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Do Not Be Kept by Flowered Fields
(from a teacher)
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Hump day, Amanda
Be nice, learners
Work and play with
Discipline and health
Do not rush to poppies
Or what might become
Another monument
We need you,
The young,
So much
On Wednesday
And for all the other days
You are so much more important
Than entities named
For exhausted gods
Than entities
At all
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For Wednesday’s Children
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What could I wish
For Wednesday
But that peace be
Everywhere
That life be for
Discipline and contemplation
Invention
Exploration
That we have enough
And a little more to share
That we accept who we are
And go from there
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That we can be clever
And delighted
And united
That we are strong
Not for strength’s own sake
But for protection
And defense,
As we say defenses are
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That selfishness be understood
As good
As long as otherness count
As much
Maybe a little more
Because Thursday might come
For sacrifice
The highest form of service
And be human,
Love from the highest
That is God
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The Bridge to Thursday
(Holy Week)
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It is the middle of Holy Week
Who’s noticing
Who cares
Those huddled in churches
Mouthing with the pastor
Liturgies and litanies
All the holy words
And since it’s near enough
To Lent, there might be no
Communion,
Even practicing for Easter
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Some of the fun churches
(there are those)
Will bless baskets on Saturday;
All sorts of folk with
All sorts of baskets
Containing elements for
Sunday dinner
Will be there
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On the Friday before,
There will veneration
While on Thursday
An official working out
Of some kind
For the Last Supper
And the “maundy” part
Of Maundy Thursday
A command (mandatum)
To love one another,
Good reminder
For starting out the Triduum—
Or the rest
Of one’s
Of a church’s life
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But today is Wednesday
Nothing to see here
Or hear or taste or touch
No smell of
Incense, either
Wednesday doesn’t rate
Another hump day
In the USA,
Anywhere else that arches
The week that way
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Calm before the storm?
Hardly
There are storms, here and there
As happen
(one is brewing
outside the window),
There are the hungry
Who need big pieces of baked bread
And safe water
And more-real food
In order to sit up
Straight in church
For the coming days
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Feed the children
Feed each other
This would make a Wednesday, a
Holy Wednesday in a holy week
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C L Couch
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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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DL8 2PS, Bedale, United Kingdom
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Something for Wednesday
Here’s something short
Because it’s Wednesday
And in the USA, Wednesday means a lot
Wednesday is the top of the rollercoaster
Rounding third
Frosting the cupcakes
Pulling the turkey from the oven
Hoping all the food and all the guests behave
This is what Wednesday means
It means a lot
And if we get through it and the next two days
We believe we should be issued
By the gods of seven days
Some weekend passes
C L Couch
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