cherish is the word

the spooky tree

I just heard mention of
a “spooky tree”

trees are spooky
I suppose
or can be especially when given
the Hallowe’en shape
and
association

though trees are green as well
and the green parts
we are drawn
to
for all they are as well as
what they mean

green
la vida
(not loca)

we have had an equinox
lately
and so we’re on a kind of edge
or cusp
in
not so much
the sky-shape of the moon
and how the stars
are
traveling

or even tables of tides
or even
Zodiac zones

we are on a line
	an edge
	a cusp
and spring should follow
normally
though we have put the seasons on an edge
as well
through what we’ve done to sky
water
and ground

our edge
(related to the others)
is made up of
resolve
which the other things with lines and such
can’t muster

we choose the Earth
we choose
	the sky
	the water
	and the ground

and we choose each other
in the kind of
relation
that comes with deciding our part
of the cosmos
(sometimes
consideration is that
big)

what shall we choose
and
how to live

we have a cusp for timing

there’s no point in
despotism

we can be equal in each other’s eyes
and
all selective senses

and
yes
there’s good
and there is evil
and they need attending
for each is in the world
as each is
in
and from
each of us

we have to keep a world
governments and industries
we should value life
our lives
in whatever motley way we have life
once
we have it
and it goes on

the isms have their place
though they should be mollified by
things
mentioned through ages

befitting
old
and new
and renewed

c l couch


“Cherish” is a song written by Terry Kirkman and recorded by The Association.  “Cherish” was released in 1966.

Photo by USGS on Unsplash[--]Soaring, snow-capped peaks and ridges of the eastern Himalaya Mountains create an irregular white-on-red patchwork between major rivers in southwestern China. The Himalayas are made up of three parallel mountain ranges that together extend more than 2,900 kilometers. [From USGS.] (And it looks a bit like a Hallowe’en tree. From me.)