Jupiter Sees A Star Poem by Saiom Shriver

The blazing sun
is not orange at dusk
save through the
eyes of our
earth dust.

nor does sun move
in the vast ocean
.. waves project
onto him
wavering motion.

It is not raining
on the sun.
It is raindrops
upon the windowpane.

The pond is not
full of blood, as
the lion thinks,
after washing
off his muzzle
from a fresh kill.

The mirror is
not 2 faced..
but polyfaced,
and no-faced.

.. It is not hypocrisy
for the reflecting sea
to portrait paint
uniquely
each who stands before him.

The stable cleaner with
waste on his glasses
looked at the moon
and thought she was
full of horse manure.

The man who has
drunk much alcohol
sways.. through
his eyes the room
sways..
he thinks others
are inebriated..

Saw the detective
the other as defective
.. projecting his own
grid
onto the pure screen.

It is thermal
waves between us
and constant stars
which make them appear
to twinkle
as semaphores
unfaithfully
sending secret messages
From earth

Through a telescope
Jupiter with his moons
seems lined up in 1 row..
.. but the moons
swirl around him not
in lines but orbits..


.. nor can the devotees'
orbits around a Guru
be known.


In the Cosmic Mirror
of the Poornavatar
saw himself reflected
the pornagrapher

while in the same cosmic mirror
in the Poornachandra
another was sent
into poornananda

We see everywhere what we are..
In the mirror of the Avatar
.. a cheater sees a liar
and Jupiter sees a star