Raise your words, not your voice.
It is rain that grows flowers,
Not thunder.
-Rumi.
Month: September 2016
Stepping over the edge.
‘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.
4 years old.
Busy celebrating my 4th year with WordPress thanks to those responsible for reminding/remembering.
From dark to light.
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
The Wexford Way and the Knights Templar
(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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Now on sale
@www.chrisblack2012.com for those who might be interested. Thank to all for the support over the past few years, this is not the end result just the beginning. Chris.
Book Launch.
Most successful night last Friday 9th September at the launch of my first book of poetry and short stories titled Same Train, Different Track for those making enquiries hopefully the book will be on sale online within the next week info @http://chrisblack2012.com
Clouded thinking. — C J Black
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…
Wafting. — C J Black
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…
20 NO FEE submission calls (8 PAYING), DEADLINES: Sept. 10 – 30, 2016 — Trish Hopkinson
This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines and have no submission fees. Deadlines are all in September. For a list of more places open year round and open now, check out my filtered version of Entropy’s “WHERE TO […]
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