Lent Challenge Week 6

Dawn touches the porch

before the huge East End Glass

                     The least shall be first.         28.3

60

60 has gained in status:

‘Now we are 6’ has been reborn

as ‘Now we are‘60’ and appeals

 to present seekers for aged

Christopher Robins. Before

Our ‘strapped for cash’ existence

60 was the age of recline

Goodbye work, welcome other things....

It’s a transitional age today:

Forgetfulness and prime in union.

To ancient Babylonians,

60 was beautiful

Perfectly divisible

By a raft of numbers;

Before fractions, this meant much.

Mathematicians, they yearned

For measures for shape:

A circle’s degrees became 360:

The joy of symmetry

6o exalted by times 6,

Arbitrary, yet chosen.

The excitement of trapping form,

Cake division simplified.

It adds mystique

                To a benchmark age.               29.3

Pushed in the scanner's mouth

The scanner growled and sang its divining

                  and made magnet pictures.               30.3

An ostrich on pro-sac

panic petrol buying

              Where have we gone wrong?         31.3

Palm Sunday

Cheers turned to jeers

then "Crucify"

in six days;

Palms to sticks

Love to stone.

After the Operation

"Don't hobble, don't limp"

Beget smoothness:

                  We take walking for granted.         2.4

Hands which blessed others

were nailed to a cross

             to bring us deeper blessing.         3.4