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This Is What I Care About

This Is What I Care About

 

This is what I care about

Family—three brothers, sister,

Brother-in-law, sisters-in-law,

Too

 

Niece and nephews, two

Children in the next generation

Four dogs for now, no cats

I know of (since mine died)

 

Friends—those who have

Work and those who need it,

Who are healthy and who

Struggle to get through the

Day without so much pain

 

Neighbors—those who make

Up my community and those

Who try to disfigure it

 

Peace that hardly yet prevails

Love and grace that it might

Abound

 

God who doesn’t need me

But regards me as one part

Of creation, anyway

 

And you

 

For so many reasons

 

For I know that you care, too

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Walpurgisnacht

Walpurgisnacht

(30 April)

 

Eve of a saint’s day and

 

Something to do with

Witches and with German

Witches, I imagine—the

Good kind of witch, I’m

Sure

 

Not Charmed witches,

‘Cause they were silly

(After three seasons,

Anyway) nor the crones

With noses whose hooks

Could hold pots, so badly

Were they drawn

 

Maybe that’s why,

Starting at dawn, the

Television plays episodes

Of (so-called) real

Mysteries

 

Because tonight good

Witches are dancing in

Dark bulls’-eyed circled

Places with what light

They might extract from

The sentinel moon

 

Under which their sinews

Slide in pace to music

Unheard

 

Beseeching sky and earth

And fire with water held

In fashioned vessels

 

To love the world and

Give their healing magic

Potency to break feverish

Ills that make corrupting

 

Sickness of what men

Catch and spread when

Dealing in the day

 

 

Harz witch in front of the fire

www.niedersachsen-tourism.com

(see?)

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One Dog, Two Cats, Two Dogs

One Dog, Two Cats, Two Dogs

 

I’m with the dogs again;

I should set out a shingle

 

Neighbor’s dog (the only

Dog from whom I’ve

Received real hugs)

 

Friends’ cats, exercises

In indifference, until I’m

The only one to feed

Them

 

These two dogs in the

Family are older, whiny,

And demanding

 

I love them both

 

What kind of irony that

Saint Francis helps me

With my pets but has not

Yet arranged for the

Curing of my allergies

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P is for Petrarchan Sonnet

P is for Petrarchan Sonnet

(Petrarch’s writing signaled the Renaissance)

 

So when I love with all I am alive

Then we are introduced as I and you

Therewith you ask me ever to be true

We press out feeling into a heart-hive

And thus you try to make it all survive

A mystery of evidence, a clue

To why you need me to pledge us anew

And wonder why we can’t in peace now thrive

 

It’s fear, I guess, and I can understand

When all is eye that cannot see around

That life before is ever in command

Until fear leaves in grace might love abound

So, love, let love become a golden band

A flex of give and strength to fright astound

 

 

[A] sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/petrarchan-sonnet

 

 

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/

Blogging from A to Z Challenge

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Psalms 32 and 33

Psalm 32

a song before repentance

 

I should be truer to you

And stay that way

Learning more about you

Fulfilling my awareness

Of how your love

The world

 

 

Psalm 33

a song of anxious supplication

 

Forgive me when I fail

Strengthen me

 

Take my hollow parts

To fill them with truth

And better cause

 

Love

Not so much for reward

As for peace

If peace comes with it

Finally, please

I’ll have

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F is for Folderol

F is for Folderol

 

An old word for silly when

Something must be said though

No language is required

 

Folderol, la, my dear

Folderol, ha, be near

 

Okay, few words—mostly

Un-worded sounds are sung

 

Maybe to fill in a fear, if

Singers think there should

Be a lyric, and none shows

 

While love is there, shouting

In the mind

 

 

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/

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E is for Erato

E is for Erato

(the muse of love poetry)

 

We breathe in and out our

Bodies matching moving hearts

 

Delight in joined revealing

Opened and shared at last

 

Love lingers, and that’s important

But in this time it’s passion

 

Sending a siren-song whose

Magic we shall not escape

 

‘Til breathing slows and sacred

Act eases into other life

 

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/

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Psalm 32

Psalm 32

a song when we are done

 

Lord, I’ve lost it all

Age and youth

Health and wealth

Whatever I possessed

Is no longer in my

Hands

 

I wagered life

And sometimes won

Gained much, gave it away

Squandered some

As we are likely to do

 

Here I am, and there

You are

We draw closer all the

Time

With all that

I no longer have

 

Do you still love me,

Lord?

The mystics’ reply is

Yes, always

Yes from the Lord

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Psalm 30, a song of I-don’t-know

Psalm 30
a song of I-don’t-know

what is the resolution
of an unsolvable equation
when one plus one
makes love

what more is there to say
to add or calculate
what function can enhance
the totality of this

one plus one makes love

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