days of silence
it is possible
and has happened
that
there are days when I don’t speak to anyone
not because I’m miffed
rather because there was no one
and I mean to use
my voice
though I might
talk in writing all the time
and
for a while now at least
there hasn’t been so much a gap in that
in this
as pauses that rarely go a day unless
there’s
surgery or some such
and the verbal silence doesn’t hut
maybe a little
and
I’ll sound croaky typically
when I talk again
and there are the hermits who go years
I guess
without saying anything yet
saying all the time in
spiritual conversation
then
those who try to blank their minds of everything
all
consciousness
per se
in order to be rid of any impeding thing in order
to know truly
everything
for
the rest is
silence
which is good for these
I think
and for me
I don’t know
but
too much
I believe
the quiet hours go
well
quiet
and as I am not yet finished in a life
or as a person
how much more might I learn
and own
of goodness
on my own
I need the time with you
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citing the line with “silence” from Hamlet 5, Scene 2, line 4020 of the play (Open Source Shakespeare)
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the better wish
what
do I have to say for me
to you
or not for one or the either of us
depending on
selections
of
the muse
who rises and allows
I hope this is or has been
depending on zone
lines
a fine day for you
special
maybe beyond special for simply having been
the gift of another day
that the hours passed
well
for you
pleasant and however subcutaneous
some
satisfaction in it
rest you believe is deserved
or
you know
don’t think about it
simply and
may I wish a long and steady time
and
then ascend into tomorrow
its challenges
and
pleasures
possible and for you
to have both in healthy
measure
even
if the world isn’t careful in its
offerings that may
arrive
as
its demands
well
and as you often say to me
my friend
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good
God is good
and
gives us good
and teaches us as well
for in
everything might be a lesson
of its own purpose
and
to promote a making thus
a maker
so then nature as gospel
its
good news
in and of itself
though
sometimes it should
appear and feel
and is
indifference
and
what shall be learned
by
scouring tragedy
except to know
that loss
seems to prevail but
by calm days and
seasons
for new growth
does not overwhelm forever
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Walden by Thoreau appeared on 9 August 1854
photo by Lee Jeffs on Unsplash
flew off the tree
a human form with wings
and
we cry out
and run away
and I think
I might
by the surprise and instinct that we keep
for
insects and for serpents
this was in England
where she has
finds
as a supernal Hundred Acre Wood
as
well as Neverland
so
named by Scotland’s Barrie
but Germany
or
Holland or
Russia of Baba Yaga
or Asia with the dragons there
and
doesn’t require a Saint
George
but all the stories
we might gather while we searching
or
when
we’re surprised
lands of
Anansi
or
the Raven for a character
both
natural and extreme
because we want so far
is how to take
the world
we want the magic
with
extreme imagination
to
be real
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actual sighting
photo by Jessy Paston on Unsplash
on the wall
cross on the wall
simple
bought before the closing of the store
and
there since I brought the last office
back
stands for simplicity
I guess
though mainly stands for itself
cross empty of crucifixion
though
mindful of crucifixion as
a static thing
might
nonetheless move
or so we think
even
to hear the cross
speak
to say
that he’s not here
but that
he was
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photo by Johannes Krupinski on Unsplash
easy awe
how frightened should we be of God
to know the power
that
nothing could hold against
so that a weapon of deception
is
the only choice
for devils
since nothing material
if owned
could
stand a chance as in pitching
God’s own
against
God’s own
and yet a God of love
who
waits for choosing
maybe
by still water
or in the troughs of war
or
by the bedside
when
the sickness is bad
or
with the victims of the drought
that
civil conflicts caused
or
because dry seasons happen
anyway
and that is power
too
and so to hate or love
or
frustrate the faith
for
everything that’s giving and that’s taking
God
who seems to have chosen for God
an invisible place
from which to offer presence
and so
the paradox of that
for faith
truth in the trees
or at
the hilltop where the sun has danced
and
thousands choose it is
the bright and
even painful
show
of God
show for
real
and for them proof enough to choose
and
now
for the rest
only with evidence unseen
and filtered through a dark glass
of our insight
at
best
and what we shall believe
while love even to forestall power
awaits
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taste and see
taste anything
and
in the savor
or simply end of hunger
to know
that God is good
having
made all things for food and
us
that in relationship we might exist
and
when there is enough
to thrive
and not
to discount farming
or
cooking or anything by way of preparation
even the stance we take
the setting
for
a meal
a snack
a drink of water
what
have you
throughout everything to keep us alive
there is goodness
from
a good God
who
first made us that way
and
though fallen
we live and consume
and are nourished
then
to rise
and if it’s bread and wine
let
that be enough
to start
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Psalm 34:8
photo by Olga Kovalski on Unsplash
the pope’s concert
one channel carries
the global
event
it is a Christian event
that might keep certain folk from watching
and
especially
to hear
it is a global event that narrow sight
would turn and lead
away
those
whose walls pretended to be gold
and
thoroughness of wealth
also control
pretense to earthly power
and
should the devils weep except
to
know there is
such withholding by such willful ignorance
with great effort
never
to confront
the good
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first actions
light and dark
become day and night
the spirit
moves the water
and
the land
yet maybe water first
because there is
so much of it
then the peaks allowed to rise
to bring the valleys
plains
and
deserts along
toward the unnamed sky
and all of this now
wait
for habitation and then
the incident
of naming
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