Easter Saturday 2017
Grey house near a sodden hilltop
Under a sky of ashes
We all live there from time to time
One by one
Our own Golgotha
Gehenna, Calvary
Our own ordinary crucifixions
Bereft of hope
And faith
Waiting for life
C L Couch
Choose the Day
I write about the world I haven’t seen
What else is there to do
Places in photographs and other images
Bits of sound that cannot spark a memory
But will become a recollection
A safe recalling of details
But if I don’t take in the world this way
And stultify my senses
What good
Is all the patter in my head
The galloping the heart takes
The state of caring for unknown
Sibling places of my own
The people I am
One of
In striving above the rim
Of need
That cries and presses
Issues that are real
Eschewing abstract
I care as if I know
You, too
We are species-creatures, after all
Created with a will
To have overwhelm compunction to go through it
Each of us, our discrete ways
To manage each cosmos
Of consequences
All of which to say, it happens
Over the China Sea, I
Breathe it here
The cyclone ruinous in northern Australia
Abandons me as well
You see me in another room
We add dimension
We have
The future of each other
Hazelnut or a grain of sand—the
Molecule metaphor of
Julian or Blake
The making of a world we can contain
Not to box the heart
But render viable the sanity
Of conviction in the worldly act
Perception’s generosity
Minds alert
Ready
We act
C L Couch
wedreamstandup
(for Cameron on World Down Syndrome Day)
we dream, stand up
we sense the world around us
we love what we know
we fear when we are the unknown
knowingly, love us
we love you
we love the world we have
in the family of care
trust us, we learn
we give and take, we want to
be a part of you
we’re born for that
and like you
as you
we make the way
of wonder
grow with us
love us
teach us
let us in the world
we are here, we are ready to serve
in our own way, yes, our way
which we share with you, all people
you know we are
receive and send
it is our way, isn’t it
we here on Earth
and in the clouds of soaring
dreams and directions
who knows where we land
but take off with us and all set down
together
our lives, our homes, our world
our given places
all our lives
all our loves
we dream, stand up
C L Couch
Science Always Starts
(NASA.gov)
Science always starts
With a question
Science always starts
This week’s question
This moment’s question
Have you seen this
Are you looking
Are you looking for
Have you seen
Are you looking
Precipitation Education
Why are there six
Sides
Why so many
Why so few
Science Opportunities for (the)
Future
Opportunities for
Future
Opportunities
For all schools to watch
For all
For all to watch
Exoplanet Transiting
Set to launch
“Aurorasaurus”
Citizen Scientist Project
Webinars
Citizen Scientist
NASA STEM
Earth Right Now
Sun and Water Cycle
Water Cycle
Sun
Solar Week in March
In the month of spring
Solar Eclipse Workshops next
NASA Journey to Mars
Free
Free Journey
Free Journey to Mars
Planetarium
Dome Education
New
Explore NASA Science
Website
New website
NASA Science
New science
New science website
Are you looking for
Find science resources
Are you looking for resources
Did you miss last week’s
Nasa’s Science Education
WOW
Education on the web
The web
Educating
Did you miss
Education
Science
Are you looking
Did you miss
Find resources
Don’t miss
Looking
Visit
Check out
Free
(Be) free
Celebrate
Integrating
Fly
Survey
Opportunities
Science starts always
Always with a question
This Week’s Question
Have you seen
Have you this
Check out the latest
WOW
With a question
Have you seen
Have you this
Mission
You have a mission
C L Couch
(Inspired by “the latest edition of NASA Education’s ‘Science WOW!’—your source for NASA opportunities in science education delivered ‘Weekly On Wednesday.’” Sent from education@nasa.gov.)
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Cenobite
Anchor
Inside land
Rock entrance
No way out behind
No desire to leave
Desert mothers
And fathers
In the middle of the world
Excavating wisdom
Penitents arrive
Messengers
For what’s learned
When
Earth and rock and light
Are home
And everything
Is God
C L Couch
Jazz Mass
Welcome to this house
Of Monk
Coltrane
And many more
Saintly-celebrating
Billie Holiday
Muddy Waters
Buddy Rich who sticks for
Ella
Sacred syncopated
Earth and all stars
Their music turns
A service
Into lifetime crazy, holy
Obligation
C L Couch
“Earth and all stars,” the first words of a hymn by Herbert Brokering composed for Saint Olaf College, Minnesota, first published in 1968
Valentine’s is Tuesday. A day whose origin is in sacrifice and martyrdom. In the pesky chapter of Ephesians, it’s how the role of husbands in marriage is described. Like the role of Jesus to the church, his bride and for whom he gave his life. The saint exchanged messages of love from his prison cell with his followers outside. (Who knows but someone might have been in jail with him.) Red is not for romance but for the color of the final cause. Enjoy the greeting cards—I will—and chocolate. And flowers for an augur of spring in the north. But there are higher things to think of, among them how we love this day. And to the next.
C L Couch
Old White Men Please Stop Running Things
You’ve had your chance
And this is what you’ve got
While holding others from their turn
Earth is a hurting place, and
Can it get much worse?
Of course, it can
Which is why it’s time past time
To turn over what
Was never only yours
C L Couch
n.b.
There is nothing to say
That hasn’t been said before
But if I feel something new,
I’ll try
With what I have
To say what to the world
Is the same old thing
C L Couch
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