Grammatically speaking
Whether the query be
Of genomes
Or phonemes
Or even pheromones
There is only one question:
Is evolution
Exclusively past tense?
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Formation
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect. – Romans 12:2 (NRSV)
Form flows
Conscious of conform
Body mind spirit
Transform in transit
Reform
Spiritual synchrony
Religious remembrances
Conform to what
Who
When
Where
Worldly wisdom
Successly striving?
Transform to what
Who
When
Where
Religiously righteous
Didactically dogmatic?
Discernment discovery
Eludes easy
Knowledge karma
Lyrical elegance
Spiritual sustenance
Truth telling
Quintessential questing
Alwaysasking
How to know
Where to find
Who to trust
When to rest
In what may just be
Good
Acceptable
And perfect
Divine harmony
For me
Free form
Gardens
Gardens are nomothetic
Weeds grow clement
In good soul and bad
(Oh, the thought was soil
But the word is better)
Careful tending
Planning
Enriching
Planting
Sculpting
Attention is needed
To create
Nomothetic bounty
That joins
My will
To God’s.
Good Friday
A strange name
For the memorial
Of a death
A horrible death
Preceded by humiliation
And torture
The death of an innocent
God’s idiot savant
Remembered
Celebrated
On Good Friday
O good!
He died for us
O good!
God loves us
O good!
We are saved
O good Jesus
On Good Friday
O good God!
Falter Fun
(I recently learned that the German for butterfly is falter.)
Falter
Fluttering uncertainty
Art on the wing
Falter
Dip to a sip
Trip to a drip
Falter
Fly
Monarch of the sky
Falter
From flower to flower
Landing lightly
Falter
Flutter
Fly
Falter
Fliegen
Flattern
Beauty
In any language
Butterfly
Notre Dame de Paris
The first time I saw that spire,
the flying buttresses,
the steps,
the dark and soaring interior
was in 1975.
I was pregnant, just, with my second child.
We walked at the pace of our first-born toddler.
I lit a candle for my Uncle Donald,
Monseigneur Joseph Donald Damiens,
who had recently died.
We sat on the steps
and shared bread and cheese with our son.
The last time was a few years ago
with my friends Wendy and Jennifer.
We walked from our apartment
in le Marais
across the bridge
coming to the grand lady from the side.
We did not go in that time,
really we were just among the many passing by.
But I did take pictures –
who could resist taking a few pictures of a beautiful lady.
En l’annee 1163
Sous le pontificat
Du Pape Alexandre III
Eat le regne du Roi Louis VII
Maurice né à Sully sur Loire
Eveque de Paris (1160-1196)
Entreprit la construction
De cette cathédrale
En l’honneur
De la Bse Vierge Marie
Sous le title de
NOTRE DAME DE PARIS
John 8:58
They were not stupid
Those men of the cloth.
Well, yes, they were
Of course
Stupid
As men of the cloth
So repeatedly prove themselves to be.
But they were not unlearnéd:
Learning, in fact,
Was their claim to fame,
To community prominence,
To religious authority.
So they were stupid
But learnéd:
Learnéd enough to know
At once
What his juxtaposition of tenses
Meant.
While we puzzle it out
It hit them hard
Like rocks
Thrown at an adulterous woman
Like nails
In a coffin
Or on a cross.
“Before Abraham was,
I am”
He said,
Handing them the nails.
