We often hear ourselves say to one another. – these are terrible times. Yet our “terrible times” fail to grasp just how terrible life has been and continues to be for so many. It is easy to be drawn down into the deep hole of despair and depression which casts so little light on theContinue reading ““We’ll be at home again””
Monthly Archives: February 2025
Sea-Fever
My High School book –Albatross Book of Verse- has on the inside cover my name and the year – 1971! Little did I know then that this small hardback copy would travel with me these past 54 years! I delight to pull it from the shelf and turn its pages and note some of thoseContinue reading “Sea-Fever”
Paradise
Roger Robinson 1967- is a Trinidadian-British poet. His poems have been praised for “finding in the bitterness of everyday experience continuing evidence of ‘sweet, sweet life.’” In his fourth printed collection, A Portable Paradise published in 2019. The poems originate from the tragedy of a London tower block of homes, Grenfell, which burnt to theContinue reading “Paradise”
Scalpay – Outer Hebrides
A HIGH BLUE DAY ON SCALPAYThis is the summit of contemplation, and no art can touch itblue, so blue, the far-out archipelago and the sea shimmering, shimmeringno art can touch it, the mind can only try to become attuned to it to become quiet and space itself out, to become open and still, unworldedknowing itselfContinue reading “Scalpay – Outer Hebrides”
Prayers, Poems, and Christian Ponderings 