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By the Water Mill
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No time to gaze beneath the trees
And listen to the whispering trees
Nor climb a hill and feel the thrill
Of waving grass by the water mill

Time is money
Money is time

Give us this day our daily pay
No time to dream upon the hay
Or hear our children laugh and play

Souls blinded and turn to dust for
Want of a three coarse crust
To have a heart content is a
Crime worthy of imprisonment

Life is full of cares and sorrow
Functioning in fatigued despair
Feeding the fabled jam tomorrow

Feathering the taxman's lair
Upon a stretcher or wheelchair

      

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 Reviews of "By the Water Mill"
Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on November 13, 2013
Points effectively made through your verses, Andy. Love and peace,

Regis

Reviewed on March 1, 2013
Gosh, I think i might work with some of these people. very good write.

Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on March 1, 2013
Yes, tis true, we work to eat...

Always,

Deborah

Reviewed on February 27, 2013
Oh you have hit at the core of it Andy, well done.

Reviewed by Laurel Lamperd
Reviewed on February 22, 2013
It seems most of us have to work to live, and eat. A very gloomy photograph. Your poem tells it how it is.

Reviewed by Teresa Walker
Reviewed on February 20, 2013
Made me sad Andy yet it has some truth~! I lost energy reading this and my hope is a good tax return and that I don't slip on the ice here in the USA from the weather we are currently having. I hope I don't have to be taken by ambulance on a stretcher and end up in that wheelchair from your last line,I felt this poem, pull and tug at my stomach.

I am thinking on the positive and hope your plethora of words speak more uplifting to our souls!
You are an amazing writer to make a person feel the soul!
Teresa

Reviewed by Paul Williams
Reviewed on February 19, 2013
Realise it's all an illusion, a creation the matrix...It's Red pill time buddy...Arrange another 'poets on the doings' with Kate and I'll bring some with me. ;) Well penned Andy.

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on February 19, 2013
Give us this day our daily pay
No time to dream upon the hay
Or hear our children laugh and play

So sadly true, for so many today.

Reviewed by Vivian Dawson
Reviewed on February 18, 2013
Very sad the truth about
which you write *Andy*
but praying the light
will break through..

Lady Vivian

Reviewed by Jon Willey
Reviewed on February 18, 2013
Andy, you've captured the essence of what I personally have termed, 'the plastic people' of modern society - nothing matters but their personal desires - the human race appears to be void of the need and understanding for value programming for the greater whole, mankind - without the roses to smell, what is there? - you've done an outstanding job of poetically summarizing this scenario - I wish you love and peace my dear friend - Jon Michael

Reviewed by Christine Tsen
Reviewed on February 18, 2013
This is stunning writing Andy!
I'm gazing, listening to the trees until my last breath. I don't want to be normal, and I would rather be poor than join the rat-race.
Blessings,
Chris

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on February 18, 2013
Palpable, concisely imaged; a vision that may soon find a greater fruition on the global stage. One of your best. Peace ...

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on February 18, 2013
Time, money and tomorrow, things we never have enough of. Nice write.
Cheers,
Dan

Reviewed by John Flanagan
Reviewed on February 18, 2013
our conditioning has a lot to answer for;
a strong delivery, Andy

john

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 18, 2013
Thoreau wrote that, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” The masses are on a treadmill of ritualistic behavior, mostly in search of money, but off in search of passing the free time they have, unable to smell the roses.

Your poem rings very true for most. Poets and dreamers are exempt, of course. ;-)

Ron

Reviewed by Bernice Angoh
Reviewed on February 17, 2013
Very heavy and sad write...no hope....no life

Reviewed by Diana Legun (Reader)
Reviewed on February 17, 2013
Large, effective expression of strife, phrased with a sort of beauty of word that makes this poem compelling to me. ~~ Diana

Reviewed by John Domino
Reviewed on February 17, 2013
This is one somber poem of what life is like in darkness with no hope.
It's good news that some see past the walls of prison and truly experience freedom as id on angelic wings with the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on February 17, 2013
As George said, "tomorrow never comes" but there is always yesterday...e

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on February 17, 2013
Tomorrow never comes.


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