6 April 2020

Patience

Remember how I won the Geograph picture of the week competition with my image of a Derbyshire sheep? My reward was to pick the following week's winner from a shortlist of fifty and above you can see the image I chose. It was taken by a gentleman called Richard Sutcliffe when he was walking under the M80 motorway in Scotland.. The Forth and Clyde Canal passes under that major road at this point.

It seemed to me that accidentally Richard had produced a picture that might act as a metaphor for the disturbing times we are living through just now. We are in a dark tunnel, walking by a canal but we must reassure ourselves that there is light and there is hope at the end of the tunnel. That is not the afterlife you can see ahead, it is real life and a return to some kind of normality. Let patience be our watchword.

That picture needs a poem to sit upon it. At least that is what I thought, so here it is:-

27 comments:

  1. That picture certainly seems to sum up the current mood.

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    1. I'm pleased that you can see that too JayCee.

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  2. Well done Pudding. Poem and choice of photo.
    Alphie

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  3. Excellent, solitary figure marching towards the light, and hope in the poem, which we should all have.

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    1. Hope yes.I wanted to include that word.

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  4. Light at the end of the tunnel soon please God.

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    1. Don't call me God Dave!...Sounds like a line from "The Royle Family".

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  5. Wonderfully done ...

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  6. that photographer had a good eye to see this photo. the Judge thought about this photo before choosing it. And the guy who wrote the poem is a good poet.

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    1. You may have heard of the last one Red - a devilishly handsome Yorkshire fellow who often visits your blog.

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  7. A nice image, and a great poem to go with it -- and an important message for all of us. We just gotta get through this tunnel!

    For some reason it scares me deeply that Boris Johnson, of all people, is in intensive care. If he in his position of power is so vulnerable, even with the best of medical care, imagine where that leaves all of us!

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    1. I despise Johnson but this news is indeed sobering and I wish him a successful recovery.

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  8. Great photo and poem. Thank you.

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  9. That is a striking photo indeed, and a poem that urges us to think beyond the near future to a better time. That's something I'm having a hard time believing in at the moment.

    Not to be picky, but did you mean Yea rather than Yay? I know you like to be accurate, as do I.

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    1. "Yay" was a deliberate choice Jenny. "Yea" is too like the "Yeah" of "She Loves You" by The Beatles. "Yay" = an expression of triumph, approval, or encouragement. But thanks for asking. It is a good question.

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    2. Ah, I see. I was thinking of "Yea" as in "Yes".

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  10. Yes, I knew who the poet was.

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    1. There once was a teacher called Red
      Who insisted the words that he said
      Were The words of the Lord
      But his students got bored
      And aimed paper darts at his head

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  11. A good choice of photograph YP, I thought, when I first saw it, that it was one of yours. Your poem captures the spirit of the moment.

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