Category: My Work
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Haiku #34 – Women’s Work
Noble Work Lowly women’s work Cutting peat for hearth-side’s fire Labour made noble
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Haiku #34 – Women’s Work
Haiku #34 – Women’s Work Use the music bar above to control the music. Lowly women’s work Cutting peat for hearth-side’s fire Labour made noble
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Quality & Quantity
Quality & Quantity A while ago I wrote two pieces called “The Gary Baker Principal (1 & 2). In them I tried to examine the dichotomy inherent in the phrase “Quality over Quantity”. I simply put the two sides out there showing no particular preference for one or the other. The issue then was life…
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Pipe Dreams
Pipe Dreams Slow pulses beat behind my eyes Rising, ever rising At first slowly, then faster and faster Through tattered clouds and swirling smoke Skyward-bound with visions in my eyes Of Nymphs and Dryads beckoning Voices ringing like silver bells Eyes that dance and hair of burnished gold This is not the clay of earthly…
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Haiku #33 – Croft
Haiku #33 – Croft Click on the link below for music. Lonely stoney croft Battered by North Sea fury Huddle round the fire Clink here to return to the Home Page
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Haiku #32 – The Waulking Table
Haiku #32 – The Waulking Table Click on the music bar to hear a waulking song. Click on the sound bar below to hear a Waulking Song All come gather round The village waulking table There is work to do Return to Home Page
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This Must Stop
This Must Stop Horror upon horror. The inconceivable evil that stalks this land. How can we understand a mindset that allows The spread of weapons in the hands of madmen And children?
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Manifesto
Manifesto I can ease into my Zen (also know as my Happy Place) like into a pair of old shoes. It is my usual and preferred state of being. I don’t completely disassociate from reality. Physically, yes. Spiritually, not so much. To be honest, I try to focus all the energy that would be expended…
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Love Thy Neighbour
Love thy neighbour As you love yourself. I can love myself as a self-conscious being. But my neighbour exists in their own realm of consciousness Completely separate from mine And never the twain shall meet. Like trying to be here and there simultaneously Impossible. (except in quantum mechanics). At the risk of being labelled selfish,…
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Quicksand
Quicksand So innocent, no warning given A surface so level and alluring An easy path through briars and bracken To weary feet the way seems to beckon. A long and tiresome journey Wishing greener hills to see Setting out with a compass so true A clear trail below the sky above so blue. With steady…
Palimpsest 