Checking out the bit between departure and arrival. I hope I never get there.
This is a journal more than a blog.
Very self-centred. It is written for some future me. I am not looking for a following. You may read it. Please comment, but please don't judge. I write about what interests me, concerns me, and a bit about what happens to me. I hope some of it interests or entertains you.I should probably have titled this blog "Shit Happens". Because it does.
Sometimes I quote a song or some poetry, either just because I really like it, or because it expresses something I cannot put as eloquently into my own words. Occasionally i am brave enough to publish one of my own.
Category Archives: Poetry
Easter Day
The silver trumpets rang across the Dome: The people knelt upon the ground with awe: And borne upon the necks of men I saw, Like some great God, the Holy Lord of Rome. Priest-like, he wore a robe more white … Continue reading
Fragment: I strayed about the deck an hour tonight
I strayed about the deck an hour tonight Under a cloudy moonless sky, and peeped In at the windows, watched my friends at table, Or playing cards, or standing in the doorway, Or coming out into the darkness. Still No … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Poetry
Tagged depression, disaster, don't talk to me about life!, loss, war
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Half Earnest War
Half Earnest War whale far astern fraternal was he fathers lean war flaw he narrates Alan Freshwater (b) 1952
Posted in Autobiography, Philosophy, Poetry
Tagged dealing with life, depression, equanimity, Humour, Life the universe and everything
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A Depressing Thought.
Sad, is it not, to think that when John Keats was my age, he had been dead for 38 years longer than he had lived. Still, never mind eh? His name is not forgotten.
The Bonnie Earl O’ Murray
Ye Hielands and ye Lowlands O whaur hae ye been? Thae hae slain the Earl o Moray And they’ve laid him on the green He was a braw callan An he played at the ba’ O the bonnie Earl of … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Drama, Folklore, History, Music, Performance, Poetry
Tagged dealing with life, History, loss, Relationships and Sex, sorrow
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Quiet Night Thoughts
Quiet Night Thoughts Before my bed bright moonlight that seems Like frost on the ground: I lift my head to watch the bright moon, Lowering my head I dream I am home. Alone, looking at the Mountain The birds have … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography, Philosophy, Poetry
Tagged dealing with life, denial bay, depression, Life the universe and everything, loss
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Him and Me
Friends uniformly described him as funny, extravagant, sympathetic, generous, and, partly by his own choice, lonely. In groups he was often dogmatic and overbearing in a comic way; in more private settings he was diffident and shy except when certain … Continue reading
A Truffle Shared is a Truffle Halved.
Yesterday, all my truffles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to stay. Truffle oil. Who would have thought that a few drops could make such a difference to a dish? I made mashed potatoes and artichoke … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography, Cookery, Depression, Entertainment, Food and drink, Health and wellness, Humour, Life, don't talk to me about life!, Philosophy, Poetry
Tagged dealing with life, depression, don't talk to me about life!, equanimity, Food and drink, History, Humour, Life the universe and everything, loss, marriage, misquotes, puns, Relationships and Sex, the Wine & Truffle Co., Truffle oil, truffles
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He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven
HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being … Continue reading
Hodophilia 