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We don’t love CV’s …

We don’t love CV’s; we love souls. Souls that have been with us longer than we are likely remotely to imagine. If you want to find a lover, don’t make lists of attributes; look deeper within your soul than you dare – and…
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Posted in Blog on Tuesday, September 25, 2018
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Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese – a poem for June ’18.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair,…
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Posted in Blog on Thursday, June 7, 2018
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“Hope” is the thing with feathers.

A poem for March, from one of my favourite poets, Emily Dickinson. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its…
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Posted in Blog on Thursday, March 22, 2018
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Milton’s Paradise Lost – a poem for October ’17.

Much gratitude to a client who presented me with John Carey’s brilliantly edited new version of Paradise Lost. I was a student of Carey’s once – and it is wonderful to be able to hear his voice in the Introduction. All very nostalgic,…
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Posted in Blog on Friday, October 20, 2017
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Rumi’s This Confused Story – a poem for September ’17.

This Confused Story by Rumi Don’t burn a blanket because of one flea! Don’t waste a day on trivial irritation, some gnat’s headache. Take your attention off the forms and focus on what’s inside. If you’re on this way, choose companions who are…
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Posted in Blog on Saturday, August 19, 2017
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Poem of the month – July ’17.

Because he doesn’t just think it, or know it: because he lives it. Please call me by my true names by Thich Nhat Hanh  Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow Because even today I still arrive. Look deeply: I arrive in every second…
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Posted in Blog on Monday, July 10, 2017
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Greek poetry in the shadow of austerity.

In my recent post on Anna Pasternack’s “Lara” I bemoaned the fact that, in the West today, we are not as sensitive to poetry as the Russians were – and are still. It turns out I may have been wrong. Here’s an article…
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Posted in Blog on Tuesday, June 27, 2017
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Poem of the month – June ’17

Poem of the month for June is for my father … In The Next Room by Canon Henry Scott Holland  Death is nothing at all: I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you” Whatever we were…
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Posted in Blog on Tuesday, June 6, 2017
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Reciting a poem – as calming as mindfulness.

It’s a pity poetry isn’t a bigger part of our lives. Here’s an article that urges us to redress the balance. RECITING A POEM CAN BE AS CALMING AS MINDFULNESS. “Is poetry dead? The government doesn’t think so: state schools are compiling lists…
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Posted in Blog on Friday, May 19, 2017
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Poem of the month – May ’17

I love the scathing intensity of Kabir, the passion that makes his uncompromising bluntness so endearing! KABIR: Friend, Hope For The Guest While You Are Alive.  Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! Think……
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Posted in Blog on Wednesday, May 10, 2017
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Poem of the month – April ’17.

I have always loved the raw energy of Rilke – and nothing exemplifies this better than the dramatic end of this poem! Imaginary career by Rainer Maria Rilke: At first a childhood, limitless and free of any goals. Ah, sweet unconsciousness. Then sudden terror,…
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Posted in Blog on Tuesday, April 4, 2017
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Composed upon Westminster Bridge ….

After the events of Wednesday let’s remember what Westminster Bridge has been in the past – and will continue to be in the future, impervious to the attempts by terrorists to tarnish our associations. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth.…
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Posted in Blog on Friday, March 24, 2017
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Poem of the month – Feb ’17

Have just begun Gabor Mate’s “When the Body Says No” which makes the telling point that much of physical illness has its roots in emotional distress. Reminded me of D.H. Lawrence’s wonderful poem “The Healing”. The Healing by D.H. Lawrence: I am not…
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Posted in Blog on Saturday, February 18, 2017
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Poem of the month – Jan ’17

As we go into the new year, how about setting an intention – to dare! Come to the edge by Christopher Logue: Apollinaire said: “Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too high! COME TO THE EDGE And…
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Posted in Blog on Monday, January 23, 2017
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Poem of the month – Dec ’16.

With Christmas in the air, what better time to remember one of my favourite poems, Gerald Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur”: The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness,…
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Posted in Blog on Tuesday, December 20, 2016
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Poem of the month – Nov ’16.

A client I saw recently described herself to me as “broken”. She said it was her “destiny” to be broken. Over the years I have heard these words used often. And it has always seemed to me that “destiny,” in this sense, refers…
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Posted in Blog on Wednesday, November 23, 2016
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