Reveals

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Reveals

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I don’t know

It is a mystery

How we get

To where we get

We understand

Our choices

Ponder choices

Made by others

All around us

And what might

We figure?

What might we understand

Of agendas

Or of consequences?

Well, we’re here

We have what we have

And don’t know

What we don’t know,

Which is maybe why

Monks

And mothers

Other readers

(all receivers)

Enjoy mystery

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If God is unknown

Then we are fine

Not knowing

Seeking answers

Or allowing

Un-answering

To guide our days

In relishing instead

The partiality

Of things we hold

Let go

Or appreciate

Even with longing

From afar

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We have

And do not have

We wonder because

There are wonders

Such a life

Of having

And un-having

Knowing and un-knowing

We bear

And carry with delight

In curiosity

Answering in part

All awareness

Or simply going out

Or staying in

All the time

Then rest

Then go again

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C L Couch

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Send Something

(x = space)

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Send Something

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A little love

A few notes in a song

Words on paper

(that’s a note)

Or however

Frankly

A bit of chocolate

Or another treat

Would not go wrong

And may simply

Sensually

Render aid

Toward something right

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C L Couch

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Don’t Remove This Label

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Don’t Remove This Label

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I don’t want to reason

Only secularly

But I look where I am

And listen

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In a long room

Whose beauty is beneath

Because the skin and other features

Are so poorly cared for

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Which is to say

It’s old and could be good

But isn’t good

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The noise of the world

Breaks in from above

And neither rule

Nor rent

Is cared about

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Outside is a cold and pleasant day

At least to see

I see too much

And need to invoke

The other senses so much more

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Drivers misbehave outside

Sometimes pedestrians

Though the thing about the outside noise

Is that it moves on

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And I know

There are fires

That burn acreage

In a wild and awful way

And those who fight these flames

Are often hurt

And much is lost

Famously

In fires

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And there is war I do not understand

And thank you I don’t want to

I’m sorry

But a bomb

Blasting away everything I know

And cuts away at me

By foes’ intent

I would be crazed

In every way

And to know the agency was human

Without randomness

For an agenda

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And I know that states are falling

While brave people

Stand against

The evil reasons

And the power that, created good,

Is now corrupted

And maybe has been

For a while

But in a den bares now

Its blooded teeth

Behind a guard

That operates somehow

To keep the good ones from approaching

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And I say it thus

With distance

Not that local evil

Hasn’t worked its way

Maybe the world

Learning of democracy

Is ruled by princes

After all

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I simply want a quiet day

And promise of another

I want boredom

To be my awful challenge

And in this way I’ll try

To address the rest

I really will

From here

And now

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You may decide what I am or

Most of you

Ignore me

And why not

Ignoring what

We need

To keep our naïve brand

In place

Like the labels on the furnishings

We do not tear off

Even though I doubt

The wars

Should care

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I care

Not about that

But decades into this

I care

You might care as well

And more than me

Knowing better what to protest

What to fight for

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Not to mention

I would rather be

Which makes everything more difficult

With you

Attached

Rather than against you

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C L Couch

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Tricks

(x = space)

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Tricks

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Silly rabbit

Bear of little brain

Ferdinand

Under the cork tree

Where

There are

Redolent flowers

Where Ferdinand

Redoles

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Dog flying plane

On  doghouse

Cat invested

In lasagna

The animals know

We craft

Their knowing

Franciscan-relegated

Wisdom

Preaching to birds

Who listen

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The cardinals who

Live red

The ravens who laugh

Black

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To all the lower

Creatures

Who act better

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One virtue

Per species,

Each an exemplar

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While we have

Way too many

Too complex a menagerie

Made

Of excuses

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The stolid thing

We offer

Maybe we imagine

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C L Couch

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Poetry 180 from the Library of Congress

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Poetry 180 from the Library of Congress

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I’ve been through the series

A few times now

I’ve read

And taken notes

Cut-and-paste the parts

That one way or another get

To me,

Placing everything inside

A sort of commonplace book

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I speak

Electronically;

Everything for now

Is not on paper

But kept in columns

In the storage space

I rent

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And I wonder if

I take out the same parts

Of poems

Except the new ones

Year by year:

Take them out and keep them

In the way I keep the same parts

Via electrons

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It’s a terrific series;

I forget it’s not for me

(I am

the second audience

at best)

I mean, I don’t think Billy Collins

And the staff

Of the LoC mind that I read this

And keep it

And I like,

Even that I’m changed

Though not a highschooler

And not changed as one

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Deprem Çantası Nedir? İçerisinde Neler Olmalı ?

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İşte bu ilk dakikalarda, yardım ekiplerinin bu karmaşa ortamından sıyırılıp, enkaz altındaki depremzedeye ulaşması zaman alabilir.

Bunun için bu ilk dakikalarda yakınınızda veya ulaşabileceğiniz bir konumda deprem çantası olması hayati öneme sahiptir.

Peki hazırlayacağımız bu deprem çantasının içerisinde neler olmalı? Gelin hazırladığımız bu yazımızda, hep beraber nelere ihtiyaç olacağını inceleyelim.

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bunların yanında tapu, ruhsat, sigorta belgelerini ve zorunlu deprem sigortası poliçesinin fotokopisinide ekleyebiliriz.

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Pledge Break

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Pledge Break

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Goodness

It’s late

I haven’t really

Said anything

I’ve let the tyranny

Of memories and songs

Take over

Drafting elsewhere

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Tyranny

That could be blessed

For pleasures recalled

And challenges

And to reconsider

Resolutions

x

Well

What is there to say?

Love God

Love each other

I’ll try to do better

Always better

Improve

Even invent

Devices and topoi

As devices

Not cleverness

(clearly)

But invitations

For the nonce

And later on

x

For that is the joy of words

Arranged

That they might be

Considered later on

x

Like words

I like your words

And almost everything they carry

I’m sorry

But for now

I must set aside the hate

Even for justice

‘Til mediation

Greater wisdom

So much greater than my own

Take over

x

We must talk

At least we should

And I can hope

We do

At that table

Where all words

Be shared and understood

And a new world built by them

From every session

Made

Into our mission

x

While most of us

Lead lives away

Improved

Steadier on the path

Cosmically designed

Determined

Our input welcomed

Now with grace

Re-made

From our negotiation

With each other

Willing to listen

By the end

Of sessions

And be changed in

And for

A universe

Always moving

Always changing

x

Together

There’s the wisdom

There has to be

Or else

Franky

We’ve earned oblivion

x

I say

We say

Enough

Let’s fill our cups

And serve each other

On our plates

Wise love

Via service

Receiving thus

Salvation

x

Poetically

And prosaically

Yours,

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C L Couch

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Crusoe

(x = space)

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Crusoe

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It took me years

And years to come

To understand

The need

The requirement

To have a life

To have a life to offer

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Then there is a story

Pages

Chapters

With an ending

That might satisfy

A larger world of woe

And grace

Even rescue,

Notwithstanding

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What is left

Is little time

The gift grows smaller

Like some things

In other tales

But we have time

As is

On this side

And choices

That are not invisible

In fact,

Are rife with potency

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The grace of God

Love and understanding

Growing up at last

The tragedy

The humor

The finality

Of wisdom

On this side

Then to another shore

An irony for Crusoe

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C L Couch

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Wealth of Nations

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Wealth of Nations

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O God

For invocation

Oh, God

To plea

Our world groans

With war

And the imbalance

Of the greedy

Systems

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Justice should be a system

Greed is not good

Unless you’re winning

For a while

While all our cells corrupted

May yet cry for mercy

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The ears to hear

Might be

The last to go

x

God

Help us

And forgive us

The Earth is ours

And we forget

And leave it to a few

Who vote for nothing

But self-fattening

And a self-deceiving glimpse

Of real power

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Let all rise

(the poorly-

agendaed, too)

To march

Or stand in place

To sing

As if

Accompanying Earth

With all the antiphons

The spheres above

Below

That glide

And when against each other

Glory in the sacred touch

The music

Of all order

And all chaos,

Arranged

As creation’s gift

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And this is wealth

Not the other

Once we feed each other

And can stand or march

(or sit with age

or disability

and purpose)

To hear the strains

Of everything

And offer ours

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Our gift

Unto the glory

Of Earth

And all-around’s,

Of God’s all

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C L Couch

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