grounded – July 26

Posted on July 27, 2015 by landl30

7.26.2015

oppressive heat

switches off brain

cells, the body

shutting down

blood flow

to sustain.

 

grounded to our

physicality

despite all our

protestations to

being above

it all

 

we can fool our minds

but the body

knows.

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athlete’s body – July 24

Posted on July 26, 2015 by landl30

7.24.2015

athlete’s body worn

before normal time

tissue, bone, corpuscles

wear and tear

exacerbated.

 

is there something

about the winning

that we lessers

don’t get for the

losing

 

was it worth it

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sugar before vinegar – July 23

Posted on July 24, 2015 by landl30

7.23.2015

awkward. disagreement.

trying to speak truth

without overkill

when the blood runs

hot in response.

 

listen for the voice

present, hidden,

that is not an

enemy.

 

sugar first, before

vinegar.

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osprey mother – July 20

Posted on July 22, 2015 by landl30

7.20.2015

osprey mother slips away

wing clipping the wire

 

the talons beak fine

strong corpus

no longer matter

 

in the world of instinct

to be wounded

is to die.

 

she sits on the low

timber, wing askew,

nowhere to go

 

there is no hurry

only a reasoned

wait

 

for release.

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login – July 21

Posted on July 22, 2015 by landl30

7.21.2015

internet down, email

absent, voices from

the sky not

appearing

 

like unseen angels

impulses all around us

out of touch out of sight

as we’re not logged in.

 

theologians talk

of voices, word,

others

to whom they listen

 

perhaps

all around us

 

but we’re not

logged in.

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shallow roots – July 19

Posted on July 22, 2015 by landl30

7.19.2015

eased up in the mud

roots sideway to their

grounding, straight

line winds took their

sixty foot wavings

to the ground.

 

shallow depths

can do that to

you.

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son at the wheel – July 18

Posted on July 18, 2015 by landl30

7.13.2015

the car rolls out

son at the wheel

 

we have to trust

now

 

that the lessons

taught

 

over years and days

and instants

 

took.

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making peace with mortality – July 16

Posted on July 17, 2015 by landl30

7.16.2015

making peace with

mortality

is just part of the

game

 

unless you plan on

losing early.

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Gertrude – July 14

Posted on July 16, 2015 by landl30

7.14.2015

you’d be a hundred

today

 

she’d be a hundred

today

 

in 1915 the US legislature

turned down

women’s vote

 

but Orson Welles

was born

Thomas Merton

was born

Billie Holiday

was born

 

and you.

 

the one millionth Ford car rolled off the assembly line

British and German soldiers shocked the generals with

their unofficial Christmas truce

Einstein formulated the theory of relativity

Babe Ruth hit his first big league home run

 

and you came to brighten the world.

 

On this day twenty years ago

your grandson first walked

 

On this day today we drink a

milkshake

at Peppermint Twist

in toast

for you.

 

Rider of roller coasters

singer of charms and psalms

lover of our family

 

Mother to my heart.

 

One hundred years ago today

You.

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turning homeward – July 13

Posted on July 14, 2015 by landl30

6.30.2015

turning homeward,

life on the road

has become

a burden

that no longer

feeds.

 

it used to be the

journey, now the

destination

beckons more.

 

home, where one

has taken a stand,

put down the roots,

saying

here, Lord, here.

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