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    Where Roves the Mind, Whilst the Billy Boils
    Where Roves the Mind, Whilst the Billy Boils
    Where Roves the Mind, Whilst the Billy Boils
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    Where Roves the Mind, Whilst the Billy Boils

    By Kg. Lyle

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    In quiet times, a mind reflects upon the experiences time has given. Time spent by a solitary camp fire waiting for the water to boil is perfect for such reflections. They may be current. They may be historical. But they are as undisciplined as the smoke of the fire, the steam from the water rising randomly, driven by the breeze of emotion or the heat from those embers of life gone by. This is a collection of such reflections in verse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press AU
    Release dateJul 21, 2017
    ISBN9781504307109
    Where Roves the Mind, Whilst the Billy Boils
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    Kg. Lyle

    Kg. Lyle was raised in a country town in Victoria. He is the fifth generation of his family to have grown there, and now the seventh generation of the family continues in what is now a commuter abode for Melbourne. Kg. experienced the interdependent farming, secondary and tertiary society of rural towns as he grew from childhood to fifty years when circumstance called him to move. The valley of Bacchus Marsh, in those days, still held benefits for growing minds in a safe community. At age fifty, having exhausted his value to his family and community, he ventured forth into the very different culture of inner suburban culture Melbourne. He was fortunate to find sanctuary with people who exposed him to newer thoughts and understandings. He was introduced to the Usui System of Natural Healing called Reiki and became a practitioner of level 1 in 1992. His teaching master, Klaudia Hockhuth of Bungarie, elevated him through second degree before initiating him to master level shortly after. Kg. Lyle’s background was as the child of self-employed small business entrepreneur parents, who instilled community service as an ethos of responsibility to the society which supported them. He first started writing verse in the 1970s as he observed the growth of his town from its rural state into the urban reality of its present. Some of his work was printed in the local Express newspaper as commentary upon the local scene and administration at the time. Heritage has always been a stimulant to Kg.’s imagination as history is the base of the world we have now. Time moved on as it does, and with it, new people passed through the line of his life, each one gifting him with different aspects of living. Most of these gifts have stayed within him, even as the people travelled their personal paths, as he did his. Today he finds himself as a retired pensioner living with his lady of choice, Suzanna, in the beautiful region of East Gippsland, Victoria, with its natural charm of verdant bushland and gentle rivers, albeit challenging winter climate. It is in this tranquil paradise that Kg. has found the space to collate the journey of his writing. He hopes others enjoy the trip too.

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      Where Roves the Mind, Whilst the Billy Boils - Kg. Lyle

      Copyright © 2017 Kg Lyle.

      Contact Ken by mail : P.O.Box 170 Nicholson,

      Victoria, 3882

      Australia.

      email : Lylethemagi@gmail.com

      phone : +3 515 68867

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Balboa Press

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      Bloomington, IN 47403

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-5043-0709-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5043-0710-9 (e)

      Balboa Press rev. date: 07/19/2017

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      Contents

      1940 and on past 2016

      The Days of Wish Unnumbered.

      A Day Like Mine Without Sun will Shine

      The Companions.

      They Reckon

      I Reckon

      Happy New Year 2013

      The Siren Song for an Odyssey

      In Loving Separation.

      It’s the way ya say it, not what ya said.

      For a Memory and 2 Little Boys

      Flashing Moments

      A Sunday Jot on Time.

      In the Spring of All and Wonder

      Life is a Journey of Spirit.

      Wondering

      Mother.

      Perspective

      A quartet of Randoms

      A Cynic

      The Wishing Star.

      The Beating Heart

      A Graded Path to Smoothness.

      Tranquillity       21/2/14

      Where is Heaven; what is Hell.

      The Class system

      Wishing Me to Be

      The Ill Begotten Game

      Circumstance & Change.

      Commitment.

      I AM.

      Moon

      Ah the Conundrums of Life.

      Learning to see.

      A Wondrous Journey.

      To a Lady Lost

      An Ode to every Nanna

      Reiki - Balance & Power & Energy

      Reiki - Milparinka & Moon.

      The Season

      The Art of Search

      An Analogy of Life

      Smile

      Ego

      The Gifts.

      Life’s Rhythm

      ‘Twas Damp.

      At Odds

      Options

      Reflections as a 46 years old

      A Learning

      A Heart to Heal.

      Separation.

      Dawning in a Blinded Mind.

      Moving on.

      A Lesson

      The I Am of All

      Dawn and Dusk.

      Contentment

      The End creates a Beginning.

      A NYE Reflection

      An Analogy of a Once Was.

      The Black Dog.

      My Australia

      A True Noble Spirit.

      The Angry Beloved.

      A Valentine

      Lies & Deception

      Constant the Illusion

      Change is Continual

      Thunder Rattles the Evening Sky

      A Ballad to honour A.B. Paterson who gave

      Matilda Lyric Fame and Clancy Legend’s Class.

      Beyond the Urban Boundary

      The Aussie Stress

      A Truth of the Bush.

      Remembering What Was

      Murrindindi

      Possum

      Still Your Mind

      Dreams.

      Remember Me.

      Duty

      Just thinkin’. Different but hoped for Dinkum.

      A Thought upon the pain of some I know.

      Distracted, so distracted

      An Idle Mind on a Nothing Day.20.12.16

      Solitary

      Who ARE They ?

      The Pilgrim.

      The Author hopes that you, the Reader,

      will enjoy your experience from this

      collection.

      The content of this collection of
      writing is original and remains the
      property of Ken Lyle and so may
      only be reproduced or used with permission.

      ©

      Contact Ken by mail : P.O.Box 170 Nicholson,

      Victoria, 3882

      Australia.

      email : Lylethemagi@gmail.com

      phone : +3 515 68867

      A 40 odd years meander :

      (1975 - 2016)

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      of a roving mind.

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      There are many influences upon my way

      which steer what I perceive each day.

      This text called Desiderata

      seems good as this light tome’s starter

      to share the journey of my thought

      be it just a reflection or practice taught.

      DESIDERATA

      by Max Ehrmann

      Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

      As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

      Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even dull and ignorant;

      they too have their story.

      Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.

      If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be

      greater or lesser persons than yourself.

      Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

      Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes

      of time.

      Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you

      to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

      Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about Love, for in the face of all aridity

      and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

      Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

      Nurture strength of Spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

      But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

      Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

      You are a child of the Universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

      And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

      Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive God to be, and whatever your labours and

      aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your Soul.

      With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

      Be careful. Strive to be happy.

      1940 and on past 2016

      I was born into a time now gone, as times are want to do,

      yet those values taught by Parents I still hold as being true.

      It was a time of war, that I first saw in the absence of my Dad,

      who was fighting in the Islands an enemy held as bad.

      When he came home I was just five

      too young to understand the sacrifice or horror

      but glad he was alive.

      Those days of peace with glory:

      Those days acclaimed by all with optimism planned

      were my basic learning story

      to guide my life, as yet unplanned but ready to expand.

      Now in a new time’s century

      I seek what seems as lost;

      the morals of community

      where truth appears to be tossed

      upon an expedient rubbish heap

      where ethics have no unity;

      where price out-ways the older values’ cost.

      Yet the truth

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