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.