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George Gray - Edgar Lee Masters, from the Spoon River Anthology.
I have studied many times
the marble which was chiseled for me -
a boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
but my life.
For love was offered to me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
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James had a friend over for tea yesterday. A little while after we got back from school another boy from their class called for them and I let them out the front to play football. I keep the front door open and have become remarkably attuned to any changes in volume or tone!
So all is well for about ten minutes and then it goes quiet....
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I have loads to do at the moment. I still haven't got cracking on my literature review and, as usual, my summer to-do list is as long as your arm. So it will come as no surprise that this week I decided I wanted had to have a climbing rose for the very bare corner of my ugly collection of concrete slabs patio. This vital decision made I spent ( Read more... ) -
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PERFECT TIMING
The night I fell in love with you I lost my watch:
stripping off at the sea's edge, it fell into the dark
as I swam out into a night thick with stars,
with fishermen calling from one lit boat to another
of their catches and harbours, leaving for the dawn.
Imagine it now, plunged deep in cool sand, still hidden
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James has a friend over for tea this afternoon (they're both glued to the playstation as I type) and as they came out of school today they were both full of the news that James scored a brilliant goal in football at lunchtime. In fact he scored three goals today ( Read more... ) -
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Today I have discovered the joy of olives. -
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Tristan is very forthright in sharing his view of the world. *grin*
This afternoon in the car on the way to band practice...
- Tristan spies a DHL van: "They deliver aeroplanes!"
- The 5pm news comes on the radio, headlines include British Airways being investigated for price fixing a voice from the back of the car pipes up, "I have been ( Read more... ) -
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I was throwing together some spaghetti and sauce for tea earlier, dancing around the kitchen to Dusty Springfield, when a very hungry Tristan came twirling in singing (to the tune of 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me') "Mummy, can I have a cheeeeese roll plee-eee--eee--eea- aase?!"
LOL!