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Author Archives: Pedalling Poetry
Thoughts ahead of the day of the dead III
“People in Kwahu-Tafo, a rural town in Southern Ghana, regard a peaceful death as a ‘good death’. ‘Peaceful’ refers to the dying person having finished all business and made peace with others before his/her death and implies being at peace … Continue reading
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I love this city
A rose gold sunrise over a mercury river, steel and glass buildings reflecting the sun, leaves of copper, bronze and iron, titanium sky. It was hard to come to work this morning…
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Thoughts ahead of the day of the dead II
It’s coming up for a year since my Dad died, and though sadness comes and goes, the happiness has multiplied, too. A measure of healing has begun, after the draft has been a long time mixing. Some of his last words … Continue reading
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We burned the headless giraffe…
We burned the headless Ikea giraffe, Legacy of a former tenant, In the grate of our new house today. “Let’s throw another leg on the fire” We joked, and then were silent, With the holiness of the fire, and children … Continue reading
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Thoughts ahead of the day of the dead
A metal claw crumbles chunks of their grandfather’s Govan school as my boys begin nursery just yards away – I wonder, would he have been glad or angry that his grandsons will grow up where he did? After he ran away … Continue reading
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Happy National Poetry Day!
“There’s a room in my house where nobody goes except me:a still room, a light room/a where-I-go-to-write room,an any-day, any-time, a middle-of-the-night room/a feeling-low-and-slow or a high-as-a-kite room. Feel free!” [Room Inside, by Philip Gross] http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/
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A different view of Glasgow – from a friend’s visit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sylwiapresleyart/5042322541/in/set-72157625075423826/ I liked this one of the graffiti in the SECC tunnel, but it would have been funnier in juxtaposition with the rangers fans in blue and white walking through it! At the moment, Glasgow is blue and silver, with some dramatic … Continue reading
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Stay Jung, keep your wheels in motion.
If the garden is the body, and the attic is the mind, and the rest of the house the soul, as Jung says, then I neglect my heart and body, and dwell too often here. An untidy space, cluttered with … Continue reading
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Mountain Song – published in Aesthetica, Issue 13
We did not climb the mountain. While the sun shone I wanted you to see What was important to me: A riot of blue stars in spiked grass The frowning sand, fat gold rolls of it The water that showed … Continue reading
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