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Who Mourns for Half a Million

Who Mourns for Half a Million

(Holocaust Remembrance Day)

 

Greed waits them out

Holocaust survivors, remnant

Of genocide

A gift of ghosts to generations

 

They die in need

Imprisoned yet in holding cells

Of systems

 

That will not return

Them to earthly life

 

In receiving of their own

 

 

 

the forty-seven nations signing the Terezin Declaration (2009) are Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay

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Canada on Fire

Canada on Fire

 

Wish it were an idiom

Expression of fashion

A bon mot, small jest

Here

 

But the country burns

In unbordered reach

Of untamed fire

Destroying all that

Lives: dissolved into

Libation for a demon’s

Thirst of unsatisfied

Flame

 

With all we have and

Are—think, feel, pray,

Help

 

Reaching must meet

Rescue,

 

Our community rain

Life

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Psalm 37, a song of earthly rendering

Psalm 37

a song of earthly rendering

 

When news is so bad

Coupled with lack of opportunity

Everything is weighted down, dear Lord

I don’t know how to make it better

To see it better

To feel it better

Please, what shall I do

In past work, we see

That you are there

That you follow us through mountain passes

Over peaks

And in valleys so blinding in fog over the way

That we could be underneath earth as well as above

 

You bring us home, dear Lord

And are with us in safety

Or in peril

Calm our fears so that we might enjoy some relaxation in peace

Some soft moments in our day

Some mercy on the way

 

Let your justice prevail, O Lord, so much better than ours

May your help be plentiful

Your presence touchable

If only upon

The surface of our spirits

Because we can keep it dense and difficult

To allow you further in

 

Pardon me and be with me

Even when I am poor in realizing you

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Psalm 36, song out of poverty

Psalm 36

song out of poverty

 

I would sing to you

But my throat is raw

 

I would give to the poor

Except that I am one

 

What may I do for you

When I have nothing to share?

 

Well, I am something, I guess

Even in the vacuum

 

Of offering

Something in my design

 

You liked in making me

And sustaining me thus far

 

I guess I do have

One more thing to give

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The Good News in Straightening Up

The Good News in Straightening Up

 

I have cleaned

I have picked up

Washed things

Put things large and small

Away

 

Sun arrives, maybe only

Passing through

But I see blessing in the timing

Calm and peace are lit

For the time they’re here

 

I am sore

But inclined toward watching

Surfaces

Feeling energy and a little

Healing from the shine

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(haiku) From the Back Yard

(haiku) From the Back Yard

 

 

Cardinal on fence,

Momentary red still life,

Flies away—that’s good

 

 

Cold morning air, one

Bumble-bee under flower

Following its call

 

 

Rabbit’s tall long legs,

Wary, lope across the yard:

Mitigated zeal

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Christ Is a Refuge

Christ Is a Refuge

 

Christ is a refuge

He takes all the unwanted

He is home to countless

Without home

To the comfortable as well

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Christ Was a Refugee

Christ Was a Refugee

 

Christ was a refugee

In Egypt

We do not know if Mary

Or Joseph had family there

Nothing is said

We know they traveled

To escape persecution

To miss the massacre

An insane king

Had decreed at home

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First of May

First of May

 

First of May

Ancient practices

Now with modern meaning

 

One of Saint Joseph’s days

This day for the worker

Come to celebration for

Soviet Christians

 

So that May Day, a state’s

Day of recognition in the USSR

Could be marked as a special

Day while religion was

Beneath the surface, and

The believer required a

Spiritual reason

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