(x = space)

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Easter’s Earth

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Named for not a Christian

Deity

And time

Much of the day

Is gone by now

(3:25)

This writing before tea

Perhaps

While the day began with vigils

Counting down to midnight

(the first moment)

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Around the world

Was meat and bread

And wine

Prepared

With paintings and statues

As if prepared for ages

To remember

To celebrate

To be moved in other ways

Creation solemnized

While we keep these

From war

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And there so many wondrous ways

To have God

To know God

And to respect God

And each other

Every day

In our day when

We know something of annihilation

This might be

The best lesson

Yet

(now)

Of all lessons

In curricula

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And loving our neighbors

We might even take a hit

On ourselves

To have it in the world

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Though

You know

We have to have it

If only to receive it

For the part

Of world peace

Via the golden

And the fleshly

Circulatory rule

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Have Easter then

With joy

Passover

Ramadan

Diwali when it happens

(Holi, too)

And days of consciousness

Rising and aligned

With thoughts and awareness

In a living cosmos

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Let peace be universal

Let’s keep our hands off the buttons

Then destroy the buttons

Recycling them

For benches

The metal of our missiles

Into ploughshares

The paper of our manuals

Into better books

By libraries

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Yes,

With all better qualities

And efforts

Well

We should not be stupid

Everything must happen

All around

Not only in showy places

But where some think

They’re hidden,

Too

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We’re smart

We must be practical

Do you not know

That God

Is smart

And practical as well?

And love has merit

And is the better process

Everywhere

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Easter rising

Let the world

With other names

Be rising,

Too

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Call this respect

Call it withholding

Call it practical

Prosperity

Call it today

And when we think of it

Or must plan for it

Also tomorrow

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C L Couch

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no commission, I simply like the storytelling—Happy Easter!

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