
Aristotle Lane Oxford by M.Flemming


When you got a mortgage
Fancy little house
Furniture from Ercol
Dancing with your spouse
Don’t think love lasts for ever
Like life is all secure
Any moment baby
They’re knocking at your door.
First there are the Nazis
Then the Soviet gore
Don’t look for your house, love
Nothing is secure
Love is for the angels
What is living for?
Goodbye,Mrs Perebyinis.
Goodbye your children
Crossing a broken stone bridge
Shelled by Russian soldiers
See your suitcase and dog
harness on the ground.
I hear your dog barking
I hear the planes circle
The moon shines indifferently
As it does on the man who ordered the attack
God is a moon
Who is the sun?
Where nobody knows
What’s going on
Who by fire?
Who by water?
It’s all said and done

Our tomcat has eaten a bird
He is hungry so this is the third
Mother is skint
We live in a tent.
She screams all night long so I’ve heard

Dr Kumar is famed for his humour.
He goes mad when the season is lunar.
He jogs every night
The full moon is in sight
If you have a piano he will tune her.

The dead leaves of the autumn sink down low.
The buds of cherry sing of long ago
Jack was pecked at by a
cunning bird.
It was a big blue budgie,I have heard
He kept her well fed
She slept on his head
So much for the cat and her fur

Anne once had a poor sense of humour
Until she wed a young doctor Kumar
He showed her cartoons
Bought her perfume
After that all Is heard were their murmurs

There was a young lady in Barnet
Whose garden was covered in tarmac
When I asked her why
She started to cry
I never intended to harm it


Near the tree a little bird came by
A sparrow with a mirror in its eye

You know this experience, sometimes when you are browsing in a bookshop you come across a book with a wonderful title. This happened to me as a student when I saw a book with this title:
“The courage to be ”
by Paul Tillich
I was going through a hard time and just the title alone helped me as no one I knew had ever said it takes courage to live well.So I bought this book and dipped in. I found it interesting and thoughtful.Sometimes I would just look at the front cover and repeat the title.I had discovered mantra meditation.in a sense.
One morning I was listening to a radio programme about poetry in England and tidying up. Suddenly my old battered copy of “The Courage to Be” fell out of a shelf and into my hand.And I said, thank you. Because I had lost this companion and now it’s restored…
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How I miss the postcards you once sent
Loved your writing and the image lent


Now the writing pen runs out of ink
i hope the artist’s brush can help us think.
Typing takes the personal away
Our letters can no longer life convey
I imagined I saw flowers like flakes of snow
On my dead viburnum hanging low
It’s sweet pinkness gave me great delight.
It’s absence is a wound to this small heart.

My tears were running where they never walked.
My voice was singing long before I talked
My heart was broken yet it was no plate.
I met my husband long before our date
I confessed my sins while in the womb.
I shall do the same when in the tomb
I confess I killed a dandelion
If not so it weren’t for lack of trying.
I abused a buttercup last year
I filled it full of tea and not of tears
The daisy has complained I hurt her tongue.
I never knew she had one was I wrong?
N

The metal gleams with gold like tiny sun
Telling us pure light can overcome

I find they have put me on statins.
This follows a regular pattern.
Aspirin thins our blood
Good we’re not wood
I would rather learn Carving than Latin


I wanted to relearn my Latin
There was a table and chair that I sat in
I remembered the endings
Without understanding
So I’m no imbecile, I’m a cretin


I found this on my old blog.I did not write it
R

“A world view quite similar to Nazism, Fascism was a pagan religion with worship of the state….main arguments…..
Like postmodernism, fascism promoted the view that reality is a social construct and that all cultures determine their own values. Vieth wrote: most people do not realise the tenets of postmodernism have been tried before in a political system, cultural determinism… The rejection of the transcendent, the rejection of Reason and the revolutionary critique of the existing order are tenets not only of postmodernism but also of fascism.”s
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Without standing back we have no perspective.

Signs and symbols guide the route.
Love gives the soul her appetite.
Though the night is black and starless,
The inner guide is never careless.
The notes are struck,the tune is played,
Plain melodies are overlaid.
In this chant and benediction,
Healing comes for desolation.
Though the passage way is narrow,
This road is the one to follow.
Struggling through the mud and mire,
We see,in darkness, tongues of fire.
The sacred centre of our life
Is never found without some strife.
Just then, the dark and light combine.
To create a symbol for the mind
If I could choose I’d be a plumber.
I like water to run in the summer.
But I can’t see very well
But please do not tell
I don’t like it when young people jabber