Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

One retreat, two poems

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I was on retreat on the Island of Lewis last month with three friends, directed by a fourth friend who lives on the island in a community of...
Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Springing thoughts

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Two days after the last snow left I saw the tiny hint of life in colour, purple, on the mud which rain had flooded winter-long, a...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Another Advent

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Another Advent For Andy, who suggested the possibility. From the darkness that returns each year we sing our plaintive song and ask t...
Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Dreich weather and a sonnet: Argyll Weather

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I haven't written a sonnet for 37 years. At that time, I thought I might be halfway through my allotted life span and wrote my first att...
Friday, June 24, 2016

A song for a sad day.

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Brain keeps singing songs - even today, when the news is so bad and the country has gone crazy. Scotland votes to stay in Europe? No matter....
Monday, June 20, 2016

Song

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It's strange how one can be so influenced in one's writing by what's going in - visually, through reading the work of other writ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Unpredictable - a poem revisited.

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I've finally got round to some revising - a poem I wrote in Vietnam, in the heat and humidity of our first days there, before I'd se...
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Thursday, January 07, 2016

The meeting

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THE MEETING This the night when under the dark dome the hard stars shine and that one shines brighter than them all, the night when ...
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Monday, November 02, 2015

Remembering on All Souls

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Holy Trinity Dunoon: All Souls This evening we remembered. We lit candles in front of the altar for family and friends lost. We conside...
Thursday, September 03, 2015

Washed up - a poem for today

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Washed up The children on the beach have no cares. Their garments lap upon the waves that brought them here. They are not playing - t...
Monday, April 13, 2015

The Road to Siem Reap

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Listening to Vaughan Williams as I am borne along  a Cambodian highway the red dust billowing at our passing I hear the co...
Monday, December 01, 2014

Taking Advent seriously

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ADVENT PROSE REVISITED Rend the heavens, come quickly down – Can we mean it? In the dark to ask the God to come like this would...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

November - a poem for the season of remembrance

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NOVEMBER The month of remembering - the lines of men in the stubble fields the hideous scramble over a muddy parapet, the cring...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Normandy Landing

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From heroic effort to the pathos of the broken dead, a child’s toy abandoned in the road, is only a single step into randomness. Why t...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

Radio 4 discusses Maths - a poem of bewilderment

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Radio 4 discusses Maths There’s a magic number called e , that has the  power to solve the world’s problems, to be practical in ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Referendum Question - a poem for the aftermath

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Referendum Question Would there have been tears when the old Union died, a bitter mourning for the loss of joyous hope denied? Or ...
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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Cloudy morning

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I started writing this before the current spell of dry weather, when I was longing for it to look and feel like summer. As the solstice is r...
Friday, March 28, 2014

The Well

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©Sieger Köder It is a well, God, a pool so dark as to show me only myself. It draws me to look  compels my absorption demands m...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Greylag - a poem out of meditation

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  Eileen Lawrence: Greylag 1978 GREYLAG : watercolour and handmade papers It disturbs me, this feather, plucked from a hurrying g...
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Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Vernacular - a poem from a sermon. Sort of.

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The opening two lines of this poem appeared unbidden in my mind as I was listening to the sermon in Holy Trinity last Sunday. Hugh, this is ...