Rhyddid - live the questions now

Stumbled across this

Oh the things you can find on the interthingy! Sparklemotion is a haiku poem a day. Now you might be wondering why on earth I would find this interesting, well I decided to do a short OU course a bit later in the year so I picked Making sense of the Arts and as part of it I will be introduced to Japanese haiku poetry. Bit of a tenuous link I agree, but a link no less for that.

Heard this poem

I heard this poem by Sheena Pugh on Good Morning Sunday on Radio 2. I like positive statements and this certainly is that.

Sometimes things don't go at all,
from bad to worse. Some years muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives;the crops don't fail,
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war;
elect an honest man; decide they care
enough, that they can't leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you.

Sheena Pugh (b.1950)