Raise your words, not your voice.
It is rain that grows flowers,
Not thunder.
-Rumi.
Raise your words, not your voice.
It is rain that grows flowers,
Not thunder.
-Rumi.
‘Each day this Same Train of thought takes me down a Different Track assisting in my writing helping the mind relax’
Following along the river that has no end means in reality I will not return to this space. gone in search of the dawn of a new age. There has to be something out there to challenge this restless mind?
I passed a nest of cottages in a quiet country lane, history had forgotten them as it will the young family gathered around their picnic basket, settled comfortably on their soft quilted rugs enjoying their repast also the farmers in nearby meadows threshing those same meadows that year on year always yielded a good crop.
I walked on unfurling this new map life had laid out for me, thinking not alone what can I do only what must be done.
(c) Chris Black 2016.
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Suffering literary anxiety occurs mostly on the Sabbath day
Does it come from that little voice at the back of the head
Whispering, on the Sabbath day rest and pray
Rest is something to do once the light is switched out
Pray – once was in fashion
Now confined to when
Literary anxiety raises its ugly head
If you do not rest you will suffer burnout
Put prayer on the back burner –
If there is a hell you’ll burn
Should poetic lines always be fluid
In order that a white space not be left nude.
Pondering on topics which need not be pondered on,
At least not for long periods
May well lead to nervous exhaustion.
Chris Black. 21/09/2016
(ii)
In the footsteps of the Knights Templar
“Where are you looking for?”
“Well, I’m walking to the Hook for now, but I was just looking at some of these paths and trails marked here on the map.”
My faithful friend, the 1: 50,000 Ordnance Survey Discovery Series, Sheet no. 76, showed me an interesting looking road towards the sea and branching off in two further paths. On paper at least they looked inviting and surely worthy of further investigation.
“Have you been down that way?” I asked.
The younger man was studying the map, lifting his gaze to scan the landscape every now and then.
“You’re well able to read the map,” I commented when he pointed to a meandering line of hedges to our seaward side, adding that was where one of the dotted map lines went.
“I’m an engineer,” he smiled, “I’ve been down that…
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Trying hard to grapple with the fog inside my head Not helped at all this morning with the density of fog On the horizon. Considering what subject to write on today Dismayed am I. But one must keep plugging away With all that’s going on in the world There has to be something to…
The evenings are drawing in The turf fire burning As from the thatch cottage chimney Its plumes rise high into the night sky. The cider smell of the dying orchard All seasons share their own beauty The poet will use: sea, sky, field, mountain To paint a word picture. The poetry of…
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