A Thousand DimensionsKenneth WebbRings of a Tree, deadwood, Delphine Ducaruge of New Zealand

Deadwood

A Thousand DimensionsKenneth WebbRings of a Tree, deadwood, Delphine Ducaruge of New Zealand
Deadwood

A Thousand Dimensions

Volume 1

Inspired by, and Dedicated to,

Frau Rita Schneeweiß

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Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland

With the Seasons I change
With Autumn I shed old wood…

No longer alive,
I echo the inner rings
By which my age is determined,
And I find myself in a different trajectory,
Much wider,
But, as with the rings of my years,
An orbit far beyond the naked eye.

Old ~ retreats,
New ~ advances,
Fire ~ cleanses.

Out of Fire, Gold is honed,
Pain ~ temporary,
Beauty ~ permanent.

Deadwood is not an end.
It is the Cycle of Life.


Earth ~ Water ~ Fire

Is this, without exception,
a universal principle?
Do we just keep carrying on
in new trajectories,
New orbits,
New lives?

Is it possible I can count my life
in the same way, as I count
the rings of a tree?

Possibly
Probably
and … … … ??

I go now


16 July 2024
All Rights Reserved


LIVERPOOL


© 2024 Kenneth Thomas Webb

Written 7 January 2021 | Last Published 21 August 2022

West Coast of New Zealand



The banner image is a Photo by Delphine Ducaruge on Unsplash

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.

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Random Thoughts Prompted by Genius

Writing is often prompted and, therefore, unplanned. These thoughts were prompted by the genius of Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA and a different genius in the world of music, the genius of Hans Zimmer. The composition prompting me to write, is Hans Zimmer’s theme Time to the film Inception.

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Random Thoughts Prompted by Genius
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Fables

Written without intent, waking suddenly at 6 am on 6 August 2014. Having penned it, I turned over at 6.25 am and had another hour. Later, the first reports on the news that Europe’s first spacecraft Rosetta is entering a triangular orbit around Comet 67P after “a ten-year chase”. 

I write this because my patience is tried when I’m asked to abandon all logic and to accept that the entire Universe is only eight thousand years old. I’ll turn over again!

A Thousand Dimensions, PoetryKenneth Webbphysics, spoken into existence, Millennia and Billennia, citizen of heaven, Rosetta, Comet 67P, D 25, Fables, eternal damnation, theory of evolution, Fables Composed August 6, 2014 and written in my author name Ian Bradley Marshall
Fables
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Life is the Beauty of Freedom (An Indirect Ukraine Dispatch 29) Revised Version

Written on September 6, 2015 in Gloucestershire, it is dedicated to Frau Rita Schneeweiß in traversing the heights and depths, in conquering all, as we rebuild bridges where bridges have fallen or been knocked down, building bridges where none before existed. We step forward, confident, sprightly, for we have overcome, and will overcome, all!

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Life is the Beauty of Freedom (An Indirect Ukraine Dispatch 29) Revised Version