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We’re living just as the century begins.
shall cover with our writingturns now, overhead, in strange hands.We feel the sweep of it like a wind.We see the brightness of a new pagewhere everything yet can happen.Unmoved by us, the fates take its measureand look at one another, saying nothing.And we write.(Following Rilke’s poem I,8 in his ‘Book of Hours’)
Isn’t it extraordinary – when
the One whom atheists deny(for then they would have to acknowledgeOne greater than themselves…)knew, knows, about humility…?I mean, how could He?Suppose, He hadn’t sentsuch men as Jesus Christto show us that humilitywas, is, godly, and indeed,a path to know that One?Would we then be treatingthe humble as the self-victimisingscum of the earth? And we, assured…
‘I’m very busy at the moment; but
when I have more time…’yeah yeah…oh you ‘busy’ ones –I’m on to you…tell me that it’s not becauseyou’re ‘busily’ maintaininga self-important picture of yourself–(a picture based on fear?):tell me that it’s not becauseit’s your deceitful way to ‘prioritise’what you want to give yourself to,and that which you don’t…‘Occupied’; ‘constantly active’ –that sounds a little better,a…
A blackbird has been sitting outside the window
I’m trying to tune in to its blackbird thoughts,if indeed it’s burdened with such tiresomedelaying tactics to action…it seems indecisive, though; evidently, plumply,having well breakfasted; doesthe head switching left, right,a little slower than with alarm,signify some Hamlet thought?it could be wondering, if,in view of what a blackbird would callglobal warming rather thanan early summer,it should…
you’re still running
dangerous lights.you don’t hear their footstepsany more. they may havegiven up. but chasing youwith noiseless footsteps, is stillfear. when to stop running?one day, perhaps, no longerthe faint chill sound of fearchasing silently.just, quieter still,the fear of fear.
Those masks of Comedy and Tragedy
go back to those two Greek philosophers,the one, who wept at the follies of mankind,the other, who laughed at those same follies…In order to justify the invasion of Iraqin 2003, on the other grounds to ‘regime change’,i.e. that Iraq had ‘wep-ma-struc’ in Bush-speak,the federal government has made public48,000 boxes of papers captured from Iraq.These include…