Rolf Lange
Sunshine
Windswept bridge
One man on the wheel
Singing.
Lonely, unusual,
Eastern and haunting.
We are waiting
For the body of a friend
From a far country.
Everything is sad,
Blue sea haze like glass.
We are waiting.
Some background on the author:
My late husband Rolf Lange grew up in Nazi Germany. Although not Quaker, he was a peaceful man who passionately believed that a united Europe would eliminate the need for war between nations. How sad he would have been to know of Brexit and the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine. I published his poems in the book “Walking With the Sun” as a tribute to him after his sudden death six years ago in Spain, where we lived for 22 years.
Carol Lange
More articles in this month’s newsletter:
- May 2022
- Reflections during a zoom meeting 3 April
- Meeting for Worship 24 April
- The politics of place – and some local witnessing
- Monthly Appeal May 2022
- ‘Friendly Persuasion’
- Mutual Support Group – ‘Getting Older’
- Four Delusions and a Plea
- Note From the Gardening Team
- Britain Yearly Meeting is Seeking a Youth, Children, and Families Development Worker
- Waiting
- Living in the Spirit
- In Penn’s Shadow (1680-1720) – Philadelphia: The Great Experiment
- Addressing Environmental Issues as a Spiritual Community
- The Quakers: The Whites that helped the slavery abolishment
- Community Noticeboard Online, May 2022
- From Quaker Faith and Practice 24.21
- Meetings for Worship May 2022
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Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 517 • May 2022
Oxford Friends Meeting
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