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Your Monday Blessing: the water
Let me tell you a story about myself. I came from the water – before I had this body, I mean, when I was all ambition and a few tendrils. I came from the water, and flopped up onto the … Continue reading
Posted in Other poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged evolution, memory, poetry, room service
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Juliette Gréco is singing Over the Rainbow
Juliette Gréco is singing Over the Rainbow as she walks home through Paris after her interrogation by the Gestapo. Judy Garland, full-throated, echoes off the Boulevards, decommissioning silence, adding a few notes to joy’s chapter in the book of life. … Continue reading
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Tagged Casablanca, existentalism, Juliette Greco, Liberation, Miles Davis, poetry, Wizard of Oz
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horseradish
While I am eating horseradish, it occurs to me there are at this very moment people who are trying to avert an international scandal that might affect one’s standing on the world’s stage, not to mention their investments in the … Continue reading
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Tagged condiments, Dasein, international politics, poetry, William Carlos Williams
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Your Monday Blessing: Your Next Breath
Dear one I am keeping your next breath very close to me I carry it around like a sacred amulet like a child’s toy like the sky itself in my heart with it I walk on the earth dignified and … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged ecology, love, poetry, respiration, responsibility
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Your Monday blessing comes from a place dear to my heart. I’ve come to know the Warrington YMCA, as well as their affiliated night shelter, a little over the last two years. Twice a month or so, a few of … Continue reading
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Tagged community, home, homelessness, poetry, YMCA
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Tao Te Ching #1
The word that can be spoken is not the eternal word. The picture that can be drawn is not the true picture. The indescribable created all. The describable is the mother of every thing. Therefore, only beyond the thinking mind, … Continue reading
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Tagged mystic, phenomenology, poetry, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, translation
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The Ocean Forgets
The world remembers; the ocean forgets. All the tablets of sale and gentlemen’s bets, The criminal records and parking fines – Earth’s tear knows not what’s yours, nor cares what’s mine. It just roars on. Keep shouting, dear friend! Mad … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged forgetting, loss, ocean, poetry
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Flight Mode
The only things real are grief and joy. As seagulls try out wheelies in the sky between blacktops, my children earn their wings on toys that were a history lesson when I was young. I leave my cell on mute, … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycles, grief, joy, love, memory, poetry, technology
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Your Monday Blessing: The Calculus of Prayer
In the morning, when I talk to God, I say, I would love to find a clean pair of boxers waiting for me on the laundry rack, but then don’t worry about me, God; you must have much bigger matters … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged humility, laundry, poetry, prayer, wrestling
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Love in Common
Remember, for all of us human beings who are not yet past loving (and I would wager that is almost all of us who drag breath into our lungs), the earth is wide enough that there is a place … Continue reading