Random Poems Posted in 2000

-Saiom Shriver-

19 Poems

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.
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Winning Streaks

Across the sky
the beams of dawn
.. the winning streaks
of light
which effortlessly
melt the night
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Slipping Out of the Body Cage

God put 30% more sands
in the lifetime hourglass of one..
and 50% more birthday candles
on the cherry pie of another..
and patted the hand of a third..
and her lifeline was doubled..
but there was a fourth..
in the magnetic field
of ecstasy
his earthclock stopped..
he wanted only to be with
the Lord of Love..
… and that evening
he slipped from his body cage.
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Sherlock Discovers A Cure For Disease

My dear Watson
It’s Elementary
The answer is
quite alimentary.
But this we say
to all the community…
forgiveness surely
hastens immunity.
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Ebbtide Two

Ebbtide… the sea secedes
but not for long..
tomorrow again
he’ll bathe the reeds
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ENGOLDS

The morning sun
both gilds and engolds..
bathing all outside in His light
while filling each with His delight

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THE SEA IS WAVING

The sea is waving hello

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BUSH OF ROSE

Leave alone the bush
of rose
whose fragrant scent
to all flows

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LEAVING TREES ALONE

Many have found in
the past
that the dark smoke
from killed tree fires
chokes

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SMOKE AND MIRRORS

The private train car
had smoke
and mirrors, reflecting
candles” flames.

as the mirror lake
beneath the morning
mist reflected the
sun on the horizon

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EMBEZZLED HEART

Embezzled heart, can you forgive the guzzling buzzing bee
who has stolen all your nectar? ‘He knew not what he did’,
little baby bee

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POPPY PODS

Up peep and pop the poppy pods
Does scotching them please Papa God?
Used for ill by growers.. and
killed by narcs.
Who love poppies for themselves?

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GROWING FIGS

Merely drop the seed in a little furrow finger made
One need not dig…. to grow figs

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ANCIENT VALUE

Ten thousand acorns
do not equal one millennial oak

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OH OHIO

150 years ago
.. Our River Ohio
where you did flow
.. marked
the unlocking
of chains of slavery
.. as people crossed
to freedom
through bravery

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STAGE WHISPERS

The wind gave several stage whispers
to the willows waiting in riparian
wings

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ROSE MERRY

Shedding his rays
of unconditional grace
the sun rose merry
over Tom and Rosemary

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DECIDER

To the apple tree
said the sun:
I’m the decider
as to which apples
become
cider.
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REBELLIOUS FOOT

He decried the jazzing
up of hymns
but his tapping foot
was not listening
to his opinionsilds