Hi Nila - yet grass is so important. I heard about a Chaplain who is around the port when merchant ships port up ... and some Indian ship workers eventually asked if they could go ashore and feel the grass! The Chaplain took them to a park ... if you're cooped up for months at time at sea .. I guess the freedom of being able to walk on the grass and smell fresh air .. would be important. Cheers Hilary
Hi Nila. Something to think about. I love those war poems using the motif of the little blade of grass surviving on the death fields, looking so much more intelligent than humans fighting each other, yes, and who prefer the heavy metal guns, bayonets and other gruesome instruments.
Hi Nila - yet grass is so important. I heard about a Chaplain who is around the port when merchant ships port up ... and some Indian ship workers eventually asked if they could go ashore and feel the grass! The Chaplain took them to a park ... if you're cooped up for months at time at sea .. I guess the freedom of being able to walk on the grass and smell fresh air .. would be important. Cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteHi Nila. Something to think about. I love those war poems using the motif of the little blade of grass surviving on the death fields, looking so much more intelligent than humans fighting each other, yes, and who prefer the heavy metal guns, bayonets and other gruesome instruments.
ReplyDeleteHope you are well and happy there in Bahrain.
Denise :-)
Now that's quite some food for thought :)
ReplyDeleteSo much said in so few lines! Good take on the golden posts I've been seeing.
ReplyDeleteCereals are grasses, so grass is important in ways basic and luxurious @Hilary
ReplyDeleteHappy in Bahrain, though grasses not much in evidence. Grass on battlefields is such an evocative metaphor. @Denise
Grass is food! :) @Sabeeha
The rubai is a neat form, punches above its weight :) @Jennifer