(haiku about the gathering storm)
bright day turning haze
storm wind blowing through tree leaves
as the sun leans west
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Endangered Species Day
(today)
I don’t know them all
and yet I know
the issues
maybe we know
the hunting of unique animals
the destruction of
the homes
those that add usefulness with beauty
to the world we know
or
should know
and there are insects
even
burrowing the soil to make
the ground worth working as if
they had
the mission
to do so
trophies
as only the living
prove
healthy places
in which to survive as well as do better
than
survival
leave them alone unless
and until we make the laws of
us to cooperate with
those
of Earth
if the fauna
should be wild
let it
and them be wild until
we learn
mostly what they know
to be let be
let
as in leave except
for photographs
them be
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space prayer
God
keep us
and God will
while we’re on Earth
and then more so
beyond
I think
which could make this
a prayer for astronauts as
well
who shall leave Earth and meet
who knows
what knows
out
there
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Bona
I hope you’ve had a good
Day
And I hope tomorrow is good
For you
Too
You’ve been deserving of this kind
Of time
I don’t know
If
It will be easy
You
Might have to work
And work is hard
You might
Have relationships attending
You might be inspired
Or
Reinforced
By
Spiritual truth
Maybe a presence
But for all the mights
I hope it is
And will
Be
Without doubt
A good
Day for you
I don’t think I’ve said this for a while
If not
Please pardon
Me
S’il vous plaît
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“Nice Game”
Fontcoberta
(Esperanto)
Grace Fully
So believe
If you will
And only as you will
Grace
That makes faith real
Is offered freely
And
Exists regardless
Believe in God or do not
Same
With the life of faith
After and
With belief
And
Don’t let any tell you
Another person
Anyway
That he or she dispenses grace
If only you subscribe
Grace
And also faith
Don’t work
That way
The first need being only
You and God
Should you choose
And
Should you accept
Then there is the life of faith
In which you might choose
Healthy
Earthly affiliation
And while to have and keep
Sadly
It’s not
To say the faithful life is easy all the time
While
Through it all
The obstacles
Worldly
Self-styled
Do promise
Spiritually
Well
The Spirit’s ease
And even peace and joy
Be the judge of grace
And faith
To start with God or
Not
And
Don’t let any other take the judging role
Except God
And then remember God is truth
And also
God
Is love
I heard once that church should be rejected because it claims to dispense grace—and also, as such, the church charges something (membership, money, doctrinal adherence) in order to receive the grace if offers, if not dangles. But grace is not or ever owned this way. (Or owed, either.) Grace is from God, and grace is free. It is the free means to receive the saving favor of the Lord. As means or to exist at all, grace comes at no cost of ours, the price for grace, so to say, having in fact been paid by God. We are saved by faith in God. And as if faith were great art, grace is the frame.
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“In the Park”
Kyiv, Украина
brass buttons
(like other tokens by good stories)
I think Peter Rabbit
as well as
Bilbo Baggins had them
as
I think both beings
lost their own
one set to a fenced farmer
while
the other
to the great door
of a goblin
lair
brass buttons
then
might be a trinket and
a trophy
in addition to staid usefulness
to fasten
but the brightness of small things
to have
to lose
by farmers and by goblins
and other
taller foes in the world
and shall
new
gilded circles be given
or
otherwise arranged
so that vests and coats might be
fastened
against the cold and rain
or other depredations caused
by
great and closed cropper fences
or
Orc doors
as also shining things for
pleasures
be
restored
maybe to the reader
to match with likened
tokens
treasures
too
and
hey
even with their
losses
the rabbit and the hobbit
respectively
escaped from
their foes
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(Peter, whose jacket is classically depicted with bright buttons, actually loses the whole jacket plus his shoes in escaping from McGregor; Bilbo loses his brass buttons squeezing through the back door of the goblins’ mountain)
photo by Tyler Lastovich on Unsplash
(pretend the door is green, which, in fact, it is)
1983
my mother died that year
only in her
fifties
I suppose I’ve dwelled on this
with words in
verse
before
maybe last year
to
think about each year
not in acrostic
too real
and I’m not clever
when
she
was young
that is
in her fifties
cancer took her
diagnosed too late
n.b.
so cherish
love on Earth
what there is to love of Earth
love one
and if possible
love more
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2 weekend haiku
Saturday crowds green
back and out front glisten ‘round
wider spring’s sunlight
city slides from hill
bushel claims the under-light
weekend gospel press
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nostro papà
(as from one faithful)
papa
we welcome you
we hope you will address
the things
that wound our church
peace
be with you
and we shall pray for you
as you ask and will
you
pray for us
and we think you
will
things need changing
and
things need to remain the same
how do we
both
and yet we must
we are ancient church and
modern
too
how to be both
well
there’s much to do
be safe
be love as
Jesus says
as we should love our neighbors
too
may
all the sins be cleansed
as only God might
clean
and may good and true
believing
and the living
take over as we
love God and we love you
hear us
please
please lead the church
with hearing
along with pronouncing where
(and
what)
there’s need and so
we pray for you
yes
we do
go with God
maybe
God
with all of us
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remembering Francis
photo by Onur Binay on Unsplash
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