Faith's diary and creative corner (fapj): David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton discuss Philosophy Bites: the book

David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton discuss Philosophy Bites: the book

Fragrance of yellow flowers

Maud hobbled down the street

Her wornout shoes curling up at the toes

Her stockings sagging and her clothes awry

From under the knotted scarf

A few wisps of greying hair escaped

To frame her wrinkled weathered face.

I mustn't be late

She admonished herself

And hurried towards the meeting place.

Just once a year she came back again

To the place where the yellow flowers grow

The March wind had howled with grief and pain

And swept the last November leaves away

And cleansed the air

And awakened the trees

And rocked the birds

And filled the yellow trumpet flowers with fragrances

More lovely than a thousand scents.

Maud blinked and paused for breath

The yellow flowers nodded their heads in the breeze

And whispered messages that only Maud could hear.

And her heart was young and joyful again

And her stockings were silk and her hair was fair

And a caring arm encircled her waist

And the trumpets sounded within her soul.

Maud sat alone among the daffodils

And listened to the voices of the past

And spread her arms out wide

And nodded her gratitude

For the lasting fragrance of yellow flowers

More poems can be found HERE.

Good advice

I came across the comment below and I think it's the nearest I've come to what writing is all about. I love writing, especially novels and poems. I write for myself but also because I've nothing else much to leave behind. I want to write books and poems for my grandson, even if he never wants to read them. That's going to be my next task, I think, but I'm writing a novel at the moment. The heritage thing also applies to some, but not all of my paintings. Anything you create with love and passion is something to leave behind - evidence of energy and imagination that live on!

Here's what Steven James writes in his "Story Trumps Structure":

"To uncover the plot of your story, don't ask what should happen, but what could go wrong. To uncover the meaning of your story, don't ask what the theme is, but rather, what is discovered. Characters making choices to resolve tension - that's your plot, If your protagonist has no goal, makes no choices, has no struggle, you have no plot."

Comment: I find that this quote applies to life, really, but definitely to the fictional world writers create.

Useful quotes

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.

(Henry van Dyke, poet 1852-1933)

"Would you mind passing the seaweed?"
(James Bond - You only live twice)

"It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within-not without." (Poirot - Agatha Christie).

"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same." (Carlos Castaneda, mystic and author 1925-1998)

"Will there also be singing?

Yes there will also be singing,

About the dark times." (Bertold Brecht)

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

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Wednesday, 18 August 2010

David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton discuss Philosophy Bites: the book

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