I am sure many people across the world are grieving for loved ones.And many more are grieving because of the state of the world.I rang a friend today and he said, Give us the Cold War… it was better than this.Unfortunately, we don’t have the power to go back like that but I know what he means.But ever since civilisation began there have been wars.It’s to do with wealth and property.Look in any encylopaedia and you will see this truth,
Folly,adieu.
Oh, Lord.It’s me.I’ve got 20 free minutes left.Can I pray now or are you engaged?
Oh,God, why am I here?Please say something.Just a small voice will do.
And when I went to Confession,I said, Father, I have committed adultery three times with three different men.Is that worse than with the same one? He said, are you married? So I said ,no, but they are.He said, it’s a defence against true intimacy.And I goes, what….mi battery’s gone flat.Oh,no it’s ok.He said I should study symbolic logic.I sez,is that a penance? He said, not always.If you enjoy it give some blood.I said, who to? He said the hospital.Oh, ok then.How about an Hail Mary.He said, No leave the women alone.You need another occupation.Love is never enough and in some cases it’s not love at all it’s just sheer greed.Are you still there?
We hear now of more and more ways of living healthy lives.But I think it’s important to live a life of worth.What does it mean, to be of worth ? We must live first of all in a way that suits our nature and since we are part of a whole we must also live in ways that do not harm others and hopefully helps some of them.One problem is increasing in the affluent West and the USA and similar countries.This is the well-known fact that more and more of us suffer from stress, worry and depression.Maybe the more serious psychic disturbances are also increasing.This can lead to violence
I have heard my friends say that writing poetry or keeping a journal is therapeutic. But is it not true that some forms of talking or conversing are therapeutic and some are harmful or maybe just pointless? A good friend whom we trust is a person with whom conversing may be beneficial.Whereas “dumping” your problems on someone you hardly know may give only momentary relief.I feel real friend listens and may comment, may even criticize.Someone you hardly know may react badly.You must not blame them for you are ignorant of their personal life and difficulties.Conversation , of course, ha, the advantage that you are with the person to whom you talk and can stop or adapt your talking in the light of their nonverbal responses.To a lesser extent it is also true on the phone if you know someone well.
Just as gazing into the lighted front window of a large home filled with people and pictures and lovely furniture may make you envious so may your fantasied views of others around you.And yet it is likely they feel pain just like you ;we operate often from a view of life which is a poor fit with reality [whatever that is].Since conversation may be good,bad or meaningless so it is with writing.
Writing comes from .your experience but must convey it in a manner by which others can feel the truth of what you are saying.As with music, poetry can say certain things not possible in other ways.And as in music there are forms developed down the centuries in which others have expressed their feelings. I have read that writing poetry in a structured form is therapeutic,But writing in free verse may not be.In either case poetry can stir up deep feelings.
Fiona Sampson, author of, The Expert Guide to writing poetry, advises that you keep the phone number of the Samaritans near when writing poetry, but prose may be less stirring
I read about the value of structured writing in an article about Sylvia Plath.I am sorry I cannot find the reference as yet.Some people say writing prolonged her life,others that the kind of writing she got into at the end may have precipitated her suicide.We cannot know the answer but we should be aware that it may not be “letting it all out” that helps but the shaping and sculpting of the material into a form which pleases us and others
Alternatively writing about Nature , other people, love, may turn our minds in a new direction away from our obsessive worries
Last night I went to a Poetry Reading for a Charity here and was very impressed with the poems written by the member of the local poets group.Unfortunately, being in the South of England the people were not that friendly to a newcomer.I didn’t see anyone I knew.But, at least I went to it.I look forward to going to their regular meetings.I forgot my husband was not here when I crossed the road because I had left the lights on.Still, it would have been a shock if he was.I miss him so much.
If we were small like ants and beetles black,
We’d live like monarchs in the smallest crack
We’d not compare,
Nor envy bear.
We’d live with joy and accept any lack
Within a seed, a microcosm is hid.
An entire world’s potential awaits bid.
Bid of sun and bid of soil,
It shall obey without great toil,
Till with its flowers and leaves it makes us glad.
Instead, this year it will probably be $20 million, she said, calling it “a microcosm of our challenge.”
I begin to observe that it sounds as if Sully is in microcosm what Newman himself…but that is as far as I get.
Kareem and Samir’s experience is a microcosm of the brutality of theEgyptian regime.
But those shining moments have been anomalies, and this week’sepisodes served as a microcosm of this season’s problems.
Altogether, the monks, the Dukes, and the winemakers created a microcosm the influence of which can still be
If we look at the microcosm of our own person we find this principle exactly reproduced.
But I perceive now that my thought was a seed containing my omnisciencein microcosm.
Sutter walked forward slowly, aware in a vague way that he had enteredanother plane that was at once a microcosm and a macrocosm.
Here they established a boy periodical, called the ” microcosm.”
Maimonides knew Joseph ibn Zaddik favorably, but he was not familiar with the ” microcosm.”
c.1200, mycrocossmos (modern form from early 15c.), “human nature,man viewed as the epitome of creation,” literally “miniature world,” fromMiddle French microcosme and in earliest use directly from Medieval Latinmicrocosmus, from Greek mikros “small” (see mica ) + kosmos “world”(see cosmos ). General sense of “a community constituting a world untoitself” is attested from 1560s. Related: Microcosmic. A native expression inthe same sense was petty world (c.1600).
A representation of something on a much smaller scale. Microcosm means“small world,” and in the thought of the Renaissance, it was appliedspecifically to human beings, who were considered to be small-scalemodels of the universe, with all its variety and contradiction. ( Comparemacrocosm.)
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How my heart sings 