in the news today
I know there’s what’s happening
in the world
to make
it real
enough honestly to take part
gather in
share stories
help
and ask for help
for all those who are not us and yet
we share the world
like fog when manifest
presume it’s
always
manifest
moves through and by its need
relates us all by exigence
an element and need
of circumstance
whatever we enact within
one
form of consequence
the other
love or hate
war or peace
to share
and by that
all of us
by what is bad
or we might surprise good
either way
act
or result by what happens
what we happen
bind
and by are bound by
fate sometimes it’s
said
better by the love of world even
at war
at home or in trenches
actually to share
it all
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could be the final poem of the evening (in a reading)
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“Print Is Alive” (given caption)
the day before
the year before
yesterday was Mothers Day
and while
I don’t mention all occasions
how could I
I could have mentioned this one
if
for me it an odd day
a memorial day
in fact
my mother died in the 1980s when she was
too young
though who is young or old enough to die
of cancer
but she did
lived two years more than the doctors gave her
so
that was
something and
it was
a set of holidays and no reason to have
visitors
to go out
sometimes
too
to talk with family and church folk
to
make some arrangements
though the budget was uncertain
so this is not about me
accept it
is
the family
and this is how I go through the day
each year
reminiscence
if
dwelling on how hard
the last years were
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(the image was for another but then co-wrought the following)
choose the moon
lasso it first
only
George to Mary
while
the rest of us must find it first
the moon
and how to capture it
or
leave it go and choose to go with it
as it should fly through sky
and
we walk the horizon
to follow its way until morning and then at last
we shall know
what
to do
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we are grateful for
what we have and what we use
true the First People
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Bear Lodge, mistranslated as Devil’s Tower
the drama
we are born of the Earth
breathed through
with
divine exhalation
we rise
one and then the other
we are introduced and given tasks
care for the
garden
name things or else we did that
on our own
but meet with God
all the time
and live the spirit in the mean time
and somehow Satan or
the devil
or whatever you might call it
was
allowed in and allowed a role
maybe for the first
time
this was the start of the revellion
the devil trusted
as archangel
only for
a little while
longer and what damage it could
do before caught out
and such ruination happened
it seems we blamed each other more
than the writhing thing
though
the demon part in our exitence
should carry on and taken
through to the midst of Armageddon
when
as prophecy decided
and yet played out
there is a final battle between
Michael and
itself
when it is thrown for good
out of sight
only to dwell in God’s mind over lost
creation
and lost love
while our redemption is at hand
to do our part
believe
accept the grace of mercy
as
a fitness for heaven
and
the Earth renewed
who knows
maybe for us
to have the home we’ve had as
the home that was made
except
for evil’s and
for will’s intrusion following
the evil
as well as inventing our own
now
the Earth anew
as on another world the ideal might be
ancient
but now for us and for all the days
succeeding
move forward with everything that’s good we have
and
love our lives in every way
each other and by mercy
means of grace
return to the communion that was the way
even the style
of Eden
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well
well
I’m back
not from leaving Frodo off
to sail to a healing land
but
from hospital
where I got some new parts replacing
olf and tired
and need rest themselves
like me
from time to time
no Mordor
but
the operating room
where they were helpful
introducing
themselves and telling me what
they
were doing
then I feel asleep
dreamed
dreams
then woke up no longer there
in dreams or in
the O.R.
either
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photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
due at the hospital by eleven
well
today
a drug
a cut
some work on the heart
I guess it’s okay
except for risk
and then
I’m claustrophobic
maybe the drug will keep me
under
and relax me somehow on either
side of things
right now
I worry over the phobia
more
than the other parts of this
in a few
hours
either way the immediate things should
be done with recovery
to face
which I guess will be a big bandage
on my chest
and
wincing while I get
my freedom back
I’m drafting in the time I have
hmm
I hadn’t thought of typing after
everything
I’ll
let you know
or won’t be able to
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“dedication of our Hospital personnel”
South Africa
I’m nervous over an operation I have tomorrow
I’m nervous when you have operations
valleys of fear
fear
the Lord
so we won’t fear on Earth
and yet
we’re human
and we will
I think I’ve read that
fear is not of God
which
sounds ominous for all we have it
and
have it closely
well
we’re flawed
blame everything
and
yes
I think it all gets better when
we’re well
and
when we’re well for good
sigh
and I’ve done a little checking to distinguish
fear
the spirit of fear from Timothy
the fear not
given us
the fear that begins
wisdom from
Proverbs that is
the fear
of God
and I’ve thought the second fear
is awe
and should we ever meet
in the same room how
would we
fear the Lord
when
even angels address fear as in fear-not
severally when they appear
fear
don’t be afraid
keep the wonder
maybe
the truth closely of God
and
God with us
and
yeah
I’m still worried for tomorrow
and I worry over you
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2 Timothy 1:7 = For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Proverbs 9:10 = The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
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getting up
how soon do we become aware of things
and how
and why
the beauty of the day
silence upon waking
stretching on
our own
or because we’ve seen others do it
rise
with enough sense to rise
the wildness of dreams
subside
settle into
enough transition
to
realize we’re here
and assemble where is here
and what
should we be
doing
now
into consciousness
and the world might lead us first
into it
traffic noise
anxiety from what rooted
before sleep
maybe a long before
tasks
to accomplish
subjects for counselors
whatever
might be going through
when all aspects and talents need take over
one part by another
in groups or altogether
we came to life
the mystery
as
well as the amazement
into today
and the hours as we unfold them
into
all the moments we might
try
to plan and
what shall happen
anyway
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more existential than I meant—it was more simply a pretty day at first, now grayed over
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“Heavenly Blue” morning glory
Oxdrift, Kenora, Unorganized, Canada
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