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The Bard of the Rydal Mount and Tagore
We need Wordsworth
To save our beautiful earth
Who found God in Nature
And worshipped the creature
He grasped humanity as his own
For which he was born.
We need Tagore
In today's moment of horror
He taught how to conquer over fear
Here and there we can hear
The shrill cry of hungry vultures
The blood-eater creatures.
Tagore showed human love
How to weave it like a dove
He knitted the...
Thursday 14th September 2023 8:50 am
Grimalkin
A grey shade in the cottage shadows
a paw lick of sinuous silence
a tail flick of smoke
a pounce on time's toll
Like a smoke devil escaped the chimney
she inhabits the lounge at night
never settling
she drifts across the hearth
Like the umbral weight of her past
she settles beyond my sight
I sense only the leak
of light left by her passing
Like th...
Wednesday 14th June 2023 10:37 am
Time Machine
Pictures are simply moments frozen in time!
They make it possible for us to travel through time.
Our own personal time machine but we can only catch a glimpse of the past, they have no way of telling us what the future may hold.
Relics of time and space, intergalactic instruments if you will, propelling us from one reality to the next. I wonder what stories all these pictures would tell, i...
Saturday 25th February 2023 1:32 pm
Love in a paper bag
I remember running
To the corner shop
A 10p mix-up
Is what I got!
Exotic pineapple
In sugary cubes
Mixed in with 1p
and ½ penny chews!
There were Hearts of love
With messages wrote
To give to those
Who floated your boat
Liquorice laces!
Hubba Bubba too
So you could blow pink bubbles
As big as me and you!
(OK, so that might be
a ...
Saturday 25th February 2023 11:04 am
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