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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... »
Christmas stress and expectations
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Well it was our new daughters first Christmas and I had my older children from my first marriage coming round and staying over Christmas eve as well as my partners sister, who likes to be known as super aunt and does a pretty good job. Oh yes and... »
Heather Mills McCartney
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I wonder whether the media are preparing to send Heather Mills down the David Icke Road of Sad, Bad and Mad. Yes heather mills who married Paul McCartney and didn’t get on with his kids. I am not sure if I have the right order there. First they say... »
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.... »
What is Jonathan Spencer’s Ordinary wisdom
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I was wondering the other day what this weblog was all about, besides being my opinion on things, originally it was going to be called the thing they don’t tell you, but that wasn’t right. I thought of it in terms of a recipe book, mainly because I... »
The Jazz Singer – Tammy Weis
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So there I am tapping away on my mac at work after a Lunchtime Party, (yes i know the words lunchtime party evoke an easy life…but beleive me it isn’t) there are a few people left behind chatting and talking and have an odd drink and everyone is... »
Early Retirement
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... For the retiring among you This story reminds us of what we strive, for perhaps what acheivement really means, it sets out a value system, and challenges it… A boat docked in a tiny African coastal village. An tourist complimented a local fisherman on the quality of his fish and... »
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... »
Me And Bobby McGee by Kris Kristofferson.
2 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Me And Bobby McGee: Kris Kristofferson. if only for the line…”I would trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday…” I love it —UnderThisSeparatorIsLatterHalf— Me And Bobby McGee: Kris Kristofferson. Busted flat in Baton Rouge, headin’ for the train, Feelin’ nearly faded as my jeans. Bobby thumbed a... »
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... »
Desiderata – Max Ehrmann
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Desiderata You will all know this one and perhaps even remember if you are as old as me a song that used it back in the 1970s , anyone tell me what it was and who was singing Desiderata Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there... »
B-Movie by Gil Scott-Heron
50 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Gil Scott Heron When I first heard Gil Scott Heron, I was inspired, and then recently finding myself singing a few lines of B-Movie, the main and largest Track on the album Reflections, I realised how much, this so called Godfather of rap, back in the days just... »
A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
18 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A Brave and Startling Truth I heard Maya Angelou being interviewd on the Radio one day, and she really blew my mind with what she had to say, this is an amazing inspired poem. —UnderThisSeparatorIsLatterHalf— A Brave and Startling Truth We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through... »
Those teenage years
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... These days the culture is directed very much at youth and youthfulness, and I often hear people exclaiming a desire to go back to some halcyon days of youth their teens and early twenties, but would you really Yes you were young and a cut healed in seconds, but... »
Children of the 50’s 60’s and 70’s
21 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... This is pretty much plagiarised from an email I received, so if its your work, please tell me. It reminds me however of a line from A Gil Scott Heron Song: “Everyone wants to go back, even if its only as far as last week,…they don’t know if... »
Children Seperation and Divorce
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I have often wondered how children cope with the seperation of parents especially in a world where it is so much more commonplace. Well now I get to see it first hand… And begin to understand my own feelings about my children, you never realise what your parents... »
Whats it all about
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I keep thinking of amazing things to write and then think whats it all for, Mark Oaten, betraying his family and himself, the big brother rubbish tv saga, the lack of passion in outrpolitics and our everyday life. Middle age spread, mid life crisis (which by the... »
Looking at Books!
2 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Reading a lost pass-time Last week I was thinking about how I find so many people I meet just don’t read they watch tv, they plug themselves into their computer, they know every song on their iPod , the internet is there second home. I mentioned in a... »
Ancestors – Adrian Mitchell
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I read this recently poem on a poetry site, it was not one I knew of Adrian Mitchells and I love his work, but it stirred my soul and made me think, of all those people who want to beleive what they read in the press and what... »
Depression – Its OK to be sad.
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... There are so many fantastic things in the world and happiness is sharing these … the sunshine that pours throught the house on a crisp spring day; the erotic sensuality of the silken skin of secret places; the warm wind and white sand of well earned holiday rest;... »
Paint it Black – The Rolling Stones
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Ahh the darkness, I remember once saying to someone that it was important not to deny your darker side…what colour is your jumper what colour is your heart. These early lyrics of the rolling stones, really point up for me the difference between the beatles and the stones…the McCartney... »
Idealism
4 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A rant or two The problem… …is that we have been educated to beleive basic human rights, and things that care for the body and soul are “ludicrously idealistic” and we should not expect them to be forthcoming. Another problem, beside this poverty of aspiration is that for most of us... »
Consideration, awareness and waking up
4 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... If I was to put it all down, the way I felt, my desires and expectations, the tedium, the lack of inspiration and creativity, I am not sure where it would get me. It would seem what ever I dream, I always leave soemthing out or add something in... »
Bomb Blasts in London
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So its happened, and here i am writing in the thick of it, commuting to London has never been quite so horrible or horrendous, and the horror of war is brought home to us. I however am relatively safe in South West London and away from the war... »
Ratings
- Recipe to make Turkish Coffee
(5.00 out of 5) - To Be a Slave of Intensity – Kabir (5.00 out of 5)
- 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)