knowing how to live

O God
on a sunny day
I could wish I were
in
Bible study

I know
some would say I don’t know how
to live
much less how to prize a sunny day

but
I don’t know
clean room
a group of us
we
act clean
the words of Scripture clearly on the page
and we hear and we
discuss

kind interaction and somehow
authentic for
our
loves
and for our growth

for the beauty of the Earth
glory
in the skies

we will see through the window
       sorry
       there should be a window
and
feel after when we take part
in the outside world
God had
made
and about which we have the story
with
a gospel

c l couch


(“For the Beauty of the Earth” is the hymn cited and to which alluded; the author of the hymn is Folliott Sandford Pierpoint)

Earth Day

photo by Dima Serafin on Unsplash
“A Bee in Snowdrops”