necklace is to D Lieberth and his loved ones
Re the sea, 2012 holds many unexpected events.. it is wisdom
to ask ones indwelling God for guidance
SUN
Sun Wed Moon is to John and Adele Looney / Kiss and Tell is to Ramish Price / Baton Rouge is to Robert Marshall //Arun arose awash in Rose is to A Jani and to Aaron Rosen.//Arun is a Sanskrit word for the sun.// Sunball dyed is to Lucy Bilbro
ALL POINTS HOLY
Ambrosia is to Ambrogio Vittadini, who left the financial world to translate Vedic texts.
BEAUTY
Shakti Shanti falls.. part of a poem to Rosa Feldman and Marshal Weisfeld
Apologies for the male pronoun re God. S/He is cumbersome though God is beyond gender.//Cloth of Lace is to MKJ
Om Parvat: Shiva SnowScript is to S. Thakur
COURAGE
to those who love James McDermott
DIFFERENT DRUMMERS
Flyswatters is to Irving Haimes and Eli Kazdan
EARTH
Apple Chapel is to the to God's beloved temples .. N, E, M, R, D, D, K, C, K and other Kempels)
Knitting Knots is to N.A.L.//Goldsmithed Rose is to the employees of Goodyear and the citizens
of Akron Ohio who fought a hostile takeover attempt by James Goldsmith which cost the
city and company 95 million dollars. Greenmail is a mass stockshare buy. Bamboo trees can
grow 30 ft or more in 1 summer blessing the world with green. Jade sari is to poet J Gupta
ECONOMY OF ACTION
What are the jobs of apples is to Steve Jobs..
Fins of Dolphins is to T. Tereskiewicz
EFFORTLESS
Thistles of epistles is to Sue and Jack M
EMPTINESS
Holy Holly is to Holly H.
Tree of nut is to N Ryder, N Altman, K Larson, N Slocum
ENDURING
Christ Child is to B and P Neman, who have anonymously served the poor all their lives
EQUITY
Oh Martin is to all who love Dr Martin Luther King
Larry Doby...1st African American in the American League
Sally Hemings: the many years slave lover of Thomas Jefferson
ETERNAL
Home of the Lord is to R. Rohner /Phoenix Bird is to the loved ones of J C Lehman Jr
It Snows At Sea is to all those who loved Sylvia Dobkin Shriver/ Andrea Rose is to
the Teodosio family//Risen to Love is to Ed F's mother
2 Uteri isto E Daughterty, Clara T, Dear Abby and other twins whose birthmates left for God first//Swans is to Herman J/ Daisy Stream is to R Dawson on the death of his mother
Nimbus is to Jess and Hildy Ennis and their spouses... their mother for whom it was written died shortly after her husband of over 50 yrs.//Windows On The World is to all who died in the WTC &
after. Tens of millions support the 911 truth movement.. .//Current of Grief is to all who love C Turchan M/ Laughing at Funerals is to the loved ones of L Marshall. Only Love Remains
is to Sarah Bertsch's parents and their spouses and to all else who love her.
FIDELITY
Mary and Bob is to the Hancasky's// Rose of Akron is to Elisa S who was taken to safety by
one of the Kent State protestors... who was later himself shot.
FLOWERS
4 Flowers is to Rosita and Charlie Davis//Awry the rye rises is to Rosalie Cohen Quine and to Sharan Freundschuh//Little Tree Little Tree is to Tattva of Moundsville
Tree of Nut is to Nat Altman, Nate Slocum, Natalie Ryder, Knute Larson
Enpine the Cone is to Wm Barr//Hawaiian Breadfruit is to all those working to end the USDA exclusion of Hawaiian and other country fruits and plants from the US mainland
Anemone is to a Domincan sister at Crown Point Ecology Center
Forsythia is to Cynthia M.P.
Lady Bird Loves Cowslips for Themselves is to Lady Bird Johnson,
a woman gracious in suffering, a defender of the underdog
FORGIVING
Greatest Forgiver is (to Charles R. Marshall. who inspires those who know him with his refusal to resent those who harm him/ /You violet me is to Nita N// God looks on sin.. the quote about toddler's fall is from my teacher's writing.
I will knock is to T Jackson// Heather is to HS// Sea Transmutes Lava is to Lois Lichty
who gently diverted criticism... never speaking an unkind word//
FREE
to the unbounded giving of N Natelson
FREEDOM
When God green grows is to Rosalie Cohen Quine, now with God and to younger than springtime Sharan F. A.//Alfred Beethoven is to B Unti
who has for several decades worked to free all creatures.
FRIENDSHIP
I choose thee is to J Freundschuh
GIVING
His mind does not bookkeep is to John S Wegener/ Dept. Store Elves is to M. J. Trenta/
Waterf/altar is to George B /// Ten Tenets is to Don Papes, vegetarian cat protector, skilled
in architecture, plumbing, electrical engineering who would sometimes stand at bridges
in national parks and ask people not to suffocate fish//Master artist is to Jan B
GRACE
Bees' gathered amber is to Edmund and Julie L// June 21 is to MSC
GRATITUDE
A dog is so cheaply bought is to Karin Anderson, protector, feeder, and healer
of every stray human or animal who comes her way
Six Heures is to Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and all the unions
and individuals who have helped with victories/ Greeks is to Drivas
HEALING
Tearfall is to Caroline Harman's healing heart. Howe Rd. is to Alex Pacheco and I Newkirk, cofounders of PETA
Cunningham Falls is to the healing power of Tom Shroyer
HUMILITY
Meeker is to the Dave, Robert, and other Meeker families
Humble Rain is to Dick S whose aura attracts all//a 1500 lb. pumpkin was grown recently
JOY
Pass Him On is to Dick Marshall who has been passing Him on all his life
Edify is to Ed L// First Lightning is to Dr Ginnie Bourquardez who
first hitchhiked in her 70's and founded an interfaith animal rights group.
Where they walk is to S and J Everett
LAW BOWS TO LOVE
Jaywalking is to Freya, her children, brother in law's family and friends of Jay Dinshah.
his father's family and all who work with NAVS
Liquid Love is to J Mosyjowski.. nonviolent gentle enduring in every area of life
Traffic Light is to Sue Brebner, Tom Regan and other heroes of civil disobedience
Spirit carrier is to DPB
Diner is to Indianapolis former congressman. Andrew Jacobs..
a teacher of peace... in politics and diet.. who often spoke of
the slaughterhouse of war and therefore stopped eating meat
MANIFESTATION
The sun does his rays dispatch is to Matteo Bruner
Clouds Unfold is to M and M Lytz / 6 boys is to the Obis boys and their parents, biological and otherwise
MANY SUNS
Centenarian apple tree is to Virginia
Bourquardez. To those who knew her she was an Auntie Mame.
MATE LOVE
Quietly Shimmers is to D and E Barr//// Two Thorns is to Mr and Mrs Bernie Rosen
Lustbuster is about a vision by S G//Hawksquaw: Native Americans are
reclaiming the word 'squaw', polluted by white invaders.
2 Dynasties is to Nick and Jess
MERGING SURRENDER
To God is to D and D Neman..who have been building community all their lives// Padnamaskar (touching the feet of the guru) is to Kate B.
METAMORPHOSIS
Sweet rain transubstantiate is to Joe and Ruth W Pear
PaliAnish is Pali (language of Buddhist stotras) Anish.. Supreme Lord
MIRACLES
Unencumbered is to D Giehl
Mind radio dispatcher is to L Seikel
Instantenous Miracles is
to Dudley Giehl, founder of Animal Liberation in 1970 .. human companion of
oranges- eating dogs Melisande and Isolde .. opera lover.. of infinite heart
Seek Ye First is to S Everett, grace and compassion incarnate
Sun's Grace and wise sweet fruit are to Julia Hull who
always combined sharp intellect with soft kindness..
Moses poem to DPB who in writer's humble opinion has done more than Moses
to make the world a kinder place
Apologies for use of the male pronoun to refer to the God beyond gender.
Round Wonders is to James McDermott
Highlighted Synchronicities is to J. Voelker... gentle genius who has helped his
friends clear away trash//Christie is to Christie T of Kathleen and Greg
Miracle Points: to Tara L // How Jesus' Soul Came to Mary is to Nancy McGrath Wilson
Ark Afloat is to Pandeva Z
MOON
Night is the husher is to Hendrika N
Coconut Milk Pitcher is to Ruth Thomas, English teacher at Buchtel High School who died
at the age of 98, after a lifetime of peace activism.
MOTHERING FATHERING NURTURING
Oerhoverer is to my mother. Second Sunrise is to my father
Eve Angel is to EKB Diamond Rule is to Marge S
Mayrides is about the father of Barbara and Judy and his love of not only his children but
his siblings/ Statues of Nonliberty is to N.L./ N and M is to my mother// 23 years is to Allison B
MUSIC AND ART
Poet and philosopher John Moats was one of 6 recorded deaths by freezing
of the homeless in our town one winter..
Jasmine is to Maynard Ferguson, mystic and jazz musician//River Valley is to poet SanExpeditus
PAIN TRANSFORMED
Rain to Make a Rainbow: is to M, L. Crawford... who has suffered so much with such courage
and who with her husband has helped all to see the stars
Cherrystones is to Charles DiFazio and his wife)(Charles wrote a book
called From Where Did You Come) This is not about shellfish who have a right to life
PEACE
Polish Horses is to Alex Hershaft, founder of the Meatout.
Aa student came up to JBO, an American teacher of English in Japan and told her he was born
on Aug 6,1945 in Niigata. Because of overcast skies, Hiroshima was selected as the 2nd target for 1 of the only 2 reported atom bombs dropped on a human population) .
Ivy is to Wallace' and Shana's daughter
3 shimmering rainbareels is to Sharon Berg, attorney and spiritual soup kitchen cook//Blue lips and cherrystones: kinds of shellfish
POSITIVE THOUGHT
Break of Day is to Wright. /Her will ordained is to S Everett's and J Brunner's mother /
Rising Waters is to D and M. McGhee
PRAYER MEDITATION
Held the dew the buttercup is to Jeff Miller//Britannia once ruled the waves is to B Pinkus
The sun does nothing but meditate is to Marty Solomon//Flowers don't chase bees is to C Nevada
QUIET
Mums outlast lilies is about the mother of Judy K and Barbara M who never said an unkind word about anyone
RESURRECTION
Easter Releaf is to Leonard B/ Eastern Ridge is to Jerry and Nita Eastridge/ Blooming branch is to J Dunlap/ Hello is to Eileen W
RIVERS
(Cuyahoga River is to Betty, David, and all other Seiberlings)
TEACHER
to Milt Radney whose quiet anonymous charity gifted thousands.. from the time he
was an NYC cabriver through his entire life
Microscope is to Dan Tompsett http://www.postpoems.org/authors/owlcrkbrg

VICTORY
My Jesus is to T Henretty who has like her God has a heart for all
Indians fighting the British invasion were strapped in front of cannons
which were then ignited, an event immortalized in the painting of
the master Russian artist Vereschchagin.
WILL
Will is to Will W
Music invoked by baton is to Wallace O
WIND
Mother Wind is to K Bartlett
INTERFAITH
A spiral is to Charles Marshall
Prayer Wheels is to Jim Gibbons
Jewish Unhunter is to Debra Wasserman and Charles Stahler
Neelakanta is to Dr and Mrs Nanjundiah, formerly of Bethesda/ Torah is to D and H Newman who follow
this rule of the heart in their lives.
Poornachandra is an over 20,000 year old Sanskrit word for the full moon. Ananda is joy.
NONVIOLENCE UNIVERSAL
Because of her is to Nita Nickol
We have nothing to offer you is to I Newkirk /Riverflood is about Larry L Miller of Northeast Ohio
Peaceful Master is to John Clemente
Trillions of Animals' Cries is to T Raber, with many decades
of improving animals' lots as well as his human friends'
Consumees is to Casey Kasem, a vegan who consumes no animals or fishes
Hound No Longer Haunted is to Chrissie Hynde
Civet cats were rotated in drums and terrorized to produce their fright secretions
Seychelles Seashells is to my mother
Inuit is a reference to Inuit low life expectancy related to a high animal protein diet, heavy
concentrations of pcb's, arsenic, chromium, mercury, uric acid, amyloid plaque, animal fat
and other toxins
Nonzoophagous: Lions have 5 times the kidney size of humans. Humans have the longest
intestinal tract of mammals... while carnivores have the shortest.
Euthanizing to end animal agony is not murder but mercy.
Bullfights is to J Diguara who has for countless years worked effectively
to end bullfights, sealclubbing, slaughterhouse murder etc etc
The dominion God has given to humans is that of a parent for a child, and not of a killer
for helpless voiceless victims.
STARSCRIPT
Aquarian is to Frank Klein//Painter One with his Painting is to Marvin Katz//
Firebird feather… a vision God gave the writer before her life was saved in a blowout on Rt 70
A line in a Clare Booth Luce play sparked one of these poems.
Firebird is to Tom and Bill Kinzie anonymous workers for all beings'
happiness.
Joy's Geysers is to Sulochana

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For every triple crown winner are millions of racehorses who have broken necks, broken
legs, died in barn fires, been poisoned by those gambling on different horses,
lived lives of loneliness shunted from one home to another, before being sent to a horse
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