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'Season Greetings' - ChrisL (210 posts) December 6th, 2009, 06:12 PM (13 replies)
Dear All
2009 is coming to an end and a new year is approaching with all the expectations and hope it brings along. For most of our readers in the West this is the time of year to celebrate and to wish love and peace to everyone, regardless religious beliefs and cultural differences. Therefore, on the behalf of all people involved in the development of this project I would like to wish you a lovely Season and a very Happy 2010.
I would also like to invite you all to leave your own End of Year messages in this space. Season poems are also welcome :)
All the best
Chris Lima
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ElizabethE (8 posts) December 19th, 2009, 06:46 AM
We Won't Have a Christmas This Year
by Verna S Teeuwissen.
We won't have a Christmas this year, you say
For now the children have all gone away;
And the house is so lonely, so quiet and so bare
We couldn't have a Christmas that they didn't share.
We won't have a Christmas this year, you sigh,
For Christmas means things that money must buy.
Misfortunes and illness have robbed us we fear
Of the things that we'd need to make Christmas this year.
We won't have a Christmas this year you weep,
For a loved one is gone, and our grief is too deep;
It will be a long time before our hearts heal,
And the spirit of Christmas again we can feel.
But if you lose Christmas when troubles befall,
You never have really had Christmas at all.
For once you have had it, it cannot depart
When you learn that true Christmas is Christ in your heart.
So....Have Christmas everyone and make it joyful....Merry Christmas and happy 2010 to Chris and all of you!
All the best
Elizabeth Evans
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SM Thompson (55 posts) December 19th, 2009, 08:36 PM
We will have Christmas this Year
Without any fear
Of Snow or falling on ice
We will all enjoy
A Happy Christmas this year
SM Thompson, Southampton: UK:
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Maria do Céu Costa (136 posts) January 5th, 2010, 09:08 PM
Dear Chris & Dear All
As the New Year 2010 unfolds, hope it brings health,new joys, beautiful moments, and positive surprises for you all to cherish forever!
Best regards,
Maria
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SM Thompson (55 posts) January 6th, 2010, 10:00 AM
Dear Chris,
Thanks for your wonderful message at Christmas and may I take the opportunity of wishing you all a Very Happy New Year in 2010! Lets make it a good one and my new book is published in America 21/12/09 Four Questions!! Great Stuff ...all the best to the British Council! SM Thompson Author: UK:
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Tanguene (215 posts) January 6th, 2010, 12:35 PM
Dear All,
Happy 2010, I wish success to all us!
"Nothing is New"
with courage
of the shining bright sun
that comes and goes
Christmas comes and goes!
Their joy is to see their faces,
friends or not friends - matters not,
when Christmas and new years
come and go
their joy is
to live, not only but
to see many more
come and go.
Tanguene
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ChrisL (210 posts) January 6th, 2010, 07:52 PM
Dear Everyone
Thanks a lot for your messages and poems! I hope you all have a great 2010, with lots of poetry and good stories to read and tell the others :)
Cheers - Chris
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Sanghita (44 posts) January 8th, 2010, 01:56 PM
Dear friends
With our thoughts we touch each other
who are otherwise far away.
your loving words made life look so worthy.
Worthy certainly it is -
In spite of loss
In spite of tears
In spite of fear of No Christmas and No New Years.
Yet Christmas came
Yet came the New Year
To make us feel wanted and dear -
the memory of people we lost
in our grief we loved them most
even in the eve of this so far insignificant year.
We may not have bought gifts that money can buy
We may not have touched mirth that wealthy can try
Yet we had a candle lit even
with people on earth and in heaven
For we had their company
For we had them in their thoughts.
We got a year that money may not have bought.
Wish all of us a VERY Fulfilling journey ahead - let us promise to stand by each other at the time of happiness and more importantly in the time of crisis - after all relationships are like oasis in the storm tossed life.
With lots of love
Sanghita
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ChrisL (210 posts) January 8th, 2010, 02:01 PM
Beautiful! Thanks a lot for this Sanghita !
Your words give me hope and remind me that there reasons and people we fight for and who make living another year worthwhile.
Love - Chris
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Mostafa (24 posts) January 8th, 2010, 08:34 PM
I wish all my friends a very Merry Christmas
Please accept this poem:
The solitary reader
Behold her single in the text,
Young solitary reading lady;
Reading and dreaming by herself,
Stopping here, or gently passing!
Alone she smiles but often cries,
And talks to the imaginary skies:
Oh! Look how beautiful
And charming…
When she turns the page,
With anxious and exciting rage.
Her face would blossom
Like an early spring bud,
But would faint when summer blows its cruel breath.
For she is at the mercy
Of the magic but unsure rhymes.
Words are her yachts
Flirting with the fluid like world
Haunted by the tantalizing
And protean specters of sense.
Yearning for a volatile meaning,
She could embrace or touch
With her mortal and soft lovely hands.
In vain she dreams
Of freezing up or catching
The fleeing notions of time and lands.
Reading is but a daydreaming,
Overstepping the limits
Of this indifferent earthly life.
Full of deceit and angelic lies.
Sacred is her fictive world,
When space and time
Are not real but as sweet
As my solitary sugary lime.
Mostafa MOUHIBE
30 December, 16:30 PM
Inspired by Wordsworht’s The Solitary Reaper
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SM Thompson (55 posts) January 9th, 2010, 09:50 AM
Happy New Year - to you ... Wordsworth is a favourite of mine ... SM Thompson Southampton: UK:
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ChrisL (210 posts) January 17th, 2010, 12:05 PM
Beautiful poem Mostafa. It reminded me of a portrait by Fragonard, 'Young Girl Reading'.
Thanks for this!!
Chris
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SM Thompson (55 posts) January 17th, 2010, 09:15 PM
Hi Chris,
I agree ... some of the poems made delightful reading especially over the Christmas and New Year Holidays here in the: UK: SM Thompsoon, Author!
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SM Thompson (55 posts) January 18th, 2010, 04:24 PM
I was reading the news about spelling being an issue in France but how about it .. on your website we have:
Mustafa,
Moostafa,
Moqstafa,
or in my own case,
Tompson
Thompson
Thompsoon
Intriguing! but I wouldnt call it "butchering" the English Language more embellishment of English Language: SM THOMPSON: SOUTHAMPTON: UK: POET:
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