dailyprompt-2017 – Steve_Bamlett

What act suffices as an ‘act of kindness’? Or is that the wrong question? This is a blog that is partially about Simon Armitage’s ‘Give’, first published in a collection in ‘Dead Sea Poems’ (1995).

July 24, 2025

From a film made to support schools teaching the poem Give by the BBC. See: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/articles/znd7t39 I happened upon a word on a wallThat said just ‘Give’: Give what? I thought, I giveEnough in taxes, in support of those Who claim to suffer more than me. Who knows?If someone could write on walls can’t they … More What act suffices as an ‘act of kindness’? Or is that the wrong question? This is a blog that is partially about Simon Armitage’s ‘Give’, first published in a collection in ‘Dead Sea Poems’ (1995).

Almost flesh, not kind … Akin in ‘we’.

August 4, 2023

Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone. A hug, a smile, a giving up Flesh finding its kind in random touch Not seen, not even felt perhaps Except in that touching when Flesh answers in the same kind. And ‘we’ instead of ‘I’ flowers Aloft above its lonely fragile stems of … More Almost flesh, not kind … Akin in ‘we’.

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What act suffices as an ‘act of kindness’? Or is that the wrong question? This is a blog that is partially about Simon Armitage’s ‘Give’, first published in a collection in ‘Dead Sea Poems’ (1995).

Almost flesh, not kind … Akin in ‘we’.