Thanks for your delight in my work and sensing the original intentions, both
for this one and "gull song".
bw
James
>From: arthur seeley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: Craving
>Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 18:57:22 +0100
>
>You really love your estuary James, in much the same way that I love my
>moors and fells. And you find there much that I find in my place. The quiet
>explanations of nature, the sense of being a part of it all of belonging at
>quite fundamental level, the 'heathen awe' you refer to, although I fear
>some connotations of 'heathen' might undermine the intrinsically wonderful
>nature of the experience. A good read and thanks for that. Regards Arthur.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 4:38 PM
>Subject: New sub: Craving
>
>
> > Shall I risk two posts after a week off?
> >
> > CRAVING
> >
> > You have craved the river
> > wanted the timelessness
> > undisturbed by its wild
> > by its calm - time has passed
> > since you saw it last
> >
> > Now you see the contours
> > a soft flow at low time
> > river and sea birds who
> > co-exist - you not how
> > this is unchanged
> > are hit by its wildness
> > in thin summer clothes
> > are happy to be drawn in
> > begin the relationship
> > all over with no give and take
> > no win win - no on message
> > onside online just in time
> >
> > only the tide changes daily
> > you revel in a heathen
> > awe - what is craved
> > you realise can be close
> > to craven - sometime a haven
> >
> >
> >
> > bw
> > James
> >
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