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Day: February 20, 2017
A word that’s spoken by a friend can reach
A word that’s spoken by a friend can reach
Can touch, can move, can embrace in its sounds
The inner soul where its vibrations teach.
When cut off, silent,after sad defeat
Such gentle words can break our sullen bonds
A word that’s spoken by a friend can reach.
We must not torture nor torment in speech
Our heart, the centre of our morbid wounds
The inner soul with its vibrations speaks..
From our eye, a tear springs with relief
From imprisoned sulking, jump with a great bound!
A word that’s spoken by a friend can reach.
Muscles weaken,but the mind stays fleet
Humour and its cousins are our clowns
The inner soul by its athletics speaks.
I smile and smile and rarely do I frown
For I will rise up, even when low down
A word that’s spoken by a friend can reach
The inner soul ,deep memories are evoked
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Down with self improvement
A book has just come out_ called Stand Firm;resisting the self improvement craze by Svend Brinkmann
As someone said way back,if these books work why do people keep buying more of them?
My view is that you need to get to know yourself before you try to change.I suppose one way is psychotherapy but there are others… just self observation like:
Why do I not like receiving compliments?
Why do I leave things till the last minute?
I have a suspicion that knowing yourself will change you without any other actions.
The only valuable thing I have read is that we all suffer in life and it becomes worse if you criticise yourself for not feeling better.We have sad or fearful emotions for good reasons.Even depression has a value in slowing us down and letting us review our lives.
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Darkling- the meaning
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<the darkling valleys of Transylvania, where tales of vampires have long existed>
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The darkling thrush
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land’s sharp features seemed to be
The Century’s corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
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The Last Performance BY THOMAS HARDY
“I am playing my oldest tunes,” declared she,
“All the old tunes I know,—
Those I learnt ever so long ago.”
—Why she should think just then she’d play them
Silence cloaks like snow.
When I returned from the town at nightfall
Notes continued to pour
As when I had left two hours before:
“It’s the very last time,” she said in closing;
“From now I play no more.”
A few morns onward found her fading,
And, as her life outflew,
I thought of her playing her tunes right through;
And I felt she had known of what was coming,
And wondered how she knew.
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A gentle touch can help the sad at heart
Cutting hair is like creating art
My kind hairdresser said this to me once.
Her loving touch can help the sorry heart
If I were cutting hair, where would I start?
I smiled at her and gave firm response
Cutting hair is a creative art
Upon which side do you desire to part?
I was day- dreaming,my mind was in a trance
A gentle touch can help the sad at heart
Another lover’s not what I have sought
I can’t withstand the torments of the dance
Looking good is a creative art
I never enjoyed the way men talked and fought
I am a stranger to the rules of a romance
A gentle touch can help the sad at heart
I kissed a man but it was self defence!
I never let him get a second chance
Cutting hair is like creating art
A loving touch can help the lonesome heart
How my heart sings 