Was ever thus, when the pilgrim came from the sea, fearing the return. —- They stayed in a still small island listening for the thin place and — finding only birds and the rolling waves, filling the air with music, when they looked for — God. In the waiting they smile at flowers nodding in… Continue reading The Seeking Pilgrim
Month: June 2022
Waiting in the Night
Twas evening, when the fishermen sail, the sun shifting to shine on other seas, Faintly glowing the far off stars herald the approaching night. —— the light slowly recedes from the shore, as somewhere a wise owl calls from a wooded glade, where rested roosting birds ready to wake the dawn. ——– The silken skin… Continue reading Waiting in the Night
The empty House
The For Sale sign hung expectantly for weeks, til the joyful hurrying agent slapped ‘Sold’ on and had ages of paperwork work through while a loving couple who lived there were truly gone. —- It was their cosy home and garden, built in peace around their chattering children now moved on, loving hands that cleaned… Continue reading The empty House
Guantanamo Fear or Victims
—— He hides face in his arms as they grabbed him, twisting, hurting his already rope burned skin, innocently he had travelled to aged Afghanistan, guilty by colour and creed he was violently taken, not arrested, nor accused like hundreds of others. —— Guantanamo Bay, a cruel place of tried and tested torture criminalising good… Continue reading Guantanamo Fear or Victims
The Gower Pilgrim
The steps of ancients have walked this way, searching out for easement of earthly sorrows, seeking souls to bring to an earthy paradise or expiating their sins with hunger and sorrow, opening a way for newer treads of modern soles to journey through the patient places of Gower. —— Weary living brings the purposeful pilgrim,… Continue reading The Gower Pilgrim
Fascism
Generations crippled and controlled, controversially, cruel governments count the dead and silence the poor; while the elite count their moneys and parade themselves fortuitously in roles designating fearful fascism. Comprehensibly overtaking press and media manipulating and monitoring until the oppressed seek redress. —— Painfully the demonstrating populace, face the potential ruinous choice of punishment, to… Continue reading Fascism