Random Poems

-saiom shriver-

SNOW AT SEA

It snows at sea
Quiet falls in flakes
Melting designs
leave form for all.

WINDOWS ON THE WORLD

the top of the world
as they did dine
they died without
an anodyne
And animals
upon whom
humans dine..
have died
without.. an anodyne

GRAPES OF CONCORD HAVE CONQUERED

The grape vine’s love
has the junk yard conquered
.. greenpeaceing its metal
with grapes of concord

as sooner or later
does God’s grace
above bulldozed earth
weave green lace
and across the way
the seed of a morning glory vine
began ultraviolet to entwine
She grew over bottle shards
and twisted metal cars
.. every barrier she
used as a staircase on which
to climb..
everywhere she turned
windshields shattered
into nonviolent violet..

*

EACH NIGHT THE TREE OF NUT

Each night
the Tree of Nut
Out of Naught
knits
neat
nuts

MIRACLE POINT

The lion skull in the desert
shelters a bee hive.
Sea water through the aeons
has made of rock a rookery.
Suffering has carved new
caves in the heart.
In Tara’s empty space
miracles take place.

WOODPECKER ARCHITECT

The melody of his pecking
is a counterpoint to the wind
How ironic that his tapping
is strangely relaxing
as he creates
not skyscrapers vulnerable
but the holy of
holies.. emptiness…

POPLARS ARE POPULAR

The weary traveling
birds.. make
Italian poplars
popular..
a sanctuary.. a hostel
without
charge
*
LAST TO FIRST

Time turns weakness
into the greatest virtue.
Where broken metal is
resoldered it is stronger
than the original..
The hundredth
lamb becomes John the Beloved
The Last becomes the First
*
KALASWAROOPA

Time moves through
the hour and minute hands
Time flows through
the hour glass sands..
Kalaswaroopa,
GOD as Lord and embodiment
of Time,
frees.
*
ATTRACTION

A Cupid’s arrow is shot
Lightning strikes
Glittering sands of
the hour glass are
poured into a new container

THE STARS OF HARVEST

Each fruit has its appointed gift time
Of October eves, orange pumpkins
unclasp their vines

In July fall the scarlet cherries
August sun gives the blueberries.

in September trees of almond and apple
bequeath their fruit to the hapless

but each month and any time
presents the tree of lime
pure limelight fruit
it wove from grime

Just so each soul
has its appointed time
when liberation sounds
with its windborn chimes

*

SAINT ANTHONY PREACHED TO THE FISHES

St. Anthony found
when humans lent not their ears
that by the seashore
fishes ever listened
They did not need him
them to christen
since they’re immersed
in lovewaters’ baptism..
and swim in joy..
neath lighted seas’ glisten

VIRGO PISCES AXIS

Pisces is the unboxed
vast ocean Pacific
Virgo.. the defined,
the small the specific.
Yet inside all beings small
is Divinity’s all.