Annunciation school and church
shame
what is the shame
humiliation in
allowing such things to happen
such
awful things
and those who seek to move the world
but
cannot keep children safe
by lesser measures than vainglorious
and is that
it
we cannot say
one cannot say
I did this
and the mountains shook
the seawaves vibrated
by my hand
I pressed my enemies into the ground
beneath the beneath
and
took on God’s role for myself
over heaven
over hell
no
we simply mean to keep our children safe
most of us
that is
to remove the means
for harm
from them and from those
who’d
just as soon hurt them
to let Annunciation
say
these are the children
these
are welcome
we will keep these in the world
and
rise and fall by how we do
to have them in the school for learning
in
the church for faith
at last madness all to own
and
did it say
I hate those Christians
for
what is there to believe in
not myself
only the power I might bear
a little while
‘til I’m caught
‘til my
life is over and what
do I care
this is significance
blood
and flame
I’m like a king
a stupid
conniving
thieving king
a king
of nothing
this is what I am
what I’ve
become
and by such cruelty
and madness
I shall die
only
for remembrance
of them
not who I was
but
what I did
and even then only the loss
and hoped-for judgment
of
the flames
except for those
forgiving
even though I hate the Christian
almost
as much me
then
as I must hate
certainly deny
if not
forget
their God
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MINNEAPOLIS — Mass was underway Wednesday morning to mark the beginning of the academic year at Annunciation Catholic School when bullets started to come through the glass.
. . . which killed two students and wounded more than a dozen other people, . . .
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the work of art
maybe it’s the tension of creation
of sensing
something different
to be
remade
and so reconsidered
there’s simply the beauty
in the difference
of the thing
colors
angles used in other ways
untypical
exhibiting by protest no matter
how
genial
the showing and
the gathering
the sips of wine and such
the room décor
the thing
once owned
should complement
though there was the making
and the message with
remains
to rise
time and again
through the risks of close
appreciation
and
reaction
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celestial travel ecumenical
the journey crost
over
the bar
a star that guides
the journey each of us have to
take
hoping the water’s navigable
and the pilot
knows the way
and has firm grip upon
the wheel
and can command the crew
both technically and
kindly
then Tennyson has sailed this way
crost to the other side
and
we might do the same in variants of
faith
and transport but
to arrive
to disembark or simply step
from this life into
heaven
or
what you call it
how you get
there
that
we may study
talk about
while we pursue
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Crossing the Bar
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
after Tennyson composed the poem, he requested that it appear at the end of all published collections, and it did
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"Cherry Branch-Minnesott Beach Ferry, North Carolina, USA"
the lamp unto
light
light the way
also unheavy
may light the way
that light
and shall we say
a lamp unto our feet
that
shows the way for feet
and that
the rest of us shall follow
light
as in leave
light as in binary opposition
shall explode for
meaning
light as that which is not dark
or darkness
the need to define
the thing for what it is
not
against what it’s not
light the way
for light
and also bearable for burdens we
carry
among them those we learn
to leave alone
the way
and thus
you
know
be lighter
and
sorry
I stretch English
not knowing the term’s diversity
in other languages
luz
all I know from Spanish
but we know words
mean
other things
I think from any people on the Earth
seven words for snow
and such
(and
are there)
seven words for love we say
in Greek of the Bible
yet
you know
like
fond
fan
appreciate
admire
adore
devote
we have some words in English
too
as I’m sure in your tongue you do
too
yet it was light
and light
to all
the kind that shows
also encourages
like manuscripts to keep
and
to encourage growth
in all
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so here it was
a prompt
I guess
if rather accidental
I was
simply swimming
in
my stream of consciousness
and so
to ask
what is light for you
or
another word with meaning
multiplicity
for us
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Psalm 119:105
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listening up
God be with us
daytime
into night and as the hours pass
the arrival
of the twenty-sixth
still August
still serving the vanity of
Augustus
and
these were gods in Rome
and you are God
everywhere
in every age
not
wanting to disrespect
but really
it is you
one God who made all of Earth
and Earths
yet
remain yourself
the same
the one
who I think will talk with us more
as we prepare
to listen
more than ears
a little theory
mostly
practice
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airways
in with the good air
like
cartoon resuscitation
breathing is important
it also
signals contemplation
also
a necessity for yoga
instruction
but back to contemplation
as if to step outside
and on the porch
to inhale
nature
of the morning
or the sunset
in a good way doesn’t matter
life
in active participle state
(or
gerund as condition
with commitment)
reminding
teaching
remembering perhaps
though at best
through the filter of the moment
hearing
as if the sound might be
pouring through our cells
a gospel of
now
inhaling the moment
exhaling
what is dispelling helpful to release
into
the cycle of all atmospheres
but
you know
simply breathe
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mock
devil
go away
I don’t have time
and
if I had the time
I wouldn’t have
the time
resist
now fly
or skulk
however you might move
but
move away
and if that nether prayer from Job
should work or any
then
let it work for you
unless
you fly or skulk
to God again
though what do I know
of dramas
in divinity
when
what I know
is go away
and let that be enough
for now
for me
and mine
and as for thee
devil
let none be thine
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praying about creations
God
are you out there
are you
in here
there is matter
there are spirits
there
is energy
and how many planes
through which
to live
we have this
self
we look through skin
with eyes and more than eyes
and less
we are alive
Earth is
alive
with even rock that moves
though let science determine
investiture
by measurement
and let us live
with
what we have
the wonders of exchange
cohabitation
of
matter and movement
oxygen
and carbon
a touch of supernal creation
to begin
and to carry into what is next
mystery
miracle
energy and matter
in
the exchange we know
and then a language with translation
only yours to speak
to generate
to sing into existence
afterward
maybe
first
a paradise to bear of explanation
and if you say
amen
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about ourselves in the world (2 poems)
to each a Compostela
God give me strength
that might seem out of character
to use
and own
measures for repentance
could be new gifts
inside
the grandest one
and how might we be changing
overall
new direction and new purpose
Matthew
or Zaccheus
those who used to fish for fish
Mary M
freed by touch of demons
new presence
new
bearing
new direction
sometimes they seem constant
Esther
Ruth
and
Deborah
sometimes misdirected
from the start
and
there’s no changing
Ahab
or Jezebel
or sometimes they get it wrong
then get it right
and
might still struggle
Moses
say
or Miriam
Jonah who in fact was
angry
to be changed
and where are we in these
each one on
the line
and how to use discretion
maybe grumbling
to change
the answer’s in the question for
each one
and how
we go
circumstances
yes
and how we change through these
going with or
resisting circumstance
to will ourselves
places alone morality
and what shall be our actions
and our
attitudes
to change or stay the same
somehow to plant and move ourselves
like
contrary pilgrims who begin the path
then stop
then start again
diplomat
inside the world
that changes or that stays the same
frankly
too troublesome
regardless
yet we go out
and
then go in
through foreign doors
to introduce ourselves and then
respond
to status quo
or status
as
it might be changing
charged
general or specific
by those back home who send us with
hopes
or maybe lack of interest
like
the indifferent who live allowably
not following
not voting
our care is for these
regardless
and the set of values we call home
to promulgate perhaps
though
maybe reverse-welcome at our stations
greet
those in their own places
hear their causes
hear more
and then respond
checking back
as
needed though bearing initiative
in
the call as well
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