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Mille Grazie per Preghiera
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I feel as if
I should offer
A prayer
To God
For something
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Gratitude
Confession
Promise or
At least desire
To do better
x
Petition,
Intercession
Plus my own things
x
I’m not sure
How that’s the praise
That’s called for
While it seems
Mostly like complaining
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Except to say thank you;
Maybe there’s praise
In that
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Photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash
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sorry for any Italian language that I broke
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thank you
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Kieran Levi
(petition)
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He has been wonderfully named
Kieran for his Irish father
Levi for his Jewish mother
But he has gotten sick
With a respiratory disease we are told
Is severe and contagious
Over the weekend, his temperature dropped
From 102 to 99,
Which is something
My brother, his grandfather
Sent us a message with a photograph of
An infant surrounded by machines
If you have a moment and don’t mind,
Please pray for Kieran Levi
Birth might be traumatic
And three months is just a start
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Photo by Yoksel 🌿 Zok on Unsplash
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Pagan Petition
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Freya of the
Earth,
On your day
I ask for
Such a small part
Of the world
To borrow
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Where I stand
Where I sit
Where I might lie down
For a while
x
Yes, I mean
What metaphors might mean
Yes, I need a place
As trolls need caves
Only with a door
And a wide window
And some plumbing
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It would be home
Until it’s a time again
For wandering
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Please
And thank you,
Lord and lady of
Earth and earthiness
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Reliefbüste “FREYJA”, Amalienstraße 51, Fürth
Wofro – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21650063
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Petition
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God is good
(it’s how we start
a certain prayer)
And God must bear
What’s evil
Not for lack of love
But for the gift of will
That was
A gift of love
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We think angels
Don’t have it
Yet there was a war
In heaven
They will match up
At Armageddon,
The last ranks
And those who last
Will join us in
New heaven
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Creation is broken
We have stories
We can mend it now
Imperfectly
But make a circle
Others know how
And would show us
If we bring down
The barriers
Yes, the real walls
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There is legacy
In circles
Protection, celebration
The will to live
Because there’s love
Unashamed
Enduring
Persisting when
That’s all there is
Because the rest
Feels on fire
If only for a time
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Wait as in be patient
Wait as in attend
But we have one gift to give
Give it now
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Photo by Buzz Andersen on Unsplash
I was visiting the Big Island of Hawaii with some friends and family, and my brother convinced the group to take a lava tour by boat. I always kind of balk a little bit at overtly touristy stuff like that, but I think everyone was a pretty shocked when we got our first look at the Kalapana Lava Flow after about a half hour boat trip down the coast. It’s such an awesome, phantasmagorical sight and, since they actually get surprisingly close to the spots where the rivers of lava meet the ocean and throw up sulfurous steam clouds, also a pretty visceral sensory experience.
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Petition
There’s pain everywhere,
And I don’t think I’m
Doing
Much about it
Issues in the neighborhood
Still stand
In the house are
Grievances unspoken, which go
Better than confrontations
Bearing fruit in violence,
If only verbal
And so with all
The awfulness that’s
Really going on—sickness,
Death,
Wanting to rush around
The scientific process
For fear of more
That’s terrible—I ask
Maybe we ask
For something better than we
Tend to be
A cure
At least a treatment for more
Than symptoms (though
grateful for that),
Frankly, a beatific day
Not until tomorrow
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Image by Adina Voicu from Pixabay
Petition
While I slept, I slept
It’s not so easy anymore
Being tired isn’t enough
I need to know something was
Done
While I was awake
Nothing monumental
Something small will do
Something small I might have done
For you
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