While at my sister’s we visited Hay-on-Wye. It was a 60th birthday treat to myself 🙂
I’ve not been there for years and sadly 5 or 6 books had closed, possibly due to covid. There was enough there still to fill a day’s book hunting.
I do enjoy reading philosphy books, and other books of an esoteric nature, not that I’m at all clever enough to be a philosopher!
Anyhow, I enjoyed Hay immensely and here’s the result 😀
I noticed I had a visit to my page Books I like and saw I hadn’t updated it in years! Well I’ve put that right and it’s now in sections of Poetry, Books, Writing & Writers, Fiction and Non Fiction.
Hope you enjoy your visit and maybe find something intersting to read 🙂
https://agapintheclouds.com/books-i-like/
Sometimes I think my mind is on another planet, or even another dimension where it’s writing with gusto leaving me blank and pallid so I apologise for my silence lately. The feelings I have to be able to write just aren’t around and I’m not going to force the words to appear.
However, I have been reading quite a bit and as you can see on the right there I am currently reading the huge four volume A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green. I’m about three quarters through volume 2 and Queen Elizabeth is on the throne being pestered by Queen Mary of Scots. I’m also reading Sir Walter Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Previous to this I read a wonderful book by Marie Corelli called The Sorrows of Satan and if you get a chance I recommend it. Here are two quotes from the many excellent examples of her writing in the book.
…Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, halfsociety wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive…
…To be missed at all when you die, some one must love you very deeply and unselfishly; and deep unselfish love is rarer to find among mortals than a pearl in a dust-bin…
I hope to be back soon with poems.
Happy Sunday and thanks for visiting 🙂
Oh busy busy me! They say things come in threes!
My new poetry collection is coming along nicely. I very much like the proof copy but have found some typos etc.
I have the title for my next poetry collection and dare I say it here but I have the theme too … it will predominantly be a book of nature poetry.
This afternoon I have been working on the third collection of my Little Thoughts books and that also is coming along nicely and I have the title too.
Now it’s time for food!
The last book
found
amongst the littered remains
of a struggled past
a survivor
unread
unopened
an ancient virgin
devouring eyes
pore over
loving fingers
caress
pages flutter
with each delicious
touch
words drip
with each bacchanal
read
Overcome with
saviour’s emotion
the last book
found
crumbles
… crumbles
… … crumbles
no more books
no more pleasure
no more whispers
no more life
no more pain
no more love
no more joy
no more emotion
no more soul
no more words
no more imagination
no more passion
no more feelings
no more death
no more
… no more
… … no more
The last book
lost …
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This was first posted here on September 5th 2011 (edited)
Here, let me show you 🙂
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Yes I have published a collection of my Little Thoughts.
I have self-published through Lulu.com
I have edited some and added a good handful
of new and unpublished Little Thoughts.
Now Lulu seemed very confusing to me at first
until, that is, assistance appeared in the form
of my very, very good friend, Diane M. Denton
who also helped with the editing.
(Please visit Diane’s site for lovely art and exquisite poetry.
Her Novel ‘A House Near Luccoli’ is literary historical fiction set in Genoa
imagining an intimacy with the 17th century composer. Alessandro Stradella.)
My wonderful, wonderful, lovely friend, Sarah Whiteley
gave me the encouragement, and still does,
to get off my backside and get something into print.
(Please visit Sarah’s site for her beautiful poetry and stunning photography.
Her first chapbook No Direction But Home
is worth every second of time spent reading it.)
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I would like to thank everyone who has been with me
since I started writing poetry in August 2011
If you could see the smile on my face as I type these words
“I did it! I finally did it!”
A Gap In The Clouds 