Such conversations were had today, different perspectives on the world changes we are witnessing as we creep out of lockdown. Come out? Stay at home? Like shared guilty secrets we discovered that most of us actually like peace and control of our secluded lives... with this piece Sheila took us swimming in Loch Ard - I don't have a pic so here is the Firth of Clyde:
I stand looking across the still surface
by Sheila Buchanan
I stand looking across the still surface
I feel I can walk on the water
It is so smooth and untroubled
No ripples or splash.
But better to enter the medium
Feel the shock of the cold
See the sunshine enter from above.
As I slipstream face down
The light is split into shards
Vectors pointing to the apex below
I assume the nature of a slim boat
Crossing the boundaries of natures’ curves
Balance is all.
Our writing prompt today was an attempt to maintain calm, avoid inhaling others' germs, sidestep suffering, find another route....
look the other way
Lou reckoned she'd been looking the other way for so long she has a crick in her neck!
Sheila Buchanan's "Look the other way"
Look the other way and
Don’t reflect what used to be;
Note what people are doing well
Not the lack of reponsibility.
Let the sunshine in to a spotless mind
No thunder clouds to a trouble a fevered cranium.
Pragmatism and a mindful approach are the tools of the trade.
Keep in touch but don’t touch
Share and air your concerns to absolve your anxiety.
A day at a time
Don’t let the anxiety be worse that the virus
Look at what an amazing person you are
Life is always blurred at the edges.
To finish we drew various prompts from Cathie Sandstrom's poem
which is, after all, what life feels like at the moment...
In the slim boat of each day
by Giovanna MacKenna
In the slim boat of each day
I travel the lengths of my life
Finding the going rough and tiring,
I forget I am fortunate to be carried
Around my craft splash others, those
who retch salt water from their throats
NB Water Story...
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