I love this poem - they have just read it on Radio 3 and reminded me how good it is. Someone sent it to me when I was recovering from surgery.
Sometimes - Sheenagh Pugh
Sometimes things don't go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail,
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.
A people sometimes will step back from war;
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can't leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.
Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss, sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you.
Craig and Lindsay Foreman end their hunger strike in prison in Iran.
Do you feel no-one listens to you?
Things that (sometimes unreasonably) get on your nerves...hopefully lighthearted
