Saiom Shriver Poems

Over 40 years in
prison solitary
Herman Wallace'
soul
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As tiny sticks tossed into ponds
make circles
so spiritual people respond to
attacks with positive energy.
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Why should arteries
clog and thicken
Why should human
bodies slowly sicken
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The elephant
smelled through his trunk
that somewhere someone
had frightened a skunk
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She wants no stained
glass between her and
the sun
... no longwinded
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The river insinuates
itself into the sea
as the tree insinuates
into Mother Earth
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A field of goldenrod
are gentle rods
unlike the shocking rods
and choking ropes
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The wind's soliloquy
becomes a chorus
sounding new notes
in each insect-bored
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The waterfall into
ribbons
has by the rocks been riven
but onward it roars
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