20th March 2003
This is a rough fragment of a poem - not meant to be polished or finished. How it turns out depends on how events turn out...Today we are at war- and I have work to doI must tend the gardenI must...
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This is so sad and touching Davie...and it is a bad time for everyone, because "today, we are at war." Bless you for the thoughts...sioux
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*applauds*This touched me - and sums up so well the surreal feeling I have in going about my normal day while I know the bombs are falling."Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose...
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a war rages on shores, distant in miles ... and people are dying ... and we go on with our every day mundane tasks ... but all the while, our hearts are screaming ... 'today we are at...
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I like the contrasts you have painted here, Davie...I was thinking much the same thing, last night...I am still doing the things I always do, and nothing has outwardly changed here...but the pictures...
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Thank you all for your reactions to this. It's that strange unreality brought about by the contrast between the awful mayhem in Iraq, and the banality of everyday life in the West. It seems to be...
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......what stirring lines....the contrast between mundane and wartime.....christian and non-christian......exquisite.....just exquisite.GaladrielAnger has that peculiar quality of isolation; like...
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Thank you so much, galadriel - you've captured what I was trying to get across. Let's hope things get better very soon.Davie
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