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    Prayer

    Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
    utters itself. So, a woman will lift
    her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
    at the minims1 sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

    Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
    enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
    then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
    in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

    Pray for us now. 2 Grade I piano scales
    console the lodger looking out across
    a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
    a child's name as though they named their loss.

    Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
    Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

    Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)

    I do love the shipping forecast. I'm off to bed now, night all!xx

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    That is simply stunning. That's one I'll have to save to favourites and read again and again. Magnificent.
    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    as DT would say..time for Pablo ?

    Because Love Battles

    And because love battles
    not only in its burning agricultures
    but also in the mouth of men and women,
    I will finish off by taking the path away
    to those who between my chest and your fragrance
    want to interpose their obscure plant.

    About me, nothing worse
    they will tell you, my love,
    than what I told you.

    I lived in the prairies
    before I got to know you
    and I did not wait love but I was
    laying in wait for and I jumped on the rose.

    What more can they tell you?
    I am neither good nor bad but a man,
    and they will then associate the danger
    of my life, which you know
    and which with your passion you shared.

    And good, this danger
    is danger of love, of complete love
    for all life,
    for all lives,
    and if this love brings us
    the death and the prisons,
    I am sure that your big eyes,
    as when I kiss them,
    will then close with pride,
    into double pride, love,
    with your pride and my pride.

    But to my ears they will come before
    to wear down the tour
    of the sweet and hard love which binds us,
    and they will say: “The one
    you love,
    is not a woman for you,
    Why do you love her? I think
    you could find one more beautiful,
    more serious, more deep,
    more other, you understand me, look how she’s light,
    and what a head she has,
    and look at how she dresses,
    and etcetera and etcetera”.

    And I in these lines say:
    Like this I want you, love,
    love, Like this I love you,
    as you dress
    and how your hair lifts up
    and how your mouth smiles,
    light as the water
    of the spring upon the pure stones,
    Like this I love you, beloved.

    To bread I do not ask to teach me
    but only not to lack during every day of life.
    I don’t know anything about light, from where
    it comes nor where it goes,
    I only want the light to light up,
    I do not ask to the night
    explanations,
    I wait for it and it envelops me,
    And so you, bread and light
    And shadow are.

    You came to my life
    with what you were bringing,
    made
    of light and bread and shadow I expected you,
    and Like this I need you,
    Like this I love you,
    and to those who want to hear tomorrow
    that which I will not tell them, let them read it here,
    and let them back off today because it is early
    for these arguments.

    Tomorrow we will only give them
    a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
    which will fall on the earth
    like if it had been made by our lips
    like a kiss which falls
    from our invincible heights
    to show the fire and the tenderness
    of a true love.

    Pablo Neruda </B>

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    It is! sorry, missed this when posting and Freckle's Neruda...ahhhh, Neruda, my hero! Not very local and sadly deceased but I am happy to go to Chile now and again on a Pablo pilgrimage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Prayer

    Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
    utters itself. So, a woman will lift
    her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
    at the minims1 sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

    Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
    enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
    then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
    in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

    Pray for us now. 2 Grade I piano scales
    console the lodger looking out across
    a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
    a child's name as though they named their loss.

    Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
    Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

    Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)

    I do love the shipping forecast. I'm off to bed now, night all!xx
    Night Hes. Night everyone. I wont be far behind. I dreamed last night that I met Derren Brown in a supermarket. I wonder what dreams await me tonight!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tri-mind View Post
    Cyber Friendship.

    You bring joy to me,
    Although all i know of you is circuitry,
    I've never seen your faces,
    You come from many different places,
    It's nice to know your here each day,
    We joke and write tap,tap,tap away,
    Sometimes i'm low and sometimes mad it all depends,
    But what keeps me coming back is you my dear friends.

    By Matt Harmston.
    Feel the same Matt

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    [quote=Hes;297907]Prayer

    Hes this is lovely really like this line....

    Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
    enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;

    Night x

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    Night Hes. Night everyone. I wont be far behind. I dreamed last night that I met Derren Brown in a supermarket. I wonder what dreams await me tonight!
    ...that is the kind of dream I have, HHH, totally daft! At least he could probably tell you where to find the choccy digestives and also how many you will eat and when! (although I reckon I could tell you that, ha ha)

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    Night all!x (its hello and goodbye to Merry, sorry, can't keep my eyes open).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    ...that is the kind of dream I have, HHH, totally daft! At least he could probably tell you where to find the choccy digestives and also how many you will eat and when! (although I reckon I could tell you that, ha ha)
    I bet he'd make a great personal shopper! Would get just the right things.

    It is easy with the biccies. Any time, any place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    I bet he'd make a great personal shopper! Would get just the right things.

    It is easy with the biccies. Any time, any place.
    oh no....someone mentioned biccies...its far too late for that malarky !

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