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3 Links in a Chain

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3 Links in a Chain

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I slept half a night

That was half a morning

My eyes are strained

(they hurt)

I have a heart test later on

And another to have

On my own

By the next visit

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I feel like Peter Pan

In that

I won’t grow up

Neverland must be nice

All that woodwork

A heaven for Bob Vila

(remember him?)

It might be

On a co-ed trend by now

And so

A better microcosm

I suppose the wireless

Is terrible

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Funny how

Wireless is back

When it was so antique

As a term

For a long while

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A hundred years ago

Or so

It was what the radio

Was called;

I suppose we have both usages

In large part

To Tesla

Thank you, Nikola,

And also for your notion

Of offering the capacity

Free for everyone,

Which would be

Quite

The advancement

Over air

And underfoot

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Maybe that’s my

Secret hobbit name

Mister Underfoot for when

I’m on clandestine

Business

Eschewing riders

Not from Rohan

But from Mordor

Or

The busybodies

By daylight

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Image by Micha from Pixabay 

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two brief poems, unrelated (well)

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two brief poems, unrelated (well)

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Spirited

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What shall God

Have for us today?

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A new assignment?

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A day to read up

Instead?

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A list of prayer so long

Indeed

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Indeed

We’ll need the day,

Its focused energy for

Intercessions?

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A day to encounter

Creation

Specially,

To consider all the wonder

And to play?

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Or this day

Might be a day

Like all days

To love God and each other,

Not a suggestion

Or an option

But direction

Limited by human will

Alone

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Though

Admittedly

As people in the world

With

Myriad possibilities

There are days

When it’s hard

Or when it’s easier

To love

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Which might be why

There’s both

Expression

And redemption

Available

At will

All the time

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At the Bottom of the Hour

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Could we do the news

In halves

So that

There’s bad followed by

As much good?

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The readers

And

The ratings

Would be fine

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We sponsor and produce as if

We believe

Good is automatic

While bad

Is creative

And so (bad) more attention-worthy

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Though

The presumption is

Ironically

Disingenuous;

We know

By now

That bad is not

Exceptional

And good could stand more press

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So by halves

Coverage of good and bad

(for some reason

in

the discourse

bad then good),

Well,

It would not be

(hah)

So bad

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Bad Day at Third Rock

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Bad Day at Third Rock

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Today there is a war

People try to live

Without attention

To or from

The state

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There is a wildfire

Eruptions from volcanos

Storms rage

Earth splits

As if on revenging

Or indifference

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There is

Addiction

Other ways we live

As if to self-destruct

Like the tapes

That were for our

Entertainment

About

Impossible missions

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Jobs are taken out

They were useful

Now they’re gone

We get divorced

From each other

As if the vows

Were not thought out the first time

And now we know

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And there is everything

We know is inexorable

It comes on

They come on

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All these things

All these sad things

Most of which

Destroy

And all wound

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The apologist might be right

To say

We live in land overrun

And occupied by the enemy

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Princes of this world

Maybe princesses

Though give credit to the

Insight

When some women lead

Thinking of Deborah

And Judith

And the chairs

Of my departments

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The world must be more

Than all the burning

And explosiveness

Literal to Earth

Or invoked too much by hell

Inside the human heart

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Live more

Legislate, perhaps

Consider how extreme

The campaigns

Or the intimacy

In destruction

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Renew

Repair

Like people

Learn to know

How we are likable

‘Cause we are

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Give Earth a chance

And when it fails

Negotiate

Again

And do the same

For humankind

Fix things

And then

Consider less addition

For the second changes

Barring

You know

Those commandments

And redemption

Even so

Give us a chance

And the cosmos

In turn

Might welcome us

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(citations)

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

1 Corinthians 2:6,8

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Reveals

(x = space)

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Reveals

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I don’t know

It is a mystery

How we get

To where we get

We understand

Our choices

Ponder choices

Made by others

All around us

And what might

We figure?

What might we understand

Of agendas

Or of consequences?

Well, we’re here

We have what we have

And don’t know

What we don’t know,

Which is maybe why

Monks

And mothers

Other readers

(all receivers)

Enjoy mystery

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If God is unknown

Then we are fine

Not knowing

Seeking answers

Or allowing

Un-answering

To guide our days

In relishing instead

The partiality

Of things we hold

Let go

Or appreciate

Even with longing

From afar

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We have

And do not have

We wonder because

There are wonders

Such a life

Of having

And un-having

Knowing and un-knowing

We bear

And carry with delight

In curiosity

Answering in part

All awareness

Or simply going out

Or staying in

All the time

Then rest

Then go again

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Send Something

(x = space)

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Send Something

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A little love

A few notes in a song

Words on paper

(that’s a note)

Or however

Frankly

A bit of chocolate

Or another treat

Would not go wrong

And may simply

Sensually

Render aid

Toward something right

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Don’t Remove This Label

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Don’t Remove This Label

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I don’t want to reason

Only secularly

But I look where I am

And listen

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In a long room

Whose beauty is beneath

Because the skin and other features

Are so poorly cared for

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Which is to say

It’s old and could be good

But isn’t good

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The noise of the world

Breaks in from above

And neither rule

Nor rent

Is cared about

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Outside is a cold and pleasant day

At least to see

I see too much

And need to invoke

The other senses so much more

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Drivers misbehave outside

Sometimes pedestrians

Though the thing about the outside noise

Is that it moves on

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And I know

There are fires

That burn acreage

In a wild and awful way

And those who fight these flames

Are often hurt

And much is lost

Famously

In fires

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And there is war I do not understand

And thank you I don’t want to

I’m sorry

But a bomb

Blasting away everything I know

And cuts away at me

By foes’ intent

I would be crazed

In every way

And to know the agency was human

Without randomness

For an agenda

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And I know that states are falling

While brave people

Stand against

The evil reasons

And the power that, created good,

Is now corrupted

And maybe has been

For a while

But in a den bares now

Its blooded teeth

Behind a guard

That operates somehow

To keep the good ones from approaching

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And I say it thus

With distance

Not that local evil

Hasn’t worked its way

Maybe the world

Learning of democracy

Is ruled by princes

After all

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I simply want a quiet day

And promise of another

I want boredom

To be my awful challenge

And in this way I’ll try

To address the rest

I really will

From here

And now

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You may decide what I am or

Most of you

Ignore me

And why not

Ignoring what

We need

To keep our naïve brand

In place

Like the labels on the furnishings

We do not tear off

Even though I doubt

The wars

Should care

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I care

Not about that

But decades into this

I care

You might care as well

And more than me

Knowing better what to protest

What to fight for

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Not to mention

I would rather be

Which makes everything more difficult

With you

Attached

Rather than against you

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Tricks

(x = space)

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Tricks

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Silly rabbit

Bear of little brain

Ferdinand

Under the cork tree

Where

There are

Redolent flowers

Where Ferdinand

Redoles

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Dog flying plane

On  doghouse

Cat invested

In lasagna

The animals know

We craft

Their knowing

Franciscan-relegated

Wisdom

Preaching to birds

Who listen

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The cardinals who

Live red

The ravens who laugh

Black

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To all the lower

Creatures

Who act better

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One virtue

Per species,

Each an exemplar

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While we have

Way too many

Too complex a menagerie

Made

Of excuses

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The stolid thing

We offer

Maybe we imagine

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Poetry 180 from the Library of Congress

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Poetry 180 from the Library of Congress

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I’ve been through the series

A few times now

I’ve read

And taken notes

Cut-and-paste the parts

That one way or another get

To me,

Placing everything inside

A sort of commonplace book

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I speak

Electronically;

Everything for now

Is not on paper

But kept in columns

In the storage space

I rent

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And I wonder if

I take out the same parts

Of poems

Except the new ones

Year by year:

Take them out and keep them

In the way I keep the same parts

Via electrons

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It’s a terrific series;

I forget it’s not for me

(I am

the second audience

at best)

I mean, I don’t think Billy Collins

And the staff

Of the LoC mind that I read this

And keep it

And I like,

Even that I’m changed

Though not a highschooler

And not changed as one

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https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/

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Deprem Çantası Nedir? İçerisinde Neler Olmalı ?

from Turkey, what goes in an earthquake bag

binbiricerik's avatar

Deprem sonrası ilk saatler çok önemlidir. Gelen depremle birlikte oluşan ilk şok; karmaşaya, iletişimsizliğe ve kaosa yol açabilir.

İşte bu ilk dakikalarda, yardım ekiplerinin bu karmaşa ortamından sıyırılıp, enkaz altındaki depremzedeye ulaşması zaman alabilir.

Bunun için bu ilk dakikalarda yakınınızda veya ulaşabileceğiniz bir konumda deprem çantası olması hayati öneme sahiptir.

Peki hazırlayacağımız bu deprem çantasının içerisinde neler olmalı? Gelin hazırladığımız bu yazımızda, hep beraber nelere ihtiyaç olacağını inceleyelim.

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Deprem çantasında kimlik, tapu, pasaport, diploma gibi belgelerin fotokopileri olmalı mı ?

Hazırlayacağımız deprem çantasında Nüfus cüzdanı, ehliyet gibi kimlik bilgilerimizi içeren belgelerin fotokopilerini bulundurabiliriz.

bunların yanında tapu, ruhsat, sigorta belgelerini ve zorunlu deprem sigortası poliçesinin fotokopisinide ekleyebiliriz.

son olarakda, diplomalar, pasaport ve banka cüzdanı veya varsa evcil hayvan…

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