For Elaine and David who run the Arts in the Community Charity ‘Pilgrim Hearts’ (not forgetting David’s passion for Gliding) on the occasion of their joint 117th birthday!You’ve been gliding through the yearsFrom east to west you’ve traded placesHelping folks to face their fears. How well deserved are all these cheersThe admiration on these facesYou’ve…
Well I couldn’t resist photographing this gorgeous ceramic street plaque in Jerusalem, and I was thinking today – who lives on the street of prophets? I was also wondering who you would nominate for your street of prophets.. Don’t worry we aren’t going to be eliminating anybody if they don’t play Amusing Party Games to…
Slowly and kindlyThat’s how to grow With heart and eyes openAs gently you go, Then if, at the last They say, ‘Look where you could be!’,Just say, ‘Here I am; And the going’s been goodly.’
When I saw this gorgeous Russian icon in a shop in the Old City of Jerusalem, I knew I had to have it! It was surprisingly inexpensive (unless of course I misunderstood the shekels!) .. but it’s an amazing creation. I asked an old man called Fr Seraphim why John the Baptist had wings. He…
My heart is heavy with the weight of complicity And I will weave no more Where the weft is warped so darkly And the straw we would have spun to goldIs straw still at the lastAnd breaks in my hand And cuts my fingers till they bleed. I will go out now And I will…
There’s a certain power in knowing you are going to find something. It’s called confidence – which means With Faith, if you know your latin. And I think that lots of us have got into a habit of thinking we aren’t going to get something, so we don’t. And there we are; stuck. But tonight…
I put out my poems on my handsLike food for the birds. I listen out for their coming,For their wings against the sky. I hear them first and close my eyes. Sometimes the sound of their flutteringMakes me afraid, but I stand firm and I hold up my armsAgainst the dark and their mysterious coming….
When I saw this window in the Garden by the pool of Bethsaida, I thought it was scary, so I photographed it! I thought, ‘Wow, the Prince is going to have to do a good bit of thorny-wood-chopping with the sword of innocence to get through to the sleeping princess in that castle!’ Do you…
A black sheep ate my business notes,I tell you cos it’s true.I went to a business enterprise classBut I ended up in a zoo. Because just beside Wandsworth Business VillageLies ‘King George’s Park”And with rabbits, canaries and budgies and goats,It’s a regular Urban Ark. And so I dawdled down Cherry Tree Walk;There were no business…
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