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Phoenix of Grenfell; people arise; tear down the sinful system of lies that puts saving money before saving lives. Together, as one, we can win if we...
Out of the austerity of winter, a red rose, blooming, bravely raised its head. Frost clutched at it with blue and icy fingers and wished, in her cold...
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Thanks, Tina. It was
Posted on Sun, 13 Nov 2011
Thanks, Tina. It was inspired by the myths of 'The Flying Dutchman' and 'The Wandering Jew'.
I do believe that, if Jesus Christ came back, he would be on the side of the anti-war protesters
and it would be so called christians like Tony Blair
who...Read full comment
Thanks, thecure. Really happy that you enjoyed it.
I've always liked the children's hand game,
"Here's the church, and here's the steeple
Open the door and see all the people.
Here's the parson going upstairs,
And here he is saying his prayers"...Read full comment
Thanks, Mark. Love is very much a god to me. Love to me is magical, spiritual and transcendental. Love for family, friends for a beautiful woman, a flower or a sunset. Love for life is the bright light that keeps me going through all the hard times...Read full comment
Thank you, Jenny. I know its not very deep or profound but I was really focussing on the form rather than the content. Just a light hearted
little poem.
I think I really want to be like a maker of ornaments and figurines that go on mantlepieces...Read full comment
I think that people can often get a kind of tunnel vision; focussing on one part of life: Job/
Family/Relationships etcetera and not realize that there are so many hundreds of thousands of millions
of good things in life outside of whatevers making...Read full comment
Thankyou, pia. I am greatly inspired by the
poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins who used alot of alliteration and word play and wrote a great deal about nature.
Though his poems viewed nature through the lense of Christian faith and I see, more like a...Read full comment
Thanks very much, pia. Your comments are very encouraging.
I think that, if you do hundreds of haikus, then eventually you'll come up with a handful of good ones, the scattergun approach; atleast, that's my theory.
As Zen master 'Robert The Bruce...Read full comment
Thanks, pia.
When you're digging for potatoes, the blackbirds gather round because they know that your spade
will turn up earthworms for them.
Indirectly,your spade is feeding them and so, the spade is the blackbird cutlery, like a spoon or a...Read full comment
Thanks, Celticman. Dandelions are one of my favourite flowers, mainly because they are
like 'urban warriors' breaking through the
concrete and helping beauty to survive in
the urban gloom.
The dandelions are based on the ones in my garden.
Also...Read full comment
Thanks, Tina. It was
Posted on Sun, 13 Nov 2011
Thanks, Tina. It was inspired by the myths of 'The Flying Dutchman' and 'The Wandering Jew'. I do believe that, if Jesus Christ came back, he would be on the side of the anti-war protesters and it would be so called christians like Tony Blair who...Read full commentPosted in The Ghosts Of Flanders Field
Thanks, thecure. Really
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2011
Thanks, thecure. Really happy that you enjoyed it. I've always liked the children's hand game, "Here's the church, and here's the steeple Open the door and see all the people. Here's the parson going upstairs, And here he is saying his prayers"...Read full commentPosted in A play for two hands.
Thanks, Mark. Love is very
Posted on Thu, 10 Nov 2011
Thanks, Mark. Love is very much a god to me. Love to me is magical, spiritual and transcendental. Love for family, friends for a beautiful woman, a flower or a sunset. Love for life is the bright light that keeps me going through all the hard times...Read full commentPosted in Kiss Me Under Heaven
Thank you, Jenny. I know its
Posted on Mon, 24 Oct 2011
Thank you, Jenny. I know its not very deep or profound but I was really focussing on the form rather than the content. Just a light hearted little poem. I think I really want to be like a maker of ornaments and figurines that go on mantlepieces...Read full commentPosted in Your Kisses
I think that people can
Posted on Thu, 20 Oct 2011
I think that people can often get a kind of tunnel vision; focussing on one part of life: Job/ Family/Relationships etcetera and not realize that there are so many hundreds of thousands of millions of good things in life outside of whatevers making...Read full commentPosted in On the edge of death, reborn
Thankyou, pia. I am greatly
Posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2011
Thankyou, pia. I am greatly inspired by the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins who used alot of alliteration and word play and wrote a great deal about nature. Though his poems viewed nature through the lense of Christian faith and I see, more like a...Read full commentPosted in The Lessons Of Nature
Thanks very much, pia. Your
Posted on Mon, 08 Aug 2011
Thanks very much, pia. Your comments are very encouraging. I think that, if you do hundreds of haikus, then eventually you'll come up with a handful of good ones, the scattergun approach; atleast, that's my theory. As Zen master 'Robert The Bruce...Read full commentPosted in Sci- Ku
Thanks, pia. When you're
Posted on Wed, 06 Jul 2011
Thanks, pia. When you're digging for potatoes, the blackbirds gather round because they know that your spade will turn up earthworms for them. Indirectly,your spade is feeding them and so, the spade is the blackbird cutlery, like a spoon or a...Read full commentPosted in SOME HAIKU
Thankyou, maisie. I've
Posted on Sat, 25 Jun 2011
Thankyou, maisie. I've always thought that cool-ness was an underrated aesthetic quality. I'm very happy that you think it's cool.Read full commentPosted in Scope
Thanks, Celticman.
Posted on Wed, 22 Jun 2011
Thanks, Celticman. Dandelions are one of my favourite flowers, mainly because they are like 'urban warriors' breaking through the concrete and helping beauty to survive in the urban gloom. The dandelions are based on the ones in my garden. Also...Read full commentPosted in Spring Stratagems
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