15-12-2022 04:00 PM
15-12-2022 04:00 PM
Thankyou @wordman. All your words are special to me. It is wonderful you understood the heart! Sending blessings to you too.
16-12-2022 09:38 AM
16-12-2022 09:38 AM
Hi, @maddison, @wordman , @tonys , and all you other beautiful people. I have seriously wondered what it's about, also. I was on a philosophical forum for many years with contributing members from around the world. "But coming out of the same door in through which I entered". 'There was a little while of me and you, then no more; without wine, without a singer, without song, and without end.
I learned not to sigh for the Prophet's paradise to come, some are for the glories of this world; ah, take the cash and let the credit go, nor fight another man's war.
Very best to all
16-12-2022 11:04 AM
16-12-2022 11:04 AM
@maddison Hello Maddison. Thank you for accepting my words are special. I will take your blessings and dearly wish the same to you.
Kind Regards
Wordman
16-12-2022 11:07 AM
16-12-2022 11:17 AM
16-12-2022 11:17 AM
Hi @tonys @wordman @maddison @Jake63 and all others.
I find your posts so enlightening, a sort of 'wake-up call', I had a couple of strokes a month ago that played havoc in my mind and I've not fully recovered. It's great to be in the company of SANE people who are honest with each other, though more importantly, honest with themselves.
I was going to take Catholic holy orders while in London, but when I realized what went on I opted out. My takeaway from Catholicism was: digitum tuum trahere ex asino tuo, and
ne nothi te gerunt (google translate will put the Latin into English).
Best
16-12-2022 11:23 AM - edited 16-12-2022 11:23 AM
16-12-2022 11:23 AM - edited 16-12-2022 11:23 AM
@BobP I just translated it from Latin to English and had a good laugh! 🤣
I grew up going to Catholic schools and know a few 'souls' who I would have liked to say that to!
16-12-2022 11:45 AM
16-12-2022 11:49 AM
16-12-2022 11:49 AM
It's a gift for me to be around such lovely members. 😊
16-12-2022 03:18 PM
16-12-2022 03:18 PM
@maddison hey there maddison, if you're dancing , then I'm happy.
Drunk you say. Nahhh,.. I practice the lost art of savouring to long. Rosy cheeks , a little shiny, may be, its the french way. Its about the hands , that picked and prepared the banquet.
I'm no good at emojis and pictures, but thinking about your train letter , i felt a poem coming on, For you my dear friend.
Thunder and light
splinters the night
Steam engines roam the waste lands
Pieces of hearts
in old railway carts
Neither know
nor do we understand..
The ghost trains ran out of rail long ago
Now flamed by the souls that have fled
The soldiers that left their blood in the snow
lost live , love letters unread
Day after day , she knew not where he lay
In her dreams forged that runaway train
The last snow geese fly
the towns tear well dry
Mounts her phoenix to the land of the slain.
In the midst of her dreams, of cold mountain streams
His warm breath like spring on her face.
She woke to the feel of thunder and steel,
and the hope of her lost loves embrace.
Long nurtured visions of steam train collisions
Can they touch no matter the cost
The trains truth belies,
different worlds, different skies
Measured gains against what we have lost.
love letters intentions to breach the dimensions
Old photos and long faded dresses.
Close the old box
New keys for new locks
and the memories of trains evanesces.
Saved that last word you gave me long ago for a special place . hope it rings
tonys moonbase one.
16-12-2022 03:48 PM
16-12-2022 03:48 PM
@tonys Hey Tonys. That is a beautiful and special poem. You are indeed a writer and a poet. Please send me more of your delightful work.
Kind Regards
Wordman
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