British Poet | Winifred May | Patience Strong | Author | Good Afternoon | 1975

[@edmundpower1250]

I love her writings and feel she must have had great inner peace to write of such colourful descriptive beauty

[@ingiemummalove130]

I love the way she “Rolls” her R’s in the word Royal. She speaks so eloquently - every vowel, every sound beautiful ❤️

[@alisonrainbowz6861]

This is the first time I have heard poet Patience Strong speak, be interviewed. As a poet myself, I respect and admire her. Finally I have found this lovely conversation, so interesting, thank you.

[@greyyfoxx]

Love her writings ❣️

[@lauradsouza1345]

My Mum bought me Patience Strong poem books when I was. child. Buying them for my Son and Grandchild God bless us

[@IamNotANumber]

Winifred was way ahead of her time.

[@charmainetate6274]

Just found my tattered copy of Patience Strongs "Quiet Thoughts" that I fished out of the bottom of a box , destined for the dumpster at a thrift store about 35 years ago, a real treasure!

[@LadyBlanche.888]

What a lovely true lady. Hard to find that calibre now!

[@ingiemummalove130]

I agree

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Today something jogged a memory almost lost in the mists of a middle aged mind... of a framed poem on the wall at my childhood home. I had not thought of it for DECADES. And the strange thing was inspite of the yawning chasm of years, I could remember it word for word. "What is the best thing life can give us as its winding road we wend? Is it not the boon and blessing, of a good and trusted friend? Friendship helps to ease the burden, lifts the heart and lights the way, making sunshine in the shadows, seeing blue skies through the grey. On the hills and in the valleys, sorrows fade and hopes ascend. All roads lead to bright horizons, in the company of friends" I never realised how much that dusty framed poem on a long demolished wall still remained in my memory. Thank you Patience.

[@saborfrancias]

I miss people with this character. Today everyone is the same.

[@markofsaltburn]

I am definitely the same.😀

[@Pacmanite]

I love the questions that the interviewer asks. "Is death and illness real?" and "What about all the complicated heritage of the royal family, they are basically German..." Patience Strong is a wonderful poet and I find her sincerity and optimism very refreshing. It is fascinating to hear her having received many letters during the war years of people in marriages she helped with her words. I wish she wasn't so caught up in British Israel and the cultish notion of "positive thinking manifests stuff". But a lovely and fascinating woman all the same.

[@randyjohn4827]

"Give me the worthwhile things of life, a heart that merry all the way, an out look that is broad and gray and the kindly company of friends and love to crown my days with joy". - Patience Strong Such a beautiful soul filled with positivity and authenticity.

[@payla8308]

I have the same birthday. My name is the same as her pen name. Patience. 🤯

[@steveryder1442]

Can anyone tell me who the interviewer is?

[@hn1330]

I believe the interviewer is Elaine Grand, she was Canadian - other ‘Good Afternoon’ interviewers were Mavis Nicholson, Mary Parkinson.

[@DazzleHawkins]

Mavis Nicholson

[@shill700]

@@DazzleHawkins No!

[@coletteasnasielski1244]

Goodbye THAMES

[@EgoShredder]

She mentions being European etc, but then falls into the trap of following an Abrahamic desert religion created by and for people in that part of the world. If she really was European she would practice ancestor veneration and honour her Pagan roots.

[@cpg7804]

the purpose of religion is to bind us together, the abrahamic religions are much more conducive at achieving this, as they acknowledge one god and one one lord. also i don't think its an either or situation, as being european is a verb, ie - something to be. one can acknowledge only one god and his only true son, and still remain in the honouring-tradition of venerating thier roots, aka the ancestors I think your ego needs more of a shredding there my friend LOL

[@EgoShredder]

@@cpg7804 We do not need binding we are meant to be free. No monad worship for us thank you.

[@cpg7804]

@@EgoShredder 1- you say - 'for us'. who is the 'us', you speak of? i will accept this if you are a schizoid of some description. 2 - i thought you wanted to be free, including from any - 'us' ? This is contradictory

[@EgoShredder]

@@cpg7804 Us is in relation to my own European people, and more specifically I am English. Europeans as you know are made up of many ethnic tribes, who happen to share a lot in common. I'm not a schizoid and I do not require your acceptance. I want to be free from Abrahamic dogma, which has kept Europeans enslaved for centuries under their usury and feudalism, which still exists today more than ever; infact 2020 is about v2.0 of this on steroids with the incoming economic feudalist technocracy. Christianity did its best to eradicate all aspects of our traditions and culture, even going as far to deceptively take some of our traditions and pass them off as their own, to enable them to look like us and have more people convert more easily. They tried to get rid of Pagans but we still exist in 2020, and infact our presence is returning as more and more Europeans wake up to their true roots, which are not to be found in Abrahamic lands.

[@cpg7804]

​@@EgoShredder First you want to lay claim to a people, by saying - 'my,' people But you don't want anyone to have a claim to another person? This is contradictory 1- do you know of one or more persons under, feudal rule, Ie under bondage to a land-owner? If so, how many? As you are a self-professed pagan... 2 - What are these valuable aspects of paganism, that have/ are being eradicated, referring to in factual terms? Please, if you would be so kind, enlighten me of just a few, as you are the practicer and proponent of such 'traditions' (whatever that means), and 'cultures' (whatever that means)