Black Hours
Black hours
Don’t have to mean
A dark night for the soul
Or for
Another part of
Self
An exclusive mediation
That must go
Sadly
Matched exhaustion
With frustration
Due to
Existential form
For
Sometimes
When I was done
With day
And daytime matters
Care for mother
And
Father-negotiation
With
House and home such-like
And also work outside
Of these
I could claim some
Time
And I was tired
I had some time
I took some time
And I was
Tired
Yet so many things
Were sunlit
Surface things were quiet
So
I could
Own
An hour or so
To sit and think
Like Pooh
Beside the jar
Or like the Satchel cat
That sits and thinks or sometimes
Only sits
C L Couch
Photo by Marten Newhall on Unsplash
The classic Dark Night of the Soul is a poem and also commentary by Saint John of the Cross.
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Woden’s Day
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Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes I just sits
—Satchel Paige
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Maybe a half-blind god
Is what we need
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It’s been a quiet
Afternoon, mostly
I mean, the cars have
To go by, though
There haven’t been so
Many and somehow
A blue sky with white
Clouds tampers everything
If only in the mind
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I’m trying to write,
And it’s not going badly
(though much of that
is left up to you at last)
Though I’ve said that
I’m not sure what
To put down next
It is a process, isn’t it?
A balance between casting
‘Round and thinking
Considering what breaks
The heart with enough
Reason so that
Someone else might understand
Maybe not so much with mind
But with the other
Sensing parts, the ones that
Must interpret the world
Around, deciding how to act
Right before its time
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Take a breath
The sky remains blue, even
Though the afternoon
Light is slanting a little more
Toward twilight
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We haven’t looked
The other way
God is still with us with
One eyes or two eyes
With who knows
How many fingers
To make or toes to walk
Among us;
We’ve taken a few specs
Of time to be somewhere
Else for a while,
A place where we don’t
Have to count
With the nation and the world
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C L Couch
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Photo by Will Paterson on Unsplash
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