Not Quite Good Enough

What it says, please buck up...
I'm joking. these are all the things I'm either:-

not really sure what to do with

going to look at again in future (HA!)or

-Yes- not quite satisfied with.

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"untitleds"

Nothing much to see here. I made the image at graphicsprings.com
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'Ach Well...'

ambivalence, there's a lot of it on both sides... Image source wiki commons. Licence CC-SA 3.0 Photographer Gil Cavalcanti
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A Place in the Sun

This is an old poem, 11 years old, in fact. I had been in Spain for 8 years at the time I wrote it. Nothing lasts forever and I think I knew it even then. Anyway, not much of interest here. Image Wikipedia commons.
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A Reflection on Memory's Dreams

It's about... I've forgotten. Image source wikipedia. It is in the Public Domain
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A Son at Gretl's Bedside

No, it's not about a fairy tale. Image made at Canva.com using PD elements.
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A Spadeful of Blues

Ten years old... just shows how long I've been obsessed with... well, if you listen to the audio too, you'll know. I've always said I'd pay for an audiobook of him reading Chandler. Image from The Big Combo is in the Public Domain (!!!)
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Afternoons Without Spoons

Entered in a poetry competition more than 10 years ago. I think it came 2nd last. I've just found it again. Perhaps you'd prefer it if I hadn't. Image author's own, made at canva.com using a collage technique.
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Ballad of an Organ Donor

I am, are you? Anyway, this is just silly, but think about carrying the card. Image used under fair use from NHS website.
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BASIC : The Language of Love

What it says. Image author's own.
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Black Hole

Another old one. I treated it to some punctuation and one word change. So now it's a completely different poem, isn't it? Picture is from wiki commons. Used under CC 4.0 licence

Burning Bridges

hmmm... it's not about bridges... image created by writer from open source original.
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Cold Open

A cold open is where a film or tv programme starts in medias res and the titles and theme tune start some way in. It's very, very popular, especially on TV, at the moment. I can't help it if you didn't read this first!
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Cold Paradise

I used to live in Spain... currently suffering yet another heatwave. It wasn't always bright sun and flowers. One month every year all the rain and wind used to come at once... And it was cold
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Corner Poet

He's from a different town, really Image by Michael Ely licence CC by 2.0 SA, source wikipedia.org
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Crooked Timber

It's about the same thing as the last one was about... image by Jason Swadley. Source Flicker.com . Licence CC BY 2.0
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Digital Palimpsest

Is such a thing possible? Probably not, as anyone who ever lost a manuscript to a hard disk failure will know. Image from nosher.net No known copyright issues.
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Django

Some days only Django will do... Image author's own... fault.
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Do Not Ask

No, don't... Image created from PD elements by author.
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Double Glazed

I'm sure you'll figure it out. Image author's own.
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Dreaming the Life

Just nonsense, no need to stop here... Image author's own...
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Earworms

The writer's equivalent of doodling... move on, nothing to see here. Image author's own.
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Escape Stupidity

Escape Stupidity: a bit like escape velocity, it's the minimum point of idiocy reached to need to leave the planet... Image author's own: collage made from images at canva.com
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Estragón Sur La Plage

Found this in an old book, curated by John Wilks from one of his old contests from 2012. I've often thought there are more comfortable places to wait for someone than a crossroads. image created at Kubist.io from pd photographic image.

Fingers

Whitechapel... Edited 29th October 2020 Two (TWO!!) lines changed... oh and this image added. Image source needpix.com. Free for non-commercial use.

fizzbangpop

I'm sure it'll mean something to somebody... image is by SalfEnergy source is Wikipedia. Licence is CCA 2.

Four Stanzas in Search of a Poem

What it says. Image is by Carl Spitzweg and is in the public domain because he's been dead quite a while.

From Rochdale to the Stars

It's about... well, you'll see. Image from publicdomainvectors.org

Gibborim

This is an old one dug out of an old hard drive, don't think I ever posted it here. Anyway, Gibborim sort of means warriors, heroes, the mighty... The word was used to refer to King David (yes, that one)'s bodyguard. Anyway, enjoy this... or not. 2 Samuel 23:8–38 Image is PD from Wikipedia.
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Good News

sometimes, it's just where the keyboard takes you, after you look in the notebook. This might be autobiographical, but it isn't all true. Image. Author's own. BTW ten-out-of-ten for getting to our age if you remember this record being in the charts...
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Hats

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Hawthorn

Anyone know if this IS a Hawthorn?? Anyway, it's the one I can see from the window of The Writer's Den. Image photo taken this morning.
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Holding On

Another bloody concrete poem... I find them hard to read... Geddit? Image by me from Canva .com
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I Wish

No clues, just guess. It's more fun. Image is in the Public Domain. Source wikipedia.fr.org
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I'll Think About Writing

Doggerel, might make you laugh, though. Picture is mine, so there!.
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I'm Afraid of AI

Well I am. Image made at Canva.com
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if no one were someone

Imagine. If they were... Image authors own creation at canva.com
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Imperial-ism

It's just silly. Nice to remember, for us old 'uns, but there are much more important things in the world. Image CC by 2.0 Nico Hogg - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicohogg/252397147/

Ingrès’s Violin Is Out Of Tune

Rant... nothing to see here. image is derived from Lady T's flicker post and used under licence CC by-NC 2.0
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Inside

It's about ... time, I went for a walk. Image is used in good faith according to fair use.
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Jocasta's Reading

UPDATED 3 Jan 2020 : the footnote appears in the original version never posted. I wouldn't swear it makes anything clearer... GOOD! Experimental, ergodic. Image is in the Public Domain:
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Land of the Rising Batter

A bit of affectionate ribbing. Image from the café depicted's facebook page... they're happy with the free publicity.
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Lea(r)ning

Not about much. I did the drawing. You can tell, can't you. [BTW can you see the face in it?]
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Lines

Six lines are not a verse - or indeed - averse. Odd, it's fine if you pass it by. In red are your options for punctuating the last couplet, which will change the meaning of the lines, if you think about it. Image made at canva.com
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Looking

No explanations. Image is PD.
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LookTok

Rant. Nothing to see here Sharp-eyed readers will note that the graphic is a mirror-image of the tiktok logo, So it's not the tiktok logo... If they try and complain, I'll remove it. Simples.
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen

An old one: probably written in the summer of 2014, which was hotter than usual in The Frying Pan of Spain, the Guadalhorce Valley. image source flicker.com photographer Beppie licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Pick of the Month

Meet Ze Monsta

As you all know there is no copyright on titles. In any case, this is the title of a terrific track by PJ Harvey on To Bring You My Love. IP - thanks for giving me an excuse to play some Polly. Image is author's own fault.
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Message From The Care Home Front

I accept that for some the poppy is unacceptable. (That statement would bear thinking about for a moment or two). I shall not engage with any rants in the comments. Thank you. BTW this is the only poem I entered for a comp this year. (Of course it didn't).
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Miller

A film is in production based on the life of Lee Miller, fashion model and war photographer. It will be terrible, although it should be brilliant given the subject matter. Anyway, I wrote this: written quasi-ekphrastically about a number of Miller-taken photographs and one of Miller taken by someone else. Anyway, for once, I've explained one. Image source wikimedia, licence CC-by SA 4.0
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Millicent Frome

Doggerel. Image source pinterest. No known copyright issues.
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Miracle of Love

You believe what you believe, and I'll believe what I believe. Image wikipedia commons under CC licence.
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Mono Log

First of all, let's call it prosetry. Well, I've been playing with this one for well over 10 years. My normal mode of working is give the keyboard a bash and then dash. Those I do fiddle with, I rarely improve. However, I've had a go with this... Regarding the quoted/allusory material, I would say that this is the upper (or do I mean lower??) limit of acceptable, but what do I know. If anyone's worried, I'll take it down.
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Moonlight Over Seville

Now this IS very old. I spent a whole, hot summer in Sevilla (learning to be a TEFL teacher, as we were called then) before I moved out full time to Spain the year after. From June to September everyone in the city stays up until 4 a.m. because it's too hot to sleep. On rare occasions there'll be a cloudburst, many people just stay outside, for the rain never lasts long. The city does look wonderful in the moonlight. Image source Wiki-commons licence CC-A SA 4.0 Bocinaplatea is the original uploader, but there's no link now.
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Music

Well I do... Image by starline free to use from freepik.com
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My Father's Diaries

Just read it. Image author's own
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Poem of the week

No Fond Farewell

Another funeral. Image is mine
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Nocturne

Nocturne - a night scene. Image taken by Chris Gampat used under Licence CC by SA 2.0 Source Flicker
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Notes For A Lost Poem

Or did I? Image created by me at canva.com
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Old Glory Returns

Written (quite) a few years ago, when the US re-established diplomatic relations with Cuba. Posted today, because I was looking for something else on an old hard-drive and found it... just next to an unfinished novel or three... Image source is Wiki Commons, it is in the Public Domain as it was taken so long ago...
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Old Nick's

It's the only place in town, now... Image author's own fault, I mean design.
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Papyrus Horoscope

Always check the reverse of any document. If you want to know what I'm chuntering on about go here Image belongs to The British Library
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Paseo Maritimo

Another old one: I wrote this eleven years ago, whilst on holiday in Galicia, escaping the heat of Andalucia for two weeks in the summer. It rained a lot, but we didn't care. Photo by mindsteel on pxhere.com licence CC0
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Pebble

Sometimes the simplest things are the most complicated. image from freeimages.com free for non-commercial use
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Philosophical Daze

Image is of The Penrose Stairs (Escher's work came afterward). Image is PD
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Phyllida Case

Odd. Because I felt like writing something weird. Image source wikipedia commons licence CCA2.0 photographer Tex Texin on Flicker too.
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Poetry Commotion

And this is the oldest thing I could find today. It used to be on an earlier incarnation of UKA, in 2010. image made at canva.com
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Presence

Time marches on, and we stumble, trying to keep up. Image made at canva.com from author's own images.
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Radio Galaxies

Very old poem, written 2011. I like it, but you don't have to. Image created using canva from elements provided.
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Rattlesnakes

Yes, I've been listening to Lloyd Cole - and reading the news story about Sarah Everard. Nothing changes. Image is from creativeuncut.com - no known copyright issues. https://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-23/ha-rattlesnake-and-silverballer...
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Risk Averse

Or risk a verse... Cartoon by Russell source Flicker.com artist Russell. Licence : CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed
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Roolz is Roolz

Well, they is. Image from pxhere.com free for non-commercial use CC0 PD
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Self-Help for the Selfish*

If you are offended after reading this, you're probably guilty of it... just like I am. image from Pixabay.com created by Cdd20 and is free to use.
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SHOWTIME!

It's not about the theatre. Image made by me at canva.com
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Somehow

Another nugget of fool's gold from the digital mines... No known copyright issues for original photograph of Argentine Death Flight victims... fiddled with by author.
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Somewhere

An old one, from you-know-where... No known copyright issues for image from TESS
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Spilled Ink

This will not cheer you up. Move on. Image source is flicker.com Original artwork by Joyce Ballantyne. flicker.com has it licensed as CC-SA 2.0. Hmm...

Sunday Morning, 3 a.m.

Odd... I quite understand if you don't like it. Image is free for non-commercial use from pxfuelhere.com

Talent

Imagine Archie Rice compere of talent show auditions... Image made by me at canva.com
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Tempus Fugit

Someone once said some things very like these to me when I was younger, I should have listened, but ... well, as a teenager/young man I was ALWAYS right. Now I'm older, I know that there are many more than two sides to anything. What do you call a shape with two sides..? Exactly. Image use licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International source; wikipedia. Creator: Yakidono

Ten Snapshots Before Going Under For The Third Time

Last weeks IP... better late than never... or perhaps not... Image from pixel.com
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The Art of Noises : A Futurist's Manifesto

“In antiquity, life was nothing but silence. Noise was really not born before the 19th century, with the advent of machinery. Today noise reigns supreme over human sensibility.” Luigi Russolo Not for much longer. I am equivocal about that. Image is from google books, the book is out of print and in the public domain.
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The Department of Explaining

Where all this hub-bery will get us eventually... and what someone brave might do about it...

The Dis-harmonic Sympathy Orchestra

How many female conductors are there? It's not about old buses. Image from classicfm.com, by Flyin' Fiddler. No known copyright issues.

The Esoteric Few

Whom Byron claimed one of his poems was written for. Not this one, because it's mine, but it's still for the esoteric few. Image author's own
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The Footballer's Fear of the Whistle

Amid the fuss about the death of another, admittedly incredible, footballer from the other side of the world, there's this. It used to be on another site. I wrote it nine years ago the week after his death. I've edited it somewhat. What a terrible waste. Still no explanation of why, although unsubstantiated reports link him to the abuse carried out by boys' coach, Barry Bennell. Anyway, we know the spotlight is hard to give up. Gary Speed (1969-2011).
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The Great Conjunction

Seasonal. image licence is CC SA-BY 4.0 Source wikipedia commons.
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The Hunting of the Wren

It's a folk-rite of renewal. Like many, in its original form, it is unutterably savage. This is an old poem, (2015) but I've rescued it from an old hard disk because it reminds me of the clips I saw of last night's ridiculous pre-election slanging match. Image licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Image source wikipedia.org.
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The Last Man Left In The Union

After Peter Wyton (look him up, he's very good)'s The Last Man Left In The Air Force. Image from website (BTW we do). Audio here http://writemark.blogspot.com/2019/02/updated-leaflet-for-trade-unions-w... Permission for use requested.
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The Rag Doll's Clothes (I Am Not Invisible)

Photograph is from wiki commons - unfortunately - taken in 2006, I wonder where this woman is now? Is she even alive? A large proportion of the UK's homeless are ex-military personnel. Licence cc-by-sa-2.0.
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The Road Goes

on, but NOT ever on. Image used under CC-SA 2.5 Generic. Photograph by
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The Road to Erehwon

You'll work it out, don't worry. Image is Peter Breughel the Elder's The Land of Cockaigne, it is in the public domain and the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, where I've seen it.
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Poem of the week

The Things Missed

Image author's own fault. Not much to see here.
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The Wind Has No Name

It's about what it says. Image Ok acc. to tin-eye, still researching it.

Think of a Number [Cadae]

Cadae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadae also interesting : https://www.livescience.com/14836-pi-wrong-tau.html Glad I follow Ian MacMillan on twitter. Image from Pixabay
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This is a Spell

What it says... abra cadabra... image is CC0 PD!!!
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Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die

I feel a bit ridiculous going to concerts, at my age. Image is CC0. Song titles (and part thereof in one case) only used.
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Tracks

It's bad stuff. No known copyright issue for image.

Tradition

"We do it this way, because we always have"...
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Triptych

watching. image is public domain.
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We

Umm...you all know I hate explaining things. Image PD

We Grin

Ranty, not ranty. Image source, public domain vectors.org.

Welcome to Hell

Almost don't remember writing this. Very long, so make a cup of tea or give up, Whichever. Image PD Oh... Nearly forgot, it's supposed to be funny.
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Where Are They?

We are living in the future now. It's not like they said it would be. Image created at Pulp-O-Miser.com by me. Audio link at end.
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Winds

Odd. Best left well alone. Image FREE PD from clker.com
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With Strange Feathers

It's not about birds. Image is PD
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Zoom

The taste of nostalgia is sickly sweet... Image source http://kidr77.blogspot.com/2017/05/zoom-ice-lolly.html No known copyright issues. But I'll keep investigating.
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Eve Still Spins

Umm... I'm sure you'll figure it out. Image is PD painting is in Carlisle Art Gallery, attributed to Italian School c.1650
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Imperfect Beauty

... and by that token, this is very beautiful indeed. Image author's own.

Juke Box Jive

As simple as it gets. Image from flicker.com : CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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Next Year, I'm Going to Travel

Travel as metaphor? Probably not... Image: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0> , via Wikimedia Commons
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An Anarchist Evening at the Magic Theatre

What do you mean you don't understand it? I was hoping you'd explain it to me! More Sack-like than Hessian... Image PD from wikipedia
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Akushla Dockery* (Is Vic There?)

What IS he on about? Ahhh, now, wouldn't that be tellin'? Image Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Image creator _SID_ Image Source flickr.com
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Leonard & Co-hen

Cohen claimed that all his lyrics were just poetry. He would write on anything that came to hand, sift through fragments later, pairing them up, piecing them together, one step up from Dada-ist Triztan Tzara's cut-ups, I suppose. Anyway, that's what i like to do, write bits and join them up later - or not.
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Letters

Nothing to see here. image made at canva.com by me
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A Toe Dipped In the Stream of Self-Consciousness

Good luck with this one. Image made by me at Canva.com
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Noir-sery Rhyme

Like most things it'll have been done before. Best imagined as being read by Tom Waits. image made at canva.com
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A Quantum Of Solace

Quantum computing will change everything ... Probably. Photograph taken by Lars Plougmann posted on Flicker.com licence CC BY-SA 2.0
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He Was

He was: smaller than life, older than Springtime, some the wiser, found for words, front for good, scruffy as ninepence, as timid as brass, as hate...
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Tales of the Unconnected

yeah, well, sometimes explaining won't do. Image is from wikipedia... and appropriately unconnected with the poem.