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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Perception She bought me a ball, plastic, yellow and red. I took it out, played with it, turned it over in my hands, thought "What use is this?" "Throw it gently in the air." she said "Catch it as it falls." I threw it up, watched the red of its outside disappear. When it landed in my hand it was yellow. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
It is not often that I get a poem out of one of my own workshops, but last Saturday I did - Knowing I can see through you. And yet it does not help me to know you better. Your shadow passes across the landscape before me. I want to know you better. Have you come into my life to fight me or embrace me? May I know you better? And will you dance with me, fill in, for me, the gaps, let me see you whole so I can know you better? Sit down beside me on the grass, let us talk of who you are and who I am until we know each other better. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Sunday, October 04, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
I attended a poetry workshop last week in which the themes were - Peace, Heroes and Heroines. I have problems taking poetry workshops seriously - hence the following poem. I should point out that it is in no way auto-biographical. *Smile* David Heroes I spent all afternoon looking through my knicker drawer; problem was none of them were suitable. I had to disqualify those with holes in the backside, white ones - too plain, those which played music when squeezed, or with pictures of Fred Flintstone, or which said Glentoran Football Club, and the ones I was keeping as souvenirs, a thong that got left behind when she left, the lace ones I bought her for Christmas, and the ones she said were her favourite. It is clearly impossible to be a super-hero if you have no knickers to wear on the outside. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Ninth September 2009
The sun had already cleared the horizon by the time I awoke; another year older, some the wiser, glad to be alive,
my head full of caves, castles, sandy beaches, fairy glens and magic,
of people, special people, one still asleep in bed, others scattered across continents, who made, and make, a difference.
"If I had known" the man said "that I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself."
That may be true.
Yet, as I stand here on a balcony early in September smoking a cigarette, feeling heat from the sun, I am truly grateful.
Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Monday, August 31, 2009
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Category: Blogging
Hi all,
I am around but only for a few days.
I thoroughly enjoyed the writers' retreat. A lot got written and I am now trying to sort the wheat from the chaff. Hopefully I will post something later.
I am currently very busy -
- Organising a second printing of my book with a revised back cover
- Helping edit an anthology which the Leeds Writers' Circle are producing - hopefully available for Christmas
- With a group of friends investigating the possibility of setting up a small publishing house in Leeds so that we can publish new writers of quality.
- I am going on holiday to Northern Irelsnd for a fortnight at the end of this week. Hoping to see some old and new friends and also visit the coves and caves of the North Antrim coast - looking forward to that.
So I won't be around much until the end of September. I will try to catch up with some blogs over the next few days.
However my friends on My Space are important to me so I will not be leaving this space.
I will try to get some more time on here when I can
All my best to you all.
David
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
I will be away for about three weeks at a writers' community.
There will be limited access to the internet and I might well choose not to use it.
So I thought I would leave you with this true story which fascinated me.
One of the earliest poems I wrote was called "A Fairy Story". It is one of my own favourites and is included in my first book - Walking into Eternity.
My friend Tokarma, who lives in South Australia, was inspired by the poem to paint a picture.
The picture now hangs in a prominent place in my lounge.
My friend Carole visited last Saturday and said - "Every time I look at that picture I am reminded of the lake at Castle Howard." (Castle Howard is a stately home in Yorkshire, England)
Now then, some facts -
When I wrote the poem the image of the lake at Castle Howard was in my head.
Carole did not know that.
Tikarma did not know that.
Tikarma could have no idea what the lake at Castle Howard looks like - it is at the opposite side of the world from her.
So the image of the lake has clearly transmitted itself via me to the poem, via the poem to Tikarma, via Tikarma to her painting and via her painting to Carole.
There is more connectivity in the world than we are aware of. But we should celebrate it.
David
A Fairy Story
Once upon a time
as I sat on the grass looking over the lake a beautiful fairy sat down beside me.
She held my hand, stroked
the back of it gently and asked me why I was crying. I had not known that I was crying.
I don’t know, I said.
Perhaps I am happy or perhaps I am sad, but whatever I said the tears would not stop.
I said that the peace,
the surroundings and the beauty filled me with awe. Who was I to enjoy such beautiful things?
She allowed me to
cry. She allowed me to sob. She allowed me to feel a despair. She just kept stroking my hand.
You are beautiful
too David she said. You belong with beautiful things. Why else would I come
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Peace Process It was all very well me pushing a brick out of the wall in order that I could hold your hand, But then when the whole bloody thing came tumbling down we were left wide-eyed, smiling, and saying "How the hell did that happen?" Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
This is a poster for some of the workshops whivh I have planned for this year and next. Please book on the course, pass the information on to your friends, print off the poster and post it a place where people can see it. Every little bit of publicity helps. *Smile* Thank you David 
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
This poem and the two previous poems posted were all written at about the same time. They are all, I guess, different ways of exploring the same thing. I thought, seeing as I had posted the other two, I might as well post this one as well.
David
Clarity arrives
when I am prepared to sit long enough in a depth of silence,
when I am prepared to filter out the darkness and just listen,
when I am prepared to connect fully with what acceptance means,
when I am prepared to put aside ego, listen with my inner self.
Then, and only then, clarity arrives
Copyright 2009 David Agnew
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Following on from some comments and messages on my previous blog I have decided to post this one as well. Let me know what you think. David Silence I lean back on the sofa beside an open window, close my eyes, listen to a variety of birdsong, wind rustling through the bushes; the sound of silence. Yet then, I am inclined to let my mind wander into dark or sometimes mundane places full of doubt, uncertainty and fear. I bruise the silence. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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