Sometimes

SometimesSometimes things don’t go, after all,from bad to worse. Some years, muscadelfaces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail.Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well. A people sometimes will step back from war,elect an honest man, decide they careenough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.Some men become what they were bornContinue reading “Sometimes”

Sometimes!

Today I pulled from my bookshelf a book I bought back in 2000 but have opened it only a few times – The Nation’s Favourite Twentieth Century Poems edited by Griff Rhys Jones and published by the BBC. For sure it is an interesting collection. The poem “Sometimes” caught my eye as I turned theContinue reading “Sometimes!”

Sometimes!

We often carry in our hearts and souls lots of anxiety for the plight of our world, our cities, our neighborhoods. We fret over how scarce peace is, we worry about the “what ifs” so today take a short break and allow Sheenagh Pugh’s poem Sometimes to offer some rescue. I encourage you to takeContinue reading “Sometimes!”