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Love Who What When Where and Why

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Love Who What When Where and Why

(maybe you write about the How)

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Like water

Love works

On everything

Though heaven

Weeping angels know

We try

To resist

To act as if

Hate were strong

Or acquisition

Better

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We fight

And war

And ask amiss

Try to take

In fact

Without any asking

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Sigh

Would relenting

Be so bad

It’s there

It persists

It takes

Maybe the problem is

It takes some

Too

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Does hate do better

Greed improve

A refusal to surrender

Anything

While we believe that grasping

Has its way

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We believe that love is weak

That is an ego-problem

Like fat

Round babies

Into angels

(thank you, Renaissance)

We miss the majesty

Deny the awful quality

As in filled with awe

Of love

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The love that sires

Prophets

The pervasive strength

In their messages

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That births

That follows us to die

When it is time

Sometimes in service

Or in sacrifice

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Can one own so much

To give it all

There is nothing that is stronger

More impressive

Move over

Avarice

There’s something much more potent

That begins with one

And then with two

And then with three for family

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The family of Earth

Nature providing

All the elements available

We don’t even have to war for it

Though we might need

A treaty

Like the covenants

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Or let love be wild

A little

Let it pervade in forest

Observations

To let the group

Even the crowd

Break out in love

To celebrate

To show

Who is the real boss of us

And who would rather be allied

Than

Love mercenary

Ruled

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For all affiliations

Love means freedom

It means energy

As Blake says

An eternal delight

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Love is pleasure

Certainly

It’s sex and power

And everything

To share

The tyranny of love

Better poets say is wrong

Release obsession

As all we want unloving

But the guise

Be let go

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Let love be true

Mostly restrained

By day

Modest in its style

Until safely

We let go

Or in our modest ceremonies

Affirm it is the best

And through it

Know

That we belong

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James 4:3

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Love among the Ruins of the Nation

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Love among the Ruins of the Nation

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Oh

Gee

Let’s

Stop

Let’s love each other

In a real way

That could stop a war

From need

Of bids through Congress

Or parties

Lashing out

To topple strategies

Even the existence

Of

Each other

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Punishing the dare

To compromise

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Can you imagine

Love in Washington

D. C.

Love and then

Morality

To say

To say we argue

On our side

With angels

With drawn swords

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Love instead

The red

The blue

The blue

The gray

The war we will not end

For equal living

Everywhere

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Separate

But more equal

Come on

You know you believe

It is the essence

Of superiority

And you are

Superior

You know you are

As you are shameless

To the Lord

Whom you evade

By speaking loudly

To your party

That to your side

Deserves the spoils

After everything

Despoiled

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Love among the ruins

Understood

For you

For us

Not romantically

(Victorian)

Rather too late

Simply

Ruins

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What It Means This Time

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What It Means This Time

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Pilate asked

We may infer

He didn’t mean it

That the Romans

Took the truth

As they found it

As they made it

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The modern person

Secular

Asking on occasion

Not waiting for an answer

Except the answer

As we need it for

Moment by moment

Justification

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Then to wash our hands

As if

That made a difference

For the truth

As we need it now

And pushed into a new form

As we need it

Later

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Behold your person

Who is your monarch

I have tortured

Beyond the law

And now the law

Is done

With this one

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Say this is enough

I want other things

To do

And now you thread

Insinuations

Through the crowd

They murmur

And then roar out for Barabbas

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Do you even know

Who that is

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Well

I will release them

To you

Wash my hands again

Let go Barabbas

And then Christ

To indicate

Your will with them

One to roam

One to execute

With others for

Barbaric companionship

On crosses

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What is in it

Water

There is salt

For exorcism

My excuse

Or it might as well

Be tears

For bitter clarity

Of what is real power

When they have it

When you

Have it

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C L Couch

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John 19:5

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The Anchorite Paradigm

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The Anchorite Paradigm

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There is quiet

There is some noise

There is the right

Combination

Based on relative needs

And wants

So that the anchorites

Inside

Might thrive

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I’m not sure

I can tell

Because I’m not she

Or you

Preparing for retreat

Or the quiet

Time

In every day

For God and one

And later on

A few more

Maybe many

If there’s a meeting

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It has to be a merging

The world isn’t one thing

Or the other

Spirit

And flesh

Technology

Impulsive

Even pollution and clean air

Is the way we have things

Now

And for a while longer

Until something breaks

Like a good wave

And we have innovation

With tradition

And legacy

That’s in between

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Breathe for selah

In our inventing

Wait a second for approval

Then move on toward

Another

Better

Newer

Defensible

Amen

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Speaking Simply

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Speaking Simply

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Who holds the tap

On grace

Like backyard water

Miserly barmaster

Rain

For life

On hanging gardens

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Why

No one

Keeps grace tight

Or somehow

Unavailable

Do not let anyone

Inform you

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Grace is free

We need to say this

While the only one who holds it

Lets it go

To pour upon the Earth

xxxxxLike rain or dew

xxxxxOr faithful tears

With salvation

Near

And all we have to do is to touch

To hear

To take it in

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Let no one bill you

Teach you anything extreme

For expectation

God might like to use you

But will not

Should you ask for distance

Space

And time

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The vulnerable should come to God

The children

God appeals

It’s open

No money or affiliation

Must change hands

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The strong

Or strong supposed

May come to God as well

Those who like to lift things

Move things around

Or have them moved

Or who wish

In frustration

They

You

Were movers

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God will take

The complexity of plans

xxxxxGod can handle

And would handle for you

While you learn

The simple

And profound

And the merely simple

Like the love of God

Be love

For every person

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Love without measure

Meaning

Complete

For nothing

Everything

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Left Over

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Left Behind Over

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I used to wonder

How I got it

Wrong

How I was tricked

By devilish

Personae

And didn’t get to go

Above

Beyond

Wherever all the heavenly

Got to go

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I am on Earth

When it’s called tribulation

To be here

And to be here

I have to have my forehead

Marked

Be ready to pay

Bars of gold

For bread

And who knows

If any water

Anything is safe

While nothing is

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I wish it hadn’t come to this

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A savior

Styled by self

And people

Rises

A liar

Who looks

Oh

So

Well

In public

Yet drains us for itself

Ready to execute

The life from those

Returning

To the faith

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And me

Should I feel the blade

Of death on Earth

For heaven

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A heavenly force

Arrives

And all again is overthrown

This time for victory

Of belief

And real power

Manifest like matter

From creation

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It has hurt

It has been trying

Life

And death for faith was awful

Now it’s done

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And is it a dream

For sirens of

Earthly missiles

And a moment

To decide

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So

Decide

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Dona Nobis Please

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Dona Nobis Please

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God

I wish I knew a round

And had a choir

Volunteered

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A canon in the better sense

For meaning without questioning

The bias

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I guess

What I really mean

Is to write the round

For exigence

A canon for the evening

Fluidly

To welcome stars

And thoughts of rest

And afterward

Retire

With notes to welcome dreams

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Amen

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look! up in the sky

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look! up in the sky

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a lunar people

even now and then

to appreciate

the harvest moon

the supermoon

that was an arc over us

last night

and shall look good

big

that is

above us

all this evening

while it flies

round with marks

we make things of

above

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Form

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Form

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God

I love you

Even though

I’m unsure of the terms

Or attitude

How to be both

Obeisant and

Democratic

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See

You’re a monarch

Absolute ruler

Of the universe

(more than He-Man

or She-Ra)

While for now

To mortal lives

You’re also

Frankly

Invisible

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I may say

You’re in the wind

Your fingerprints the bark

On trees

And all the patterns

Helix

Hexagons

The nautilus

In nature

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We may say there’s evidence

I may say

And I believe

The wonder inside everything

Indicating

A wonder-maker

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And there are words for you

As you speak

To Adam

Eve

And prophets

Though you tend so speak

Through agencies

Especially after Eden

Still

We say your words

Which is all right

For me

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You are layered

Through the books

And we must read

And listen

Let it sink

Through layers

Into our own deep places

Reemerging

Into peace

And promise

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We are surprised by joy

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But who are you

And how are you

An image

In what ways

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And how are you

Today

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How is it to know you

And to live with you

Really

We wake to a clock

And then what

Should happen

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There are domestic

Possibilities

When Jesus says

To wash and comb

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When mourning

To offer in the temple

Our poorer

Open selves

Then give

What for each of us

Corresponds to the

Widow’s mite

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We know you count the hair

Track the falling sparrow

Offer bread

When sinners offer stones

Plus you prodigally receive

Whenever we return

From profligacy

Spending our inheritance

The gifts you gave

And what we have

From the world

All gone

And only we are left

As shells

Needing frankly

Food and water

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And then you give us

Feasts

While the righteous and the stern

Glower

While serving

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There is that stream

Of course

We wander by

So I guess you somehow do that

And in some form

So we might walk

Together

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