YOU MAY BURY "ABBOT'S" HEART HERE...

 K.H. HEADING FOR ST. CATHERINE'S

APPROACHING "KISSING GATE"

"MAY ALL BEINGS ON THIS EARTH..."

 

 

K.H., THE TIMES & HOBGOBLIN @ ILCHESTER ARMS



IT'S SO SUBLIME

DRINKING THE EVIDENCE !!!

Calligraphy card (above) found in St.Nicholas's Church. And there was some of that "Deep peace" as i sat in pew just before K.H. and i caught bus back to Weymouth -
Peace and Silence.
Christian and Buddhist (?)
Meditation and Dialogue.
We are united in all but things of negligible importance.
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Abbotsbury easily a second home for me...just 25 minutes away by bus for : St.Catherine's, The Ilchester, The Dansel &
St. Nicholas's Church.

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PS. On another day, maybe The Garden of Eve or The Sub-Tropical Gardens...but always St.Nicholas's Church, i think.

 

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IN HARDY COUNTRY

IN HARDY COUNTRY

 

 

HEART'S

AT EASE

SINGS & HUMS

FIRST TIME

SINCE CHILDHOOD

TALKS

WITH THE ANCESTORS

SAYS

AS WAS SAID BEFORE -

I AM HERE

&

WILL FOLLOW -

LANE   RIVER   & BIRDCALL

MERRILY

BRIGHTLY

ENDLESSLY

ALONG THE WAY

 

(27/28 FEBRUARY 2011)

 

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PROBABLY 50 SHADES OF GREY

FROM A MOUNTAIN_BIKE...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...ON WEYMOUTH SANDS.

 

 

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WE DROVE ALL NIGHT...TO GET TO YOU...for KH.

Weymouth to Heathrow, to pick-up the bruv, arriving once again, from Down Under...remembering Roy Orbison and Cyndi Lauper... we were singing, my sister and i, in her litte boy-racer car...leaving home smack on mid-night...my first ever trip to an airport - (suddenly Tracy Chapman is singing "Fast Car") - i should get out more...too many internal flights  these past 64 years...must moreso be a "figure of outward"...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

X

(06.30hrs 17.09.2012)

 

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BOARDING A BUS BOUND FOR BRIDPORT

 

 

Olympic flags flapping in cool breeze on Esplanade.

Birds about, as bin-men clear garbage - Friday morning.

Two bananas and bottle of mineral water in bag, together with Gary Snyder book, to browse if needs be, on the bus.

It is grey - not the colour of an Indian Summer - but beautiful like Korean Zen monks i've seen, with soft-grey-slippered- feet - young; shaven-headed; androgynous.

Rain threatens.

 

 

The passenger ahead of me in queue, ruefully remarks that, it looks like it'll rain. I hope so, i laugh. i love the rain. i love summer rain. And he is happy to agree, it seems, as we board the bus.

 

 

Just a sprinkling of passengers.

I'm pleased the young, japanese tourist gets the seat at front- upstairs, for a panoramic view.

I get my favourite spot, behind the top of the stairs - lots of space around me.

The clouds and sky seem lighter...higher. Will the morning break into blue ?...as we leave...Weymouth...

 

 

 

BAH ! Should have brought poetry not Essays - ("Back on the Fire"). But i flick thru to some haiku Mr. Snyder has quoted and they set me aglow.

 

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PARAPHRASING SOME HAIKU

QUOTED BY GARY SNYDER

ON A BUS TO BRIDPORT

 

1.

 

BETWEEN STOPS

GREEN FIELDS WITH PYLONS

IN THE MIST.

 

2.

 

DESPITE RAIN AND MIDGE SPATTER

CAMERAS AT THE READY

JAPANESE GIRL AND I.

 

3.

 

BUSES ARE USEFUL

CRISS-CROSSING COUNTY  

TO ALL COMPASS POINTS.

 

 



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P.S. Had a terrific day at Chapel-in-the-Garden - the whole point of the outing. Happy to be squeezed into place there....

 

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FROM A HANDMADE BOOK (2011)

 

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2 POEMS "RESCUED" FROM THE 90's

PHOTOGRAPH OF ANGELA - CIRCA 1972

 

One hand

caught

in sunlight

the other

hidden

in her lap

in the shade

strokes a

black cat.

 

 

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TRAVELS OF THE HEART

"Give me a ship

& you can take

all the houses

in the world."

 

ST. IVES.

VENEZIA.

ECHUCA.

Wallis's "Blue Ship"

on a postcard

sailed.

Franco sent

Gondolas

covered in snow

from the canals

of VENEZIA.

Catherine sent

Paddle-Steamers

from The Murray River -

"The Adelaide"

&

"The Pevensey" -

moored at

ECHUCA.

Wallis started

painting

ships at 70

for just

17 years -

i sailed out

on his

"Blue Ship"

from ST. IVES.

 

 

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Re-wrtten @ 4 in the morning - Golden GOJI Hermitage - Tuesday, the 28th of August, 2012. bernard hemensley.

 

 

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