Pogue, A song to get your day started. A bouncy little number. Goes excellently with the first coffee of the day 😉 Something About You by Elderbrook and Rudimental. And I’m loving the video. Get’s the road-trip day off to a smooth start. Enjoy (and don’t forget the coffee!). Cruising on by, Wic.
Free spirit
And Coffee…..
🤭
Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Pogue, Three weeks in to a road trip. Walking beaches. Drinking coffee. New brews. Good food. Great company. And in another part of the world some new music. Well new to me. Share this one with me as it caught my attention as I drank a brew at the end of a long hot day. … Continue reading Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Pogue, Here’s a song from a band that I’ve recently come to like and continue to grow on me. The year has begun with a jazzy vibe at home so The Ezra Collective get a fair airing. Tell me what you think to this. I’d like to know 😉 Here’s God Gave Me Feet For … Continue reading Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Songs to Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Is it greedy to put out two songs in a week? Under the belief that you can’t have too much of a good thing I’m going for it. And, I want to do my first ever dedication. To Lamittan Felix, who has a rather good Blog of his own (globalliteraturestation.wordpress.com). He has been a frequent, … Continue reading Songs to Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
I haven’t posted any songs recently so I’m hunkering down to put together a new playlist for 2025. Here’s the start with Elton John taking the list forward. Cold Heart with Elton John and Dua Lipa. Enjoy the beginning of this New Year. Wic
Poetry
There’s a poetry in the skiesAs the clouds go racing byGrey and whiteTorn by the bluster of the windSpat out and piling highThen scatteredDark over light Coming from afarWell writtenVerse over verseLine after lineGod has spokenIn iambic pentameter In rhythm In proseAn expression so wholeAs to tell the storyComplete for all to readEvery last detail … Continue reading Poetry
I Missed My Musing
Hiya Pogue, You may have noticed that I missed Musing this week. I know, Monday was ruined from the get-go! But this morning someone reminded me of a time gone by that set me thinking. You won’t know this but when I was working, there was a time when I would get up on a … Continue reading I Missed My Musing
Lost
Standing on the edge of the cliff The cliff of the familiarI gazed transfixed Into the unknownThe unexperiencedUnexplained and unrealisedAnd my soul was curious Longing for the tasteUnsure what it would beBreath became shortLimbs tensed expectantlyBut the creative moment awaitedBeckoning, callingThe territory of the poetThe artistThe traveller of imaginationThe prisoner of expectationWould I jump and … Continue reading Lost
Monday Musing
Morning Pogue, It’s another Monday and, after several letters on previous Mondays, I’m still thinking about Jonathon Livingston Seagull. I’m not going to write a letter to him today but he has left me thinking about love, the so called “highest lesson” and the learning I can gain by studying his ascension from a young … Continue reading Monday Musing
The Most Difficult Of All Tasks
Pogue, A thought for this day. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks… the work for which all other work is but preparation, Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Rilke Maybe love is so different from what so many celebrate this day. Wic
Monday Musing
Pogue, Good Morning. Has it stopped raining where you are? So this will be my last letter to Jonathan Livingston Seagull, for now, and to write it I have read Part 4 of the novel, a section that was not added by the author, Richard Bach, until 2014. By this point in the story Jon … Continue reading Monday Musing
Letters To Pogue
Pogue, My letters to Jonathon continue. But first, a familiar text: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil … Continue reading Letters To Pogue
Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now.
Pogue, I had a moment the other day when I found myself singing a song I haven’t sung in a long time. That got me thinking and I realised that I haven’t shared one of my ‘go-to’ bands from my teenage years. How remiss! I spent a whole day last week working through their catalogue … Continue reading Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now.
Monday Musing
Pogue, I continue my reflections on the character of Jonathon Livingstone Seagull by way of another letter. I hope you enjoy my indulgence. Dear Jonathon, Last week I suggested that there are only a small number who are wired to seek after perfection. You are one such person, (if I can refer to a gull … Continue reading Monday Musing
Monday Musing
Dear Jon, I wrote my first letter to you last week and the whole experience of writing it was good. I felt challenged as I did so and moved to seek answers to the questions your life raises for me. Today I have a single question. “What caused you to seek perfection when all those … Continue reading Monday Musing
Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Pogue, Saturday night I ventured out to listen to a band from my youth. Still turning out great music. It was what I would describe as a “sellotape and elastic band” affair with minimal equipment, the music stopping more than once as leads failed, and the bass guitar completely giving up. The support band had … Continue reading Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Monday Musing
Morning Pogue, It’s Monday. Last week we started thinking about Jonathon Livingstone Seagull and I said I thought I would write to him because he intrigues me and I see he has so much to teach me. So here’s the first letter to Jon. Dear Jon, I am taking time off from my normal correspondence … Continue reading Monday Musing
Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now.
Hi Pogue, The first song I’ve sent you this year and we’re already two weeks in 😳 What am I like? What have I been doing? Well I’m back with a cool, and rather smooth, sound. I was in one of my favourite shops yesterday, sort of browsing the sales when this song came on … Continue reading Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now.
Letters to Pogue
Dear Pogue, The first letter I’ve written to you this year so, “Happy New Year”.What will we make of the days ahead and where will we be 12 months from now? My wish for you is that, looking back in 12 months time, you will feel you have banked 12 months well spent. Not a … Continue reading Letters to Pogue
Monday Musing
Dear Pogue, I felt compelled to write to you today to explain something that you will not have understood. You see, you invited me to dinner yesterday and I declined the invite. First, let me affirm that you are a marvellous cook and my turning down of the invitation had nothing to do with your … Continue reading Monday Musing
It Would Be Enough
Two kites, Red kites,PirouetteMagnificent and masterful,Outside my windowAnd if,Laying on this bed,I could see no more,This would be enough.Enough to rekindle the knowledge,The knowledge of magic,The assuringThat beauty still existsThat something lingersBetween God and manAnd we are not aloneA statement of possibilitiesOf intentOf a higher callingAnd I smile.
Monday Musing
Walking the wet whipped beach,Following thoughtRunning from memoryThat dogs the days,Dismal and deceitfulHarbinger of guilt,Turning my face into the windFeeling it’s abrasive embraceCreating tear filled eyes,Peering out across the restless waterTorn as if in torment,Lashing out,Fury falling forlorn On sand,And me lost,Longing for peaceAlone at the waters edge,Lost and aloneExcept for gullsWho care not for … Continue reading Monday Musing
Wild
Wind and rain,Crashing waves,Wild seaScreeching spinning gullsBerserkers everyone,Wild windTearing at the beachCarrying spray like darts,Pounding noiseRelentlessNumbingly repetitive Yet wild and boundless,Beyond challengeUntamed,Defiant,Seaweed cast Like unbound hairIn tanglesKnotsCarelessly strewnOn the tormented beach,Canvas of chaosWild landscapeShort lived recordOf the commencement,Of the terminal moment,Of time,DystopianAnd…wild
Monday Musing
Hiya Pogue, I broke one of my life rules the other day🥹! You see, over the years I have established a number of rules that I apply to my day-to-day living. Their aim is to make living easier, safer and more responsible. Some are just basic things like trying to give kindness a priority, or … Continue reading Monday Musing
Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Well Pogue, Jazz seems to be a big thing where I currently am. I’ve always liked jazz so sitting in restaurants or coffee shops is a real pleasure. I just don’t listen to enough jazz so to set this right I thought I would share with you one of my all time favourites. Just appreciate … Continue reading Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Feeling A Little Cheated
As is my habit, I often have several nights of broken sleep when I travel long haul. 15 hours to Japan was enough to ensure I practiced my habit and have found myself reading in the early hours of the morning when the rest of the world slumbered. Such is life. So imagine my delight … Continue reading Feeling A Little Cheated
Monday Musing
Hi Pogue, A while back I sent you a postcard on which I wrote a quote that I had happened upon and it struck a chord. It said: A society grows when old men plant trees that they will never live to sit under. And today I’ve spent my second day in Japan walking around … Continue reading Monday Musing
Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Well Pogue, After Monday’s Musing it seems appropriate that we share this song. Proud by M People with their London Olympics video. And… I wrongly connect another M People song video with this, so here it is. Search For The Hero, with the original video, which should get your day started in the best way. … Continue reading Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Virginity
There are many virgins in the world,Inexperience disguised as plausible innocenceHolding back possible experience,Pushing back against progress,Against the enrichment of our lives.Life is put off and time is lost,Fear, that impostorBecomes entrenched and grows,It’s grip increasing the denialOf enriching lives.And you?You think of the giving of a body,Me?I’m thinking of the giving of a mind,The … Continue reading Virginity
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