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doctor whom

doctor whom
and how to heal

I love the chosen people
and
who shouldn’t for their being
first of all
the people of the Earth with
all

and their stories are
remarkable
and
for me and those like me
these folk
and folklore are
the
parent presence and allowance
of our faith
further
on

and this love comes to mind
because of
news
I guess
and who’s making all the terrible mistakes
and
who has made them over time

and
who loves whom
through imperfection
spying first the log before getting
to
specks

Matthew 7
3 to 5

these are my forebears by tradition
and
in the present are a fine
wonderful people
whose festivals
are
grandly calendared then more
importantly
observed

and don’t the observations show
a range
of who we are
and
now we belief

maybe anyone on Earth

and
yes
honestly
and if to forfeit something to the human world
I love the Arabs
too
and all Semitic
sibling peoples and then course the love
through
Asia
back through Africa
Americas
Pacifica
those visiting free polar
lands
directions ‘round
and people
‘round

and
not that anything goes missed
but
what better way to fix or
re-set the vision
but
together with a practical
human affection to invoke and thus
allow

the people of the Earth
sense each
other
and with an aspect of
positive interest
desire to
know
and eagerness to serve

and let that serve the fullness
of Shalom

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(the title is a name of a collection kept at Pinterest and, yes, in tribute of the science-fiction character who saved the Earth if not all the cosmos, episodically

and by the mention of it, I believe that folklore is real)

photo by Matthew L on Unsplash (SHALOM)

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obeisance

obeisance

and my back hurts
and
the pillow doesn’t work
as if
it should

no anodyne
then
except for faith
and to endure
not
back pain so much as the stressing
of the heart
to do
better in all pain
still
to love
and even to obey

and what do you want
Lord
if not for me to love
and
serve
you
best I may
and the people whom you made
as well

and I am one
and
so get some love as well
which is
enforced by law

you know
those great commandments

and my back still hurts
and
yours might
too
or something like

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Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

photo by Arjan Stalpers on Unsplash

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the letters

the letters

do I know words at all
and
you knew more but gave them up
to
go to work and have a home
not ours

and leave
the rest of words
creative
now subversive
go

and is this waiting and
don’t think so
for
the memories swept out or
locked
away

while there should
be
health in that

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photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

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depth and breadth and height

depth and breadth and height
prompt by her Sonnet 43

why do you love us

you could count
the ways

you love our flaws

you love what’s good about us
too

you love what we are
and what we’re not
in
what we want
and parsing what we want
by
perfect virtue

who we are
by you
by us
even by how the world has shaped us

you love healing us
when wills align

and in the end
to
take us home
where you won’t love us less
but there will be more

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photo by Mohamed B. on Unsplash

the poetry format is still not working right by WordPress; I can load lines but not spaces between lines, sigh

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God’s approval

God’s approval

how do we deal
knowing
that it’s coming
that
it’s here
and mostly by ignoring
it would seem
though
approval is a form of love
and maybe
there’s forbearance
too

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photo by Courtney Cook on Unsplash


as for the WordPress poetry function, it continues awry; I've end-run around paragraphed lines I didn't ask for, and maybe that will work for now
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easy awe

easy awe

how frightened should we be of God
to know the power
that
nothing could hold against

so that a weapon of deception
is
the only choice
for devils
since nothing material
if owned
could
stand a chance as in pitching
God’s own
against
God’s own

and yet a God of love
who
waits for choosing
maybe
by still water
or in the troughs of war
or
by the bedside
when
the sickness is bad

or
with the victims of the drought
that
civil conflicts caused
or
because dry seasons happen
anyway

and that is power
too

and so to hate or love
or
frustrate the faith
for
everything that’s giving and that’s taking

God
who seems to have chosen for God
an invisible place
from which to offer presence
and so
the paradox of that
for faith

truth in the trees
or at
the hilltop where the sun has danced
and
thousands choose it is
the bright and
even painful
show
of God

show for
real
and for them proof enough to choose

and
now
for the rest
only with evidence unseen
and filtered through a dark glass
of our insight
at
best

and what we shall believe
while love even to forestall power
awaits

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photo by Kirill Tonkikh on Unsplash

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the speculation

the speculation

that God is love
and somehow that is wise
a God
to have

that world will make fun of and
withhold promotion
for the sake
of itself
against the virtue

yet
the way to live
when necessary
to profess

alone to make a job of it
or
finding friends
and so
inside the world
to hear God
and
fashion love
like sculpture or an E-I report

to credit God in all
however
large
or
small or seeming odd to credit

and through any jeer
or
other barrier
to hold fast and better yet
assail
the world with love
knowing the gates of hell
at first and by the last
shall not
prevail against it

rather by
Amor vincit omnia
to live
and wait as in to anticipate and
also
true and imperfectly
to serve

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photo by Alexander Kaufmann on Unsplash

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incumbent

incumbent

pray
‘cause prayer is good
not because
it’s perfect
but
typically it’s good for us

we think more of the world
in an asking way
so
have perspective

and
we care
though
pray for enemies as well
at
least we may

God will approve

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photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

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two poems about risk

two poems about risk


reason

it is a message
then
of love
the god who gave of god
throughout all parts
of
itself and for the creatures
on the planet
all
were made

and if making demands gratitude
and
service even out of
model sacrifice

then
we have
our purposes should we ever
wonder

for we create attitudes
and moods and
state
our purposes

we make jobs and art
as jobs

we stand for office
and
we own responsibility

and we make
people
which were ourselves and
then
the new generation and by
all things made
all
of us
to count
for service

and so always
something
good
for us to do


theft

so I took the advice today
based
upon a perspective of creation and
divinity
and everything went wrong
worse
I was robbed

and then a second theft
for you robbed me
of
protection
plus my own amvition

and
now what
I must regroup
and
you know
recoup

and then what
set myself up to lose even more
to ask
and I suppose you’ll say
therein lies the answer
since
loss is a part of life against
what
by love is gained


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photo by mauro mora on Unsplash

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