After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
i just wafted this under the ballinsky cyber nose and then found this site and thought - which cyber nose do you smell with? i covered myself and decided to waft here too. hope you're well
semble are doing their usual 1 gig with a difference every two years cant quite get the hang of splitting up properly type thing for amnesty and the other two acts are the BEST live acts i saw last year. very excited! looky
I tell every one to 'do what you love, it's your gift to universe' .... and explain it's NOT about doing nice stuff, (that arises from being who one is naturally enough); it's about being honest, transparent, being one's natural self. It's about refusing the boxes of 'civilisation' and accepting the open and free natural self. Who we feel ourselves to be.
I know that all natural creatures improve the habitat for all natural life by being what each is, unique and unrepeatable, thus ever more precious, though no more than any other. That biological honesty is the foundation of a healthy environment and empathy, or consciousness, expressed in many ways, allows the adaptive responses that maintain dynamic equilibrium. An environment in which all life can thrive.
Thus I see obedience as a form of dishonesty, and dis-obedience as a form of honesty. I see that people with natural empathy have a deeper basis for healthy relationships and communities than those that require rules, regulations and the threat of punishment.
well...i was going to busk but then got put off by the dark, devious and dubious clouds spying at me through the window..tried to go the other day anbd all my gear got wet..twice.. might do later on though..having a jam with a mate in a bit, bell you after? where were you thinkin? b xx
A big thank you to all who performed at 'The Melting Pot' in the Glenside during this years Fiddlers Green Festival. Wishing you all success in your future projects.
I'll be there Saturday with bells and whistles on, well, maybe not the whistles, or the bells come to think of it, but yes, I'll be there. dont forget an airtight container for your crocs though!! :p
