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Soul Food
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Having fasted, Jesus, hungry heard the tempter tell him to ‘Turn the stones to bread, for You are God the...
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A Winning Handshake
Always in trouble, mischievous, gullible, embittered, a rebel – but sport brought a medal; in a dream he went forward to receive the award, extended his arm for the usual handshake …
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"Your Word is Truth"
…‘So not then hoodwinked easily by floods of falsehoods constantly that batter me or slyly squeeze into my thoughts with subtle ease. …
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Prison Walls bring hope!*
The walls incarcerated men, confined, blocked out the tortured moans of battered minds and bones; but see! they hold up messages of hope … and hear! those walls have now become a sounding board – tap tap, tap …
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Essential Cycle
There’s a crowd of us here where we’re forming a screen shading and cooling the place I have been; soon we will bunch – each group falling …
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I'm not sure if I read this
Posted on Sun, 03 Aug 2014
I'm not sure if I read this before, but if so, I think if so I must have done so too quickly. I have now caught its picture more clearly, and really feel how it has captured much of both worlds quite simply, and effectively.
Read full commentIt reminds me...
Posted in Touring the City
I enjoyed your journey among
Posted on Sat, 26 Jul 2014
I enjoyed your journey among the changing shades. Your spaces are much more vast than in England's farms and countryside, I think.
Read full commentI looked up Leshenaultia, but it seemed to have a 'c' between the 's' and 'h', if I had the right plant....
Posted in Yellow Days
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...
Read full commentPosted in Smiling, Waving and Crying
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.
Read full commentThere is...
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
Read full commentPosted in White Walls Of Hope
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
Read full commentPosted in For Ann
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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