Dear Marilyn,
         I must apologise to both you and Ann, as I assigned your comments
to her. I think, in part, it's the fact I receive both your messages in the
same tiddly font- LOL.
 I think you make a very good point.
Kind regards,
 grasshopper

----- Original Message -----
From: Marilyn Injeyan
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [THE-WORKS] New sub: Ego


In a message dated 1/18/03 2:37:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

Intriging poem Grasshopper.  In my humble opinion, fewer adjectives and
adverbs would make the poem even stronger.  For example, to you need:
solemnly, golden, sly and jealous?

Marilyn



               Ego

A shamanisitic friend tells me solemnly
about his astral journeys, of the passage
through the ether that is not empty, but alive
with golden energetic swirls, sparkling
like dust-motes in shafts of sunlight,
about his speakings with the spirits of animals,
that they have souls untainted by ego, unlike humans.

I think of a blackbird fluting variations of MemeMe
into the growing dawn, the stallion coralling his kingdom,
sly squirrels rolling requisitioned nuts like Sisyphus,
the jealous cat who shoulders his brother aside
to usurp a caress, his gaze twin 'I's in amber -
but I nod . We all have our truths, our knowledge.
Why shake the fruit from another's tree?

            grasshopper