Positively Charged Thoughts Poem by Saiom Shriver

Positively Charged Thoughts

LES COEURS

It is not
le coeur de la mer
but les coeurs de la mer
for the sea
has hearts beating
everywhere


BIRDFRUIT

Every mature tree
from twig to root
yearns to be home
for flocks of birdfruit.

MASSED THUNDER

In the mountains...God has
massed his thunder
Your faith can...
help the power break asunder

JOE ROSENTHAL

more
than the sight
of a rose
did enthrall
did the pictures
of Joe
Rosenthal

(Not all know that
within a few days
3 of the 6 men
staking the flag
on Iwo Jima would
be dead)




ETERNAL NOON

When comes eternal noon?
When soul turns around
each no... to on.



BLUE FLOWER FLAME

To see the divine
in everyone
is akin to
turning a pilot
light
into a multipetaled
blue flower flame



FLASHING LIGHTS

Behind me
in the twilight
I saw flashing lights
.. oh oh
an officer of the law
I thought
but it was
the sun inbetween
clouds flashing
HELLO

FOECUS

When one focuses on
a foe..
one becomes that
foe.. this is
foecus...
the enemy growing
inside one
... like a foetus
Positive thoughts
vanquish foes
as they try to defeat us



BREAK OF DAY

The break of day!
The crack of dawn!
Look not at night's
shellshards
but at the newbird sun!

(to David Wright)



SPIDER WEB BEJEWELED

A spider web
dew bejeweled
.. shining necklace
hung on the throat
of dawn..

though its builder
means it as a deathtrap
for innocents
.. God has other plans

CATCH A FIRE IN THE SKY

Catch a fire in the sky
with water.
Catch sun father
with pond daughter.
Water is not the foe
of fire.
Together rainbows they
do sire.


SUN ARRAYS HIMSELF

Over the lip of the earth
broke into night the sun.
A little cloud
.. a baby herald
ran and told everyone.
Each little cloud seemed to
catch the sun
and to steal his homerun.
But as they were later
rained away, we knew
his ball has gone
further than anyone's.
Himself sun arrays
in His own rays
and as He arises
and all birds He arouses
His rays are of
pink and purple and rose.

(to MBC of Columbus)


OBEDIENT ANGELS

Angels are obedient
to our wishes.
They are genies
in the bottles of
our hearts,
waiting to be prayed
into appearing..
waiting to
make concrete
our deepest desires.

IN MAY TO BLOOM COME THE BEES

She prayed and
into inviolate ethers
suddenly came
ultraviolet feathers
delicate gossamer
wings of thought
turning to real
all maybes and oughts
turning the verb of may
to that of be
as surely as in May
.. to bloom come the bees


DESIRE IS DESTINY

The foghorn sounds in the mysterious
mists.. a lonely call for his mate.
The train whistles
beckon to our desire which is our destiny.
The sea sings to the shore.
In Siberia snow falls soundlessly.
In a world beyond time
horses' hooves on cobbled stones,
the crash of the cataract,
the boom of the ocean,
the cheerful babbling of the brook,
.. the first trill of absolute joy
from a predawn bird.. a trill
which is a sword to
Dracula's night curtains.

First and last, God is in our
ears.

CHARGING THOUGHTS

Garbs her thoughts does Marge
with a positive charge
as surely as
putting things
in a bag of white
more than a dark one
reflects the light..
as surely as
rainbows striking
resin's dew
leave hope
as their residue


CLEMENT STONE

Pain is the clement stone,
the hard seed within soft fruit.
Those who chip away at it destroy life.
Others shine on it with sunlove
and rain mercy upon it..
and watch as green fire tongues
forklaugh through the hard
shell and to a sapling grow
.. which to a tree gives sway
which gives away
all her free food of life
From her fruit come unnumbered
pastel bloomed
and bright harvest orchards.

EASTRIDGE

Over the mountain's
Eastern ridge
Of a sudden came
mornlight's dawnbridge
Which distilled into
matter
and became
a light ladder
transporting
them..
wherever they wished

IN FRONT OF 8 BALL

We are all
in front of eight balls..
never behind them..
because we act with all power of God
all evil
vanishes from our presence
as the shards of night
vanish before morning light





A DUPRE

Oh once fired
was A Dupre
for giving all
of his students
an A
.. for living
beyond the judgers' realm
above the
Ivy League vines
and winter elms

FEW MORE SECONDS

She knows Dawn is coming
She saw his pink violet light suffuse the air
and though the sky is now
depressingly grey..
from a stray ephemeral
passing cloud
in a few seconds
oer the horizon
will pop
the blazing eternal sun!

(to Cathy Marshall)

INVIOLATE

Roses are pink
Violets are violet
Our love for you
is forever inviolate

(to JB)







RAISE HELL

-
Raise hell..
raise it to heaven
... use to lift it aloft
... love's airy leaven
the same place
.. are hell and heaven
.. only eyes of varying
frequencies
will difference see
Those immersed in ecstasy
.. see only divinity

RED LIGHT TO GREEN

the red light to green goes
fixed ice melts to water flows
to yes is wanded all the no's
now allies are all former foes

each thought
magnetically with
plus..
turning lack into
surplus
each thought
surcharged
with divinity
empowered

linking
connecting
through the
will God-aligned
as divine currents
flow down the spine


Love drops
its garb of hate
..the nine emerges
from the eight

allow not
the slightest doubt
to unplug current
or put light out

reaching out
to the Love in each
.. as each does
his own love teach





LOTTERY TICKETS

He thought himself unlucky
but it was positive
thoughts he
must unlock..
as he sat by
the abandoned
lottery tickets..
broken dreamshards
but near them
in a puddle
the sun beams
gleam
.. infinite
stems of the sunstar
asking him
to change the angle
of his vision

FORTUNE COOKIE SHARDS

Some impatiently pull
out the fortune
anxious to devour
the fortune cookie shards
Others care more for
the fortune
and abandon the cookie
shell
Still others make their
own good luck.

REMINDER TO MYSELF


Come from the mind to
the heart
.. to cool drinks
which quench thirst
.. not everquesting salt water
Extinguish the fire of
greed not by feeding
it but by walking away
Exhaust yourself not

in ever ending
multiplication of twigs of trees

but rather love their unity
Love less the
external
form everchanging
than the internal
Spirit neverchanging.
Still the endless ocean
waves
by dwelling in seadepths
Love less the ocean's
foamy pieces
than its deep blue peace.

RISING WATERS IN A QUARRY

As rising waters in a quarry..
fill every niche and nave..
so do Spirit's rising waters
grant each desire..
dwelling in heart cave.


(to the McGee's)


SIBERIAN SNOWDROPS

She was in the
north after the sun went down..
toward a snow machine's path
in the snow.. which ended
in vast measureless signs
of Siberian silence

of frozen dark cold wasteland
.. hell was cold not hot


But in the morning she looked
south.. and saw
the avalanches melting
into snowdrops
which would nurse
the headwaters
of the rivers of
joy and supply

Cold hell
is heaven's shell

God was telling
her for the thousandth
time.. to look upon
the bright side..



SPANGLE THE RODS

A grass spire
dewcrowned
reflects the entire sun.
Spangle the rods.
A stick discarded
or used as a club
becomes a magic wand
if it is starred
with the physics of
positive thought.
We write what
we must learn.

SUN'S YEAST RAISING THE EAST

It was the time of
the sun's yeast
raising all the East
... and he could
not understand
how quickly the
sky's hue
changed to sunrise pink
from blue..
until he realized
he had changed directions.


TOUCH DOWN SPIRIT

Angel Air..
lift our wordwings
into the realm of
reality.
Connect the dots
between our wishes and
their
fulfillment.
Color in our dreams.
Manifest our God
planted desires.
Materialize our
prayers.
Alight,
Spirit! Touch down!
into our
hearts

WE

We.. who are
dwarfs or giants or
paraplegics or
who have not been
by headturning beauty graced
or who have neck lines
of time beneath the face
we who haul extra weight
.. or are afflicted
by painquelling addictions..
or sit in prison..
or face bankruptcy
..or do not know where we
will lay our heads tonight..

we are among the first
to realize that the soul
is not the body machine
through which it pours..
and that beauty is not
Divine Love, that
the 999th match after 998
tries.. is enough to
set the world aflame
with Spirit Fire
...

WHAT HER OBEDIENT HEART ORDAINED

A magnet was her spine
attracting all to its line.
What her omnipotent heart ordained
her obedient will quickly obtained.
Around her granite resolve
worlds began to revolve!

WHAT WE THINK TOGETHER

What we
together think
manifests as
words in ink
.. and builds to
critical mass
.. more lasting
than the sphinx





WISH BECOMES WILL

Wish becomes Will
becomes action
becomes reality
as dreams touch down
..6 points
for all

Beneath his gaze
the impossible
became improbable
and then implausible
.. and then plausible
and then possible
and then probable

until that it would not
manifest was impossible

FILAMENT

A tiny piece of metal
plus the radio into
the universe.

A slender silk filament
of grass was enough
to bridge the vine
to a water trough..
as her prayer wishes
for loved ones
help them
in invisible ways

YOU ARE STRONGER THAN URI

As many like Uri Geller
can with mindpower
bend metal
so prayer and positive thought
can melt weapons.




FOUR DREAMS

A dreamt she rolled
a woman into an intersection
so great was her desire
to speed her to perfection

Then she was lifting
in a dream
a needle off a record
during static periods

B dreamt her friend
awakened someone
who wanted to go deep
back into the fields of sleep

and then she dreamt
she was singing in a choir
.. and wanted to sing
Amen before the appointed hour


(2 devotees with dreams
about the speeding up of liberation
from karma)


GANGRAPES


The sun's sharp sword
rays
.. were like many gang rapes
.. yet in the end
they gave purple grapes.
The sun is a lust-er
and yet and yet
his brilliant lustre
is now graped cluster.

(to LM)

EVER PROTECTED

She sits neath
the tree's
apples uncored
All round her
her angels sing
mantra's sweet chords
All beings
united in one sweet accord
to protect and to
guard
their love L McCord


HELLO

Out of the darkest
night
is born the
dawning light.
Out of the greatest
pain of
hell
so low
is born of goodbye
the
sweetest
hello
(to E)

BOUNDARIES

You don't respect
boundaries
complained the mineshaft
as daily at noon
sent the sun
into his dark
her freeing light shafts.

LEMONS AND LIMES

How awestriking
How sublime
that out of slime
God makes lemons
and God makes limes.

LIME WEAVE

The lime tree weaves the light
into limes on loom of night.
Some in theatre limelight
seek to hearts ignite
and others desire only
to weave lime-light.

(to Michael Lightweaver
whose email is Lightweave@aol.com)

WASHING WISHES

If we wash our wishes
they will sooner
whooooosh into reality.
May God now wash Washingon..
through grace and miracles
cleanse it of greed and
violence, lies and
dictatorship, racism
and cruelty.

WHAT ARE PRAYERS?

What are prayers?
. the insistent ringing
of loud suffering
. desire seeds planted by God
springing.. greening
.. love leaving its birthplace
heart... as perfume
.. the incense of wishing all well
from the soul's wishing well

We pray Father Mother God
that the
ringing bell
does not crash down
calling us to
bellum's hell
but calls us to the
shrines of peace
.. most holy calm and belle


THE PINE DOES NOT OPINE

The spruce, the fir,
the evergreen, the pine
does not to the air
or peers opine
and attracts more quickly
Spirit bird pinions
than those of more
Procrustean opinions.

NOT CATERPILLARS

Those who focus
on his past
are telling lies
as if referring
to as caterpillars..
the now butterflies

NO SNOW AT SEA

snowflakes
fall on seashore sand
.. they blanket not
the sea but land
as cold insults
at saints thrown
do not remain
on their warm heart thrones

FLEUR DE LIS TRAIL

The raccoon's tracks
preceded hers in the snow
.. time kept them from
colliding.. (as does
space
in another case)
Even so she did not wish
to obscure his little
fleur de lis trail and
so stepped over it

POLLONIUS FELONIOUS

It was felonious
to stab Pollonius
but not to lob
a water balloon
at Dennis Hastert..
that sound was
euphonious

JIMMY BUFFETT

Jimmy said that on the tipend
of each sunset ray was an evening
star...
sunset and sunrise.. the time
when magic wands are most powerful

GOLD LINING

Every cloud has
a gold lining
a sign that the
sun behind it
is always shining.
Inside the
ore of war
are diamonds
for the mining.

(Anger about the Iraq
war will sweep out
many Republican governors
legislators executives
senators and congresspersons)

DATE SUGAR

As the date sugar is often
more at the bottom of the teacup
so the second half of your life
will be more filled with sweetness
than the first.

BLUE SMOKE IN MIRRORS

Spiraling up in the twilit
mirror.. curls of blue smoke
.. called substanceless
by many.. who do not
realize.. it is smoke
from the prayer fires
rising to the Almighty
Heart of God.. who
materializes sooner
or later all desire

WINDMILLS TURN

This Quixote seemed to tilt
at windmills
and they began to glow
Through them the air
did flow
and back to its mother
the sea
made the water go

(to Bill Zavarello)


SILVER LININGS

A gift for us all is
coming.. wrapped
with all the silver linings
that ever were..
with a bow of the
rising sunburst
.. inside... the present:
to be to all present
and most of all
to love ourselves

RUTH LOVEJOY

She paints a picture
with her words..
so beautiful and real
.. all she need do
is step into it
and materialization
follows


SHELDON LISS

When Timothy was three
we do not know why
he could not pronounce
a y..
and so instead of yes
he said
Liss Liss Liss

(authors on controversial
subjects.. seldom have
everyone agree with all
their points)

DATE DESTINY

Each sweet dessert
dropped by the date palm tree
has her own unique
palmistry

WISHING WELL STARS

He looked down into
the wishing well..
mirrored stars were
caught there in the well's upswell
It was those stars he wished upon
.. the same stars caged
in the nearby pond
and because angels answer
all wishes in time..
in a cloud of love with
his love he
now dwells


FIGMENT

Born is the sky blue and big
of the palate's pigments
and come the luscious figs
from imagination's figments

EVER POSITIVE

The sun is always positive
... ever pouring his infinite light
.. and fruit trees burst forth
with orbed delight
The negative comes from
shortlived shrouding of his rays
.. the clouding of his light
vanquished soon the forces of night.

EFFECTIVE

Worldchangers release
alienation and negation
to make a kinder nation
through inspiration
through negotiation.

PLUG IN

Don't discourage people..
don't spread despair,
hopelessness.
Lift hearts..
say everything positively
not with negation.
Plug in the current
of energy.

USHERED

You dwell were
dreams immortal
are ushered through
reality's portal

DR DOLITTLE

Oh Dr. Dolittle
may your spirit
grow..
and there be
among veterinarians
fewer meat inspectors
fewer vivisectors


THOUGHT MADE FLESH

Before the Word is Made Flesh
the Thought Becomes The Word
It is Thought Which is
Grandfather to Materialzation

FIRMAMENT


FIRMAMENT

A grey fury's ferment
veils far sunfire
in the bluefair firmament
.. cloud rains for mint
and fern and fir meant
... puddles for fawns furry
... new greenweave
for fir and mint

(for Jan B)

MULTIPLIED NEGATIVES ARE POSITIVE

As two negative numbers
added become a greater
negative, but multiplied
become positive
.. so good comes
as your foes
each other oppose
create

POSEIDON LAND CREATOR

Neptune sends to
shore his
seaweed hair strands
.. they net seashells
and twigs and sand
and soon they create
new fingers of land
... so do visualizations
like electric blueprints
become real in the weaving
of the rainbow's bands

FIBONACCI AND THE NEW CHAMBER

How amazing that
when the chambered nautilus
leaves his old home
for a more spacious one,
God has designed and Fibonacci
has discovered that it be
160% of the size of
the abandoned lair..
in letting go he finds
a better home.

EVEN SO

Even so
there won't be
evening snows

MAST REFLECTIONS

In the sea
the mirrored
mast spears
can do no harm

She turns
wavy
their
frozen force

(to Kenny Richey
innocent Scot
held on Ohio's death
row.. by the pressure
of the world, released)

http: //www.kennyrichey.org

. A Dupre
. Birdfruit
. Blue Flower Flame
. Blue Smoke In Mirrors
. Boundaries
. Break of Day
. Catch a Fire
. Charging Thoughts
. Clement Stone
. Date Destiny
. Date Sugar
. Desire is Destiny
. Dr Dolittle
. Eastridge
. Effective
. Eternal Noon
. Even So
. Ever Positive
. Ever Protected
. Few More Seconds
. Fibonacci and the New Chamber
. Figment
. Filament
. Firmament
. Flashing Lights
. Fleur De Lis Trail
. Foecus
. Four Dreams
. Fortune Cookie Shards
. Gangrapes
. Gold Lining
. Hello
. In May To Bloom
. Inviolate
. In Front Of The 8 Ball
. Les Coeurs
. Lemons and Limes
. Lime Weave
. Lottery Tickets
. Massed Thunder
. Mast Reflections
. Multiplied Negatives are Positive
. Not Caterpillars
. No Snow at Sea
. Obedient Angels
. Pine Opine
. Plug In
. Pollonious Felonious
. Poseidon Land Creator
. Raise Hell
. Red Light to Green
. Reminder to Myself
. Rising Waters
. Rosenthal
. Ruth Lovejoy
. Sheldon Liss
. Siberian Snowdrops
. Spangle the Rods
. Spider Web Bejeweled
. Sun Arrays Himself
. Sun's Yeast Rising In East
. Thought Made Flesh
. Touchdown
. Ushered
. Washing Wishes
. We
. What Are Prayers?
. What Her Obedient Heart Ordained
. What We Think Together
. Windmills
. Wish Becomes Will
. You Are Stronger Than Uri

74

© Saiom Shriver


The writer was ignorant that cherrystones were clamshells as well as the seeds within cherries. She meant no promotion of the eating of shellfish. Said by many: energy follows thought.. where thought goes manifestation follows Jillelamudi Mother: The mother sees no fault in any of her (infinite) children

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