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Fractured Confession
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I haven’t said anything
About God today,
Which isn’t true
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I wrote above,
Commenting on
God’s judgment
And its fairness against
Earthly powers
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Sometimes, I think,
The issue is
Power versus prophecy
With God surprising us
In interpretation
When it rolls
And tolls
Like justice
Over Earth,
All planets,
Our sun,
And all stars
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C L Couch
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“Earth and All Stars,” a Christian hymn (with rather ecumenical lyrics)
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Image by WikiImages from Pixabay
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Step Sessions
We have a journey to go on
Called today
I don’t know how many steps we’ll take
Maybe we’ll travel like Thoreau
Considering the cosmos in a walk to town
Maybe one place will be literal
The other living
Where stars are born
The nebula inside
Cradles of thought
To set us on our way
Until the dark of night brings out the offspring
Literal nebulae
A star for each thought born out there
A universe of mind, as it may
Marking a journey
Like our own,
Roaming energy
Through two sets of cells
Two trips going inexorably
No competition needed, no going to war
We can have quiet or make noise
Any media for growth
Though I will say
Maybe going gently’s not so bad
In a night of stars
As thoughts and ours
How many steps a journey?
Some might want
To know,
Which is okay
Let the universe and us
Decide
C L Couch
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
Photo by Aldebaran S on Unsplash
Heart Nebula
Apology
Sometimes I look into sky
There can be clouds
More viscerally when it’s stars
We see bucolic things
And we should
But sometimes it falls back on me
The sky, the stars
And if one can feel vertigo
When sitting still
Well
I’ve tried to imagine it all
And it has smacked back on me
The universe, as if I’m told
Cannot take me now
Don’t even try
It’s not yours
Someday, maybe
You’ll know your place
And your way around
C L Couch
(too beautiful, too much)
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1707a/
john glenn now breaks in
to a sky whose stars shine high
er for his friendship
C L Couch
image credit, NASA (KSC)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/ma-6/ma-6.htm
If Only, If Only
if only, if only
the stars weren’t so lonely
with great space between
tell me, what does it mean
might we now in time
be closer than rhyme
inspired by Annie at What the Woman Wrote
(https://whatthewomanwrote.wordpress.com/)
and Louis Sachar in Holes
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998)
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