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Amen for Catharsis

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Amen for Catharsis

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You came

Dear God

And you were here

You were what I couldn’t see

The voice beneath the noise

Something soft yet muscled

Beneath the brittle strength of

The world

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I don’t know about the timing

I wasn’t thinking clearly but

Have no doubt

Your arrival

Was perfect

In the way

Every plan from you

Is manifest

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Now in a time of peace

An hour, the next minute

Maybe a day–this

Side of things

Is too partial

And imperfect

(not like grammar)–

And now I go about

Again (imperfectly)

To try to serve

To try to balance out the wills

Of people

And of nature

With my energy

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And have I said it simply,

Lord

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Lord,

Thank you

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Part of one of my acrylic paintings.

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Sensory Art House

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Petitioning before the Storm

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Petitioning before the Storm

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Later today

Ida comes to call

With too much rain

For an area

That is soaked already

There should be floods

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I’m sorry

I’ve been praying for myself

I’ve been praying

For you, too

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But I need the power

The electricity

My heart needs the help

Frankly, in the summer heat

And afterward

I’ll need to get around

For bread

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Maybe I’ll get or keep

(since nothing

will have changed)

My petition

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But I need the prayer for me

I hope there’s understanding

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Sinai

no, Italy

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Alpe di Siusi, 39040 Castelrotto BZ, Kastelruth, Italy

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Dramatis Personae

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Dramatis Personae

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The cast

Our parts

Shakespeare

Jaques

Elvis

We fret upon the stage

Curtains between acts

Performance

And performance

The show is over

Take a bow

Remove the makeup

And we’re done—

Cast party, maybe

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Someone directs

The writer is in the audience

All our family, too,

And with our friends

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The spirit has been able

The flesh does what it can

There has been some interest in

Memorizing,

Though much of the performance

Has been impromptu

And once it’s done

Everyone gets to be a critic

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Though it’s the producer

Who decides

How long shall be the run

How many weeks

How many seasons

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There is stage fright,

Of course

There doesn’t have to be

(and we can use it)

We can train

We can learn tricks

And once out there

We can have joy

Seven stages

For a scene

A play

A résumé?

Take more

Even have some fun

There will be reviews

(nerves in the offing

and then after)

But to get to do this is a treat

And not a one to miss,

If it at all possible

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Than can be profit so

Variously drawn

But once you’re here

That part is taken:

Costume well

Though for a queen or king

There are many fools

Either can look splendid

Or look drear

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There are rehearsals

We can practice

How much to worry—not

So much as we do

We can expect each other

From the wings

There are many places

On the stage

Some of which

We get to choose

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I don’t know if

The play’s the thing

We deal here in metaphor

What is real

Is what happens after

This cold reading

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drafted while watching (and hearing) a play within a play

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Garage Theater is a theater company from Qom, Iran. Garage Theater researches in the field of Laboratory theater.

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Metaphorism

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Metaphorism

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Are there candles

That burn

At both ends?

Is the illumination

Doubly helpful?

And what happens when

The ends meet

In between?

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It’s an untried

Metaphor,

I guess

Like the silk purse

From the sow’s ear

Or trying to catch

The crocodile tears

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Their value is

Instructive—still,

I’d like to see the candle,

Hear its twice-done

Hiss inside

The darkness

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Everglades Alligator Farm, Homestead, USA

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A Child Doesn’t Have to Lead Them

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A Child Doesn’t Have to Lead Them

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When children have food

And people to talk with

Of a variety of ages

When their dreams aren’t stanched

And they have a chance

To grow into who they are

Then any child can make it

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I know this: I see and hear it happen

On TV all the time

In scripted shows

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Children are amazing.  And there are amazing young people who are leading in the areas of racism, sexism, and climate change (climate crisis).  The only fault in this arrangements is not with the youth but with adults.  Adults should be leading for the youth.

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Photo by Foroozan Faraji on Unsplash

Shiraz, Iran

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Memory of Father

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Memory of Father

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I have a memory

Not so long ago

So it might be true

Of visiting my father

They had let his hair grow

He looked like Gandalf

Or Saruman

Or Merlin

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The silver hair was beautiful

We talked

I left

Next time I saw him

His short hair was back

He looked like Hemingway

A compliment of sorts

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Photo by Joshua Brown on Unsplash

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no God approves

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no God approves

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sorry for those who died

from explosions and gunfire

at the Kabul airport

from those who believe

that civilians trying to escape

is not a sanctioned reason

to let live, rather to meet

with onslaught that

no God approves

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Get Out

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Get Out

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Of Kabul

Of Afghanistan

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Actions of diplomats,

Soldiers, staff,

And airplanes

Take you

Away

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Don’t hesitate

Do you

Hesitate?

What’s up to you,

Leave now

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There is violence

I’m sorry

Take up the politics

Tomorrow

What matters to you is leaving

Get out, now

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United States Air Force C-17A Globemaster III

Photo by Nick Morales on Unsplash

Minneapolis, MN, USA

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Calliope

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Calliope

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What is the song

In your head

Just now?

Mine is “Song Sung Blue,”

Because everybody

Knows one

Sometimes it’s “One Voice”

Sometimes it’s

“Color My World”

Now you know

Where I’m from

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Sometimes

It’s a theme

From a movie

Or a show

TV or Broadway

But if I stop

To catch it,

There’s always

Something there

Always music

And that is something

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Pyrophone of Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner (1852–1882).

By photographer unknown – Hermann Ludwig von Jan: Johann Georg Kastner, ein elsässischer Tondichter, Theoretiker und Musikforscher – sein Werden und Wirken. Breitkopf & Härtel, Band 2, Teil 2, Leipzig 1886, p. 308, Digitalisat (Internet Archive), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25667386

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