Tag: Time
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NOW you see it ! NO you don’t ! (ii)
The difference between appearance and reality is counter-intuitive, and hard to grasp. If we value integrity, authenticity and actuality – the facts about how things are – we must have the courage to follow Alice down the rabbit hole, and discover how mind-bendingly full of wonders is fundamental reality. We need to let our imaginations […]
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My Religious Paradigm (4) Two key questions
Continuing this series, in which I’m asking myself, having once been a preacher, what my current religious ‘paradigm’ is, I’m now at the point of thinking about what I can positively say about ‘God’ and belief in him/her/it. While noting that the word ‘God’ can mean many different things, let’s leave its definition open for […]
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Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Dylan Thomas)
I sometimes quote a favourite Joseph Campbell saying, “Follow your bliss”. My bliss, at the moment, is Dylan Thomas. Having written 3 successive posts, I’ve decided to delete and update 2 previous ones. “Do Not Go Gentle” is a counterpart to the “Elegy”, both having to do with his father. “Elegy”, which I recently wrote […]
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Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)
Fern Hill was the farm, rented by his aunt Annie, at which young Dylan Thomas spent summer holidays, and is ‘remembered’ in the poem as a place where “all the sun long“, there poured forth “rivers of .. windfall light“, so much so that “it was all shining“. For me, this isn’t a poem for […]
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Death needn’t be a Sidestepped Word!
In a recent post, I wrote about Christina Rossetti’s ‘Remember me’. This poem is a companion piece, with similarities and differences. Anticipating her death, the poet, in the 1st verse, thinks about the loved one who is her ‘dearest’. He is not to sing any ‘songs’ for her, for they would most likely be ‘sad’, […]
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