boat
I pulled the line
and
ducked the boom
and pulled the rudder out
my craft
once near
the shallow water and the dock
I sculled
and also let the sail full
pull us across
the lake where I captained
so to say
the first
time with a passenger trusting
me
and thankfully we both faced
an adolescent nature-breath of wind and
more
and made it back
c l couch
photo by Sonja Langford on Unsplash
The Skiff
(Advent, anytime)
It’s the twentieth
Now we count for real
Will we have peace—
Will Bethlehem be accessible
This year
Peace in the heart
Might be all that’s left
Sometimes it must feel that way
And, honestly, it’s a good place
To start
Accent on the time
To find the quiet
Or stop the world another way
Pause it now and then
Five days
For remembrance
Make it our own liturgy of
Supplication
Over whatever waters we might have,
Still or stormy
Reaching for, and as,
A beacon through the mist
That’s joy
C L Couch
By laszlo-photo – https://www.flickr.com/photos/laszlo-photo/110887318/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5948809
In the early morning, a fishing skiff remains docked on the waters of Santa Marta Bai near Soto, Curacao (Netherland Antilles).
Canciónes de Oro
How does the song
Go,
My boat is so small,
And your ocean is
So big
(Translated)
Extraordinary image
Of a strenuous
Hope for
Amazing grace
Cantan ustedes,
Queridos
Please sing, my loved
Ones
Midst
There is no storm just now;
Yet I am between two poles
And, like the compass magnet,
Cannot find a true direction
In the middle and cut off, I
Drift alone—the sun is bright
Though I feel no thirst, no
Longer any hunger, either
I am alone—I don’t know
What happened to the crew—
No storm now and yet I feel
I am only between one
Tempest and another, that
One will come to overturn my
My unsteady craft; so how
Does the Latino saying go?
Your sea is so great, and my
Boat is so small—for the time,
And but for swelling waves,
There is no current bearing
Me away: yet I believe I am
In the midst of all, awaiting
What happens, what catches—
Compelling, never planned
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