word

The Loft

(x = space)

The Loft

If quiet into night

I send a word or two words

Or more

Through breath,

Then you might hear me

So that we might turn, at last,

Toward each other

I’d say all prayers are done

Except the kind that praise

And ask for nothing else

C L Couch

湖州市, 湖州市, 中国

Night View Mountain

February 10, 2021 1

Word Up

Word Up

There was no red phone

I learned that recently

Khrushchev and Kennedy used a teletype

To stand up over Cuba, negotiate

Through hardheadedness

A cold war

Now they might text

Or tweet if

Saints won’t abey their thumbs

There’s meeting face to face

And I guess the telephone might do

But we need direct communication

I learned this in school

How about you

Nothing like talking

Or writing with intent and art

Don’t worry

I never perfected either

And tire way too easily these days

From trying

But the message

The message

Still exists in words

That must be shared

From time to time

With care’s articulation

Call it ceremony

Call it ritual

Call it marriage day to day

Or the energy of friendship

Yes at the game, at work,

At home

Keep talking

Use words

In your better way

Sometimes, that’s all we got

C L Couch

By Vmenkov – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2910085

A pair of Laughing Doves sit on the electric (or telephone?) wires in Milyanfan village, in Kyrgyzstan’s Chuy Valley.

November 26, 2018 0

Hear My Cry

Hear My Cry

A featureless sky that nonetheless tries to speak of snow

An unremarkable day in which the world

Might be saved through

A sky-sound,

A child’s word, or an animal’s cry

Something to break the kind of silence strangled

From an utterance of need and hope

C L Couch

December 15, 2017 0

Kaibigan

Kaibigan

(Filipino friends)

Don’t know much about a mystery

Don’t know much etymology

Don’t know much about a language book

Don’t know much about Linguistics took

But I do know that you’re both dear

And the gift of words you brought us here

How much better the world is to me

How much better you make the world,

You see

(inspired by “What a Wonderful World,”

released by Sam Cooke in 1960

inspired by Rosema at rosemawrites,

Maria at Doodles and Scribbles

for giving us “Word-High July”—see below)

Word-High July: Welcome!

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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July 31, 2016 4

Tadhana

Tadhana

I tip the cups

Of the libation bearers

I take the coins

Meant for passage

With Charon

I trick Raven itself

Out of a feather

The dragon soars

But cannot find me

I hide behind

The rising sun

All the gods offended

Until I encounter

You

Who will

Not suffer fools

And will withhold

Amazing

Gems only for the

Wise

Who will not

Count me

Outcast

I weep

Wishing

Ananzi might

Forgive and

Wrap me

A silver thread

A place from

Which to

Repent

And relate anew

With divinity

Word-High July: Welcome!

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

July 30, 2016 4

Pre-Lapsarian

Pre-Lapsarian

As some thinkers say,

Before the fall, when

Woman and man had

Concourse without

Guile or agenda save

For pleasure in animal-

Naming and simplicity

In delight, listening-

Awaiting sounds of

Perfect feet on Eden’s

Brilliant plain; and if

They’d proved a nation,

We would have had

Ourselves a world,

Replete, by all mortal-

Divine promises to own

WELCOME EVERYONE!

Before you hop on here are the five easy steps to join Word-High July:

Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

July 24, 2016 3

Kalinaw

Kalinaw

Onomatopoeia

Long-vowel

Sounds (with

Skip of an i in

Between),

K to begin

Consonant-

Firm,

L then

N to give

Brief space,

Ending in

Even of

Silence—simply

To look or

Use another

Sense—the

Word evokes

Feeling and

Presence

Believe

Words have

Power

They do

Find quiet

Say and enter

An utterance,

Door to a

Place

Inside

You’ll know

C L Couch

Word-High July: Welcome!

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

July 5, 2016 5