On a visit to Cadder parish church

Originally posted by josephw

I saw the Grand Canyon once. I wasn't impressed. I though it would have been bigger. I was disappointed.

I had the opportunity to fly over the Grand Canyon last year; I thought it was an incredible spectacle. Strange how different people have different perceptions.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Near my home along the Forth and Clyde canal built in the 1700's and now a national monument lies the parish of Cadder. A church of some description has stood on the same site since the 1100's which by any account is pretty ancient the present one having been erected in the 1800's. I went not to pay my respects to the diseased but to see a tree whi ...[text shortened]... ://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TrAfgqXvlJU/SwgWsxeygHI/AAAAAAAAAgE/xt9yaiZf1GI/s1600/cawder+graveyard.JPG

Nice poetry rob.

Originally posted by Pudgenik
Nice poetry rob.

Wow thanks, I think anyone should be able to write a poem like that. I wonder how many poems are written and never see the light of day.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Wow thanks, I think anyone should be able to write a poem like that. I wonder how many poems are written and never see the light of day.

Bright and crisp in the sun.

A perfect,
silent,
sense,
of peace,
,
,
,
snow!

Originally posted by Pudgenik
Bright and crisp in the sun.

A perfect,
silent,
sense,
of peace,
,
,
,
snow!

See, you did it! I love snow drops, there are some awesome videos on you tube of them forming 😀

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Wow thanks, I think anyone should be able to write a poem like that. I wonder how many poems are written and never see the light of day.

I would say most of them have seen the light of day, otherwise they would have been exceedingly hard to write🙂

There were probably a few blind poets who wrote in the back of an unlit cave....Now THOSE poems....

Originally posted by sonhouse
I would say most of them have seen the light of day, otherwise they would have been exceedingly hard to write🙂

There were probably a few blind poets who wrote in the back of an unlit cave....Now THOSE poems....

Gee I dunno, I had a girlfriend when i was in college who used to write poetry and she never showed them to anyone but me.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Gee I dunno, I had a girlfriend when i was in college who used to write poetry and she never showed them to anyone but me.

Yeah but she didn't write them in the dark did she?🙂 So they saw the light of day immediately......

Originally posted by sonhouse
Yeah but she didn't write them in the dark did she?🙂 So they saw the light of day immediately......

well in a sense yes, but they were locked away in a dark book ever afterwards. She was a Chinese girl, Jackie Ho, i gave her a classical guitar that I had, hopefully she still has it 😀