Thankyou for your kind comments Catherine.
bw
James
>From: catherine JF <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: New sub: Sermon On A Sandbank
>Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:32:10 +0000
>
>Helo James - This is very evocative, as are all your estuary poems. I was
>a
>little confused by the reference to the Christ figure as the geese are not
>listening and who is the one giving the teaching?
>
>Otherwise - nice poem.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Catherine
>>
>>One from the notebook and part of the estuary sequence again.
>>
>>SERMON ON A SANDBANK
>>
>>There is some kind of debate going on
>>at the turn in a sandbank where the geese gather
>>some on land, some on the very flat water -
>>
>>several wings flap, some honk -
>>it's like a version of Jesus giving a sermon
>>while standing in a boat on the Sea of Galilee -
>>
>>though nobody walks on water and all boats
>>are moored way off nearer the shore -
>>it's a space between a bleakness
>>
>>that is close to desolation
>>except for this band of pilgrims observed
>>only by you and a curlew who passes on foot
>>
>>
>>
>>bw
>>James
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