Process-Serving
The morning is enlivened
Mister Coffee’s gurgling
Hot water’s running for the dishes
I wouldn’t call this a quickening
But the day feels
More official, now
The typing here is quiet
No touch-typing, certainly no
Banging on a manual
Keyboards are largely quiet
Except when many clack together
The monkeys writing War and Peace
Why is it War and Peace
That’s cited in the hypothetical—
Why not Origin of Species?
Maybe we should write “War and Peace”
A hundred times on a blackboard
To value the former, keep the latter
And then
Write something new
Something with words that
Anyone might apprehend,
Which elevates the need for language
First steps taken by Cyril and Methodius
When evangelizing on the steppes
The factions understood
Not them, not one another
So the mission’s gift of love was
Words to hear
For those who would
But back behind a half a world
I have coffee
And a program loaded
Time to listen to the birds outside
And scratch black tracks of claw marks here
The solution
To an ancient riddle
Letters across the page
Pauses and diacriticals
Maybe to make meaning
Form a message
Then to send it
C L Couch
Public Domain (Pixabay)
clcouch123 
December 2, 2018 at 8:28 pm
I love that when I read your pieces I learn a great deal. Some words I must look up, some allusions I must search for. For this, I went to look up Cyril and Methodius — founders of the Orthodox Church. I didn’t know this at all.
Briefly, Wikipedia also tells me that “they are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic.”
To me, this passage means that your poem, if we are to teach with peace or teach in the way of love, as they taught, then we should have less war. Or at least, understand the great sacrifices of love for country & peace, made in war. But perhaps we never learn?
At least Cyril and Methodius devise this Slavic alaphabet & laguage to begin the Orthodox Church, & spread the message of Gods love in a way everyone can understand through their symbols — their written language. Written language is indeed so vital to remember stories —To maintain peace, not forget the tragedies of war, to love one another as Christ loves us.
Wonderful Christopher.