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Sagrada Familia
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Raised to music
As was the hope in the
Medieval mind?
Maybe concerts on the steps
Here and now
Chancel, transepts, or
Narthex
A cathedral,
Meaning the bishop may speak
From there with
A bishop’s authority
Maybe now
It happens
Or there is holy waiting for
The building
To be finished
A lesson in unfinished
Holy families
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Photo by Brandon Gurney on Unsplash
La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona , Spain
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Holidazing
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It’s a tarnish day outside
But I hope you have
A good day
You deserve it
For weathering in every way
The season
(in Australia, it goes to
the other way)
You are being careful, I am sure
With tasks and news
What needs doing
What can wait
And silence in between
When you might
Enjoy the stillness
Like untouched snow
On a hill
Before the sledding noise
Takes over,
Which like Currier and Ives
Will bear
Its own bliss
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(I hope the message on the sign is civil)
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Something Borrowed
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Something swashbuckling
Is on TV
Something with Burt Lancaster
Leaping
Like the lords at Christmastime
I turned to this
When what was on
Intentionally
Blacked out
Indicating maybe that
The TV is getting old
Like me
Sometimes I lose
My signals, too
The synapse breaks
I must
Turn to something else
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The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
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A ball of energy with electricity beaming all over the place.
Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash
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Lessoning
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If we pray
There will be answering
Not skywriting
(that would be nice)
Or writing on the wall
(not so nice)
Probably silence
For a while
Then something turns
On hinges
A piece of fabric twists
The wind shifts
Warm or cool
Pushing one way or
The other
Something
Somehow
Indicates direction
The asker might be the actor
Or others shift
And move that way
Somehow
(often changeably)
A way is formed
An answer
Every time
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The El Yeso reservoir is a reservoir in Chile located in the Andes mountain range at an altitude of 2,500 meters above sea level, in the San José de Maipo commune, Cordillera Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Where we found incredible colors and tranquility.
Photo by Cristobal Baeza on Unsplash
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Tragedy by Numbers
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A student killed
Two countries mourn
The suspect
Is exultant
Happy to have killed
Wounded one
More
Happy for Warhol’s
Fifteen minutes
Though we have to say
Allegedly
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Closeup of sequins on a sequin dress.
Photo by Joran Quinten on Unsplash
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Merry Whichever
(greeting)
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Merry Whichever
Happy New Year to your calendar
And all your months,
However they are named
May each day be ingested
With wisdom and
Delight,
Wisdom for the ages,
Delight in the pleasures
Of the day
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May you know love
More than in the abstract
Some good learning beforehand
Wouldn’t hurt;
Might you have peace,
If the worlds great and small
Agree
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Most of all, may
All of you
And any
Know the presence
Over us
So great,
So small as to be
Working inside
Our capillaries
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Call it God
Or the Spirit
Or the impulse of the ages
The human push
Toward improvement
And a symphony of
Maybe out-of-tune,
Asynchronous
Possibility
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May the one
Or many there
Protect you
And keep you
In each other
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Part of the painting “my take on an ion.”
Photo by Jené Stephaniuk on Unsplash
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Wrong Wright
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Destroy their bike shop
In Ohio?
Because Ohio doesn’t want to be
First in flight
Because the Wright in Wright-Patterson
And Wright State
Is enough
And what’s the big deal
About flying, anyway?
We have a shiny building
Or a parking lot to build
Because Dayton has no room to grow
In any other way
It’s not as if it’s surrounded
By flat land
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Why not move it to Yellow Springs?
Really
Really, I think they can reconstruct
And deconstruct it there
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Panel OKs bid to demolish Wright Brothers’ 1st bike shop
17 hours ago · The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city’s request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was the site of the Wright brothers’ first bike shop.
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The wingtip of an A330 MRTT/ KC30 from the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) shot through the rear door of an A400M belonging to the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) [at the] Singapore Airshow 2020.
Photo by Bing Hui Yau on Unsplash
Changi Airport, Airport Boulevard, Singapore
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Taproot
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The brown blade sinks
And feeds the seed
That was a part
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Seeds that sleep through
Cold time
Far enough
North or south
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Something new and all the same
For being new
Will rise in spring
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The Colors of Nature Caught on a Hike
Photo by Don Raridon on Unsplash
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Impromptu
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I get started
I get tired
This is something new
Age or medications
Take your pick
But sometimes when I’m
Relatively still
My eyes want nothing more
Than to close
And sometimes I follow through,
Which is also something new
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I set aside my small machines
Stretch out with
A pillow
Here or there
Close my eyes the way
My grandfather closed
His,
Afterward
Saying
Just resting my eyes
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While watching the lions on the right and 100 meters far from us, we did not see this nice guy was sleeping 3 meters next to us in the bush on the left side of our car. But he did awake gently . . .
Photo by Andreas Berlin on Unsplash
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