Round Numbers
Everything is ringed
Starting with the noise
That some of us
Must have
Inside our ears
Though meaning more
The matter of
Rings upon the water
In the rain
The ring-edge of the Earth
Around it
And through it
The circular movements of
Well
Everything
The ringness of orbits
‘Round the sun
The shape and movements
Kept inside
Of asteroids
And comets
How many planets
Each world
Is ringed as well
With its own attributes
And energies
Then watch
(or have the artist’s
replication)
The spiral movement of the galaxy
The rounded shapes of all
The galaxies
Of turning stars
And the dancing pas de deux of
Nebulae passing
Around
And by its own
Rule for ballet
Sometimes through each other
Maybe to shout
Or loudly
Sing
Like on that sunny street
ROUND
Is extraordinary
Necessary
Consider all the curvature that must
Be on
The faces of God
C L Couch
Photo by John Peters on Unsplash
I threw a rock into the lake with the intent of photographing the ripple effect and with the thought of how when we are kind to others it grows out in ripples to others who in turn spread kindness (still) to others.
[photographer's caption, revised]
Lent 14
It’s hard not to feel invincible
When we feel invincible
Let’s not blame youth
Those of us in any age
Might forget ourselves
Relying on our defenses
(don’t even think about them)
We conquer the world
Forgetting those to either side
Who want more of the same
Or want to live more simply
Not as victims
Not as Alexander, either,
Or Zenobia
Live and let live
We might say
But should wonder how there’s such a choice
When no one is a planet
C L Couch
PlanetUser – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45377129
An artist’s rendition of Planet X.
Visit to a Third Planet
Who’s hungry
Raise your hands
Now those of you who have
Extra food
There are millions of you
And we’ll take it one by one
Find an outstretched hand
Take hold
Place food in it
If need be, help with preparation
Then be pleased to sit
At the table
Anyone who’s cold
Millions of you with extra blankets
One by one, gently and firmly
Place them
Around
Anyone who’s thirsty
Is a bigger deal
Because we keep poisoning the water
But for now there still is more
Pass it out in safe containers
To those for whom
Answering thirst is life
Who needs shelter
Millions of us know how to
Build roofs and walls
And bridges that will get
Each one security
To home
Now who’s lonely
Who’s afraid
Who needs countries that provide
They’re here
They can help
Can all the multitudes
Nations and people
Provide assistance
Well, we can
I think we know
That we can
We shall
C L Couch
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Mother and Father
(on hearing five of the Solomons
have sunk due to rising sea water)
Once and once again
There was a child
The child is Earth
And we are her protectors
We are the parents
Of the Earth (earth and
Air and water)
For our children
Whom we leave
The planet of our future
world warring
the President goes
to Cuba with needful
cause death toll in
Syria increases from
Russian airstrikes so
goes the claim
North Korea via
Its leadership strives
to move to the front
row of the nuclear
theatre Saudi Arabia
executes students
dissidents and (who
knows) POWs they
are held all over Asia
and in parts
of Africa I say
parenthetically
because too many
do not see we are
a warring world
nations at nations
forces inside
and in between
diplomacy cannot
fail or the impulse
to adapt all our
propensities still in
keeping Edenic
promises making
eccentric community
in spite all the chaos
at Babel
maybe a surprise
that we can tilt
and keep our planet
toward the good
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