tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post2699860521730272508..comments2023-12-30T17:31:11.883+00:00Comments on The Solitary Walker: a vagabond lifeThe Solitary Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-84962520520743792842011-11-06T17:55:32.453+00:002011-11-06T17:55:32.453+00:00Thanks for your comments, Friko and Elizabeth.
Fr...Thanks for your comments, Friko and Elizabeth.<br /><br />Friko - those ants are getting itchy...The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-33409102323515292862011-11-04T20:32:26.286+00:002011-11-04T20:32:26.286+00:00Love it...nuff said. xLove it...nuff said. xElizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05792185208462306952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-47110626755882723302011-11-04T20:12:51.881+00:002011-11-04T20:12:51.881+00:00ants in your pants?
And why not, why not follow t...ants in your pants?<br /><br />And why not, why not follow that path to the ends of the earth? Have stick, will walk.<br /><br />(So you do't believe what I say, eh?)Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-48934939559602586712011-11-04T13:44:53.387+00:002011-11-04T13:44:53.387+00:00Thanks for visiting, Suman. You are getting quite ...Thanks for visiting, Suman. You are getting quite a regular round here, and your presence is always most welcome! Humdrum life is what we live most of the time. The trick is to transform it somehow (without even the need for a camino) - as we live it - into something meaningful and beautiful. Hmm ... not always easy ...<br /><br />Thanks, George. I think I speak from one vagabond to another here...The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-5177614923391082322011-11-04T00:10:29.689+00:002011-11-04T00:10:29.689+00:00Fun and delightful, Robert. I count thirty-one po...Fun and delightful, Robert. I count thirty-one potential developments that could send you off to the vagabond life again, and I'm quite certain, of course, that there are many more. You are a vagabond at heart, regardless of where you hang your hat.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-37014402746229436282011-11-03T21:48:19.555+00:002011-11-03T21:48:19.555+00:00How very enchanting! Love the luscious scenery the...How very enchanting! Love the luscious scenery the poem paints. And the 'lilt of a lark' and the 'moan of a sea' - brilliant!<br /> <br />How I hate my humdrum life after reading this! :-)Sumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11251497690649264925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-89129366924948344442011-11-03T20:07:01.490+00:002011-11-03T20:07:01.490+00:00And thanks, Cait, for your visit. Hope to see you ...And thanks, Cait, for your visit. Hope to see you again soon! Fans of Marmite are very welcome round these parts.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-36460827550393857612011-11-03T20:04:40.451+00:002011-11-03T20:04:40.451+00:00Thanks, one and all, for your responses to my poem...Thanks, one and all, for your responses to my poem.<br /><br />am - that's astute of you. I hadn't realised it but, yes, there is a subconscious, playful, list-making, childlike, Dylanesque feel to it! (Under The Red Sky, Hard Rain?Others.)<br /><br />I tried to use a mixture of cliché and subverted cliché - with attention to rhyme, half-rhyme, assonance etc. to make the thing swing along musically, like a chant or a children's rhyme or some kind of mythic but light-hearted litany - relating all the images as far as possible sonically as well as thematically. Every image has some obvious or tenuous connection with the Camino.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-20591887550472594772011-11-03T17:04:07.935+00:002011-11-03T17:04:07.935+00:00Found your blog via another blogger. As a long-tim...Found your blog via another blogger. As a long-time cloudwatcher I love your header pic. And the poem too. And Marmite. I will be back.Cait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-19903252760475688142011-11-03T16:26:15.535+00:002011-11-03T16:26:15.535+00:00(-:
You must have some John Muir genes.
I read t...(-:<br /><br />You must have some John Muir genes.<br /><br />I read this somewhere in connection with John Muir:<br /><br />"Had Cain been Scot, <br />God would have changed his doom,<br />Nor forced his wander, <br />but confined him home."<br /><br />I thought I was hearing some Bob Dylan in with Solitary Walker when I read your vagabond poem, but now I am absolutely sure that Bob Dylan, like you, picked up that lilt from Dr. Seuss (-:<br /><br />John Muir was right about everything being connected.<br /><br />Wonderful and mysterious images, Solitary Walker!amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212213177713917828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-42902914257064465732011-11-03T16:22:39.392+00:002011-11-03T16:22:39.392+00:00Love it Robert - that nomad life has really got in...Love it Robert - that nomad life has really got into your soul hasn't it.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-26708619507017349152011-11-03T15:02:10.910+00:002011-11-03T15:02:10.910+00:00Pretty neat!
xPretty neat!<br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-27951729676634867812011-11-03T15:00:12.427+00:002011-11-03T15:00:12.427+00:00Nah...we're not hooked at all, could quit anyt...Nah...we're not hooked at all, could quit anytime we want! Right! Of course that leaves the question why would we want to! Really enjoyed this one!ksamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998231466478015431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-68502446678485097852011-11-03T14:43:10.026+00:002011-11-03T14:43:10.026+00:00I heard a deer bark (so startling!), does it count...I heard a deer bark (so startling!), does it count if it was here, not there?<br /><br />I love this, Dr. Solitary.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-85377177530216713072011-11-03T14:14:22.336+00:002011-11-03T14:14:22.336+00:00Ah, you make the vagabond life sound so appealing ...Ah, you make the vagabond life sound so appealing and romantic!Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09696349282379608085noreply@blogger.com