Imagine …

Cherry

By Rhiannonw

Wed, 08 Jul 2026
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9 comments
 

Imagine if we couldn’t know
the football scores for days and days,
or how wars far off cease or grow
‘til someone ride by hazardous ways
to file report in newspaper read 
– we would have time to think, instead
of beng engulfed by so much news
we haven’t time to form our views,
and shoot opinion before we’ve heard
all the factors, our anger stirred,
exacerbate feuds, we judge,
and though mistaken, refuse to budge …

Certificate U
Poem
Miscellaneous
Philosophy

Comments

Submitted by insertponceyfre... on

This has a nice flow to it Rhiannon. You'd have to go a long long way back for news to travel by horse!

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Yes! Though not so long ago for reliance on snail mail I suppose. And then you wouldn't easily get all the facts too, but not so bewildered by multitiude of voices, some deceitful, fake. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by insertponceyfre... on

It's a huge mess now

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Yes, need to try to be wise in what you listen to, and beware of hasty judgments, and aware  of one's own failings, and ready to forgive those who are sorry for wrong done, and not lying about it. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for the cherries. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I like specially "how wars far off cease or grow".
My son told me yesterday about news from Lebanon which had been banned in the UK and America! I find this very worrying - how can one form a true opinion if not allowed all the facts? People should not need a vpn (Goodness knows what that is!) So it's not just about what we are told, but what we are NOT told which shapes understanding. In some way, what with fake news and even deep fakes, where voices and video are manipulated, I wonder if we are worse off than long ago, when people relied on many times passed along eye witness accounts, which must at least have started off as true! So much rumour and misunderstanding when it comes to voting, too, and it's so important

Your poem is very relevant, as well as being fun to read!

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

thank you, Di. I suppose it is a remimder of caution that we never know all the facts, even of events near at hand, we don't see the hearts of people, and are not present everywhere, so not to be quick to condemn, or refusing to aaccept repentance. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

And Imagine. Lions and Lambs & East and West … At Peace ...

Indeed. And Cherries well deserved, Again!

See you! Tom

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Tom. One day there will be peace fully! Meanwhile we must beware of hasty judgments and try to be peacemakers, and a calming influence! Rhiannon