Saiom Shriver Poems

Poems To Buddhists Or The Buddha Nature

ISSA
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Dare he entrust the trembling baby
bird of his heart into her hands
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Was it a reductio ad absurdum
for the imperialists of the British
empire to call their invasions
which resulted in the deaths of
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Journalism is a reporting of
the truth. Can an 'imbedded
journalist' be anything but
a propagandist, beating
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Indian freedom fighters
were strapped to cannons
and blown apart
by invading British capitalists
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He had been a high ranking officer in a previous life.
When he was reborn during the 40's, his parents
sent him to a Manhattan kindergarten, where at the
age of 5, he led his classmates out the open window
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Babies don't
re-enter the womb
Nor did Jesus
re-enter the tomb.
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Sail-starred, shell-shored, stream-swelled
sand-sifting, seaweed-scripted sibilant Sea
secedes silently, softly
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The sea sandsifting
Birds sandshifting
The wind sanddrifting
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