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May.19.2013
John Constable (above) Image below courtesy of Chris Ceaser
Imagine an English country lane, in an era before articulated transported, when to own a car is the privilege of a few and tractors are the size of an average 4 x 4. It doesn't matter where you are going, the venue isn't that...
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May.01.2013
Hawthorn - May Day, 2013
She is stark to the bone,
gaunt in Gethsemane,
like fibrous lightning
honed by tungsten winds
against inconstant skies,
still tall among her peers,
still proud among
the juvenescent hazel sprigs
and serpent's tooth brambles
straining for sunlight,
frantic for...
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Apr.22.2013
The word 'dream' shimmers with nuance and promise as no other. From the inspiration to succeed, the nocturnal roaming of the soul through weird and wonderful spaces, the hypnagogic visions on the brink of sleep, the imaging of hopes and memories in daylight hours, to the very nature of our human...
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Apr.15.2013
In the wake of my recent post about being a twinless twin, the shades have stirred and many half-forgotten episodes have come home to roost. Puzzling situations, branded in memory at the time, have fallen into context. In a way I can't adequately convey, it's as though the curvature of my life has...
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Apr.03.2013
The Old Vicarage where I was born
This post has developed from a conversation with orna B Raz who is interested to hear about being a twinless twin.
During Lent, I've thought a lot about loss. It's that time of year. Last year's palm leaves scorched to soot. Last year's thorns not yet...
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Mar.31.2013
From The Poetic Bible (compiled by Colin Duriez) SPCK 2001
© ColinDuriez 2001
There was no grave grave enough
to ground me
to mound me
I broke the balm then slit the shroud
wound round me
that bound me
There was no death dead enough
to dull me
to cull me
I snapped the snake...
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Mar.21.2013
The Rosary on the Second Day of Spring
Primavera, first truth
baptism of rebirth
heaven's windows wide, laundered light shedding
amnesty promised, earth's hallowed wedding
to a transfigured kingdom
Jordan's stale river
cleansed Holy Water
Cana's brackish springs become vintage...
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Feb.19.2013
Why do the charmed play hide and seek
and flee the story in the wings,
as if disporting on the stage
could set alight the curtain fringe?
Illusion's limelight's highly prized
and channelled sentiment extolled
If structured context cramps the style,
another's script makes players...
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Jan.23.2013
'I hope that Susan Cain (with the book and her Ted talk) would be able to convince real and closet introverts to feel proud of who they are. I also pray that educators would stop insisting on group work for every assignment as many children could get much better results thinking quietly and...
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Jan.06.2013
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, in the very dead of winter, the Epiphany...
Random reflections celebrating the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, whose transcendent luminosity transports us to its source.
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that...
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Dec.21.2012
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter Scott
One of my clearest memories in primary school was of writing a poem. It must have been my first. I loved poetry because it was fun and fascinating on a variety of...
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Dec.10.2012
A new poem for Hanukkah and Advent
Wisdom does not court shadow,
nor marled truths of its inhabitants
who lose their loss in philosophy,
who scent death at eventide
when moons subside
and noons are vanished dreams
offering no transfiguration
whose lantern shines the way.
They consume...
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Dec.05.2012
Follows from Part One...
To be honest - even though it meant losing daily contact with Constance - I was sort of excited to be embarking on a new adventure in another part of the county. We were leaving behind the rented cottage full of strange shadows and atmospheres, dominated at the front by a...
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Nov.22.2012
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. William Jennings Bryan
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Native American saying
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. R W Emerson
Thanksgiving
Hope...
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Oct.25.2012
Recently, at the Labour Party Conference, leader, Ed Miliband, appealed to our sense of family and belonging. 'One Nation' was the thrust of his delivery. We must all pull together. Everyone has a part to play. Everyone matters.
It was fine rhetoric, the sentiment full of abstract merit – who...
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...at the still point, there the dance is.”
—Burnt Norton - T. S. Eliot
About Rosy
Rosy Cole was born and educated in the Shires of England and now lives on the West Sussex coast. A professional writer for thirty years, she has worked as a Press Officer and Publisher's Reader and is a member of the Society of Authors (UK), the Historical...
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Causes Rosy Cole Supports
World Vision, International Prison Outreach, Salvation Army, Emmaus Project, Poor Clares, DogsTrust, BUAV (against animal testing) WWT (Wildfowl &...
Rosy’s Favorite Books
Restoration - Rose Tremain, Rites of Passage - William Golding, The Waves - Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf, Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic...