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Contrast focussing thought
If we hadn’t sat though winter drear would the snowdrops rouse such cheer? Would the …
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Light for the stumbling
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The world was dark, a place of stumbling ground, the residents for truth fumbled around; In pity, God, who...
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Burglars beware!
A burglar should keep away from homes where children roam and play, for in the dark what danger lies to give a sudden shock, surprise! Lurking...
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Before Jesus came
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The prophets and the law were teaching long before about true holiness, salvation from sin’s mess – much needed grace that God would bring: accept and honour Christ the King. …
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Cautionary Pictures 6)
Peer pressure: see them scheme schemes that are not what they seem …
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This is very well 'sculpted',
Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2014
This is very well 'sculpted', Bee, and the interweaving rhymes heighten the flow. So much unsaid, left to the imagination, including what kind of love could lead to such a parting, and the finality of not being able to yet ask that question...
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I liked this very much too.
Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2014
I liked this very much too. Concise, but not obscure. Actually, I thought that the rhino's horn looks like a pointed bone, so poetic licence! Particularly liked 'Labouring body lumbers' alliteration.
Read full commentand in the last lines...
Posted in Thandi
Well put, Taris. I think I
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2014
Well put, Taris. I think I would add that the desire to obey God needs to be there, though if it is really there then there will be a realisation of the need for his help to do so, and for his forgiveness of the constant failings.
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Posted in Burning Bridges
The contrast of escape to the
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2014
The contrast of escape to the garden peace, observation and imagination, with the tension of everyday struggles of communications and misunderstandings of relationship interestingly portrayed, Maisie. Rhiannon
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You leave us with wondering
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2014
You leave us with wondering about the background to this. Rhiannon
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This is very touching, real
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2014
This is very touching, real and vivid. The slow bereavement, the mind swimming about, but not agitated. The brevity and conciseness and form helps. Rhiannon
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Some lovely threads, and
Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2014
Some lovely threads, and detail again – so much beauty out there to see and feel, and you share and beckon us to look! Rhiannon
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It is the videoing aspect,
Posted on Tue, 10 Jun 2014
It is the videoing aspect, and it would seem the lack of sober trial, and the apparent pleasure and fickleness in accusing and carrying out judgement that is puzzling and shocking. Or am I wrong? Rhiannon
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I'm only able to dip in from
Posted on Sun, 01 Jun 2014
I'm only able to dip in from time to time, as we are having a little holiday.
Read full commentYou have given much thought here to bring in quite a number of points unobtrusively on tthe history. Rhiannon
Posted in "Oh, It's a Lovely War!"
That last verse seems
Posted on Tue, 27 May 2014
That last verse seems tantalizing – what is she/you troubled about in the relationship/conversation? hope waking manages to put the worry to rest?! I suppose it is all up to the reader to imagine? Rhiannon
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