Rhythmic poetry echoes our own rhythms

The way the heart beats and the flow of blood.

Music is biology at play

The joy of being alive is well and good

There is no no need for willpower and its strains

Does the River have to push itself?

Does the tide need training who could tell?

Imitating these is poetrys stealth.

Overwork is easy but it’s wrong.

Distracks us from the pain of life and death

Both can come together in a song

Let your mind be vacant till you find

The evidence that there is another mind

An American filmmaker actor and playwright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Perry

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” Writing poems, particularly the elegy poems about my mother, did this for me.

Is it still hard to talk about what happened?
Sure. Even this level of conversation I am having with you is very hard. It’s not simply that I am sad. It is much more complex than that. I at once hold these two emotions and one of them is this sense of bereavement that I have lived with my entire adult life. The other is a real sense of happiness because I can talk about her and someone will listen.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/19/natasha-trethewey-i-decided-i-was-going-to-be-the-one-to-tell-my-mothers-story?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/25/catherine-coldstream-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-god-interview

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/july-august-2019/features/imperial-borders-and-mythical-frontiers/

If today’s mass immigration is going to end in anything but catastrophe, it’s going to require facing unpleasant truths about American empire and global capitalism. It’s much easier to panic about the Hispanic roofer who just moved to town than to confront those who control the economic and political forces that pushed him there. But that’s exactly what we must do. We can weep and woe about either the plight or burden of immigrants, but if we don’t address why they’re migrating then we’re just going to see, as Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano put it, fifty-one-foot ladders for every fifty-foot wall.

1. Rice pudding is very nutritious and you can make it yourself or you can buy it in the supermarket.

2. Cheesecake nutritious but it can also be full of sugar and fat.

3. Fruit with egg custard.

4 Milk based desserts.

5mInstead of cream you scream mixed with natural yoghurt

Things that you can make without shopping if you have a store cupboard and vegetable

Eggs in onion sauce with rice

Eggs in curry sauce with rice naan bread etc

Red lentils in cheese sauce… With rice or quick hook macaroni

Potato omelette

Spanish omelette

Cheese tart or onion