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Rod at
Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod
McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006,
2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved.
A Thought for Today
Truth sometimes hurts, but seldom does it kill.
FROM the¨BOOKS
Nocturne
At twilight
spires pierce the middle air
as if to feel their way
through clouds and into
God’s green garden
and protected grass.
Later when the midnight comes
they venture further
perhaps into His living space.
I wonder how He greets
these round, well meaning domes
with pleasure or indifference.
Depending on His boredom
or the bacchanal
of cheribim and seraphim
in progress.
I expect He welcomes
all the brave intruders
especially if their curiosity
is gently mixed with love.
Midnight’s’
not as desperate
as we’re told
we should believe it is.
Loving and the act of love
is only one more affirmation
that God in heaven
walks and runs
and somersaults
living on to see
all things His hands created
die, arise and live again.
–from “Love’s Been Good to
Me,” 1979
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