Words Of Inspiration
Song by John Donne
165 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... One of the great english metaphysical poets, writing at the height of the elizabethan era. His poetry can be divided into two periods, those as a younger man that appear to revolve around his life and loves , then those of his later life that reolve around love... »
Lost in the forest
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Sometimes said the man I am lost in a forest being shot by the trees in a war of attrition Perhaps I call out I can’t quite remember, In dreamy filled voice Of my own volition. And I follow the path that I’ve followed before Watching patterns of sun on the forest floor Perhaps I turn round and I... »
The Laughter of Women
19 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Sometimes in the use of verse one line or two can catch you and draw you in, I like this line: Prisoners held in underground cells imagine that they see daylight when they remember the laughter of women “Alive Together: New and Selected Poems” (Lisel Mueller) mainly because it reminded me of a... »
A native american tale of wisdom
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... An elder from the Cherokee Nation was talking to his grandchildren about life. He said to them… “A fight is going on inside me… it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self pity,... »
The final speech of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I think The Great Dictator is one of Charlie Chaplins most interesting films, and this speech at the end of the film made not by the dictator but by his double the Jewish Barber, still strikes me as having deep meaning and as being as true today as... »
The Eve of Destruction
21 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Don’t give up the spirit of power Listening to the sounds of the 60s on the Radio this morning, I was entranced by the sense of positive and directed energy that appeared in the lyrics, music and artists of this period…we can do so much more with this legacy These... »
Autumn Days by Estelle white
88 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... My son was asking about this as a favourite of the school assembly and always liked as a song for junior school, year 6 leavers is I thought I would put up the lyrics: Autumn days, when the grass is jewelled And the silk in a chestnut shell Jet planes meeting... »
Mary Oliver – Dogfish
43 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Mary Oliver …again Build a shrine to this woman, (Mary Oliver ) her way with words and soul and emotion is just amazing, her ability to understand and comminicate images from nature that echo ancient symbols and visions of the internal workings of the heart and soul is incredible.... »
Barbara Allen
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a child I can remember my mother singing this, and when I was ill which I was often, with bronchitis and asthma, I used to ask her to sing it to me and it helped me sleep. Its an old ballad and there are many versions... »
Definition of a human being – by Robert Heinlein
17 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new... »
The best novels of the 20th Century
18 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... This publishers list was prepared by the editorial board of the Modern Library, a division of the publisher Random House. So when you say top 100 modern library and all that stuff it sounds unbiased. The board consists of: Daniel J. Boorstin, A.S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote,... »
Wise Words
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... We must be tolerant of other peoples religious views because all religions have much that is true about them, and we must combat ignorance by education; bigotry by tolerance and tyranny by teaching true liberty. This I believe is an old text from the Freemasons that predate the Grand... »
The Philosophy of Poetry – Jonathan Spencer
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Philosophy of Poetry by Jonathan Spencer I could write anytime of anything Right now I am ironing Its not usually the rhymers Rap Not that I am saying that’s a load of crap Words are the nature of humanity They crawl like Lichen on ancient Walls Into the heart And when you feel in every... »
Kindness – Naomi Shihab Nye
56 views (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ... Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions... »
Castle Boterel – Thomas Hardy
200 views (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ... Thomas Hardy someone sent me this, poem by Hardy and I liked it…. At Castle Boterel As I drive to the junction of lane and highway, and the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette, I look behind at the fading byway, and see on its slope, now glistening wet, Distincly yet Myself and a... »
The Diggers Song (The World turned Upside down)
15 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The world Turned upside down These are the Lyrics to The Diggers song made popular by a number of folk and protest singers. In sixteen forty nine to St George’s Hill a ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the peoples’ will they defied the Landlords, they defied the laws they... »
To Be a Slave of Intensity – Kabir
34 views (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ... The Slave to Intensity The sufi Kabir was from India and although born a muslim had as his mentor a Hindu master, he often took things to extemes breaking the boundaries of accepted wisdom and his poetry is often a powerful expression of this….. “If you... »
The Panther – Rainer Maria Rilke
20 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Panther by RM Rilke One of the great modern german poets, died in 1926, this poem echoes certain feelings I have about a lost friend. The Panther A Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems... »
School of Inattention – Robert Bresson
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Robert Bresson This quote by the film director Robert Bresson, to me sums up the way our society is moving… “Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. ” (Robert Bresson) »
I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart – Rainer Maria Rilke
25 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Rainer Maria Rilke And the point is, to live everything….Rilke whose words are often adulterated or distorted in translation, comes over well here… I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or... »
Projection – Alice Walker
15 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Projection a poem by Alice Walker amazing, inspiring, the great Alice Walkers poem about our prejudices and more…click ‘read more’ to read the poem —UnderThisSeparatorIsLatterHalf— Projection To start You must divulge Not a secret But a thing Not commonly Known. That at the back Of each humanís eyeballs Resides the image Of a small child. It is the... »
If You Forget Me – Pablo Neruda
26 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Pablo Neruda one of the great Love Poets Pablo Neruda has a reall passion when he writes about Love…see what you think If You Forget Me I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my... »
Now I become Myself – May Sarton
20 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Now I become Myself, by May Sarton This is an amazing piece by May Sarton which appealed to my sense of rebirth at this time in my life, a rebirth where you finally become yourself, a little like TS Eliots returning to the place from which you first started... »
Cloth of Gold by W.B. Yeats
30 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Cloth of gold I love this poem by WB Yeats HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I... »
Clinophobia – Fear of Going to Bed
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Clinophobia (fear of going to bed) What a great poem, so refreshing, or not if you havn’t slept. CLINOPHOBIA Fear of Going to Bed Nathalie Anderson Here’s the toad. Here’s the edge of the well. Steeped leaves, steep water. Still noctambulist. Bolt hole. Bed rock. Never see, never go under. Yes you will. Shut eye. Drowse.... »
Written in Northampton County Asylum – John Clare
18 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... John Clare I heard a radio play about John Clare and was fascinated by both his poetic grace and his life as a world turned upside down… I am! Yet what I am none cares or knows. By John Clare Written in Northampton County Asylum I am: yet what I am none cares... »
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- Kindness – Naomi Shihab Nye (5.00 out of 5)
- Contact Jonathan (5.00 out of 5)
- Jonathan Spencer’s Recipe for Peppermint Creams (5.00 out of 5)
- How to get a close and smooth shave (5.00 out of 5)
- Bespoke suit from Raja Fashions – Don’t do it (5.00 out of 5)
- Unhealthy London Underground (5.00 out of 5)
- The Story of The Islanders (5.00 out of 5)
- Castle Boterel – Thomas Hardy (5.00 out of 5)