(haiku about the gathering storm)
bright day turning haze
storm wind blowing through tree leaves
as the sun leans west
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photo by rhett sorensen on Unsplash
Endangered Species Day
(today)
I don’t know them all
and yet I know
the issues
maybe we know
the hunting of unique animals
the destruction of
the homes
those that add usefulness with beauty
to the world we know
or
should know
and there are insects
even
burrowing the soil to make
the ground worth working as if
they had
the mission
to do so
trophies
as only the living
prove
healthy places
in which to survive as well as do better
than
survival
leave them alone unless
and until we make the laws of
us to cooperate with
those
of Earth
if the fauna
should be wild
let it
and them be wild until
we learn
mostly what they know
to be let be
let
as in leave except
for photographs
them be
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photo by Alan J. Hendry on Unsplash
Bona
I hope you’ve had a good
Day
And I hope tomorrow is good
For you
Too
You’ve been deserving of this kind
Of time
I don’t know
If
It will be easy
You
Might have to work
And work is hard
You might
Have relationships attending
You might be inspired
Or
Reinforced
By
Spiritual truth
Maybe a presence
But for all the mights
I hope it is
And will
Be
Without doubt
A good
Day for you
I don’t think I’ve said this for a while
If not
Please pardon
Me
S’il vous plaît
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Photo by Àlex Rodriguez on Unsplash
“Nice Game”
Fontcoberta
(Esperanto)
1983
my mother died that year
only in her
fifties
I suppose I’ve dwelled on this
with words in
verse
before
maybe last year
to
think about each year
not in acrostic
too real
and I’m not clever
when
she
was young
that is
in her fifties
cancer took her
diagnosed too late
n.b.
so cherish
love on Earth
what there is to love of Earth
love one
and if possible
love more
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photo by Bill Kucera on Unsplash
2 weekend haiku
Saturday crowds green
back and out front glisten ‘round
wider spring’s sunlight
city slides from hill
bushel claims the under-light
weekend gospel press
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photo by Ruslan Zh on Unsplash
nostro papà
(as from one faithful)
papa
we welcome you
we hope you will address
the things
that wound our church
peace
be with you
and we shall pray for you
as you ask and will
you
pray for us
and we think you
will
things need changing
and
things need to remain the same
how do we
both
and yet we must
we are ancient church and
modern
too
how to be both
well
there’s much to do
be safe
be love as
Jesus says
as we should love our neighbors
too
may
all the sins be cleansed
as only God might
clean
and may good and true
believing
and the living
take over as we
love God and we love you
hear us
please
please lead the church
with hearing
along with pronouncing where
(and
what)
there’s need and so
we pray for you
yes
we do
go with God
maybe
God
with all of us
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remembering Francis
photo by Onur Binay on Unsplash
Strikes
Only
Military targets
And is there such a way
A war in one’s land
Won’t
Only affect
Military forces and machines
Yet even
So
Military means soldiers
And support
Meaning people
While an oath to serve is fine
(and it is)
To serve
Defend
And if need be die
The oath or service doesn’t
Detract from
The reality and worth of
Soldiers and support
War might be metal
Regarding two or more it could
Go nuclear
Though
Mainly
War is human
That’s it
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What Were the Targets India Says It Destroyed in Pakistan?
by Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/what-were-targets-india-destroyed-its-strikes-pakistan-2025-05-07/
Photo by imad Clicks on Unsplash
Srinagar, Kashmir On Dal Lake
2 haiku about the seasons
the spring the winter
autumn summer seasons are
negotiated
green brown warm silver
blue cold red orange umber
cool yellow gold hot
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photo by Joshua Fuller on Unsplash
the killings at Kent State
prelude
the lists don’t show
who shot whom
except
for whom
we don’t know the perpetrators
with
the guns
and certainly there are sides
though only
one side
was
you know
armed
more so we could
search documents or
talk with folk
to
know and note
who
gave orders
as if to say to children then
don’t learn more
or
your elders
might just as well
kill you
requiem
if you were at Kent State
in 1970
on the fourth of
May
you should have heard
shots
and known some of your peers
had been killed
by intramural soldiers of your nation
learning the price
of protest
I suppose
except that’s absurd
because the nation’s youth
and anyone who’s here under rights
and that
everyone
should not have to speak out at the cost
of loss of
life
and who had guns
but only soldiers
the only thing destructive
on
the students’ sides were
voices
yes
and maybe
numbers
it was tragic all around
unreasonably
even
stupidly
frankly so
I mean
what parent generation calls for killing
of its children
what learning process
even with complexity
goes so far
so
terminally far
to send a message
don’t learn anymore
don’t grow
don’t try
ever
again
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Taking place in 1970, the Kent State Shootings (also known as the Kent State Massacre or May 4 Massacre) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus.
(Wikipedia and me)
Jeffrey Glenn Miller
Allison Beth Krause
William Knox Schroeder
Sandra Lee Scheuer
plus nine more students shot, wounded
photo by Ally Griffin on Unsplash
(stairways in Kent Ohio USA)
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