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The Perfect Storm – a poem – Journeying Into Mystery

The Perfect Storm – a poem

Off the west coast of Ireland, February 2000.

THE PERFECT STORM

The Perfect Storm,
a confluence of
contributing events,
meteorological in origin,
creations of monumental chaos
swathing through human lives,
human cultures,
property and commerce,
metaphorically as devastating
as the failed human relationships
of the meteorologists who
named them spitefully
after the former lovers
who, categorically five,
broke their hearts:
Andrew and Maria,
David and Sandy,
Mitch and Irma.
Why my sudden obsession
with horrific, destructive storms?
Philosophically, Perfect Storms
are a part of the human condition
which drastically shape our lives
growing and revealing themselves
like the confluence of lasix
I washed down with
twenty ounces of coffee
making its presence known
in a most frightening way
as I am stuck in gridlock traffic.

(c) 2019, Robert Charles Wagner. All rights reserved.

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Deacon Bob

I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts.

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