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Something Thursday

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I’d like to say something

Thursday real

For the tenth of February

2022

Partly cloudy

(mostly cloudy at the moment)

Unseasonably warm,

Which is a good message

In and of itself

An old movie’s on

Featuring George Raft

Whom I haven’t seen or heard

Before

Many fell for him

Maybe there was swooning

I think he’s all right

The film is rather noir

So everything’s restrained

Except the violent parts

Nothing like

The violence in the movies now

You know this

In fact, the film’s in black and white

Though the blood looks

Real enough

To me

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Sun is out

My black-and-white day

Is changing into

Living color

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(the movie is Nocturne, 1946)

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Photo by Tobias Stonjeck on Unsplash

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We Climb the Stairs

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We Climb the Stairs

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Groundhog Day should

Be fun, I guess

Fun is good

We need fun

But then there are these

Shootings from last night

(the news I got

last night)

In schools

With at least

One child dead

A teen

Someone’s child

I don’t mean to say

Forget the goofy

Or excess

I guess

I’m searching for perspective

Phil saw his shadow,

By the way

And by the way

He’s typically wrong

I think on purpose

For being yanked out of

His burrow

In midwinter

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Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash

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https://news.yahoo.com/milwaukee-police-search-suspect-quintuple-161626587.html

https://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2022/02/02/richfield-minnesota-school-shooting-suspects-custody/9312308002/

https://news.yahoo.com/beloved-campus-officers-killed-bridgewater-142022218.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

https://kidsongs.com/song/me-and-my-shadow/

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Days of Ice and Fire

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Days of Ice and Fire

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My goodness, there are days

And days

So many days in winter

Solstice, Christmas, Saint Stephen’s

New Year’s,

Epiphany

Saint Brigid’s (Imbolc)

Groundhog Day

(Candlemas

more so in the world)

Lunar New Year

All the other new years

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We hope for weather

Hope for seeds

Hope for good crops in spring

Hope for spring itself

A good one,

Only wet enough

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For these hopes,

Having days

And nights

Lighting bonfires

Singing against the cold

Even white madness

In some parts

While in the south,

It’s summer

(we’d only have to look

there

for our hopes)

There are other days

At other times

But winter draws in many,

And they overlap

As cultures,

Folklores

(these days conveniences)

Decide

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We need the hope

We call it SADS to treat

(and must)

But in the old

Of old

It was the awful gathering

(full of awe)

To light the fire

Sing

And hope for more

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To sacrifice, perhaps

Or otherwise negotiate

Life on the season’s

Other side

Bargained fearfully

With god

And god

So many gods

Before we thought

We knew

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photo by Miroslav Škopek on Unsplash

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Below the Salt

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Below the Salt

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I imagine in the Northeast

There is pounding

We are on the western edge

And so did all right

Is there a cyclone bomb

And what is that?

How many are hurt

Because of nature?

How many are hurt

Because of us?

Nature adds and takes away

So do we

We could provide for everyone

All the time

We have the means

Materials

Gathered in by many

Gathered by a few

It’s simply allowance,

A pyramid, a tomb of resources

For the populace

If we drew a line above sufficiency

Safe water, food, good places to live,

The chance to learn,

Security

(none of this is new)

Then profiting above the line

Wouldn’t that make societies

And nations?

Keep reading

And keep living

Keep trying

The pyramid of plenty

Is ready

For you

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Below the Salt is the title of a novel by Thomas B. Costain.  The title is a reference to social ranking and allowance.

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Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash

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Challenger Remembrance

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Challenger Remembrance

(28 January 1986)

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Today the Challenger

Exploded and took lives

Away

A dedicated crew was on board

One member was

Christa McAuliffe

And we remember her

Her lively presence

In the classroom

And elsewhere

Is missed

No one replaces her

No one replaces any of them

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No one replaces

Those lost in the fire

Of Apollo 1

Chaffee, Grissom, White

Those removed

From the living list

When Columbia crashed

Or cosmonauts elsewhere

(elsewhen)

Were killed

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Technology is risky

Advancement is risky

Discovery is risky

There might be

Something wrong with us

Or exploration is

The right thing to do

And we are right to do so

To explore

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Photo by eberhard 🖐 grossgasteiger on Unsplash

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Prayers for Alan Alexander

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Prayers for Alan Alexander

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Yesterday was A. A. Milne’s birthday

I didn’t know

And didn’t learn

Before posting time

(which sounds like horses

on the track

sorry, horses)

Anyway and, oh, bother

For not knowing

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Nothing new to pray for

Regarding supplication,

I suppose,

Except that A. A. be welcomed

Into heaven

And his boy who died some years

After and for us

Some years

Ago

And that both and all

Go on to play in

The Hundred Acre Wood

Until it’s time for honey

Then rest upon the bridge,

Followed by

Trudging up the stairs

To bed

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Sunset in the forest.

Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash

Poland

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Wolf Moon

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Wolf Moon

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The wolf cries

For food, for family

For companionship

The monogamous wolf

Who knows companionship

Who knows a mate

And family

And food

And wonders why the Earth

Is barren

Crying for itself

And for its mate and family

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Crying for its mate and family

And for the barren Earth

That the community

Knows and tells,

It wasn’t always this way

There was plenty

And a law

For every living thing

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Some nights

What might the Earth and wolf do

But cry

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I thank Judith Nilan (https://stonefireblog.com/) for the inspiration.

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Photo by Marek Szturc on Unsplash

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The Way Love Is

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The Way Love Is

(Martin Luther King, Junior)

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Today is the Monday

We set aside

To honor

Martin Luther King, Junior

Whose birthday

Is close by

He is not honored for

Perfection

But for testimony

In words and action

To the truth

That we are equal

And together we can change

The world

For the better

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He was a minister

Though anyone

Who acts to change

The world

For the better

Is a

Symbol of God

His name was not

At first

Martin Luther

(talk with his father),

But anyone

Who speaks

To truth in love

Is truly on the roll

Of heaven

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We need truth-talking

And truth-acting

We need to be

Encouraged

We need to act

Together

The children of

Earth for the

Now, the next

Children of

The Earth

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Landscape

Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash

Oostvaardersplassen, Lelystad, Netherlands

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Will What You Will

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Will What You Will

(2022)

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It is the last day

Of the Christmas season

Marred last year

By crimes

Twelve drummers drumming

In a drumhead court

For some

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The rest of us take down

Our trees and lights

Burn the skeletons of trees

In the town square

At least that happened

In my town

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We sang the last of carols

For a while

The nation need remember

That some gatherings are good

Some spectacles

Modest with intent

And execution

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Grant us wisdom, Lord,

The meaning of the season

As is said

Not so much sectarian

As loving in and from

The hearts and minds

We have

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Photo by Michael Descharles on Unsplash

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