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Tapestry

Tapestry

(https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/31/if-you-want-to-get-things-done-pause-taking-time-out-is-crucial?utm_source=pocket-newtab)

 

Times goes in ribbons,

Moving flat, overtwining

Three or more to make a braid

Or some kind of Moebius phenomenon

The writer lives in Spain

Time is different there for him

I live in the Northeast

Time moves incessant

Where busyness is a virtue

 

Invoke Einstein

The bridging through wormholes

Impedance, or allowance, of dark matter

Making standing still to FTL all

Possible

 

And in a possible time,

What cannot be invented

What cannot be savored

In all moments

 

And as a coda, wonder with me

Please

What might be the artifacts

 

I’ve imagined time, my time

My life as

A banner or

A tapestry

(if a banner, I suppose there is a message

though I don’t know what that is)

All things are kept

All things recorded

The thread might not all be lasting

Some might have come undone

Been burned through misapprehension

Or bad days for

Another reason

But one strand, at least

Maybe two strands

Keeps or keep

The rest

So that there is intactness

To the living

With a record for accounting

Or maybe, only for display

When all is done

And Parousia installs

A great exhibition

 

I doubt any of my thread is gold

But I do bid for colors

Of all kinds

With bumps and cautionary stitching

Here and there

I don’t know how concerned I am

That the edges be so straight

 

C L Couch

 

 

Time isn’t the same everywhere.

[my emphasis]

You can think about pause as a habit. One executive I worked with would take five minutes to himself, to do nothing in particular, before he left the office. He made it a way to close the day, and leave work thoughts at work, rather than carrying them home with him. You might think about designing longer and deeper pauses for yourself, and how you could create a space where pauses are woven into the fabric of your life or work.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/31/if-you-want-to-get-things-done-pause-taking-time-out-is-crucial?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

Image by Welcome to all and thank you for your visit ! ツ from Pixabay

 

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Bittersweet

We make words that work

The Anglo-Saxon hoard

That was the dictionary

And all the other contributions from

All languages

Language cannot be its own end, I guess

Yet there are beautiful words

That are lost each day

Because the group has gone

Or, sad to say, been subsumed

Our words don’t come with protections

We could use all kinds

If it were a law to think before they’re uttered

Beyond the autonomic

Well, there’s not

We are not oppressors

Not all of us

Not yet

We can’t have a rule that says

Everything must be approved

We only have the inner voice

That speaks to fast for words

Because that’s how ir works

On the inside

 

So that with which to regulate is

Strapped with nervous speed

Adrenaline is good

And it’s hard

Speaking well is good,

Which is not about articulation

It’s about discretion

The better part

Of something

 

Unironically, if we could only pause

But I cannot make that happen

Nor would I want to

Yes, I would

But it would be so easy to hamfist it

To make a break with tension

A legality

Then we’d need freedom fighters for

Release from word-overlords

 

Whew,

Let’s simply take advice

Don’t kill the voice with alcohol

I know that doesn’t work

But listen for that voice that goes by too fast

Pull some seconds out

Stop in order to choose something better

Something good

Maybe wise

To say

 

C L Couch

 

 

By Man vyi – <span class=”int-own-work”>Self-photographed</span>, Public Domain, <a href=”https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20208143″>Link</a&gt;

Hauteville House – Victor Hugo’s copy of George Métivier’s Dictionnaire Franco-Normand

 

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The Skiff

The Skiff

(Advent, anytime)

 

It’s the twentieth

Now we count for real

 

Will we have peace—

Will Bethlehem be accessible

This year

 

Peace in the heart

Might be all that’s left

Sometimes it must feel that way

And, honestly, it’s a good place

To start

 

Accent on the time

To find the quiet

Or stop the world another way

Pause it now and then

 

Five days

For remembrance

Make it our own liturgy of

Supplication

Over whatever waters we might have,

Still or stormy

 

Reaching for, and as,

A beacon through the mist

That’s joy

 

C L Couch

 

 

By laszlo-photo – https://www.flickr.com/photos/laszlo-photo/110887318/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5948809

In the early morning, a fishing skiff remains docked on the waters of Santa Marta Bai near Soto, Curacao (Netherland Antilles).

 

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Big Inning

Big Inning

 

I have another Sunday

So do you

Maybe it was yesterday

When I’ve worked the weekend,

It has been a Friday

 

A sabbath is a gift

After six days

Though a maker might forgive

A perspective that appreciates

A day before

The next six days

 

I guess this means

God invented the weekend

And the nineteenth century finally

Agreed

Way to go, eighteen-hundreds

Catching up after

Forty billion years and change

 

A gift in receiving should be opened

How will we open this

Hold it to the light

Show it to our kith

And then our kin

 

Batteries not needed

Already given with a source of power

In the beginning

 

There are times when we force cessation

For a time

The seventh-inning stretch

Standing for “The Hallelujah Chorus”

Making Mondayholidays

 

Pausing must be good

We certainly need it

I hope your pause is good

Maybe sometime you will join me

And I you

 

C L Couch

 

 

Photo by PatrickHendry on Unsplash

 

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Life Goes On

Life Goes On

 

The name of a television

Show, I think,

As well as an old saying

 

And it does—

Life does go on, that is

 

Like one, unending sentence

Written and read

Throughout the years

 

An Edgar Poe-like sentence;

He could write a sentence

That would take up a page

And be no less fascinating

 

For the length and, what

Turned out, the breadth

 

A single-sentence life,

Broken up with punctuation

 

A question mark when

There is doubt, an

Exclamation point when

And where

Something needs affirming

 

Say, a celebration

 

A period when things must

Stop for a while, tragedy

Or wonder of accomplishment

 

Today is a comma

A pause

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