gentle cosmic reflections

A FEW WORDS ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE:
VIEW OF EARTH FROM SPACE THROUGH
THE DISCOVERY TELESCOPE





From a million miles away, it looks too blue: 
perfectly rounded, 
          haloed with graceful spirals of cumulus, 
its continents drifting away from each other
like lovers that long to touch again.

But on its surface, 
someone lifts a weapon, 
cradles it between a thumb and index finger, 
contemplates the black hole
at the end of its long, sleek barrel.

The motive is always a little cloudy, 
 yet the incidents repeat themselves: 
in malls, in theaters, in schools, 
in dance clubs, in schools.
No one can explain why. It's something
to do with whatever it is that spins, 
so red and angry, inside someone's skull.

There is no sound in outer space. 
But here, some days, 
                      you can hear it, so close to you, 
in the electronics aisle of a Wal-Mart.
Employees in the stock room look up, startled
by a popping sound that reminds them 
                     of a hollow box falling from a shelf.

From a million miles away, 
                 the earth looks blue as gunmetal—
it's that same color we see from our back yards
when we tip our heads to the afternoon sky
and stare beyond those swirling clouds
that hide so much pain






                           Bill Meissner











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love haiku

I can’t help but see

all the ways we are perfect,

built for each other.

                                 Tyler Knott Gregson
                                      Helena MT Poet

your average religious insight

Te tapu o te 

Ao kei a koe
Te tapu o te 

Ariki kei a koe
Te tapu o te 

Tamaiti kei a koe

The sacredness of the world is in you
The sacredness of nobility is in you
The sacredness of the child is in you.

                                            from the book of waitaha

                                             prehistoric peoples of new zealand

ferlinghetti at 100

         




           OPEN

           DOOR






.....................found poem # 6,789






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It's important to like what you do

In June 2018 
Pardo stated that Mossad 
was 'a crime organization with a license,' 
something which, he added, 
made working for it the... 'fun part'


                                ...o those israelis!





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clear medieval insight

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• Without fail, [the vice of sodomy] brings death to the body and destruction to the soul. It pollutes the flesh, extinguishes the light of the mind, expels the Holy Spirit from the temple of the human heart, and gives entrance to the devil, the stimulator of lust.

                                          

         St Peter Damian,  
                11th century benedictine theologian

                                     

why bother

If fate--and they say there is such a law--
punishes criminals,  
it has its penalty also for the lovers of good.
The former it throttles,
the latter it spits upon.
The former end in bitter torment,
the latter---in ignominy.


                   Lev Shestov





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