It’s my birthday today(67) and I’m giving my gifts to the children, and posting this song for “The Lost Children” suffering in our world
“”The Stolen Child” was released in 1988 on The Waterboy’s album, Fisherman’s Blues. The song includes lyrics by Yeates and a beautiful lilting melody….making for one of my favorites on an album chocked full of classic Waterboys tunes! The lyrics are mystical and strange…it’s lovely the way they string together….how amazing are the images and flow of this poem? Remastered audio! The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats’s more notable early poems. The poem is based on Irish legend and concerns faeries beguiling a child to come away with them. Yeats had a great interest in Irish mythology about faeries resulting in his publication of Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry in 1888 and Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland in 1892. The places mentioned in the poem are in Leitrim and Sligo where Yeats spent much of his childhood.” Taken from the information attached to the below video
The Waterboys – The Stolen Child, Lyrics
Come away human child to the water
Come away human child to the water and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand
Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake
There lies the leafy island
Where flapping herons wake the drowsy water rats
There we’ve hid our faery vats full of berries
And of reddest stolen cherries
Come away, human child to the water
Come away, human child to the water and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light
Far off by furthest roses, we foot it all the night
Weaving olden dances, mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight
To and fro we leap, chase the frothy bubbles
While the world is full of troubles and is anxious in it’s sleep
Come away, human child to the water
Come away, human child to the water and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand
Where the wandering water gushes from the hills above Glen-Car
And pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star
We seek for slumbering trout and whispering in their ears
We give them unquiet dreams
Leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams
Away with us he’s going, the solemn eyed
He’ll hear no more the lowing of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob, sing peace into his breast
Or see the brown mice bob around and around the oatmeal chest
For he comes, the human child to the water
He comes, the human child to the water and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
From a world more full of weeping than you can understand
Human child, human child
With a faery, hand in hand
From a world more full of weeping than you can understand
Than you can understand, you can understand
I’m hooked on this song today, maybe because I’m another year older tomorrow, and I’m feeling I’m getting closer to where ever I’m going. It’s been a cold winter, and I’m feeling like a splinter in amongst the forest timbers, and my written words are only tear drops on the childrens cheeks.
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Many thanks to Beckie of, Beckie’s Mental Mess , for selecting me to join in her wonderful game called, ‘3.2.1 Quote Me!” . please make a point in checking her site out. It’s full of so many interesting stories, and she’s always lots of fun.
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“Real true love is beautiful, with kindness, compassion and consideration being the foundation of every real true love” — Ivor Steven
” Every little bit we do helps, little steps, after little steps, and in time all the little steps produce one big stride towards achieving our goals” — Ivor Steven
“Whatever you create artistically, is the positive result of your thoughts becoming reality” — Ivor Steven
“Music feeds our senses and soothes our souls” — Ivor Steven
My 3 Bloggers For Today Are:
1. Trini Lind – Paths Of The Spirit
2. Linda — Spiritual Dragonfly
3. Laleh —A Voice from Iran
And I’ll end on a positive note with a glorious song by Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lloyd and his classic song, Amazing.
An insightful and thought provoking poem by my dear friend Jane of janebasilblog . “Together We Can Help”. Please take the time to read her words and add your comments. “Let Us Not Be Silent” https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/let-us-not-be-silent/
Dimpled fingers
that reeked of crayon and ink,
riffled the fat book whose images depicted
thin children with unfamiliar skin-tones
from different races.
Blatant deprivation
is not pretty. The charity knew this.
Skin was scrubbed and wrapped in clean clothing.
The touched-up, sunrise smiles of these cute kids
seduced even the school-yard bully.
We each paid
our fisted shilling and took an image home.
Girls chose girls, and all knew which boys
were school-yard romance material
by what gender they selected.
It felt virtuous;
saving the children of the world
at the cost of a shilling.
My own photograph girl
boasted exotic black-sheep curls,
milky cocoa skin, ebony eyes that, even
through the monochrome, looked as if the whites
had been soaked in my my mother’s bag blue.
Her smile suggested a regular pastime
of birthday treats, an ignorance
of hunger and misuse.
It’s award time, beautiful people! The Sunshine Blogger Award comes to me from Dancia at.https://danicapiche.com and her wonderful site, Living a Beautiful Life Thank you, Dancia! I am honored. Please visit her if you’re not already following her blog — she is indeed the essence of sunshine.
The Sunshine Blogger Award recognizes bloggers who inspire positivity and joy.
What are the rules for The Sunshine Blogger Award?
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List the rules and include The Sunshine Blogger Award logo in your post.
Answer the 11 Questions asked of you.
Write a new list of 11 Questions for your Nominees.
Nominate 11 bloggers for The Sunshine Blogger Award.
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11 Questions Asked of Me:
.What is happiness to you?
Home and love
What is one place you love visiting?
Ocean Grove surf beach, sun, golden sand and surf, that’s perfection.
What is your favorite comfort food?
An egg & bacon roll at my Football Club on game days, with a few beers !!
What is the best advice about life you’ve received?
Probably best explained in this little poem of mine, “I Do Thee Shine” When I was little and young. “Your heart will always shine” Said Mum. When I grew up, a know-all teenager. Head strong, and an all-night rager. “Your love of life will shine through” Said Dad. Later on I married, so happy and glad. Suddenly, one spring, MS touched her bad. The shining dulled and time turned sad. Dad said, “Your heart shone through”. And Mum said, “Her Star will always shine on you”. My Star, my Dad and Mum, you are my spine. For you, I do thee shine. What is your favorite song at the moment?
I’ve hundreds of fav’s, mainly by, Leonard Cohen, but the one I’m playing at the moment, is by Nick Cave, “To Be By Your Side”
What have you been wanting to do and haven’t yet?
Travel, especially to America and Philadelphia.
What would you teach a class or person tomorrow, if you had to?
To be kind and have compassion
What did you dream of as a child?
To grow up to bo as good as my dad
What habit would you like to quit?
I’d like to stop crying as much as I do, “How many rivers of tears must we cry, before all the deepest wells run dry”
Where do you get your blogging inspiration?
Most of my poems emanate from my dreams
What is one interesting or weird thing about you that most people don’t know?
Since my stroke, as I’m aging, tiredness sometimes overwhelms me, and then I suffer anxiety and have panic attack because I’m feeling inadequate.
If anyone would like to participate and answer the above questions, please do, and as I feel I might be imposing on my fellow bloggers, I won’t be nominating anyone.
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I truly appreciate every one of you.
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 