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two poems, again I’m not sure why

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Sci-Fi Goats

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Goats eat anything

I am reminded

As do pigs

I don’t think goats eat tin cans

As cartoons and other stories

Tell

But maybe

Maybe in the multiverse

Anything is possible

A metal-eating goat

On a world of lead

Might be

Just the thing

While justice of materials

Is worked out on other worlds

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Not that we’re excused here

We have what we have

To use

To keep

Or we lose ourselves

Without a possibility

Of portals—

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Maybe goats

They might be traversing

And we never know

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Poeming

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It’s not hard

But it should be honest

In challenging to write

About anything

(say, sci-fi goats, above)

What is the real story?

In not in fact,

Than in judicious metaphor

And maybe both—yes,

Both would be better

So choose the topic

Or let the topic choose

Get to work with

Heart and head,

All the muscles,

All the organs,

All the aspects

(I mean senses),

All the parts

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Breathe through it all

Let the apparatus work

Once something is set down,

Go over it

And over it again

(not too many times)

Then release it like

Letting go of healed birds

Into the wild sky

Then let the work

Make sense of the world

For a while

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C L Couch

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Hello, Friends

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Glattalpsee, Muotathal, Suiza

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two poems, I don’t know why

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Lost World

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Dumb means mute

Kids are small goats

Am I becoming

That old person?

A semicolon’s

Better than a comma splice

President of the United States

Is always capitalized

Unlike another mention

Of a president

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Defensive driving

Is a good thing

People should know

The lyrics of the first verse

Of the national anthem

And the lyrics to

One Christmas carol

(take your pick)

All is not lost in lost traditions,

I suppose;

I made that last one up

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No re-creating the world

In my image,

Thank the Lord

(thank you)

It took me a while

To learn “whom” from “who”

So I’m going to use it

But I don’t mind

If you don’t,

Which is mostly true

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The Lost World is a story first by Arthur Conan Doyle, then by Michael Crichton who used the title as a tribute and allusion, as I am using the title here.

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Supplicant

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Well, it’s early and I’m up

What shall you have for me,

Dear Lord?

What might I do for you?

Nothing, I think, that’s

Worthwhile

All right, that’s worthy

What do I have to contribute to a

God?

No gold, no blood-letting

(sorry)

Nothing awful

That might have been awesome

Only me and the wretched qualities

I have—

That grace has saved

For a wretch like me—

Can offer

Most of the time, I don’t know

What these are

Help me, Lord,

To understand

What I have that could ever

Please, if not

Satisfy

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“Amazing Grace,” a song by John Newton

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Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India

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C L Couch

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Futurism

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Futurism

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Men retreat

Women advance

Children waiting

They play

An idea forms

A dream invented

All go toward

An interpretive horizon

Until the line and

Agenda are released

And all go home

With marbles

So many

You would not believe

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C L Couch

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Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash

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We’re Often Told

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We’re Often Told

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I have no idea why

A nice song comes to mind

And then another

It’s not for beatific sleep

Or a sweet disposition

Wakened first thing

By the telephone

It’s not because of bristly

Wind outside,

Blowing what fall colors

We have known

Off slender branches

That could have been clothed

A while longer, should

Nature have consulted me

Tired, cranky

Thinking so-and-so by so-and-so

And I mean me

It should be a gray and spiny

Day by all accounts

Gray and apathy

Yet pleasant lyrics

With their high notes come

My way, though I did not

Ask them to

Serenaded by the mariachis

I have made up in

A mind that will not quit

Drugged by caffeine,

Scarred over

Not so pretty if I ever was

An inside and an outside

Needing shelves

And somehow from the files

Arising from the folders

Made of neurons

There is

Something to listen to

The kind that has no hearing

Seeing a singer

Who’s not there

On stage in costume

For a minimal production

Of a bittersweet play,

Which is what I get

Shortly after waking

On a late-fall day

In Pennsylvania of the USA

Wherever you might be

Might be the same

Company across telepathy

Made by

The chief of surgery

Who’s had the job

Since there were eons

Needing mending

With a song

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C L Couch

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“Somebody to Watch Over Me” by Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin

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Kyiv, Украина

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Slight Season

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Slight Season

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The sun is out

I should be going to it

There might be chill

It might be fall

At last

Not too soon to winter, please,

Which is the trouble

With the seasons in-between

Their timing seems so fragile

When

Arriving

Surprising, when it seems

They stay a good, long while

Leaving the severities

To themselves

And their own time

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C L Couch

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Eras of Antiquity

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Eras of Antiquity

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I like to collect things

That are old

Someone else’s using it

The first time

Effort rubbed into

The corners

The physics of depression from

Simple movement

Over time

Any substance

Any shape

Is worth it

Only the criteria

Of use

And lack of destruction

Without the hope of

Being remade

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C L Couch

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Photo by Peter Pryharski on Unsplash

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No Harm in Asking

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No Harm in Asking

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Let’s hope for a good day

You and I

Friend

Stranger

I don’t care

In a good way

If you are deserving

And who isn’t

Let’s hope for a good day

We can supplicate

It’s not a trick

Then wait while it happens,

Itself reveling in hours

Waiting

To let us in

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C L Couch

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Photo by Marcel Strauß on Unsplash

Stuttgart, Deutschland

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Runaway Psalm

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Runaway Psalm

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God, lay the morning

Down on us

Softly, unless there

Must be a storm

Give our senses

Easy labor

Except in greater need

Then call us out

To work the needs for people

Who should have

A day in which

To praise you

By still waters

To take breathing lessons

For whatever comes

In the next hour

And forever,

Cherishing each moment

And the way

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C L Couch

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Signing Up

(x = space)

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Signing Up

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I’d like to pray for you

I know I don’t

Exactly need your

Permission

But there is some respect

Involved

Discretion

You might be bothered

And I won’t expect

Gratitude

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Maybe I’ll pray badly

With too many

Starts and stops

And stutters

Maybe an angel-coach

Will nudge me

To desist

Stop dissembling

Get to the matter

To the reason for this natter

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The Spirit might say

Please,

Let this one alone

To try

Resist evaluation

Put the book away

This one has faith

Help the unfaith along

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I won’t ask

The prayer is up to me

And to the hearing

Once received

But who is on our side

Is not to worry

In the world

When

The one who made the sides

Who allows

Is listening

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C L Couch

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Photo by Pedro Lima on Unsplash

Juiz de Fora, Brasil

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