an INVITATION to FOLLOW – COMMENT and DEVELOP NEW WAYS to VIEW the WORLD!

Visit http://johndwmacdonald.com Hailing from centuries of sea-going adventurers and hand-loom weavers – John confidently navigates, focuses on and blends issues – simple and complex – that are important for the individual in the world. He links with other poets and photographers, juxtaposing their posts and his own – his site is full of insight and delight in the sheer glory of word and image – gained through many unique explorations of the world. And this explosion of experience has only just begun!

John’s photo-poems include:

• Make way for the Boys -  about our abandoned sons
• Well Francesco – On what St Francis might think about the world today
• If night holds no light
• Tonight the News is Light
• Luck is no Lady
• Peace of the world
• Good-Bye Now My Brother
• The freedom of Time

‘Good Bye Now My Brother’ has just been published in Chilean News – magazine of the Anglo-Chilean Society. Other future posts will be translations from the Russian of Pushkin and Lermontov’s poetry, which have been published in the Scottish poetry magazine -Chapman and are real and delightful poems in their own right.

Postings from very talented but as yet less-published international poet bloggers are a new and developing component. These already include:

• Reclusewritings – Site of Brian Looney
• Nevercontrary
• Sorealtonight
• Nothing Hurt

John’s photo-journeys aim to re-conceive the way we see the world before us. These include:

• Extraordinary Rail
• Duck and Frond
• Beyond the Forth Rail Bridge
• Profile of a Son of the Sea
• On Mobile Photography
• Beyond the Brewery, which links to the site of Peter Burnet

Other postings include political satire namely: The New Flora Macdonald comments on what she considers to be more ridiculous Scottish myths and Tom Pride’s rippling satires on the characters who populate Britain’s political events.

A recent posting sumarises questions about the validity of Socialism and the Individual. This site is set to grow and become a vehicle for commentary on the individual, society and world. “Follows” are invited -comments will invariably be answered – and many dialogues will be developed – leading to new postings and shared insights. This is a lively wiry blend of creativity and commentary  – a fitting face for humanity in our electric age!