Saiom Shriver Poems

Within rotting fruit
are living seeds
which can
the world feed
...

Next to an abbatoir
grows a peach grove.
The former has screams.
The latter is silent.
...

Korean Choi Sung-Bong was required to answer a question about why his family line on the application for a talent contest was blank. He
replied that he was left in an orphange at age three.
Further questions elicited that he had never
been given a name and that he had left at age five after being
...

Catholics have rosary beads.
Hindus and Buddhists have
japamala beads and prayer wheels.
Moslems have prayer beads.
...

He forgave all when
he realized that all lines
of every human being actor
were written by the
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Rain drumming on the roof
but softly dripping
from the leaves
Frozen snow soundless drops.
...

Every year
Edith
became less
and less
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A spiral swirl
of winter weed
Each tiniest wheat-hued needle
had caught a globe of dew..
...

On top of water light glitters.
Underneath water light glimmers.
Sometimes his love for her shouts.
Sometimes it quietly shimmers.
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None dared reproach
nor to preach
gainst the fragrant
gentle tree of peach
...