Wet with privilege, a subtle sorrow
No more songs will come
A tuneful whistle on a country drive
All that’s left of the genius one
There is always something
And always nothing too
With little air in between
The difference is the work to do
A satisfied melancholy
A poetic drama ends
Left to wander the grounds
Bumping into friends
Inspired and pilfered from The Red Hand Files #286
12th Dec 2025 – Shared with Poets and Storytellers United #207 – in between
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Sometimes a little dose of melancholy can be quite comforting.
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There is quiet wisdom behind this poem … beautiful work done 💖
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Thanks 🙏. The wisdom is more likely from the inspirational source than from me. 🤣
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“satisfied melancholy” is a great turn of phrase, Shaun.
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I really admire how you’ve woven sorrow and acceptance together ‘satisfied melancholy’ is beautiful.
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Thanks Marja 🙏
The inspirational Red Hand File is worth a read too.
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The gift of melancholy can really help us define light from dark perhaps and hopefully we can feel reassured that in some degrees it fades and falls – Jae
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You’ve written this beautifully, and I’m glad you shared the source too. (I subscribe to the Red Hand Files, but must have started more recently than this one.) I am reminded of what the great playwright Bernard Shaw once said: “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.”
And it raises all sorts of other questions, e.g. we must NEED our creativity; and, but surely he could have looked around at all the injustices in the world and been spurred by them! (But perhaps what he yearned for was that chimera, Success, and once he had the trappings…)
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Thanks Rosemary. 🙏 That’s a nice Shaw quote!
Sometimes searching the injustices of the world for inspiration can get overwhelming.
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What a great write!! Especially “the difference is the work to do” ~~ each and every one of us. CHEERS.
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Thanks Helen 🙏
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Melancholy can be a great motivator for creativity and it can also heal deep wounds.
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PS: Nick – Intelliblog
All the best for the Festive Season!
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Cheers Nick 🙏
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I like “a satisfied melancholy.”
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Yes, sometimes that can be good. Thanks Priscilla 🙏
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We all need a little bit of melancholy from time to time.
Happy New Year, Shaun!
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Probably the true essence of our life is captured in – There is always something
And always nothing too
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