Saiom Shriver Poems

3 SHIMMERING RAINBARRELS

The storm was full of menacing
dark clouds, hard cold rain..
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He makes tomato seeds
slippery beyond the
crunching teeth to slide
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With the oaks and maples
the fir trees do not spar
as toward heaven point
their treetop greenspears.
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Roman toga sand goldfringed
Crowned by the starry sky
Most stay on evergreen shore
Few everblue depths explore.
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Seagulls unfold their
wings.... come jasmine scented
spirit breezes now
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No plots are planned
by chick or chickadee.
No evil spun by
cheerful chicory.
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God sends teachers
in the guise of students,
patients, maids
to heal teachers
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Angels gave me a dream
in which Bill Clinton strode into
a room in which on an easel
was an oil painting of the crucifixion
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Birds chirp and cheep
in the eaves of the chapel
for Chips no longer
serves chops to the chaps.
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