(maybe) it’s not that easy
we find
an abstract
verdant image
is it a meadow
or a forest of
a hemisphere's summer
(someone) looking
up
or
(more) fancifully
is it the capillary network
in a frog
sometimes it isn’t easy
being green
sometimes with any number of
means
by interests
it’s easy
(well
if) with being hard
having green
lives
hale
on green worlds
c l couch
there is referenced the song “Bein’ Green” by Joseph G. Raposo, famously sung by Kermit the (green) Frog
photo by Artur Łuczka on Unsplash
(x = space)
x
x
A Simple Faith
x
A simple faith
That says
I love you
God
I know that you
Love me
x
Help me
To love the world
You made
The child you gave
To save it
Keep me
Not giving in
Except to you
In faith
x
Let goodness
Not be slight
Or slighted
Not by me
x
Help me to love
My family
And friends
And stranger I have yet
To meet
Or never shall
x
Pearls
And swine
Doves
And serpents
Not to cast with
Or to invoke
But to be reminded
Of my worth
x
You are God
Deserving all that
God is due
But I must take you
Day by day
It seems
To love you best
Your world
To my listening ear
And the people
Here
x
While we are here
‘Til there
x
C L Couch
x
x
“This Is My Father’s World” is cited and adapted
x
Photo by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa on Unsplash
x
(x = space)
x
x
Open Sesame
x
An easy day
Because I’ve made it
A combining of
Forgetfulness
With compromise
As virtues
x
The pleasure in a cup of coffee
With a story
For companionship
x
If willing,
A companion
Who forgets and compromises, too
x
There we’ll reach and leave the summit
Of the day
x
Tomorrow
I or we might have another
x
x
C L Couch
x
x
Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash
Sunflower in the Sky
x
Sin-Eater
I don’t know what it means
To eat bitter herbs
Ones I wouldn’t like
Salt and bitter herbs
Is what the rite called for
Bread
Bread, salt, and bitter herbs
Then to be run out of town
So that for a time
A year, perhaps
There would be virtue
Lack of hellfire, anyway
The cost of sin
The bearing of it
Having been cast out
Too tragic and too easy
C L Couch
KaMan – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59215324
Salt Rising Bread
clcouch123 
Recent Comments