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Rising Seasons

(x = space)

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Rising Seasons

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I wasn’t counting

But there are vehicles that do

And they and their movers are

Confident

It will be another

Weekend of rain

Eighth in a row

Tomorrow

Saturday

And Sunday

And certainly

The sky just outside now

Is gray

The leaves are wet upon the ground

This time of day

It’s fall

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It’s fall

We should expect some damp

Maybe in all seasons

But this is chill

Descends with leaves

Dissembling

That is

Dissolving

That we’d rather drive through

In sunlight

Brilliant light

And also dry

To pass through

All the colors

Dryly

Reclining

Divinely resting

Into winter

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Our weekend sights

Set

For somewhere in New England

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We want what we can’t have

Enough rain

To build the tables up

Again

Dry days and dry roads

For touring

And school

And time off

Simultaneously satisfied

As well

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Well

Why not want things

There are always ponchos

And we need the rain

And schools have holidays

Sometimes

Sometimes that work

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Then

Elsewhere

South of here

Or west

Or in another region

Of America

All Americas

Or in Africa

Or Europe

Far-flung Asia

The Pacific Rim

Or an extremity

Of white bears

Or the other

Where the penguins

In the photographs

Line civilly

Awaiting who is next

To slide into

Salt water

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For you

In any of these regions

It must be so different

So wonderful and different

Where you are

And now

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And maybe you will share

The weather and the climate

With those of us

Not there

But here

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Meaning in the MidAtlantic

The Northeast

The Midwest

The Northwest

The northern South

And wide parts

Of Canada as well

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Dry or damp

Let’s move

Adroitly on

All and any

All the pathways

That we have

Any of which

In any part

We hope

Might lead toward peace

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As any of us might

Might wander

There and figure

In the sunshine

Or the rainshine

Depending on an attitude

A tolerance

Endurance

For the weather

Errant sunlight

Or the shade

For the interests they support

And for our own

About peacemaking

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Photo by Daniel Frank on Unsplash

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osiris rex tremendae

(x = space)

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osiris rex tremendae

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we brought back part of an asteroid

today

while I was in church

what do you know

it happened anyway

I caught the replay

people near the capsule

sample in a box?

blackened spacecraft back on Earth

now left alone

(and I gloss

these are preliminaries

then

a bag

not a box)

and now someone should consider

quarantine

I’m sure someone has already thought of this

uh

we wish those closest

well

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photo by 2H Media on Unsplash

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Measure Twice

(x = space)

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Measure Twice

(or thrice)

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Apologize twice

Once for God

Once for other people

And if you’re a polluter

Then

Once more for Earth

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Photo by Bozhin Karaivanov on Unsplash

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trinitarian

(x = space)

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trinitarian

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nothing shall separate us

from the love of God

which is a promise

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so why do we feel differently

why do we shirk

why does doubt work so well

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we can say that it’s a sin

that it’s a fallen world

well enough

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but faith and love are so attractive

and so active

why back away

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there is the world

the match of us that says

none of it’s real

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that real is flesh and metal

while evidence of faith and love

has neither

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invisibility

dark glass

land of shadows

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these are what we have for proof

and means of proof

all of which is unconvincing

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peace passing understanding

but it’s understanding

that we need

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and will not get it

unadulterated

by the hard means of the world

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a world we feel

a world we have

and must live in for now

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and for an age

after the Anthropocene

and afterward

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who knows

and that is it

who knows

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promises as metaphors

streets of transparent gold

advocacy always in our favor

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should we choose

and we must choose

from lack of evidence

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we choose

and we do

and we believe

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crops are promised

in our seasons

wonderful abstracts

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turned real

and that is it

it’s all turned real

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faith

hope

and love

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a Celtic knot

tied and loose

three parts everywhere

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God

Earth

and us

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nothing shall separate us from the love of God

romans 8:38-39

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5,000 year-old triskelion on an orthostat at newgrange

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Greetings from Earth with All Things Earthly

(x = space)

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Greetings from Earth with All Things Earthly

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So what’s new

The day is new

It’s re-creation

Isn’t it

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Some would say

The day’s the day

It’s yesterday’s day

Redone

And nothing new

Same sets of compounds

To have earth and sea

And sky

And we are nothing new

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But cells are sloughed

There is room for change

There is age

There might be new growth

From where our cells

Land

Like the sower’s seeds

Some on good soil

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There is a thought

That built on yesterday’s

And does that count

As old or new

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How shall we measure

Ongoing

Something old

Something new

Something borrowed

Something blue

Here meaning

Blue for calm

Thankful for

The return of sky

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And as for borrowed

It’s all borrowed

After all

We own our souls

We should own our skins

On Earth

Our thoughts

And our discoveries

To have

To share

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Should be no fear

Rather with impunity

Or the fear of loss

Unrecompensed

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So here’s

To a new day

It is founded

It is its own

It is tomorrow realized

It archives yesterday

As for what’s new to argue

Let’s first be

Thankful for the having

Then appreciate the cells

That change

The thoughts that build

That what we thought as next

Is now

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Dancers

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To the Rainmaker

(x = space)

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To the Rainmaker

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Cloudy day

Rain has started

Drought conditions

Keep raining

Please

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Grateful ground

With people on it

Also thanking you

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For crying on us

If that’s what this is

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If you are sad with us

And why not

We are inhospitable

Toward Earth

While it’s our home

In all the ages

And should we take measures

To prevent

To recoil

(as in rolling up again)

To keep everything alive

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Will we remember

To apologize

While planting?

To express our thanks

We still have days

For growth

For food

And to get it right

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To the sky

The stars

Whatever gods

Or greater compounds

Might set over us

Or under us

To serve

With greater might

Than we shall ever know

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Curb our hubris

Stop us before

The final act

Shall ruin everything

xxxxxAnd someone

xxxxxSomething

xxxxxCome from outside

xxxxxTo claim

xxxxxWhat’s left

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While it’s still ours

If ours

Help us

Gods

The sky

xxxxxWhomever

Get it right

With what’s left

To have an Earth

Before

We dare to seek another

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C L Couch

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Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

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Good Earth

(x = )

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Good Earth

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I don’t know the news now

I’m writing

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I know what I knew

Last night

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You know

Film at eleven

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And reading much

Throughout the day

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And having it

Affect me

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I filter

And am changed

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Maybe the filters change

Certainly

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What settles on the other side

Has changed

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The other side

Do you let the world

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Affect you

This way

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Everything impresses

As parents

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Imprint

Upon the infants

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We can only hope

They’re good

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It’s all good

The process

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And the people

On which rests

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The fate of our

Good Earth

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C L Couch

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Photo by Jeniffer Araújo on Unsplash

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tomorrow is Juneteenth

(x = space)

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today is Father’s Day in the USA, and I wish happiness for fathers; since I have no earthly Father anymore (and for some time) and got to thinking about tomorrow; and not stopping in thinking about tomorrow, I offer this

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tomorrow is Juneteenth

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tomorrow is Juneteenth

when in Texas slaves

no longer slaves

and who were never slaves

by the will

that was creation

nonetheless are told

they are no longer slaves

and by legislation

for two years

or so

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you are free

but they knew that

they knew there was an enemy

that kept them down

that weighed the legs and feet

upon stolen ground

to earn crops

for another’s coffer

(boxes in the bank)

they knew

they would rise

they knew this sometimes

on occasion

while chains and fields

and white men’s whips

beat another message

upon backs

of backs and faces

on the legs

that did the work

that carried wealth

to a master

who was not a master

or an owner

but for thieving

against God

and integrity

who cared not for blood

that spilled on blossoms

as long as they looked white

in the sacks

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such evil

Lord

and why did you allow it

why is our will

so important

that we are enabled

to grab weapons

to split human hides

to take the rest from Africa

stuffed like oranges

in ships

to the infantile

and erstwhile

USA

and late give up the practice

through a war

a reckoning

for what all of us knew

was wrong

was evil

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we cannot imagine

who were not there

though at least

we may tell stories

and send messages

through generations

to the future

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do not do this again

live a kind of sorry

if need be

and if recompense

be needed

well them

pay it

from those boxes

of the profiteers

whose gold inside

still shines

still funds

still mocks

the rest of us

for color

and all colors

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let freedom ring

we hear

well

let it ring

ring bells

ring all we have

that makes a message

and response

with decibels as words

that say

yes freedom

we must have it

we must try it

we must make it known

to all the Earth

and all the worlds beyond

and all the worlds

that are inside

and all the worlds

that we must share

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Photo by Wasil Ahammed on Unsplash

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Sing Earth and Celebrate

(x = space)

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Sing Earth and Celebrate

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Shall we celebrate

Shall

We dance

Or tap affirmative

While sipping

To the side?

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It is an open day

Sky for a ceiling

Though we can make canopies

And later

Light candles

For the bugs

(I mean citronella

or the like

safely

not to kill them

but keep them away

where they might dance

in dark

safe places)

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Unsure about the music

We could argue

For

A bit of everything

And as for food

Can start with stones

Then

Enter friendly rivalry

For dishes from

Here

Or there

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There should be

Volume

For talking

And volume as enough

For everyone

And let the children sleep

Near

Or under

Tables

To which

And for whom we brought

Sleeping rolls and mattresses

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And

Yes

There might be plots

In the dark

Remembering

Our traitors were invited

Too

But

Try to be friendly

People

We will have had

This one chance

For Earth

On Earth

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Photo by Louis Reed on Unsplash

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