The Spice of Life

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The Spice of Life

The spice of life:

                It’s hot.

The herbs

                The vitamins

Produce a nutritious meal;

                A balanced diet

                                Possessing the full spectrum

                                                Of flavours,

To be consumed with delight.

The feast,

The banquet,

A smorgasbord

                                                From which to choose

A diet of distinction!

Opher – 19.9.2024

I guess we select the various ingredients from the range available. Everything is spread out before us. The variety is spectacular. We can put together the most amazing, healthy meals, or pile our plates with rubbish. How we put the ingredients together is up to us.

The world is our banquet.

Our lives are our choices.

Poetry – Because I have loved life – Amelia Josephine Burr

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John Peachey sent me this one through. Apart from the god bit I thought it was great.

Amelia Josephine Burr


Because I have loved life,    

I shall have no sorrow to die.

I have sent up my gladness on wings,    

to be lost in the blue of the sky.

I have run and leaped with the rain,    

I have taken the wind to my breast.

My cheek like a drowsy child    

to the face of the earth

I have pressed.

Because I have loved life,    

I shall have no sorrow to die.

I have kissed young Love on the lips,    

I have heard his song to the end.

I have struck my hand like a seal  

  in the loyal hand of a friend.

I have known the peace of heaven,    

the comfort of work done well.

I have longed for death in the darkness    

and risen alive out of hell.

Because I have loved life,    

I shall have no sorrow to die.


I give a share of my soul  

to the world where my course is run

I know that another shall finish    

the task I must leave undone

.I know that no flower, no flint    

was in vain on the path I trod.

As one looks on a face through a window,    

through life I have looked on God.

Because I have loved life,    

I shall have no sorrow to die.