What's the Story in Dalamory » poem http://www.freda.org.uk Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:37:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A kind of writing http://www.freda.org.uk/2010/07/08/a-kind-of-writing/ http://www.freda.org.uk/2010/07/08/a-kind-of-writing/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:29:05 +0000 freda http://www.freda.org.uk/?p=3403 Continue reading →]]> Poetry is a very special kind of writing, and I think this poem by Mary Oliver from her volume Evidence, sums up what we all aim for in the blogging world. We probably all aim to make connections that count and make the online experience special.

I Want to Write Something So Simply

I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
as you are reading
you feel it
and as your read
you keep feeling it
and though it be my story
it will be common
though it be singular
it will be known to you
so that by the end
you will think -
no, you will realize -
that it was all the while
yourself arranging the words,
that it was all the time
words that you yourself,
out of your own heart
had been saying.

Oh to be able to write like that.

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]]> http://www.freda.org.uk/2010/07/08/a-kind-of-writing/feed/ 3 Reach out http://www.freda.org.uk/2008/02/17/reach-out/ http://www.freda.org.uk/2008/02/17/reach-out/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:03:14 +0000 freda http://www.freda.org.uk/?p=1615 Reach out and touch the morning
Reach out and feel the breeze
Reach in and know the spirit
Holding, healing…….loving.

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]]> http://www.freda.org.uk/2008/02/17/reach-out/feed/ 0 God the Artist http://www.freda.org.uk/2007/12/09/god-the-artist/ http://www.freda.org.uk/2007/12/09/god-the-artist/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:14:16 +0000 freda http://www.freda.org.uk/?p=1551 Continue reading →]]> You take the pen
and the lines dance.
You take the flute,
and the notes shimmer.
You take the brush,
and the colours sing.
So all things have meaning and beauty
in that space beyond time where you are.
How then, can I hold back anything from you?

Dag Hammarskjold

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]]> http://www.freda.org.uk/2007/12/09/god-the-artist/feed/ 0 November thoughts http://www.freda.org.uk/2007/11/18/november-thoughts/ http://www.freda.org.uk/2007/11/18/november-thoughts/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:40:08 +0000 freda http://www.freda.org.uk/?p=1529 November – a strange time of year.
Nearly Advent
Almost a looking forward
Yet I want to look back
To make sense
To let go
To grow.

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]]> http://www.freda.org.uk/2007/11/18/november-thoughts/feed/ 0 War poem http://www.freda.org.uk/2007/11/15/1525/ http://www.freda.org.uk/2007/11/15/1525/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:01:36 +0000 freda http://www.freda.org.uk/?p=1525 Continue reading →]]> It takes the ten year old in the family to get his poem published. Here, courtesy of Kieran is his poem on war.

World War II

W hy, oh why did this war start?
O h I hate it with all my heart.
R un for the shelter, the bombs have come.
L and mucked up, I hate it now.
D ad on a ship, I don`t know which.
W ell some good news at last, Dad comes home.
A n oven sets alight ‘put it out!’ I say.
R eally got to dash for a phone.
T ime and time again the siren sounds.
W e’ll dash to safety 24/7
O h when will this war end?

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