God’s approval
how do we deal
knowing
that it’s coming
that
it’s here
and mostly by ignoring
it would seem
though
approval is a form of love
and maybe
there’s forbearance
too
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as for the WordPress poetry function, it continues awry; I've end-run around paragraphed lines I didn't ask for, and maybe that will work for now
bright yellow bright red
small pointed creatures feeding
see and hear out front
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(during house-care while friends are away
line spacing is wonky at WordPress today–or I am)
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the crisis
sigh
too much
too
hard
and we feel this way
because it is
this way
so
that we could rest in the Lord
in part
while working out our muscles
and our worry just
over
the edge of crisis
as
to serve by job
of need
maybe because we are there
is all
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el terremoto en Colombia
Colombia
the earthquake
most
of Richter
and all the earth with
all the fallen
and
crushed lives it
took
and in the news to know
but
to be there
and I can’t imagine
parts
or
the totality
of everything was lost
trying to help
to heal
and finally to restore so that there’s life
in this
and later there
something to know among survivors
that
we have the way of life
and
we’ve known
this way of
death
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HOPEWELL, Va. (WWBT) - Volunteers in Hopewell packed boxes of donated supplies Monday to send to Colombia, where a deadly earthquake struck last week.
The earthquake killed hundreds of people and destroyed thousands of homes.
Richmond-Petersburg WWBT
San José del Palmar, the town at the epicenter of Colombia’s earthquake: ‘We thought it was the end of the world’
The only route for delivering aid to the Chocó municipality is a mountainous, unstable road prone to landslides
EL PAÍS English
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the patch of blue
while
I was driving and I guess the clouds were breaking up
if
only for a while and in the middle
well
I saw it
pale
set against the gray
and ringed by
white
all
uncertain ‘round the edges
as the afternoon became
a thoughtful
season
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the preacher
could I walk by the side of the sea
near a rise where
folk
are gathering
to hear him speak again
about
beatitudes
and humble righteousness that might be in reach
not as the leaders of religion
and politics
dictate
but as God set the relationship to start and
even flawed or fallen
should apply
not easy words
always
to hear him
but
what’s shared is for us for us
to try
then I suppose he will
leave again
as he
does as if he’s tired
and we press on him
it’s true
as if there were no end to his miracles
and teaching
and
how these go together but
he must depart
and
I think I understand
he’ll walk away with closer followers
or get in a boat that’s tethered
near
and the miracle goes on
amazement it must be
to be so close
away or
with the multitude
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Capernaum, Israel
a hawk on the road
I slowed while it stretched its wings
launched over the car
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days of silence
it is possible
and has happened
that
there are days when I don’t speak to anyone
not because I’m miffed
rather because there was no one
and I mean to use
my voice
though I might
talk in writing all the time
and
for a while now at least
there hasn’t been so much a gap in that
in this
as pauses that rarely go a day unless
there’s
surgery or some such
and the verbal silence doesn’t hut
maybe a little
and
I’ll sound croaky typically
when I talk again
and there are the hermits who go years
I guess
without saying anything yet
saying all the time in
spiritual conversation
then
those who try to blank their minds of everything
all
consciousness
per se
in order to be rid of any impeding thing in order
to know truly
everything
for
the rest is
silence
which is good for these
I think
and for me
I don’t know
but
too much
I believe
the quiet hours go
well
quiet
and as I am not yet finished in a life
or as a person
how much more might I learn
and own
of goodness
on my own
I need the time with you
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citing the line with “silence” from Hamlet 5, Scene 2, line 4020 of the play (Open Source Shakespeare)
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(later, same day)
the first post will have to stand; it’s too much in the system or cyberspace or something
so here's an entry for today, more accurate to the date; I hope the verse is all right with you
(please and thank you)
Thursday the Thirteenth
no big deal
walk under ladders
break
your mirrors
your
own
ignore the cats
which is to
say
be good to cats in the way you are
each day
and really don’t break mirrors
and be safe
with
ladders
and still be nice to cats
all cats
though no superstition holds
no
special degree of penalty or
reward for honoring
the small things
yet
with consequence
we might think
we should
believe
have a normal day
and
tomorrow will be a superstition-free Friday
the Fourteenth
and we may ask ourselves
if we
wish
today or tomorrow or later on
the weekend if
we should
wathc out any day regarding superstitions
though folklore has its place as well
as
an attitude of prevention
and a good with-care weekend to you
fates
and
more so
divinities allowing
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