Mabh Savage
Words and the world passing by; how it sings to me; how I clamour back.
Labour members- your views wanted on Syria.
Jeremy Corbyn has asked for views from all Labour Party members. If you are a member, check your inbox. MPs may soon have to vote on whether to extend UK bombing into Syria.
Please have your say. Here was my response:
UK intervention in Syria should be to lend aid to those suffering and forward the diplomatic process. Sending bombs instead does nothing but kill more people; destroying lives does not make a better future for anyone. Daesh want us to be angry; they want to show that the western world is out of touch with Islamic nations and an enemy to all Islamic people. If the UK bombs targets in Syria, then the UK is playing straight into the hands of the Daesh. Terrorism cannot be fought with violence. History has shown us this. We are no strangers to the threat of terrorism in the UK. But in 1997, it was talking, not violence that stopped the IRA bombs. Perhaps David Cameron has forgotten this, or perhaps there is some profit unknown to us in dividing the west from the east even further. Whatever his motives, I truly hope that there are enough politicians with a better memory, a bigger heart and a modicum of common sense.
Double Rainbow
If you look to the very left of the picture, you can faintly see the ‘second’ rainbow. Jim informs me that every rainbow has a double, and the colours are reversed. So although it follows the same curve as the primary rainbow, the outer colour is purple/violet and the inner colour is red.
Autumn may be blustery and the weather may be unpredictable, but at least it gives us rainbows.
New Zealand: Tree Church.
Brian Cox of New Zealand seems to have taken the phrase ‘Nature is my church’ somewhat literally…with beautiful results.
From BoredPanda.
Meditation vs Anxiety
I’m getting back into meditation this month. I’m fortunate enough to be involved with groups of spiritually minded people who are far more organised than I and can arrange structured workings. Without this kick in the bum I struggle to grant myself the time needed to clear and de-clutter my messy mind space.
It’s strange, isn’t it, how we can work so much harder for others, than we can work solely for ourselves… Or is that just me?
Anyhoo, I’ve done my first, proper meditation in months and it was wild, intense, and full of vivid imagery that almost immediately led to poetry. This makes me happy. But now I have the fear. What if, tomorrow, I can’t do it? What if I can’t ‘zone out’, centre myself; whatever you want to call it?
Because this happens. Sometimes, I just can’t let go. I sit and breathe and focus or un-focus, and I can’t let go of the outer world and slip into my own inner consciousness.
The anxiety that I won’t be able to let go, of course, makes this all the more likely to happen. Anxiety is a crippling, horrible force in my life, and when coupled with the fear of failure, can leave me vibrating like a spinning top; dizzy and ultimately useless.
How do I step past this anxiety, into a calm space to let magic happen? How can I calm my mind, in order to calm my mind? I have no solid answers. I simply launch myself into what I am doing and hope for the best. Only one session in, and already I am spinning and looking for what might go wrong; when everything went so right today; utterly nonsensical.
I should be proud that despite my (currently non medicated) anxiety, I have managed my first session with success. The twenty minutes or so before work left me bright and alert for the day, and excited for the following sessions. I should be high-fiving myself.
One day, perhaps, I’ll stop looking for cracks in the glass that just aren’t there.
I Rose
My rose was blue
I stepped beneath the arch
My rose was gold
Or peach
Softness incarnate
Never crimson
Never bold
Tentative like my
Steps.
I rose beneath the arch
To meet four faces
Framed with snake
With sea
With sinister teeth
With chains
With all the keys I need
To break free.
I rose and took
The proffered seaweed
Tiny bladders ready
To pop with salty sweetness
A shoreline promise
Of things to come.
I rose, hands out
Filled with light;
Stepping into darkness
My rose was black
Ashen; withered
Suddenly alive again!
Gold and glowing
Snakebite antidote
Starlight flowing
I rose; I gasped; I smiled.
David Cameron: Spambot
David Cameron, David Cam
You are a robot
Made out of spam
You hunt the foxes
And kill the poor
And that’s what Tories voted for.
At Eton you were just one of the chaps
Burning money in front of tramps
I guess you must have been easily led
To stick your cock inside that pig’s head
Now you’re the one that calls the shots
We’ve got nowt while you’ve got lots
You’ve drained our country; our will is sucked
And now it’s us that’s really fucked.
David…
IDS is an STI
A wart on the UK’s inner thigh
Jeremy Hunt: what a… Guy!!!
And the less said about Osbourne,
The better
David…
Now he’s quoting some nice old dame
Who once had to use her middle name
She told him she’s a big fan of Jez
And doesn’t like the cut of Dave’s Jib.
So Davey wants to knock Jeremy out
See the spambot become a lout
Smearing shit better than the Sun
Does he really think we’re all that dumb??
No, David Cameron, David Cam
You are a robot
Made out of spam
You hunt the foxes
And kill the poor
And that’s what Tories voted for.
Go Sober for October: Day 6
So Day 6 commences, I’m sober and surprisingly OK! Had a bit of a moment last night when Jim enjoyed our homebrew, but I woke up clear headed which is always a bonus 🙂 Please sponsor me, every penny helps keep me motivated and goes to help those with cancer all over the UK. Thank you all!
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I’m Going Sober for October!
Please sponsor me to keep my liver clean in October! All pennies go to Macmillan Cancer Support.
This is a hard challenge for me as I love my wine, particularly at this time of year. My fund raising page is HERE.
Pm Questions Today
Interesting to see that David Cameron didn’t actually give a direct answer to any of the questions Mr Corbyn posed to him, from us, today. Cameron gave, at best, evasive waffle about policy, and at his worst used the questions as a platform to attack the Labour party. People, that is the respect the Tory government has for your words.None at all.
Today I am mostly…
…stripping elderberries off their stalks. Tedious but worth it in the end! What am I going to make?
Mabh Savage 