The Consequences of the Day
(a just meal)
Everyone has
Such
An awful
Legacy to bear
Everyone
And in this
The colors run as indictment
Course
Through us
All
Anger everywhere
Too easy to lap
Up
And never were we dogs
(for
dogs are dogs)
Where is the justice of
The clean and swept
Not
Swept away
But cleaned as on which
We dance
And set up tables
Share the food
We brought and
Also
Made there
Plenty
The notion of plenty is
Assembled
And once and now again
All
Are welcome
To it
Now this would be a day and
Night
For all to come
To sing of
Our thanksgiving
And how we’ll share a world
To have a world
C L Couch
Photo by Ethan Currier on Unsplash
(column of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C, USA)
(x = space)
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Stone of Help
(MLK Junior Day)
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MLK Junior
I don’t know much
About the senior
Except he changed the name of junior
On learning about
Reformation
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I have been to the church
As many have
Name from the Bible
Ebenezer
“stone of help”
Set up near Mizpah
(itself a place of blessing)
As a sign
Of victory
And settlement
And a home of peace
For a long while
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You can look it up
The President spoke yesterday
At the church
There was applause
I’m not sure how many
Contributed to the words
But they spoke to affirmation
And forward-moving
Business
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The sun shines
Yellow and gold
After a series of gray days
I’m sure that’s good
For sales
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His actual birthday
Is the fifteenth,
Which was yesterday
You know, the ides
Of January
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I ramble
But ramble means to walk
And we have
Walking to do
Far to go
And back again
Bearing new days
With less hate
If we must hate at all
Maybe real threats
That never were these
But better still
To respond in love,
The strength and home
In it
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Build on this
The black day
And the white
And all colors in between
Churches should be safe
They should also be inspiring
For they’re people,
Don’t you know,
Not stone or wood
Or columns,
Even friendly porches
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They’re people
In Atlanta
And in Washington
New York
Paris
Geneva
Cairo
And Jerusalem
Mumbai
And Beijing
Tokyo
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Capitals
Big cities
And small towns
And not in towns
We can meet on a field
Grasp hands without weapons
Maybe have a picnic
Signs of peace
Mostly of good food
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And end to hunger
Not of exploration
But of need
The daily kind
For which we pray of bread
And for each other
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An altar there
In fact,
In every place of peace
Agreed
Maybe stones of help
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C L Couch
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By Southern Arkansas University – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64713156
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