[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Pressured, and troubled by increase of wealth, … Is it secured, will it be quite enough? Those who are envious don’t realise – it’s tough! …
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You seem to have captured
Posted on Mon, 12 Oct 2015
You seem to have captured something of that strange feeling of convalesence (salt on the arm!), when the mind (and body) is not working quite normally yet (slight temperature still, perhaps), and trying to come to terms with life again. The sight...
I like the way you 'throw in' lines like about the difficulties of finding the way out in IKEA (living so far from one, we have found them quite overwhelming on our occasional visits!) and not having time to think about the emptiness that will...
So honest, so sad, so simply and clearly written. There does seem some sort of deep caring love there, and a trusting love to some extent, but that can't (at present) meet, and a looking for excitement that won't satisfy. Rhiannon
So important, those last two lines, and the whole poem speaks of imortant things being 'taught' that are probably unnoticed by many, rather than the whisking of children hither and thither for special experiences and 'education'. I think we found...
Nice little incident. There are often those occasional little sparks of communiation, memories, and humour that help to realise that the confused person is still there somewhere inside, and help to be able to show love and warmth more...
It does seem to have the feel of the girl who's been so sick and a bit nightmarey with fever, and feeling the oddness of convalescence and everything feeling distorted, and also the feel of a little girl wanting to be a bit removed from...
Very enjoyable going on the walk with you again, and the sense of time and the kind of noticing that goes with the speed, or lack of it, of a walk makes it seem very real. A lovely Pick of the Day too.
I've been trying to catch the...
What a nice way to end, and even the advice she was able to give him, really just nudging him on the way he had been tending to go of realising how much these people had done for him, and his need of showing his changed attitudes.
It...
You seem to have captured
Posted on Mon, 12 Oct 2015
You seem to have captured something of that strange feeling of convalesence (salt on the arm!), when the mind (and body) is not working quite normally yet (slight temperature still, perhaps), and trying to come to terms with life again. The sight...
Read full commentPosted in Reflections
Seems like a maturing of
Posted on Fri, 09 Oct 2015
Seems like a maturing of companionship as age and the turmoils of life creep in. Rhiannon
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I like the way you 'throw in'
Posted on Wed, 07 Oct 2015
I like the way you 'throw in' lines like about the difficulties of finding the way out in IKEA (living so far from one, we have found them quite overwhelming on our occasional visits!) and not having time to think about the emptiness that will...
Read full commentPosted in Stepping Stones (Poetry Monthly)
So honest, so sad, so simply
Posted on Sat, 03 Oct 2015
So honest, so sad, so simply and clearly written. There does seem some sort of deep caring love there, and a trusting love to some extent, but that can't (at present) meet, and a looking for excitement that won't satisfy. Rhiannon
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Some interesting thought
Posted on Wed, 30 Sep 2015
Some interesting thought threads here, Terry, and play on the sounds of vale/veil/countervail.
Read full commentIn line 3 is it meant to be 'vail'' or veil' ?
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So important, those last two
Posted on Mon, 28 Sep 2015
So important, those last two lines, and the whole poem speaks of imortant things being 'taught' that are probably unnoticed by many, rather than the whisking of children hither and thither for special experiences and 'education'. I think we found...
Read full commentPosted in A Natural Mum
Nice little incident. There
Posted on Mon, 28 Sep 2015
Nice little incident. There are often those occasional little sparks of communiation, memories, and humour that help to realise that the confused person is still there somewhere inside, and help to be able to show love and warmth more...
Read full commentPosted in Journeys
It does seem to have the feel
Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2015
It does seem to have the feel of the girl who's been so sick and a bit nightmarey with fever, and feeling the oddness of convalescence and everything feeling distorted, and also the feel of a little girl wanting to be a bit removed from...
Read full commentPosted in Slow Burn
Very enjoyable going on the
Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2015
Very enjoyable going on the walk with you again, and the sense of time and the kind of noticing that goes with the speed, or lack of it, of a walk makes it seem very real. A lovely Pick of the Day too.
Read full commentI've been trying to catch the...
Posted in In July
What a nice way to end, and
Posted on Sat, 19 Sep 2015
What a nice way to end, and even the advice she was able to give him, really just nudging him on the way he had been tending to go of realising how much these people had done for him, and his need of showing his changed attitudes.
Read full commentIt...
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