‘Once’……Mikhail Gorbachev...
by Bernie Bell - 09:23 on 31 August 2022
'Once'
Words & image by Mike Bell
Once, a Raven came, the Old One
His Carboniferous spell broken a second later
By the jealous Hoody gang
And once, in far off boyhood times
A Wood White danced in dappled shade in Tring Park.
The first seen in the county since the War
Once I gave my heart to a terrier to tear
Fierce, burning oh so brightly
He learned me of Love and Loss
And then once, once for Mum and once for Dad
I stood up in a Somerset village church
And spoke of life’s thread that endures
Once, on a Kodiak wilderness trail
I did not meet the great bear
Though he was there
But once, oh once and forever!
Love came and roused my hibernating soul
Not a tame bear. Each day a wild discovery
Now, once.
McB - February 2019
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The influence of Mikhail Gorbachev on world history can not be over-estimated. He made positive change happen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/world/europe/mikhail-gorbachev-dead.html
Those kind of people only turn up now and then – sometimes when most needed – I live in hope.
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Here’s one I made earlier……. https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/03/31/something-about-sound/
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