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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.”

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two poems about angels

two poems about angels

I’ve been writing a series of psalms; two of these turn out being about angels—description, speculation—hoping your approval

psalm 19

your angel watches
with
all the miracle of senses
while
I sleep
when that should happen
in
the turmoil
like trying to rest aboard a ship
at night
when the sea rages
and turns
in all
directions but the way
toward home

the angel keeps
by
mission
not
to render magic but
to let the world have its way
much
of the time until correction
then
and final revelation

and
thank you for such helpers
messengers
to each
announcers to all

and
shall we know you through this
kind who
by order and by wonder
care

and so magnificent
part of
the host and we might serve there
too
after apocalyptic times

but I was thanking
you
for helping while I should sleep
and your helper
with

connecting
me
to you then
as this may happen all
of us

help in all hours by
the God who by God is and has
a servant
to
us all

for our
return

psalm 20

your angels are so powerful
and
having names

we know a few

while power has no value
until assigned by you
and
by your arrangement we
decide
to keep
to use

then the beings close to you
until
we arrive
have chosen how to
serve and how
to shine
for
good or for ill
for some decide

to break away vainly
and
aggressively unsatisfied and so
take followers
to
make a separate heaven
so that there is
a war
to undermine one realm or the other

and over time and
for all we
know is raging yet
since
who can tell an age that is
celestial by
mortal

and so a mystery among
the mysteries
and
if so tied then chained
to worldly ways

so that
the war come down through us
in all temptations and
dimensions
‘til
an ending
whose moment’s also vague
regarding
when

the keening tragedy
as
such creative missives fight
with all the majesty
and
muscle that each has and
then to set
one against another and so many

some try to describe until all of us are
after
when with all the conflicts done
deciders and
survivors
here
say this is the count of heaven
and
mourn and then we must count joy

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will of the wisping

will of the wisping

God
I’m sorry for a Sunday
and
please help me for Monday

I miss
missing things
the value
in
interest
more than intention

that part about
the spirit
and
the flesh contesting

and in Gethsemane and who knows
but redolence
drew
them under

anyway
I try to follow
and
don’t get it way too often

and I ask for pardon
without excuse for being human
since
will was made preeminent
to
justify a fall

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vicissitude

vicissitude
Luke 22:44-46

if I were tired from sorrow only
that
is exhausting
and stillness took over my body to
sleep
and I slept

and then I were scolded

after the supper
after
being called friend the first
time and
having been asked specifically for
companionship
awake
and praying with
the Lord

and wouldn’t I be exhausted
too
and so could lose my way through praying

and it is night
and it gets late
and
yes
it’s Jesus
and it’s also human me

and if Jesus said to wait and pray
would I not have been invested
with
the energy and other wherewithal to join
and
maybe I had received

and still
slept
anyway

so there’s not excuse
but an excuse
and
I’m made of willing spirit and unwilling
flesh

and how to feel when Jesus tells
me I
have
failed

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44 And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground. 
45 When Jesus rose from prayer and returned to the disciples, He found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. 46 “Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
Luke 22
Berean Study Bible

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up hill and

up hill and

well
I wasn’t sure
you’d really like to know
or I
and
so let go the pedals
that I might
on the hill
the downward side
coast a while and like the trite crossing
I could
look
yes
at you and around
and listen

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a silly rabbit

a silly rabbit
by no theology

and God
I want
to be with you
and be here with you
‘cause this
is what I know
and
have I had a taste
some kind of earthly introduction
to paradise and I don’t know

could
be in worship maybe
out of my
tradition to take
part in Communion
feeling the elements of you go in and
down
I guess
and all around
to sound puerile about it

like the wheels on the bus
or
the digging of Mike Mulligan or
go
dog
go

go
me
go
to God and not
to die
but so to live

and what I have for now
and navigating fields
poorly
‘til what I have is gone
except for spirit and
the body
that with a home and these
shall
last

we’re told or by some impulse anyway
to know

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several things from childhood are cited (and more I am remembering)

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waking again

waking again

God
be with me today
Immanuel

and owning all the other names we give
though
it’s your presence
bold to ask for
not
really knowing with theology
or
religious fear
what I am asking and most of all
of whom

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common book of prayer

common book of prayer

God
forgive me
and help me

and is this so bad
a prayer
not
to utter most days
to start
or sometime throughout

it’s my
common prayer
as if I kept a common book
from which
I read
depending on the hours

it’s presuming
I suppose
if
asking

belief that God will forgive
and
God will help
and maybe the two-step isn’t needed
since
God might help me
anyway

not waiting for even personally determined
forms of doctrine
for
the hours

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“Ain’t no love in the heart of the city.”
San Francisco (USA)

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after drafting

after drafting

sigh
have I said something for you
yet

not that it’s a desperation
yet

well
but relevance
a reaching out
to find acceptance
more
so alliance

well
to be in touch
at least
and maybe most
if
by the aptitudes we have

and hope
your
reaction might be good

good for you
that is
maybe your conviction
certainly your more plainly passing through
the day
go
well

if not
if I may say
go better

as you often make a day
better
for me
and thank you

and what
do you know
we’re here

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