Day: May 19, 2017

Silence has its melodies within

Silence has its melodies within
Subtle like an aromatic spice.
Underneath the violence and the  din

When entertaining, silence is a sin.
Surely making dinner is fair price
Let guests release the thoughts they’ve kept within

I cooked fresh food,  used nothing  much pre-tinned
Then I had to entertain them with my life
Wrapping up the  cracked  plates with the  sin

There they sat, my food upon their chins.
Gazing full of greed, those content thieves.
Stupor has more melodies within

Women then as cruel as  gentlemen
Underground, divorce grew, wild, aggrieved
Companionable with violence, drunk on gin

Some went crazy, some became bereaved
Lost, their lives, their work, their dreams
Silence has its melodies within
We prefer the violence  and the din

Sonnets are for all of us

Source
  1. A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in Italy; Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention. The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word sonetto (from Old Provençal sonet a little poem, from son song, from Latin sonus a sound).Wikipedia

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When you are writing you will be using whatever you have stocked your mind with.So reading poetry and fiction and other writing is crucial.and of course your life and what has happened to you or your society will be present in your writing.I find keeping a l journal of things which make an emotional impact on me is helpful.Read what you like but not rubbish.

Starting with the sonnet form

The first line of Gray’s Elegy has the right meter.for a sonnet.

“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.”

So you must write a line to that music:

The clouds rise up and buzz across the sky

for example; then you need a second line.I find these two lines must be interesting.emotional and deep or symbolic.After that, the structure determines to some extent how you can develop your poem…Fourteen lines according to the pattern below.

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Sonnets are usually serious but it is possible to write a humorous one.Historically it was the metaphysical poets who wrote this way about love and death…John Donne is one of them..He wrote

No man is an island

/Brightness
 
Eve's temptation
 

Sonnet on writing a poem

Poetry is the art of shaping words
The structure contributes to make it whole.
And writing sonnets is not just for us nerds.
Creating structures helps create our souls.

Yet many folks are frightened by the risk
Of imperfection, criticism and pain.
But for myself, I love this tempting task.
And daily I sit down to write again.

Though what I write may not be alpha plus.
The chance to share my feelings lures me on.
And when I travel on a London bus
I take a notebook lest my thought be gone.

We each can be creative in our way
And find through it our happiness. every day

Electric Cheetah

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Was this Earth designed for life or death,
When wired up cheetahs surf the desert sands
Seeking prey to stave off hunger’s wrath?
This hunt’s repeated over all our lands.

And in deep sea of green, we find the curse
Of being pursuer or of becoming prey.
Blood in water looks to me much worse
Yet God requires that we should kneel and pray

Rare flowers can snatch and eat the striped bee
Programmed by their genes this way to feed.
I grieve a  violent God exacts a fee.
Even loves to see his creatures as they bleed.

Nature soothes our souls when life’s all green.
Yet tiger springs and cares not when we scream

More subtle is the need to do no harm

What love and friendship can at once entail
Are boundaries elastic and yet firm.
Yet even that is but a mere detail
More subtle is the need to do .no harm

For in the flush of youthful spirits strong
We do not like to know that all love fades
nor when it does a lover may do wrong
So to evil, he may find out he has paid
And with the stone-faced demons, he belongs.

Thus friendship love and joy involve the will
To take the other as she comes to be
For all our goodness there may be a bill
Acknowledge this, it follows truth we’ll see.

Accepting that perfection is remote
We play our tunes and suffer every note

Think again

 

ShowImageWe see that the government is withholding NHS performance data until after the Election.I wonder why that is? Could it be that it is not very good?
One reason why there are more people in A  &E  is the following
A cardiologist who diagnosed my husband’s severe problems wished to admit him into hospital  then.At one time he could have done the referral himself.However, he told me he could only do it nowadays by sending us to A & E.After previous experiences I absolutely refused and brought him home.[He was finally admitted  in  ” an end of life situation”  late one evening and died the next afternoon]

So do you want Tories making more “savings” like this?
Are you willing to pay a bit more tax if you earn over £80,000 per annum?
Do you believe you will live forever and never have a serious accident or fatal illness?
Think again

Complaining at the absence of sweet rain

Complaining at the absence of  sweet rain
Complaining  now dull clouds keep out the sun
Who is it that we will seek to blame,
Complaining at the absence of our rain?
Too much  water  flows straight down the drains
The  front flower beds, the  soft green lawns have gone
Complaining at the absence of sweet rain
Complaining now grey clouds keep out the sun.

 

Complaining at the absence of  sweet rain
We park our cars in gardens paved and cold
The  lawns  once soaked now what goes down the drains
The paving stones con’t take the water in.
So we grumble and we constantly proclaim
The government must take some action bold
Complaining at the absence of  sweet rain
We park our cars on gardens paved and cold

 

Complaining at the absence of  sweet rain
We  notice not just what our cars have done
We think of our own wishes in the main
Do not see that nature’s not to blame
The worms and beetles knew they’d not remain;
Made exit in a lengthy night parade.
Complaining at the absence of  sweet rain
We never see the world our cars have made.