Wordless Wednesday: My meditation buddy
Poetry Sunday: Excerpt from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney
In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president last Thursday, Vice-President Biden quoted from a work by the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney. I was not familiar with the poem and so I had to look it up. It is from a work entitled The Cure at Troy which was an adaptation by Heaney, written in verse, of Sophocles' play, Philoctetes . Philoctetes was a Greek master archer who was abandoned on a desert island by his fellow soldiers and countrymen and was later asked by the Greeks to return to fight in the Trojan War. The work was published in 1991 and in writing it, Heaney evidently was thinking of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. It seems to fit equally well our own troubles of today. It is a poem for all times. Verses from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney Human beings suffer They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. The innocent in gaols Beat on their bars together.
Well, it looks peaceful... :-)
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Deletebet he's been getting a lot of use lately....
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DeleteSomeone at my job collects frogs - she would so love this! (We all could use some calming there).
ReplyDeleteStone frogs in this yoga pose are popular garden art items just now. They are available online from several different sources. I love my little buddy. I really do find him calming.
DeleteI have a little gnome I inherited from my mother-in-law. Sometimes the coons knock him down but he always gets back up, thanks to me! Wish I could send a photo but I am not that savvy.
ReplyDeleteI went through a gnome period some years ago, when I had three of the little guys stationed in various spots around my garden. They are now resting in my garden shed and I've moved on to animals - frogs, turtles, rabbits, hens, etc. - for my garden art, but who knows? They may make another appearance some day.
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