(x = space)
x
x
Susquehanna’s high
brown water like the wide wide river
west Mississippi
x
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x
x
I drove and then walked through storms today
x
Photo by Justin Wilkens on Unsplash
x
(x = space)
x
x
Gestation
x
I don’t know
It’s Friday
It’s raining
We need the rain
The clouds have little texture
At least from here
x
Nothing much to look at
A wet street
Spatter on the windows
We need the rain
x
There is war
In Ukraine
More death today
More wounded
And in Sudan
We’re drawing up our diplomats
Telling tourists
To go home
Choose another
(for now)
x
We know there’s trafficking
Where
Here
Of drugs
Of people
Contraband things that
Otherwise
Could be all right
x
But you know
People
Never people
Sold
Which means someone is
Buying
Where
Here
x
Struggles for freedom’s
Hard enough
On good days in
(relative)
Safe places
x
And they
The captured
Kidnapped
Bought and sold
Are not all
But tend to be
Children
Women
Who
We know
Struggle for freedom
Already
Hard enough
More than should be
Enough
x
On Friday I could cry
But the sky
Provides
As if behooving
I could say
Nature weeps for me
As in
Instead of me
And that
Nature weeps for all of us
In distress
But it is nature’s
Well
Nature
x
That’s all
And that’s enough
The rain
Provides
Other good things
x
But I’m thinking now
There should be
Laws
For freedom
To work within one’s
Bearing
Bearing
Who we are
What can we do
x
And freedom of our bodes
Politic
Personal
That many of us
Think we have
x
Let’s check the laws of nature
And our charters
I think it’s there
Many
Freedoms
Already
There
Officially
And by
Who made rain
x
We may read wet leaves
Or our own pages
Fearfully
Consider
Wonderfully made
And what
To do
With what and whom
When made
When with accountability
Co-making
x
Rain
Tears
Freedoms
Fridays
Notions
Not like the old
Department-store
Departments
(but) Full-blown
Like glass
Full-grown
Into ideas
x
We do
Need these
A good weekend
Please
For you
You deserve it
It’s deserved
x
Does rain mean freedom
I don’t think so
Sometimes
It’s relaxing to watch
To hear
Sometimes
It’s fearful
The median response
Might have something to do
With inconvenience
Maybe this is part
Part Friday
Too
Of freedom
x
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x
x
Psalm 139:14
x
Photo by Sharon Pittaway on Unsplash
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(x = space)
x
x
At Last the Rain
x
The rain falls
It is behind me
I should turn
Push things aside
Look out
Listen
Think on justice
As the thunder rolls
The water rolls
The watershed
Has more
x
Drought
Negotiated
Amos
(not)
Notwithstands
x
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x
Amos 5:24
x
Photo by Evelina Friman on Unsplash
x
(x = space)
x
x
haiku
x
1
twenty pages in
the need to gaze and breathe out
outside for elsewhere
x
2
city-wise black trees
darkened too the sky-wept street
nature go with tears
x
3
after rain is haze
exhale into clarity
newly gifts of night
x
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x
x
Photo by Emil Widlund on Unsplash
x
(x = space)
x
x
After Rain
x
I don’t what to say
There are so many things
I do not know
Movements and people
The inside health of the world
Or the root of evil
x
I could depict a scene
Go to a local park
Or look outside
It’s cooler now, less hazy
A clarity of all the scenes in town
For good or ill
x
Maybe I want
To say something more
Without pedantry
Though to moralize is human
I can only hope for reason
And some fairness to all sides
To win out
In me
x
You
Them
Us
x
Well, it’s the weekend
The heatwave has receded for a while
I have nothing planned
Maybe I’ll take a drive to nowhere
And come back
Richer in at least one way
Than when I left
x
I should walk
x
And you should have your time
I hope it’s good
You need something good
And are so worthwhile
And so deserving
There, moralizing after all
But I’m on your side
A fan
Larger (wider),
An advocate for peace
(smart, not stupid)
Planetwide
For us
x
Understanding venial
Praying for mortal
x
Maybe there’s something
Pursuable,
What is reasonable
With an ingredient of wonderful
x
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x
x
Forest ↟
Photo by Filip Zrnzević on Unsplash
x
(x = space)
x
x
Rain
x
Heatwave and thunderstorms
That’s all we got
Church is still on-line,
Though I guess it doesn’t have to be
Watching the delta variant
x
The sermon’s about encouragement
That’s good
Providing it, however, with
Prudence and with wisdom,
Which is better
To say that everyone’s amazing
Overdoes it
In making, it is true
Each life is extraordinary
But for all the lives unmade,
What shall we say?
That there was less extraordinary?
Maybe it’s the application
Of the Pickering social theory
In that it’s how we treat
Each other
And each one
If you want to value life,
Then offer drink safely to everyone
Feed everyone
Make and offer shelter
To everyone
Peace for security
The chance for learning
The chance for work
That complements
x
Sometimes saints are martyred
By pagan foes,
Sometimes by the believing
Church itself
Believing more in institution
And a sanctity in politics
Control and profit
Over faith and vision
x
Savor belief instead
Feed the children
And the youth
And the grown-ups
With all things that we need,
And I will hear the nations
And the corporations
Claim
That we care
x
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x
x
1 Thessalonians 5:11
(Hebrews 10:24)
x
Raindrops keep falling on my window pane.
Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash
x
(x = space)
x
x
Sun on Sunday
x
It’s dim outside
And raining
I hear wet tires
x
A gloomy day
I do not mind
The Addams genes at play,
I suppose,
The kind that make
A lark of dark days
x
I’m a day into
The new shot
Feels like the flu shot
And every vaccine that
I’ve had since
Childhood
The site is sore
x
I don’t mean to comment
I want to respect
The courtesies of others
That are challenged
Only in
Contagious situations,
Where they make
The issues grim
x
Like guns, I guess
We know what we know
And I might be wrong
x
But let’s not make it politics
But practicalities
There is an epidemic
I’ve lost people to it,
Which gives me added rights
To nothing
But my sadness
X
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x
x
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash
x
(x = space)
x
x
Inaugurations
x
January enters
Like a wet
Dog,
Poor dog
x
Winter is
Allowed
But the ground
In PA is
Spring or
Fall swamp-like
Instead with
Additional on the
Way (which
means more
rain)
x
Four-year change
Is coming, not
A holiday
I wonder
x
But something
In the USA
We do so that
Change
Keeps things
The same
x
Not that we
Are the
Exemplar
We believe we are
Or
Should be
To the world
x
What do you know?
A real dog is
Barking, below
x
Go inside,
Dog,
Go
x
Leave certain
Things
Outside to
The oath-owners
x
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x
x
Go, Dog, Go is a story (about dogs) written by P. D. Eastman.
x
Photo by Victoria Palacios on Unsplash
Sequoia National Forest, United States
Glory and wonder here on little old earth. This shot is from a particularly magical hike through the Sequoia National Forest. We were so up high in the mountains that the clouds decided to settle around us and create a mystical fog all around us.
x
Coeli
The sky is a
Wow
Blue
The kind a robin’s egg
Could say
Hey, you
My color came from you
The green is
Startling, too
As if to say
Surprise!
I was here,
All the time
In this humid place
Of climate change
(yes, it’s real
sorry, children
we’re leaving this
for you)
Maybe for
A change,
The rain last night
Cleared out
The steamy parts
For this morning
If so,
Thank you, rain!
When I lived
Higher up,
It used to happen this way
All the time
Clear sky after
Rain that cleans
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Photo by Kambani Ramano on Unsplash
Sossusvlei Sand Dunes, Namib Naukluft Park, Namibia
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