and so prepare
the day for the new year
was here and
happily remembered
then
and now the days between
leading to the somber day
when pardon
is
sought yet
first the day before
forgiveness from each other then on
the day
seek pardoning from God
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photo by Andrey K on Unsplash
published five days past
according to Copilot plus my own dim recollection, bluebells symbolize humility and gratitude and faithfulness (plus I really liked the photo)
spirit-taking
green and blue
like
Earth
be thankful in the day
of summer finishing
and
hmm
above it’s
seventeen syllables
maybe a classic haiku understanding
of nature as it’s nature to be
counting
more
so
taking close the wisdom
in the teaching of
seasons
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photo by Simon Harmer on Unsplash
pack your trash
leave Earth better
than
you found it
when you chose shelter for the evening
here
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photo by Enfeng Tsao on Unsplash
the letters
do I know words at all
and
you knew more but gave them up
to
go to work and have a home
not ours
and leave
the rest of words
creative
now subversive
go
and is this waiting and
don’t think so
for
the memories swept out or
locked
away
while there should
be
health in that
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photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
911 what’s our emergency
for 9/11
a mockery of the emergency call
I suppose
so many have apprehended
bitterly
the code
all the poor people
poor
by innocence
who could not be a proper target
on the field
where training and some rules
apply
but were defeated out of line
and protocol
by
simply wanting to have the day
while savages tried to
proclaim
no normal life for these
then
all those after who arrived
to serve
again
unmilitary but civilian
need
two piles of stories
parts
of bodies
bodies
still living and were found
and
saved from the wreckage
on both sides
rescued and rescuer
to begin the later
toil
over sickness in
survival
so in Washington the same
as they worked with each other
plus
all those arriving
to locate
and viscerally to grieve
both fright and assessment somehow
given in
the moments before
during
and after
fear
and loathing
and ask to bless the ones who fought
back
having figured the cost
but
took fewer lives
in a field in Pennsylvania
the disasters
the deaths
then
responding
we do now go our own
from such but intertwined
as
honest differences
fade some
while we
live
and work
and mourn
then to bury
and memorial
a verb
and we go on
differences lightly worn
maybe now
but
in a national identity
could be
bright as not before
though
it should not
take
such happenings
to mind a nation
regardless
so to live the catastrophic day
hurt
angry
woeful
wishing more
wishing less
but
in all agendas
yet
together
we
hope
we respond
we live
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photo by Holly Riley on Unsplash
“Tower of Voices at Flight 93 Memorial
Shanksville, United States”
guardian
I talk with
well
her or him
or another through
the day
I feel the nudges even when I’m going
unaware
to guide
to wake up enough
with
enough
to change direction or consider
at least
another way
that might be safer
as
well as approvable
mostly
it’s the nudging
and
occasionally
well
often
with words
so it goes through the hours
in
my weakness
say
my exhaustion when
too tired to think on virtue
and then
like a feather or a talon
be
pushed gently in the miraculously
sponsored
way
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photo by Tina Hartung on Unsplash
elusive
now what really to say
and I don’t know
I haven’t slept
I’m tired
well
of course
when we’re at our worst or in
it by the design of
others
maybe is the time for patience as an attitude
in endurance
yes
all the talk of the extra mile
but I mean
that maybe when we’re at the end
is where
we need to start
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Psalm 37:7, Matthew 5:41
photo by Georgi Sariev on Unsplash
without
two meanings
only green today
out
the window with
patches of pale behind
which
is pretty much all there is
for pleasing
sight
hints of branches and
half or so
of the trunk appearing
too
and all for pleasing
yet it’s not sight but how we see
since the blind can teach
us
so much of hue and tone that those of
us with eyes that work
so to say
can do
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(I imagine a Muppet singing the “Can Do” song)
Laboring the Day
this has been Labor Day
in the USA
and
did we labor
which would be the un-point of the day
though
someone has to work
and many
certainly
to keep the lights on
or to have cooked before the picnics
and
all details managed for
well
everything
but a day to recognize
the work
that
we could say
built
and builds the nation
all those who go unrecognized
for
roads
and factories and
offices
on all the other floors
and
though I can’t help but think of mothers
I can also
think
respect all workers
everywhere
and
on this day
for these
by our practices for tributes
say
in picnics and fireworks
and
on to school and all our work
together
as today into tomorrow
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“Don’t look at the torch! Why is that fear torched into my brain? Dumb question.”
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