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Perfect, Broken, New Perfect
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The Bible begins with a perfect earth, created in beauty with skill – no illness, no strife and no famine, death, with nothing to mar that good life until … (The end of the Bible reveals again …) We’re living between, with troubles to bear because …
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A seed that multiplied
It fell on the soil not pecked by a bird, slithered down a crack (ear welcomes good word?) rested warm and safe through the winter cold til the...
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Certainties
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] You’ve told us you are, and always have been, that you made the earth, then women and men; Millenia you're … that we may rejoice …
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Spring in Full Swing!
Farm track verges wave in the breeze, crowded abundance shining overflowing variety: campion red and campion white, buttercup and big yellow daisies...
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Distance
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] How easily we drift or take offence at those we used to care for, growing rift – it’s hard the gap to close...
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I enjoyed your journey among
Posted on Sat, 26 Jul 2014
I enjoyed your journey among the changing shades. Your spaces are much more vast than in England's farms and countryside, I think.
Read full commentI looked up Leshenaultia, but it seemed to have a 'c' between the 's' and 'h', if I had the right plant....
Posted in Yellow Days
This is very well 'sculpted',
Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2014
This is very well 'sculpted', Bee, and the interweaving rhymes heighten the flow. So much unsaid, left to the imagination, including what kind of love could lead to such a parting, and the finality of not being able to yet ask that question...
Read full commentPosted in Smiling, Waving and Crying
I liked this very much too.
Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2014
I liked this very much too. Concise, but not obscure. Actually, I thought that the rhino's horn looks like a pointed bone, so poetic licence! Particularly liked 'Labouring body lumbers' alliteration.
Read full commentand in the last lines...
Posted in Thandi
Well put, Taris. I think I
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2014
Well put, Taris. I think I would add that the desire to obey God needs to be there, though if it is really there then there will be a realisation of the need for his help to do so, and for his forgiveness of the constant failings.
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Posted in Burning Bridges
The contrast of escape to the
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2014
The contrast of escape to the garden peace, observation and imagination, with the tension of everyday struggles of communications and misunderstandings of relationship interestingly portrayed, Maisie. Rhiannon
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You leave us with wondering
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2014
You leave us with wondering about the background to this. Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in White Walls Of Hope
This is very touching, real
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2014
This is very touching, real and vivid. The slow bereavement, the mind swimming about, but not agitated. The brevity and conciseness and form helps. Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in For Ann
Some lovely threads, and
Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2014
Some lovely threads, and detail again – so much beauty out there to see and feel, and you share and beckon us to look! Rhiannon
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It is the videoing aspect,
Posted on Tue, 10 Jun 2014
It is the videoing aspect, and it would seem the lack of sober trial, and the apparent pleasure and fickleness in accusing and carrying out judgement that is puzzling and shocking. Or am I wrong? Rhiannon
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I'm only able to dip in from
Posted on Sun, 01 Jun 2014
I'm only able to dip in from time to time, as we are having a little holiday.
Read full commentYou have given much thought here to bring in quite a number of points unobtrusively on tthe history. Rhiannon
Posted in "Oh, It's a Lovely War!"
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