A Little Fancifully
I don’t know why I’m
Thinking about dragons
And then about
Stories from
Sunday School
Like the story about Gideon
Who broke pitchers
Inside which were fires
Having surrounded
Even a greater
Force
But through the effect
Defeated foes
With faith
And then with fear
And fire
Is the connection
I suppose
The fire from the dragon
And also from the pitchers
And it’s the weekend
Time for wondering
Perhaps
Of characters and stories that are
Fanciful
And that also
Invite us
Fictively and
Non
To keep the faith
I guess these
Break the tension
Just a little
Outside stories
In the world of worries
That we occupy
Certainly
More often
C L Couch
(any story with a dragon, say, Farmer Giles of Ham, or a dragon of your own internal making—also Judges 6 for Gideon regarding faith and fire)
Photo by 順平 黃 on Unsplash
(the Asian dragon commands respect as an aspect of religion and what I would call real myth, because there is such a thing--and so my advice is never belittle dragons, maybe anywhere)
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Storied
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You know
The living parable
It actually happened
When soldiers
Were given leave
To drink
From a nearby stream
And some lay down
Their weapons
While prostrate
Lapped the water
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These were sent home
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Some knelt
By the water
Clutching weapons in one hand
While with the other
Reaching down to cup the water
Sipped while keeping watch
Around
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These were kept
For the coming battle
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I often think of this
From Sunday School
And cup the water
When I can
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C L Couch
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Photo by Sam Dellaporta on Unsplash
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