Two Days
(and two words)
If you have it
Enjoy the snow
Enjoy
Especially if it’s safe
And then go
Safely
Sorry
That’s parental
But you may say that anytime
To anyone
I think
And if you mean it
Then there’s a campaign
Afoot
To make the world safer
To change things with two words
Not bad for jazz
But then
Whatever you might think of jazz
It’s cool
And back to cold
(sorry
again)
We’re a few days into winter here
And I am fine
With cold air
And ground
And the new beauty of the trees
Though which may course
The angled brilliance
Of the sun
And in two days
Will be the day
But this
Is a day
Too
Deserving of its time
As any other
And specialized
Should we take the hours
In that way
Go safely
C L Couch
Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash
(x = space)
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World Water Day
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Today is Water Day
And everyone deserves a drink
Of safe water
Drinks throughout the day,
In fact
Or, as my nephew used to say
When a child
Overhearing,
Drink up, Shriners
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That didn’t mean water
Though
We mean water
Accessible and easy
Without lead in
Flint
Or lack of pipes at all
In western Africa
Or flooding that makes pipe-works
Dangerous
Across the land
And ‘round the world
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Who digs wells,
Who makes the pipes
xxxxxLays them
xxxxxAnd keeps them?
Why, that would be us
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This is our responsibility
Since we decided that civilized
Is a good thing
Some thousands of years ago
Then when we discovered microbes
In the water
And later on
When we knew
We had
Polluted everything
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This is not nature
This is human
Our human responsibility:
Safe water for everyone
Everywhere we are—safe
And provided for
The things of nature,
Too
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Greed
Gets in the way
And inertia
But there is great energy
And energetic interest
In
Sating all agendas
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The time is needed, yes,
And
You know
The money
So give the money
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Let the people work;
Let all people drink;
It’s ethics,
Even anthropology
That is
Why the peoples of the Earth
xxxxxRise, maintain,
xxxxxOr fall
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Let’s have the world
Let’s have the world have water
First
Today
Into tomorrow
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C L Couch
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we may contribute to The Water Project (https://thewaterproject.org/) and similar, sound groups
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Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash
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Rescue Me
Once, I was in trouble
It was fixed, I don’t know how
Someone appeared
And kept the fall from hurting worse
Somehow in fact
Abbreviated all the crisis
Pulled my substance
Soul-enfleshed
Back from the next edge, so
That I might go home
One more time that day
And with my spirit
Lean into tomorrow
I don’t think the saints are gone
Or angels, either
Like the elves from Middle-Earth
We won’t need
White shores
While we are defended, now
C L Couch
Georgia National Guard from United States – Air Rescue, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70915161
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