2 poems with one poem an expression of thanks then the other a preachy story
given means
someone brought me
food
and others cleared my car
and I imagine that I’ll
lose the space
as soon as I go somewhere
but
I’m thankful
I can eat
and I can move away
when
needed or desired
in the parable
these helpers would be sheep
though busy sheep
helpful
and loving
the givers have the designation
sheep
or goat
and I wonder what
the receivers
such as I might be
maybe
lambs
or kids
Matthew 25:31-46
the one arrives for whom there has been waiting
a story with a king
who dispenses justice
a righteous king
who
has the power with discretion
and the role
given
to play
and shall people be judged
by this wonder who could
be
man or woman
or those gender parts
in God
and so the king
metes
as if the word were ready for this one
alone and
throughout
time
and a throne is
set
the the judgment happens simply
you were me and in
need
and these came to help you
though they needn’t
have known you and you had comfort
even
more life to give
and for the metaphor
I call the helpers
sheep as I
frankly
am the shepherd
and sorry for goats
to call the others goats
and
I guess goats are famous for consuming
and
these goats to judge as people
keeping all
if by degree and giving nothing
not
what would have been easier to share
let alone what might have
been harder
to share
and I must welcome sheep
then
outcast the goats
not
for species judgment
except for those of you
people
whom I made
to whom I gave
but chose
not
to give back or out
toward loving benefit of others
so I judge
and so it is as it was
set
so long ago just after Eden
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same verses
photo by Jay Gomez on Unsplash
(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
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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)
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A Simple Faith
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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
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“This Is My Father’s World” is cited and adapted
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Photo by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa on Unsplash
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(x = space)
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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
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Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash
Sunflower in the Sky
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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
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