Christmas Revisited
Labels: bigotry, celebration, Christmas, culture, customs. conventions, discrimination, ghosts, human nature, illusion, inspiration, life, love, poetry, reality, relationships, religion, society
Thoughts and observations by English poet Roger N. Taber, a retired librarian and poet-novelist.- "Ethnicity, Religion, Gender, Sexuality ... these are but parts of a whole. It is the whole that counts." RNT [NB While I have no wish to create a social network, I will always reply to critical emails about my poetry. Contact: rogertab@aol.com].
Sadly, a bad fall in 2012 has left me with a mobility problem, and being diagnosed with prostate cancer the same year hasn't helped, but I get out and about with my trusty walking stick as much as I can, take each day as it comes and try to keep looking on the bright(er) side of life. Many of my poems reflect the need to nurture a positive-thinking mindset whatever life throws at us.
Labels: bigotry, celebration, Christmas, culture, customs. conventions, discrimination, ghosts, human nature, illusion, inspiration, life, love, poetry, reality, relationships, religion, society
Labels: aspirations, Christmas, escapism, fatalism, festivals, human nature, human potential, human spirit, illusion, life, mind-body-spirit, nature, poetry, religious, respite, sanctuary, self-awareness, self-confidence
Labels: acid rain, climate change, global warming, human behaviour, human nature, life forces, mind-body-spirit, nature, ozone layer, personal space, poetry, pollution, regeneration, social responsibility, society
Labels: answers, human, identity, imagination, inspiration, life, nature, personal, philosophy, poetry, potential, questions, raison d’être, searching, spirituality, unknown
Labels: adulthood, ageing, childhood, human nature, human spirit, life forces, love, memories, metamorphoses, middle age, mind-body-spirit, past-present-future, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, relationships, time
Labels: art, culture, depression, Edvard Munch, fear, global consciousness, human nature, human spirit, life, mind-body-spirit, nature, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, religion, society, The Scream (painting)
Labels: art, arts, death, history, human nature, human spirit, identity, life, love, mind-body-spirit, nature, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, posthumous consciousness, relationships, society
Labels: contemporaneit, everyday life, global consciousness, human condition, human nature, human spirit, life forces, love, Mondays, nature, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, society, stoicism, stress, work ethic
Labels: friendship, human, identity, life, love, mind-body-spirit, nature, personal, poetry, positive, reconciliation, relationships, space, thinking
Labels: dreams, human nature, human spirit, inspiration, interview, life forces, love, memories, personal space, poetry, posthumous consciousness, regrets, relationships, sexuality, society
Labels: autumn, human nature, human spirit, imagination, inspiration, life forces, love, memories, mind-body-spirit, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, posthumous consciousness, relationships, roses, seasons, time
Labels: fear, human nature, human spirit, learning curves, life forces, love, personal space, positive thinking poetry, posthumous consciousness, religion, self-awareness, sexuality, society
Labels: conscience, courage, home truths, human, identity, inner, life, moral, nature, personal, poetry, self, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-denial, social, spirit, vulnerability
Labels: crime, drug abuse, gun crime, knife crime, life forces, love, mind-body-spirit, peer pressure, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, radicalisation, self-destruct, society, street crime, violence, young people
Labels: concrete jungles, deforestation, eco-warriors, environment, Green issues, human nature, landscape, life, nature, open space, poetry, property development, urban sprawl
Labels: city, continuum, Gothic impressions, history, human spirit, imagination, life forces, London (UK), mind-body-spirit, past-present-future, personal space, poetry, posthumous consciousness, spirituality, time
Labels: endeavour, hope, human nature, human spirit, illness, life, love. poetry, mind-body-spirit, nature, optimism, pain, positive thinking, resolve, stoicism, support