Journal Entry 1 by GlitterLover from Leyland, Lancashire United Kingdom on Thursday, February 21, 2008

I mooched this book from a kind USA moocher. It is a slim beautifully produced volume (maroon cover not cream), which contains only one poem.
The inaugural poem for Bill Clinton in 1993.
It is a beautiful poem full of humanity and love as Maya is wont to spread.

It is going to go off into the bookcrossing yonder as a RING.

It is so slim and quick to read with a little longer to digest that I ask all to post it on quickly.
Please journal when it arrives,
Contact the next person for their address when it arrives so it can move as fast as possible
Please also journal when you post it on.

The list of ring participants is below...
MrsBridgewater
Spike1970

 

Journal Entry 2 by GlitterLover at on Monday, March 03, 2008

Released 4 yrs ago (3/4/2008 UTC) at

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1st step in the ring. 

Journal Entry 3 by mrsbridgewater from Holybourne, Hampshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Arrived safely - thank you! 

Journal Entry 4 by mrsbridgewater from Holybourne, Hampshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Sorry! I've held this up for too long, with no excuse.

Loved it! WIll post on to Spike tomorrow. 

Journal Entry 5 by spike1972 from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Oopsy, this arrived ages ago and got buried.. 

Journal Entry 6 by spike1972 from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Tuesday, June 17, 2008

As with all the other Maya Angelou material I've read - though I still have some on Mt Toobie - this is beautifully written and, in places, quite powerful and thought provoking.

It's good to see that she's not afraid to pull any punches, even when she's writing on/for such an occasion.

I just need to send this 'home' now. 

Journal Entry 7 by Caterinaanna from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Saturday, July 12, 2008

I snuck in and read this while it was at Spike's house. It's a very pretty little book and the poem was OK: I'm not a fan of 'occasional' poems, which is why, when I write them, they're always doggrel. Anyway in this the fabric of the country - rock, river, tree - calls to the people of the country to have the courage to dream and reshape the life of the country (or at least that's how I now interpret the jottings I made at the time, a couple of months ago). A good way round methinks.

Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out,
And into your sister's eyes,
And into your brother's face,
Your country.
And say simply,
Very simply,
With hope -
Good morning.

I've just worked out, I used that 'with hope' phrase in a similar way in one of my 'pomes' years ago - wonder how she got hold of a copy? ;o)

I'm fairly certain Spike has sent this on - I can't see it in his basket of things to do. 

Journal Entry 8 by Caterinaanna from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, January 04, 2009

Well if he did, it hasn't got there yet, so this is a nudge to him to go and look for it or get a label on it!