Brief Parting
His greatcoat's feel, touched cheeks with the tears just starting: Sails set to catch the night-wind off the land. They say no heart need sorrow at brief parting. How many more......
There's Never An End To My Search For Lonely Places.
Perhaps to find myself, I tend to stray Down back-lanes, side-paths, foot-trails leading only To wilds more wild the farther I wander away. Once, I recall, I chanced on a sudden......
Secret
No. It is not enough to despise the world. It is not enough to live one's life as though Riches and power were nothings. They are not. But to grasp the world, to grasp and feel......
Green Mountain Mind
You ask why I live in this jade-green mountain-waste. I smile, say nothing. How can the peachflower-flow Through the still of my mind be followed or re-traced? It's to do with......
The Mysterious Frailty Of Our Natures
Edward Norman ADAM, EVE, AND THE SERPENT by Elaine Pagels Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f14.95, pp.189 I t is one of the least happy features of contemporary Christianity that the......
Old Boys' Dinner
Same school, same class, same graduation-year: Some grey, some white, some bald as a bun of bread. After three rounds, whatever the toast, they cheer: And wouldn't you? Thus......
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