Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. 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...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Words, words, words ...

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I've been reading. Of course, there's never a time when I don't have a book on the go, but that's fiction. As it's Lent ...
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...
Monday, February 06, 2017

A Treaty with metaphor

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I've been listening quite a bit to Leonard Cohen's final album - You want it darker - and in particular to one song that many, ...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Costly love

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It seems to have been several years since we observed Mothering Sunday in Holy T - if my files of past Intercessions are anything to go by, ...
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Saturday, January 07, 2012

Visceral learning

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It's almost the end of the school holidays, and the thoughts of even this retired teacher turn, once more, to education. Is it my coming...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Poets in a Landscape

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A long time ago - we're talking half a century here - I found a dun-coloured hardback book in the school library and took it out for a f...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Poetry roulette

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What a brilliant app the Poetry Foundation one is! I downloaded it on my iPad a few weeks ago at the suggestion of Ewan McIntosh , and on th...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Celebrating MacCaig in style

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This is The Library in Waxy O'Connor's pub in Glasgow, where I spent a delightful evening with seven others reading and discussing ...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Journey

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Of course there was no serpent. The tree's fruit was a mirror, its temptation reflection. R.S.Thomas wrote these words sometime around 1...
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Friday, July 09, 2010

Poetic pilgrimage

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I'm off again tomorrow - a trip culminating in a pilgrimage to the last parish of the poet/priest R.S. Thomas, in Aberdaron. Thomas spen...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Creativity and primeval soup

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I've been reading Ewan's post on creativity - where good ideas come from. And already from the comments there it's obvious that...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Responding to theology

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Every month or so, our Lay Training group meets to learn, to share and to grow. In between times, we do our homework. This time round, we we...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008

Perilous poetry?

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A piece in today's Guardian caught my eye because it was about teaching English. In fact, it was about the perceived possible effects o...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Norman MacCaig on God

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This is the poem I read on Sunday which moved me to write again. I have Mr B to thank for pointing it out to me as we discussed the morning...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

BIG deal?

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I should have known better. Some time last year, in an idle moment, I sent one of my lighter poems to a site which promised a prize - a cash...
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Friday, March 28, 2008

Late thoughts

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Update: the gremlins are still there on Safari. I've submitted a bug report to Apple. I wonder if it'll have more effect than tellin...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

Dismantling

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A day for returning our places to normality - and how drab and austere they look! As I schlepped down to the pool at 7.40 this morning the t...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Rites

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How important it is to get it right for a funeral! And how difficult at this time of year - or is it? Especially if the person who has died ...
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Thursday, December 06, 2007

Another poem

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I've just posted a new poem over on frankenstina . It was written after midnight one night last week, when I was overcome with the compl...