With trepidation

 

To write a poem will take our entire heart
Our mind and soul, our body and our dreams.
With trepidation, take a pen and start

Let preconceptions, though well meant, depart
Creative work evades such plans and schemes
To write a poem will shake the entire heart

We travel lands unknown without a chart.
With our courage, trust the dark unseen
For inspiration, take a pen and write

We bite the apple, bitter, hard and tart
Knowledge enters in its dream -like streams
To write a poem will move each living heart

No logic, reasoning, signs, however wrought
Will bring to life the holy pattern’s themes
With each image, still your dreaming hear

The earth, the oceans, seas, the sacred scenes
Where humans live out daily what life means
To write a poem, we need the mystic heart.
In emptiness, we fill our pens, we start

The perils of voice activate software.

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99.The Avenue,Penrith,Cumberland

32 Jan 2017

 

Hi Sue ,I hope you’re having a nice weekend. I went to my nephew’s yesterday.I found a text message on my phone which  he has left the previous evening but I haven’t seen it and why did see if I drank brandy. I texted you back saying find a second term. he said I’ll be with you in 45 minutes, Dina Trump
I thought to myself,  it was tomorrow that I was there and I was wondering if I felt well enough to go out because I’ve been feeling silly ; they know you if you let go I just hope I’m not going to feel down for the next four years
I asked if it looking at Donald Trump  on the news make me ill. Why don’t  we have to try without exception and I really enjoyed playing with  the nephew’s  children’s  toys
While they sell at the same table really know how we do it at their father and I had a really interesting mathematical description of how is a little more  than the LEGO tower go round and round the face of the plate with hole in the middle understand more than two marbles they don’t know when his circles around ellipses Fortunately he doesn’t know any mathematics now because I was wondering about  him and ask him if you are fully closing down to describe the motion of these marbles light is bad enough trying to write the frozen differential  situation and done to describe a smooth a billiard  ball rolling down a smooth surface at a certain speed ; having to calculate  about how far it will go before it stops after its reach the bottom of the tilted surface.Who wants to gnaw that?
Who are my brother had a real problem with that because he kept saying to me , but there’s no such thing as a completely smooth surface.
I thought to myself, he doesn’t understand this is a time difference game of Mathematics that you have to pretend that the world has some simplicity places in order to solve the problem and when you couldn’t get used to dealing with that level of problem you may then be able to mate ….I moved to a slightly higher level.

One  ofter many many centuries you might even get nearer to the actual real world
You say I want to clear all the mathematics students terribly hard if you don’t know the symbols it’s only dealing with it many  topics is quite simple problems compared to bringing up children or dealing with problems in your marriage or having all your teeth taken out at the dentist in fact many of us really do you ms.turbate and then escape from reality without going crazy why it just put ms.turbate instead of mathematics makes me wonder about the people who have created the software by which my voice is made into typing a little it freezes but there no longer  a tea leaf that perturbation is a mortal sin and that everybody will go to hell, making  freezers lonely.
I was riding a joke about psychoanalysis and introduces blessing ham certain problem with a little series of experience french fries explain the term babies that don’t develop something called  autoeroticism are more likely to have psychological problems when they were  ground up, because it means that they will not have taken me  in  as  an image of the mother into the inner space where she can comfort them when they’re going through difficult time with a real life later on as adults or even when they go to school .

Why it’s quite amazing, we used to be real because we don’t know anything about it.
Oh, there’s a girl in my class, she was rather well developed and she said she became pregnant and she did have a boyfriend but they didn’t know that what they had done was sex

.I suppose he would just like to young cats

or two younger deer.
whatever

Maybe that’s what it was meant to be like this it just happens and it’s perfectly acceptable to be pregnant when you’re 16 especially when you’re as well directed  as this girl
well I’m afraid I have to go and make some tea now so I hope that you’re enjoying a pleasant weekend playing with your travel toys and avoiding mathematics like the plague unless it makes you feel better.Dirac, the answer to a depressive’s prayer.Not
Ever yours,Grace Full

She says she has blue tooth

She says she has blue tooth.That sounds like a horrible disease.I hope it’s not catching.
The Queen has blue blood.Is it Quink?
I broke my fountain pen.I was doing Su Doku in the loo.So you can guess what happened.I fell off the seat and the pen stabbed the cat’s tail and pinned it to the carpet.Why the cat is always there I can’t imagine.Anyway. he got angry and bit the pen , which jumped up   suddenly went down his throat nib first
So we’ve written him off ! And sent the pen to prison.

I have lost the internet.I am abashed

They say I have no connection the internet.Are some humans related to it?

doodlingThey say I have no connection the internet.Are some humans related to it?
I have lost the internet.Could it be in Lost Property?Can I borrow my neighbour’s?
I can’t get online.Why don’t they make it wider? so it would be on a double line.But then we couldn’t park…….you can’t win
You make me feel so rung.Please phone somebody else!
I had a Brief Encounter.My husbands pants fell down.I told him he had lost weight but he wouldn’t believe me.Now he will fit through the Eye on any Needle.Thank you, God.
Could Trump fit through the eye of an embroidery needle?
As my husband got thinner I got fatter.Is that fair?
I want to open a new blog but I have no money.Can I steal one?
Missing: Old blog in good condition.Micro-shipped.Rewards offered for anyone who returns it unchanged.
I sleep with my blog.Is it a sin?
The cat sleeps on my Kindle Fire because he doesn’t get it’s a metaphor.Cats!
At least I don’t leave my eyes on my i pad.They’re on the phone!
Well, they were.
No,I can’t come to work today.I have lost my eyes.

Loo parking? We have few public loos here!

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Not a loo by Kate

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China city unveils parking spaces for toilet breaks

  • 20 January 2017
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A close up of on of the parking spaces with text in Chinese reading: Special toilet useImage copyrightXI’AN CITY PRESS OFFICE
Image captionThe spaces are clearly marked as being for toilet users only

A city in central China now has free parking spaces reserved for drivers who need to answer the call of nature while on the road.

Spaces have been marked in yellow on main roads in Xi’an, close to 50 of the city’s public toilets, the Hua Shang Bao newspaper reports. Each one is designated as a “special toilet use” space and there’s a 15 minute time limit for drivers who park in them, so anyone who tries to take advantage of the spots to go shopping will be fined. The city’s traffic police are also asking people to report any cars that occupy the spaces long-term.

One local driver told China Daily that he was pleased to find a place where he could pause for a quick toilet break without having to pay. And this is only the first phase of city’s plan for loo-friendly spaces. Xi’an has more than 1,300 public toilets and traffic police say they’re looking to create more

Dust balls

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When yet another fluff ball is discovered
Hiding by the bookcase near my bed.
I ponder on the process which produces this
As I sit here gobbling a large boiled egg.
When yet another stain upon the carpet
Cannot be removed by water or by foam.
I wonder if I’m cut out for cleaning.
This is certainly not a man’s Ideal Home.
But let me not waste time on practicalities.
Life is far more precious than is dirt.
I’ll change my dress and put on a new outfit.
Or perhaps just wear a long white linen shirt.
When he comes home I’ll tell him I’m in love again.
With him who is my darling and my man.

Averse to Trump

https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2017/01/13/averse-to-trump-americas-poets-fight-back-with-words

BOSTON (AP) — America’s leading poets are averse to Donald Trump, and they’re not about to go gentle organised good night.

Poetry slams and other literary events are being organized nationwide in the run-up to the president-elect’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

Some, like this weekend’s “Writers Resist” rallies in New York, Boston and 90 other U.S. cities, are overtly in protest. Others are merely an attempt to find a little solace and beauty in verse.

“Our country was founded on brilliant writing,” said Erin Belieu, an award-winning poet who runs the creative writing program at Florida State University. She hatched the Writers Resist movement “to re-inaugurate the best of our democratic ideals.”

Who is responsible?

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Psychological Projection – Are You Making Everyone Else Responsible?

Most often psychological projection is something we put onto another person, but it is possible to project onto an inanimate object or even situation. For example, ‘this car is so embarrassing it’s why no woman wants to date me’ or ‘I wasn’t stressed at all, it was just that we had to go to that funeral’ could both be forms of projection.

Psychological projection can be about positive attributes too, not just ones you perceive as negative. If you constantly think other people are very powerful and focussed, it could be that you are too insecure to see that you are these things yourself.

how to stop projecting

And it’s not just individuals who practise psychological projection. It can also be something we do as a group or as a society. For example, when a workplace starts to fall, the very managers who were not pulling their weight will blame the higher boss as lazy.

It could even be said there is projection in the way we now make terrorists the source of all evil in society without ever looking at the ways we are cruel and unkind to others ourselves, or don’t pull our own weight within communities and globally.

Source: http://www.harleytherapy.co.uk/counselling/psychological-projection-are-you-making-everyone-else-responsible.htm#ixzz4WOkW82QU

Writing makes me breathe differently

Sometimes writing makes me breathe differently.
I can feel the silence settle around me,
Like a prayer shawl.
i accept it gratefully.
There’s a thin feeling to the day
As if the sun might have tried harder
to come through
But it had a blue feeling
And the clouds were greedy,
Wanting too much to melt
And shed their moisture.
Some perfume please.I think it was £27.99
Yes,I like that one even more than jasmine oil.
Pour it down over London
Like a  blessing.
A black woman laughed and patted my arm,
You’re so funny, she cried.
And I smiled coyly
As if someone hidden was taking my photograph.
Sometimes life’s too sweet
And needs a little pepper.
The chair creaks as I lean forward
Trying to see everything at once
As if it all happened now, not yesterday.

The other

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“But to Levinas, the Other provides a path to transcendence, a way to find meaning, indeed ecstasy. In Totality and Infinity Levinas writes
,“Meaning is the face of the Other.”
 Face-to-face relations with the Other imparts knowledge, creates connection. As Levinas scholar Adriaan Peperzak writes:
“When Levinas meditates on the significance of the face, he does not describe the complex figure that could be portrayed by a picture or painting; rather, he tries to make us ‘experience’ or ‘realize’ what we see, feel, ‘know’ when another, by looking at me, ‘touches’ me: autrui me vise; the other’s visage looks at me, ‘regards’ me.”

Where fishes reel and dance

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Thought, the vision of the inner eye,
Peers behind the mask of mundane view
A choosing of the best of what comes by
Not the monsters on the Daily News

Thought to me is vision without words;
Needs silent presentation  and review.
The words  translate the images  that surge
Then fall back to the ocean where they grew.

Like coloured visions of the  deep sea bed
Where fishes reel and dance, where life is new.
What we  mean  with difficulty’s said
Yet evocation summons  it to view.

Let my  words evoke my love  of you;
And answer me with many   kisses new.

When the hidden prisoner wails

He said his wife had died, she was a suicide
Could I bring her back to die more right?
He said his wife had died, oh,the children cried
A rope, a noose,  the plank , a fearful sight.

If she died  again of cancer, that would be  alright.
Many folk are with you on that cancer ride.
Oh,oh, oh, keep their eyelids tight.
Children must not see just how this mother died.

It’s  too, too  ,too sad for a man to feel he’s failed.
The dark depressions, the tigers in the night.
The psychotic rage, when the hidden prisoner  wails
Deep, down,  dark, where dead eyes  give the only light.

He said, hypnotise me, get her image back
I’ll ask her  how to feel  when she is broken
I’ll  ask her how to touch her when   her heart won’t open
I’ll ask her to leave a  trace, a track.
I can’t go with her, for her children’s sake.
Ask her why our love didn’t heal her crack.
What tool, what thought, what grace did I lack?

Why do others manage when she could not?
I never knew she dwelt in such a lonely spot.
The bell jar and the spider are so  cruel,  so flat.
It’s over now, I’ll carry the children in their baby cots.

I ‘m the lord of the deserted  at the altar pack
My eyes are ice, I smile and all my teeth are black.
Can I ever be human again?
Can I allow, feel, touch this,her pain?

 

 

Hillary Clinton in LRB

As Sady Doyle noted, ‘she can’t be sad or angry, but she also can’t be happy or amused, and she also can’t refrain from expressing any of those emotions. There is literally no way out of this one. Anything she does is wrong.’ One merely had to imagine a woman candidate doing what Trump did, from lying to leering, to understand what latitude masculinity possesses. ‘No advanced step taken by women has been so bitterly contested as that of speaking in public,’ Susan B. Anthony said in 1900. ‘For nothing which they have attempted, not even to secure the suffrage, have they been so abused, condemned and antagonised.’ Or as Mary Beard put it last year, ‘We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women’s silence.

My tablet has no commandments on it.

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Once mobile meant travelling like the Bedouin…
We knew what phoney was.
We enjoyed talking to each other
A screen was a thing that hid something.
Writing was a lengthier process but we had better attention spans.
Reading was partly social; we used the library, not a kindle.
We read the great books even in our tiny poor homes.We went to hear the Halle orchestra and did not feel lowly.
We helped our neighbours.
We helped ourselves to the good available and gave it to our friends
Now my phone is boiling and the kettle rang me.
The microwave is grilling a politician
My tablet has no commandments on it.
My TV is so smart it’s moved out to a place where someone will watch it.
My radio is sending  a distress signal
My heart is heavy.
My heart is light.

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He was a stout man with thick fingers who willingly engaged your ear, although following his hackneyed conversation style was akin to skipping alongside Dorothy through an endless field of soporifi…

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We’d hoped to see those roses very soon

We ‘d  hoped to see the rose gardens in June
But on the 1st he died and travelled on
We  both enjoyed   the roses in  full  bloom

We used the dark to see the stars and moon
But by the 1st  I found that he was gone
We hoped to see the rose gardens in June

As  I tell,  this death arrived  too soon
And  took away  the  life of   a  dear man
We  wished to see the  flowers in full bloom

As he  lay, I sang  remembered  psalms
I  knew before the doctors he was gone
We meant to see the rose gardens in June

Then  there with me he  re-encountered calm
I had not gone there with a plan
We  longed to see the  flowers’  enchanting blooms

May was cold and bitter with alarm
That was when he fell , yet was unarmed.
We’d  hoped to see  those roses  very soon
We    love the  scent of roses in full bloom