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you, the season, and the Bible (3 poems)


the Tuesday verse

it’s Tuesday
how
are you

well
I hope
and
if not on your way toward
becoming well

and more

I don’t know what kind
of day you’ll have
today
maybe one of actual prosperity
or
to refine only
hope for
more

maybe there will be peace
this day
though there might be conflict
just
as well

the world as it is
we know

here it happens to be
raining and it’s
cooler

it might be raining where you are
as well

as
it falls near
everyone
even in the desert now
and
then

a happy Tuesday to you
and we try to raise our thoughts
toward
a Wednesday with
an even
better view

maybe weather
notwithstanding
or
altering


the longest day

the solstice is approaching
Midsummer
or
Saint John’s

and then the days grow shorter
though it’s
summer
and we think if in irony of longer
days

relish
in fact
the light of day that lingers as a cue
for picnics and vacations
or
simply to take in
because of the gradients of
blue
and then
the stars appear to dance

to twinkle through the atmosphere
at least
in the summer hours we have

which
will grow longer for them

maybe in the dark of only this time
of year
we’ll also think of kick-the-can and
capture-the- 
flag


time and talent

Jesus wept

the reputed shortest verse
though
it’s a matter of numbering and syntax
of translators

and
then getting by the editors in
the inspired process

and maybe new translations
paraphrases
challenge other parts for that epithet

say
to write in Genesis
God made

or maybe to try
only
God


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photo by Wenying Yuan on Unsplash

the week

a new week to you
and should you have it
maybe with
some hours yet unplanned
though
expectations beckon

some time wrangled as this
might need wrangling
for
oneself
and for them

each kind
and for each one

and there should be peace in that
and if none
then a chiming and a watchword
to design
and re-design
time
and intent
work with play

to find and have and live the loves that
make the rest
foundation with resources
added

new expectations maybe
balance
margin
whatever called or used

to impose the human
and approving the divine and in
a partnership
to live
and move
and have our being

have time and let the time be normal
for you
and for them
and don’t parse this
rather
you
and them

and maybe for an errant word from
me
or the peer community

peace to you this
week
if it may
with pleasure
and accomplishment
and love as a thread through
all
the fabric to the edges of the loom
and then
tucked under

and
if possible
if and when it’s healthy
live
and work in partnership

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I hope it’s been a good Father’s Day; yesterday (I didn’t note), was Flag Day in the USA and Mitzi’s birthday, everywhere

Acts 17:28 (referenced)

photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash

phobicly yours

superstitions

le chat noir

ladders
cracks in stones
spilling salt

and on
and you know some
for sure
I don’t

so this is a bad
day
as it was
certainly for the Templars

on 13 Friday
in 1307
(October)

and I have not had the best day
though
I hope you have
because
if you didn’t know the day or number
you might have a good or bad
day
regardless

and the same
a good
or bad
day tomorrow

hoping it’s good

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in 1307, the king of France got the approval of the pope to attack and kill the Knights Templar with the agenda to eradicate the order; the date was 13 October, and the day was Friday (all over France at the same time, Templar knights were captured, slain, or imprisoned to be slain a.s.a.p.)

and if cats, by the way, black and any kind, were not considered evil as likely devilish familiars—and so exterminated in great numbers throughout Europe—then the Black Plague might have been forestalled or in fact not happened, since cats tended to eat the rats that carried the fleas that carried the Bubonic infection

stepping off the soapbox now

photo by Adél Grőber on Unsplash

in this late season

it is bright and
hot
yellow
emerald like Oz
dark branches hold up spring
fullness

blossoms’
debut
voices to whispers in the trees

dismal bouts are done for now so
that
the moon should look clear
in its expressions in
the night

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photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash

the edge of Normandy back then

we like the beach
don’t we
and
for a moment

did a soldier
think if
in
a sliced half-minute
before
before getting to take a second
step
from the landing ramp

a couple thoughts
like

this is the beach
and
I think
I’d like the beach
being
from the real Omaha and
never stepping
on
warm sand before

and
should there be
a third
step
on the beach

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photo by Daria Strategy on Unsplash

on World Environment Day

on the day
World Environment Day
we may think of Earth
on our
reliance on the ground
even that which is
the solid planet
beneath
water and ice
and through and over air as well

and shall we keep it
Earth
sure

we are so used to it the firmness or
even the firmament by
Bibles

we step around the bad parts
don’t you know

the parts
that nature made

as can with
the bad parts made by us
if once
perhaps
by mistake and now
without doubt
by
will

and shall we leave our steps
reliant
the things we walk or ride on
too

the Earth whose sureness is in trouble

that splits
and lava-
magma-bleeds
and is
a hotter place than
ever
via human extractions
formulation

and how much do we believe in bunkers
really
that should protect us even
as the planet ‘round them
fails

there is no such protection and for now
nowhere else to go
except in orbit
maybe
where most of us will never go
and
can’t sustain itself for life
in body or
in spirit

meaning we give up on Earth
then
we are done

and other planets
other sentient species will
have to take
over
means for
foundation and if by
a change

benevolent inventing
and
no other
world kind

and yet
if we may style and make a world
and then a salutation
well
go
Earth
only and as
to cheer

for all
the elements that make
and keep
a world
made and kept anew

honestly and thoroughly
by us

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image by USGS at Unsplash