(x = space)
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Easy Errantry
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God grant
Peace for friends
And good days
Well-deserved
Because they are
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No pre-requirements
Beyond existing
Now
On Earth
Today, hopefully
Into tomorrow
All right, so an anti-disposition
Toward causing pain
In others
Wouldn’t hurt
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But beyond that
Simply be today
And have good days
Without because
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C L Couch
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Photo by Alberto Zanetti on Unsplash
when I first saw the image, I thought it was upside-down; on second glance, I thought it was a painting
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(x = space)
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Dona Nobis
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I believe
And so should appeal to God
And feel peace
Though maybe the situation is
I have peace
And sometimes do not feel it
To have it
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C L Couch
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By ZSM – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4239269
The tallest (16.5 m (54 ft)) peace pole in the world on the campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. It is made of a 105 years old Sapele tree. 5 languages (Twi—a local language in Ghana, Hindi, Chinese, Swahili, and Arabic) have been used to express the peace prayer on the pole: “May Peace Be on Earth”.
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Four Score
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I’m not sure what to say
Today
A day for remembrance
To respect a President
Who said so
And all the boys
And girls
To men and women
And civilians of all kinds
(were children killed?)
Who died
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We can’t seek vengeance
Though we went for victory
And that tragically
Is fair to say
We made a war at home
That wasn’t there
Between the rubber drives
And paper drives
And rationed sugar
That was the war at home
We imprisoned
Our own
Now
Remembrance might
Be for learning, too
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So we are always ready
For the next time
Properly vigilant
With reason
And with passion
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Victory
Deserved
Marshall plans
After
Win
Too high a cost
We all agree
Rebuild the world
After
Bless the nation
Bless the world
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Ready at war, which
Has been the
Burden of
A nation
Seek peace
Every day
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C L Couch
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Photo by Ryan Stone on Unsplash
World War II Memorial, Independence Avenue Southwest
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(x = space)
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The Peaceable Kingdom
(Isaiah 11:1-9)
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Cheetahs wouldn’t have
To kill,
And they could run with their
Great speed for delight
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There would not be war,
For everything we wanted
Could be gotten
In a better way
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We’d have peace with each other;
We’d have so much
Extra time
To do good things
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Peaceable admittedly
Is an antique word,
But it speaks to potential
To talent
And to quantity
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Who makes this peace?
God does–
But what shall we have
In the mean time?
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It’s in our time,
Our will
To make it happen
From able to have peace
To having it;
The worth is us and
Our mortal talents
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The Earth burns,
Weapons are secretly supplied
To war:
It is crazed comfort
(in both aspects)
To wait for an apocalypse
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We have now–
Heaven, in fact,
Might be waiting for us
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C L Couch
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Photo by Hari Nandakumar on Unsplash
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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(x = space)
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Prayer for Angry Neighbor
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I’m going to ignore you
And pray for you
That you find what you want
Not as you want it
(sorry, that’s a spiritual rub)
But as one perfectly
Provides
And you are happy
As you’ve never known
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I guess that’s not
So much ignoring,
After all
It’s the other stuff
The stuff that you throw
Down as if to say,
Challenge me
I’ll take you on
Though what you want
Is brittle
And could shatter
With what is left
Call them fragments
Call them splinters
Call it defeat
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That’s probably too much
To pray for now
To keep it simple,
Pray for peace
On the inside for you
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C L Couch
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Photo by Siarhei Plashchynski on Unsplash
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(x = space)
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A Kind of Peace
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A weird kind of
Thing
Happens for no reason
A reason
We don’t know
Yet can live with, anyway
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Spirited
Even takes our words away
Fills us with
A moment when
We see
Each other
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When we know the world
Enough
To have enough
For being filled of
This other way
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C L Couch
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Earthrise
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=306267
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(x = space)
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Peace Talk
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What does God demand?
We say humility
In walking
That sounds good
We could let go our weapons
And the meanness
On our faces
And go our way
Not as if
Everyone’s our friend
But that the world
And the world’s God
Anticipates
Agendas,
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Don’t make a face
That gets you beat
Or killed
And with a face
That says that, should we meet,
It might go all right
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The thing is
And I guess you know
This is a rule
First for the strong
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C L Couch
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Micah 6:8
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Photo by Timothy Barlin on Unsplash
(nice face)
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(x = space)
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Memorial Day in the USA
(2021)
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It is a holiday in the USA
I suppose the sales are good
And there will be
Shiny fireworks
Reminding us the day means,
Well, something
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There are days like this
Around the world,
As there should be:
Remembrances of those
Who fought and
Died in war
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The wisdom of strategy
And final choices
Is not on the program;
Like the Light Brigade,
There are those
Who served
Because they served
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Remember them,
Because their loss
Is the foundation
For unfought
Wars over silent
Battlefields
That were and are
And will be,
Someday
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C L Couch
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Golden Stars
Photo by Dan Dennis on Unsplash
World War II Memorial, Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington, DC, USA
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(x = space)
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Peaceify
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I should pray for love
I’ll pray for peace
I should pray for faith
But I’ll take respect
To keep the world
From exploding
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There are molecules
Of everything
In everything
We do our best to clean
The rest is undiffused
Or do I mean
Defused
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There is you in me
And as naturally
Me in you
We have each other
And the answer
To my sibling’s keep
Is yes
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I’ll butter your bread
You’ll butter mine
We will nosh
Then later sit down
For a meal
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This is better than
Negotiation
We can assure
That each one has
What each one has
Better than
Mizpah
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May the Lord watch
Between me and thee
While we are absent
One from another
Mizpah, church fashion
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Nothing is better
For thee than me
Quaker Oats version
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I’ve heard
Golda Meir made deals
In her kitchen
Over bread
I hope it’s true
But we can make it true
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If adversaries sit
In homely comfort
Come to my country
I’ll come to yours
Sit with me
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C L Couch
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Bridge
Photo by Ronaldo de Oliveira on Unsplash
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