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Monday Possibilities

(x = space)

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Monday Possibilities

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God is love

God is a spirit

God is a lion

Too

And a rock

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Not a rock

Though we might paint

“Jesus Saves”

On one

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There was such a place

I was ridden by

Then drove by

While I was growing up

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A rock

Next to a pool

A stream

Some kind of moving water

Because

The place looked dark and fresh

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“Jesus Saves”

Why

Yes

He does

God who is that spirit

And that love

Even a lion

Helps to make it so

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There is a trinity

A kind of multiplicity

Who knows how

Wide the

Godhead

In all the dimensions

When day by day

In all our wandering

We know barely more

Than three

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A kind of multiplicity

Is God

That made the rock

And made the paint

(though did not sell it

though somebody

could)

But doesn’t sleep

xxxxxThat’s energy

xxxxxInside the Earth

xxxxxAwaiting

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I guess it’s Monday

I’m thinking about

The possibilities

While I have mean neighbors

But friendly faces

In my life

To recall

At will

And call with real immanence

As well

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Where is the lion

But in a free place

Offering

(a big paw)

An invitation

For us

There

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A statue on display in the Grand Egyptian Museum.

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Waiting for the War to End

(x = space)

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Waiting for the War to End

(words I heard offered rhetorically in a sermon)

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Who goes today?

Who’s gotten

Sick?

Will there be meals?

Will there be

Water

To rely on?

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How much less?

How many

Lost?

Only questions

In the catechetic style

Absent

Of answers

What is said

Depending, not depending

On a side

A leadership

Misleading

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How long?

The first day when

Everything blew apart

Making

Normalcy

Seem paradisal

Now

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When is the end,

The end we

Have,

Because we’re still

Here?

For those who have electric,

Normalcy is

Elsewhere

Where we can watch it

Hear it

Happening

Without explosions

News

Of explosions

Near

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We’d be envious

Were we not preoccupied with

Terror

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World Bee Day

(x = space)

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World Bee Day

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No be

Without the bees

(probably a pun

only in English

sorry)

Better living only

With chemicals

I don’t think so

We’ll poison ourselves

There are bloated

Tragic

Precedents

(Bhopal, Deep Horizon, the Valdez)

When we could cooperate

With bees

And live

Everything that can live

Be alive

Our round bears show the way

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And Shall It Be

(x = space)

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And Shall It Be

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Amazing love

And

Can it be

Sing so

For it is true

Take comfort when

We’re certain

There’s no comfort

Accept pardon

When we’re

Certainly

Condemned

Because we’re done

Unless we wish

It so

Hubris

Material ambition

Only

A choice for evil

And the revenant

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For the rest

How many

We can’t count

There is the chance

For faith

And for eternity

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Well,

We don’t talk about this

At home

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Well,

Maybe you should

While you are here

Before you’re

There

‘Cause there is coming

Which should

Be wondrous

Faith

For grace

And peace

And joy

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The world seems to strong

Against

And it is armed

With sticks and stones

And missiles

Sent by will

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Or drama

About other things

Comedy

Or tragedy

Too often tragedy

With violence

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Or the fog

We settle into

With excuses

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We’re not stupid

Everyone can know

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To turn

Gospel-surprised

By story

Grace

And faith

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And don’t worry if

My faith sounds differently

For different

Words

Or looks odd in concerning ways

For habit

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Is there belief

And is there love?

Then all of us

So-set

Never perfectly

Are nonetheless

On the way

That matters

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Believe

If you want

Not like choosing paint

But choosing

Life

This life without

The hard parts

The ignorant

The terrible

The peace-less

Parts

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Subsumed as if forgotten

Like the pardon

For our sins

Some of this is easy

Like a promised burden

That is true

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All can believe

Test the waters

Test the

Spirit

Go with what

Seems to you

In prayer

Is true

And don’t worry about

Eloquence

Or righteousness

In prayer

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Believe

And live

Today

And when tomorrow fades

Into today

Forever today

Forever

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“And Can It Be that I Should Gain” by Charles Wesley (1738)

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Sing Earth and Celebrate

(x = space)

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Sing Earth and Celebrate

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Shall we celebrate

Shall

We dance

Or tap affirmative

While sipping

To the side?

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It is an open day

Sky for a ceiling

Though we can make canopies

And later

Light candles

For the bugs

(I mean citronella

or the like

safely

not to kill them

but keep them away

where they might dance

in dark

safe places)

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Unsure about the music

We could argue

For

A bit of everything

And as for food

Can start with stones

Then

Enter friendly rivalry

For dishes from

Here

Or there

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There should be

Volume

For talking

And volume as enough

For everyone

And let the children sleep

Near

Or under

Tables

To which

And for whom we brought

Sleeping rolls and mattresses

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And

Yes

There might be plots

In the dark

Remembering

Our traitors were invited

Too

But

Try to be friendly

People

We will have had

This one chance

For Earth

On Earth

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oops

(x = space)

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oops

(even big oops)

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we make mistakes

mistakes aren’t sins

unless we mean mistakes

that way

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errors made

that aren’t intentions

sins should meet grace

anyway

the spirit’s and our own

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and as for tripping up

who doesn’t trip

from time to time

the curse from living on this side

of eden

x

fix it

clean it

whatever’s needed

apologize

accept apologies

move on

there’s so much more

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amen, amen, amen, amen, amen

(x = space)

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amen, amen, amen, amen, amen

(you can sing it)

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there were good hymns

in church

and a couple that were sleepy

the sermon was terrific

for being true and in style easy

as if we could believe

afterward

and live it through the new week that

all this was meant to serve

amen

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Mom’s Day

(x = space)

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Mom’s Day

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When she was alive

And I had friends on campus

I got notes from her

From time to time

And a card on Mother’s Day

Sometimes for Father’s Day

She could get confused

She was a cat

Who when sick

Or when we were moving

I brought to my office

To let her sleep under the desk

Or rub my face

When I was working

As was her way

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And to make friends of peers

Students

Even the cleaning staff

Who were friendly people

So was she

She couldn’t be a mother

But she let me

From time to time

Be a mother

(also a father, keeper, friend, target)

And sent me notes and cards

For Mom’s Day

And other reasons

When I was on campus

And had friends there

While she was a good friend

A cat-child

In all places

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happy Mom’s Day to all moms

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A Day with Rings

(x = space)

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A Day with Rings

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How is your day today

I want to know

Did you clean something

Or negotiate

With dust bunnies to

Back away with company

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It’s the weekend

You might not have the weekend

Expectations change

Deadlines

And work quantities

This could be a day of play

The virtue of busyness

Our construct for a while

Notwithstanding

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Whatever is involved

Have a good

Deserved day

Please

And thank you

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