CULTURE
Roots must stay alive
contained within boundaries
culture is precious.
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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- Comment from author about the poem: This little ‘un was written following comments made against yesterday’s posting. It was intended to show the need to maintain and keep alive the roots of customs and practices of individual societies. However on reading it through it could also apply to horticulture. Either way it seems to work.
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So very true Michael.
Great artwork.
Thanks Andy
GOOD MORNING VAN GOGH ~ Love the VISUAL "SURVIVAL" We all need roots TAP ROOTS for nourishment and stability and LATERAL ROOTS to expand our Boundaries ~ Thanks for reminding ~ BRIAN
Cheers Brian - sadly cultures across the world are being fused in a cauldron of diluted mish-mash - inevitable I guess with mass migration, the lowering of boundaries and isolationism.
A fine write and pic Michael. Oohh, I know, me roots must be kept alive when I dye me hair green! Now come on Orchi, you've missed the point of this poem. Probably lost the plot again! lol.
Orchi - green is so yesterday - try burnt sienna with chrome yellow highlights and, no, you haven't lost the plot - it's still there under the snow !!
Ah yes - burnt sienna, etc I will try. The allotment plot?!
Look forward to seeing a photo and yes - in that order.
Also applies to politics and society. The country i grew up in where we played games which had roots hundreds of years old and the nation followed many historic traditions (look whats happened to sundays) has changed so very much. The boundaries, whatever, you perceive them to be, have been eroded.
Are you posting a 'wake up UK' notice here?
Thanks dusk - more like a wake-up-world notice. I was watching a programme about The silk Road Project which features artists from across the world playing their traditional instruments. They were all saying that there were few left who still play them and the skills to do so are dying out - so sad.
Oh yes - wouldn't the world be a flat place without all the different cultures. Only thing I can say for the mish-mash though is that I see kids growing up together and not thinking twice about who is what color or whatever - and perhaps that is a good thing for the future. Will they kill each other less perhaps?
Totally agree about tolerance and understanding. But it's all a very complex issue - here in the UK our leaders continually push the view that it is correct to welcome different cultures into our society - it makes a more diverse & dynamic society which is to everyone's advantage - or is it? We certainly enjoy all that is now available to us all by way of diversity but is it at the risk, over time, of diluting and even changing the existing culture of the indigenous population? I am not arguing in favour of any particular view but I can see the realty of it all which is so often overlooked by those who champion the politically correct agenda and deride those with different views.
Cripes - all a bit heavy isn\'t it!!
Yes and very hard to watch. What I meant is that it likely won't be so hard for the young ones that just will have grown up differently... it's such a hard issue... but my parents came here (US) as immigrants and had to go through a lengthy process and I think that is correct for everyone no matter who. You can't just "sink the lifeboat" with too many at once. Yes heavy and emotionally confusing. And there's nothing wrong with missing our cultures the way they were.
Yes it will be so much easier for the young ones - times and attitudes are changing as I have seen - my wife is from Burma - nowadays no one asks where she comes from and our marriage isn't questioned any more - quite different from when we got married back in the early 6os.
Wonderful! (Now Burma has set me off in other directions as my uncle was in the Royal Engineers in India right near Burma (WWII)) - Yes, well the 60's had the people born before WWI crying too so nothing changes does it! I can remember my grandmother and her friends lamenting how England had lost all the good men and would never be the same again ........
Michael,
Two fine little gems...poem and painting!
Your subject matter is a constant discussion in our household! Trying to keep our culture alive as much as we can!
~Laura~
And in households world wide I guess Laura. Even in my lifetime I have seen ways of life disappear - is that progress?
Honestly, a worthwhile debate!
Culture is an introduction to the life....good writing!
What a great way to describe it - thanks MR
Precious indeed! Great artwork to go with the poem!
Thanks so much Christina
As we loose the diversity that individualized tribes and nations, who know, as we one day journey the stars, we will be diverse again.
As always, lovely oasis in the sea of sand
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