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1 Sep, 2024

Thyme

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Long listed for the Write about Walking Together competition 2024


Thyme – written and read by Damaris West

Where the stream is a path
up the sandstone boulders
and the path is a stream,
there are shell-pink buds
of dog rose, sowbread, cranesbill,
one lone orchid, mysterious
blue flowers I can’t name,
- and wild thyme.

'Look!' I call to the dogs
as they rear and plunge
through drenching grasses,
'I've found us thyme!'
But they do not heed me, knowing
full well they have time in abundance,
full well they'll be granted to live again
twitching tonight in their dreams
this beautiful afternoon.

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APA style reference

West, D. (2024). Thyme. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/2024/09/01/thyme/

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snudge

The first sense of snudging refers to being cheap, stingy, miserly, and Scrooge-like. Such penny-pinching behavior isn’t associated with great posture, and perhaps that’s why the word later referred to walking with a bit of a stoop. An English-French dictionary from 1677 captures the essence of snudgery: “To Snudge along, or go like an old Snudge, or like one whose Head is full of business.” Snudging is a little like trudging. Credits to Mark Peters.

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