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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"writing",<br>"author":"richardjuckes",<br>"permlink":"choices-show-thoughts-about-an-old-poem",<br>"title":"Choices - show thoughts about an old poem",<br>"body":"Back in the 90s,<br> living off-the-grid in a caravan without electricity or phone,<br> quiet and clean near the top of a Welsh valley,<br> it was very easy to react against the dirtiness of the modern world. This afternoon I came across a quite bleak poem from that time. I thought I might post it,<br> and went down to the shore to take some pictures ...\n \n![bottles3ddaa.jpg (http:\/\/www.steemimg.com\/images\/2017\/02\/04\/bottles3ddaa.jpg)\n\nIn the poem,<br> the choice I wrote about was between a nightmare world of pollution and mutation,<br> and poetry. When I got home I couldn't type beyond a few lines.\n\n![but376bc.jpg (http:\/\/www.steemimg.com\/images\/2017\/02\/04\/but376bc.jpg)\n\nBecause from the same capture is this altogether different image. We were down there earlier,<br> my son and I,<br> laughing and running from the waves that surged up over the rocks onto the small area of sand. The small castles he built were one by one washed clean,<br> and the lines of safety he drew also ignored. The area where the couple on the left are walking.\n\nA few years ago - he was two or three - I was amazed to see how happily he could find something to play with,<br> to keep him content and happy,<br> in the most unlikely of places.\n\n![glassend25a10.jpg (http:\/\/www.steemimg.com\/images\/2017\/02\/04\/glassend25a10.jpg)\n\nSo here's a piece of _found art_,<br> in honour of the optimism of life. The waves were crashing into the shore,<br> and the air was full of the smell of the sea. The shore-birds were forced to occupy a narrower band,<br> between the water and the strolling people,<br> and I saw that they were turnstones. I will wait for a more cheerful poem.\n\nThank you for reading,<br> @richardjuckes",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"writing\",<br>\"nature\",<br>\"poetry\",<br>\"optimism\",<br>\"photography\" ,<br>\"users\":[\"richardjuckes\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"http:\/\/www.steemimg.com\/images\/2017\/02\/04\/bottles3ddaa.jpg\",<br>\"http:\/\/www.steemimg.com\/images\/2017\/02\/04\/but376bc.jpg\",<br>\"http:\/\/www.steemimg.com\/images\/2017\/02\/04\/glassend25a10.jpg\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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