Thank you so much!
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Desmond Swords
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> May you see God's light on the path ahead
> When the road you walk is dark.
> May you always hear,
> Even in your hour of sorrow,
> The gentle singing of the lark.
> When times are hard may hardness
> Never turn your heart to stone,
> May you always remember
> when the shadows fall—
> You do not walk alone.
>
> A traditional Irish prayer in times of sorrow Bobbi.
>
> It's interesting that you refer to the people helping you as 'living
> poems'; because one of the oldest Irish words for art-as-poetry, dán, has a
> deeper charge about it that contextualises a poem (dán) as a person's life.
>
> I have apologised to Alison and you are right, poetry as it's been
> discussed on here in relation to the Wimbledon poetry topic, has been far
> removed from how positive and good it can be talked about, and your
> appearance, as Alison said, puts things into perspective. I also found this
> Irish saying:
>
> May you have the hindsight to know where you've been
> the foresight to know where you're going
> and the insight to know when you're going too far.
>
> Particularly apt when I think of how boorish I acted in print toward some
> ppl on the list earlier.
>
> Beannacht Dé oraibh
>
> Deasún O Suaird.
>
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