Bits & Bats

[Mitch]

To Michele -

somewhere on this web forum is something you put which I meant to reply to but now can't find as it's grown - so I've stuck it here. I read this last night and it stired me - thought it might stir you too


"We build autonomy
The process of ever growing synthesis
For every living creature.
We spread
Spontaneity and creation
We learn the joys of equality
Of relationships
Without dominance
Among sisters.
We destroy domination
In all its forms."

(from the newspaper 'It Aint Me Babe6' - whose slogan was 'end all hierarchies".

PS. liked Becki's bit in the intro section on saying hello to members and just going off to school. Long live us Fruits hey xx

[michele cryer]

Thank you Mitch, that's great...sorry I don't have any great words of wisdom to reveal...too busy trying to get this board to let me post my community group messages again!!!!!


Michele

[Mitch]

.......a Fur Person is a cat who has come to love one or, in very exceptional cases, two human beings, and who has decided to stay with them as long as he lives. This can only happen if the human being has imagined part of himself into a cat ... just as the cat has imagined part of himself into a human being. It is a mutual exchange".
(May Sarton, writer)

...I breast fed all my cats you know.
(CatMad)

"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them".
(Jim Davis, Cartoonist)

...... do you think that's why Rosa Luxumberg liked cats??
(CatMad)

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats".
(Albert Schweitzer, French philosopher)

".......all my four furs have told me they hate Sir Cliff Richard".
(Cat Mad)

[michele cryer]

Awww...Mitch...cats!!! my favourite subject...

Wonderfully funny quotes...thank you

Michele

[Mitch]

999 NO WAY by Ben Lee Almond, Burnley Poet

"Copper, copper go away
Don't you dare look at me that way?
You're scaring me in my head
Are you really wishing me dead?
Am I an excrement under your skin?
Am I to be tossed into your bin (police cell?)
Are you gonna spray me again
If I don't speak out this time then
My kids may be next in line
Because we all know police do commit crimes
But we don't speak out for fear of losing
Government backing corruption is oozing
Police never put a finger wrong
Chris on camera the years are long
Now public's seen it can't be denied
Christopher himself testified
Janet's a warrior an English Queen
If it wasn't for her no public would have seen
She pushed it and pushed real hard
Now police should get a red card
In time Chrissy did etch
Police should get a long stretch
To ponder over a fact of will
Nobody helped him when he was ill
The rest of the evidence buried real quick
Now your walls down brick by brick
We can see in to Christopher's death
How badly treated and his last breath
But what bothers me more what's so inhumane
The powers above treat it like a game
The government Blair, Blunkett and all
Christopher outshines you, the writings on the camera.

RIP"

[michele cryer]

Aaawww Mitch,

What a wonderful poem Ben has written...please introduce us to more of his, inspired, work!!

michele

[Mitch]

Helllooooooo sisters, here's a treat


'Outer Hebrides' by Sheila Rowbotham

"Loving and hurting
have become for us
inextricable,
like the unspoken words
we persistently share
until I can no longer
settle in my own space
without the pang
of your desire.

There is so much of me
in you
nestling, easy, playing, caressing,
A slow deep passion with belongings.

Now you are strangely vulnerable
No longer proudly covered
You have willed yourself
beyond
the western extremities
of our island

I've watched your face
over months
drawn in the effort of curing
The commitment tight
A mask melting in the shambling, trembling release
timed between bleeps,
to set again
cut by the black rage against exhaustion
pressing me into isolation.

Part of me had crept quietly away
Before my desertion."

[michele cryer]

Very interesting Mitch...thank you.