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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

c l couch

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

c l couch


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

c l couch


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

c l couch


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

c l couch


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


c l couch


photo by mauro mora on Unsplash

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those three doctrinal things

those three doctrinal things

what is for everyone today
hope
except by those who will not hope
not believe or have
enough
it seems not
toward wanting more
yet
wanting
more

faith
to believe in us
and in the world enough
if only inimically and
so
the spirit more with heaven as an element
maybe an application until
the spirit
obvious everywhere
and like the poles
should
peace prevail

then go to love
and what
shall
love be if not reliable like seasons
except
to be founding and producing
all the time

what does better
and
reliably
so we might rely and not
have to create our loves
and re-create
all
the time

but depend
and so have a fullness
in
independence

hope has wings
then
while faith has raiment
so
love has
the halo for sanctity
and
could be worldly important
though it’s also ordinary
and to
elevate the
ordinary

so that
even
if the land is occupied
we must hold the love and
so resist
even repel
siege
holders
until the enemy goes back to a phantom place
to plan some
more

while we keep to
and live of our own
until
the world change and we have
with everyone
if
not equally
but all
the time
in
love

c l couch


1 Corinthians 13:13 (World English Bible)
“These three things will remain for ever. They are faith, hope, and love. And love is the greatest of them.”
[yeah, I wrote about hope first]

Enemy-occupied territory--that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity

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warfair

warfair

there is a war

as a peacenik I admit it

we
know the places
and we don’t
since wars are also fought in secret

secret
or open
the field is the mind and heart
more so the spirit
of
each one

and who shall win the big war is
determined

read
hear about it anytime

as for the small wars
the wars of each one and by
our
families and friends

they go on
and the victory isn’t called

and it is
all
perilous because
the fight is in the self by
which the better weapons
are
love and will

and there is temptation to give up
or
to give in
because the other side
entices
as if it were so shiny
even
though it’s moldering since
part of heaven
lost
and we say
fell
though there was no real direction
but opposite

and now two sides and
well
since
Eden

and we choose
and there
remain
though it’s gloriously odd
that we might
turn
away
but then may turn again

old betrayals resolved
if
imperfectly for now

and so the war of spirit shall go on
until the Megiddo
victory

c l couch


sorry, the title is a pun in English; I’m not sure how this will translate (“war fair,” as it were, rather than “warfare”)

photo by Lisa Forkner on Unsplash 
“High Stone Wall in Megiddo”

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first through last message

first through last message

I don’t know what
to say to you
today
which I know I say many times
at least
to me

but I don’t

I could speak of a-gap-e
the kind of love
that has no terms except to manifest
itself

the kind that comes from God
as all that’s good has come
from God
while evil is allowed
for now

and agape ruins that agenda if it seems
that evil wins for now
since
that is the illusion
that what is bad is victorious
and lasting

which is
regardless
how I feel sometimes
and maybe you do
too
from time to time

but what is bad will not persist
and what is love continues
to be chosen
as
it’s always available
as it’s in us
and as we decide

not only dwells but gets out
rather well
sometimes in surprise
always
in small wonder
if
sussed
yet it’s real and even ordinary
that is
to the loving

maybe is confounding to the wrong
who are loved
anyway
and
wrong’s agenda
which we may not love
so much
but
by praying for confiners
when
confined
who is confined
as far as victory might have to be
concerned
then
love wins

c l couch


photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash

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