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Good Will

Good Will

 

The world is crazy now

Because it’s captured Christmas

But in quiet streets from houses simply lit

Against all garishness and harshness,

It is released again

And is

 

More so

The ransom of the wise

Of love,

Having been paid

By those who pray and help so much

 

Illuminating life

Nearly

In secret

 

C L Couch

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/etolane/349044647/

Snowy

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Valentine’s (prose-poem)

Valentine’s is Tuesday.  A day whose origin is in sacrifice and martyrdom.  In the pesky chapter of Ephesians, it’s how the role of husbands in marriage is described.  Like the role of Jesus to the church, his bride and for whom he gave his life.  The saint exchanged messages of love from his prison cell with his followers outside.  (Who knows but someone might have been in jail with him.)  Red is not for romance but for the color of the final cause.  Enjoy the greeting cards—I will—and chocolate.  And flowers for an augur of spring in the north.  But there are higher things to think of, among them how we love this day.  And to the next.

C L Couch

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Still Christmas in Berlin

Still Christmas in Berlin

 

No romance for the moment

Christ child forgotten

In the press of madness and of stirring

Grief

To complement the cowardice in Nice

Undeclared, ununiformed men

Who know no better

Than to render a cause stupid

And larcenous

Stealing life from love

The gospel of the season

That will outlast you

 

C L Couch

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/world/europe/berlin-christmas-market-truck-crash.html?_r=0

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Listen to Earth

Listen to Earth

(Sarah Doughty)

 

Listen to earth:

For

She will tell you much

 

Of love on the ground

And underneath

And in the branches

Of the trees,

Sometimes even launched

From there;

 

From the garden, truth—

Wild and perennial,

Knowing no

Cultivation

But the seasons;

 

Tendril-scent of romance

Glides onto the sky

Over water,

Upended in the course

Each time—

 

Thus approving

The cycle

Of immortal love

 

That touches stellar rings

With which Earth sings

 

C L Couch

 

https://thesarahdoughty.wordpress.com/

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The Banshee Cries

The Banshee Cries

 

I split the night, I know

I want to

Further chaos into silent

Human sleep

 

I have neither quiet

Nor rest

Why should you?

 

And when my piercing

Work is done

And I’ve coursed through

Your family

 

I’ll come for you

You won’t see though

You will hear

And maybe at last

Listen

 

Too late to fix your

Prophecy

 

That’s done:

 

And you will come with me

To a place

Where hellish noise is

All you know

 

You,

Betraying man

Who spoke

Curses in love

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The Selkie Charmed

The Selkie Charmed

 

We offered love

And you took sex

 

We were wondrously

Outfitted, loving

Shapes and colors to

Show the world

My feeling

 

You removed every

Thing to get to flesh

And to the bones

Underneath:

 

Did you think this was

Affection?

 

It was abduction,

And we never again

Felt rescued or

Recovered

 

We left home

You took us instead

Into a somber place,

And in the way

That matters most

We are still locked

Away

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Balintawtaw

Balintawtaw

 

Look me in the eye

 

Balintawtaw

How might

It undulate

 

Do you wave in

Love or fright

 

Attributes that

Can be shared, you

Know:

 

Each evokes

A shaking of

Soul-senses

 

Overcome one

To have the

Other—you decide

 

Then with one

Intent, look the

Other in the eye

 

In balintawtaw

 

Word-High July: Welcome!

 

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

  1. Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
  2. A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
  3. Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
  4. Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
  5. Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

 

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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Tinatangi

Tinatangi

 

My love

Hello

And

How are you

 

It’s good

To see you

Upon waking

 

Shall

We have coffee

Now

With

Continental

Toast on

Which we might

 

Slather

Something

Sunshine-

Yellow

 

Breakfast

For me is

Special

When the

Toast could

Have

Some honey

On it, too

 

Well, C R.

(An alter-ego),

The

Nourishment

Of one

Before me

Now

 

Is so

Much better

 

Word-High July: Welcome!

 

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

  1. Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
  2. A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
  3. Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
  4. Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
  5. Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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Psalm 46

Psalm 46

 

A new world comes

And some would say

It’s here

 

By your hand, we might

Live in better days

 

The images we make

For politics or

Entertainment

 

Are wrung through

With shiny fakery

 

I think our new day

Will arrive,

 

Lord,

 

When we learn to say

I love you to the ground

And to the air

 

And to the wind we

Cannot see but truly

Feel and have:

 

When we learn the

Value of unseen things,

 

We can say I love you

To each other

 

Then your new day is

Manifest

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