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They Think I’ve Gone Berserk (with music video)
This is a poem I wrote about forty years ago. I was working as a waiter in a cocktail bar at the time. My dear friend Anthony Healey found the faded...
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The Merry Moth of December
I think that in a previous life I may have been a moth. Although I’ve never eaten a woolly jumper or bashed my brains out on a car windscreen, I can’...
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Christmas With Monsieur Bublé
A portfolio of lively tunes A carousel and gay balloons To start, the handsome Gaul festoons Season’s greetings most profound To all of those who’ve...
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Fantasies of Enya (with music video)
I'd like to be the owner of a butcher's shop in Newry. I'd like to shake my hips about and sing like Billy Fury. I'd like to be a cosmonaut like...
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It Being December
Dulled A mind follows a rainbow Seven shades of jet In hope to find A faerie shoemaker In wee black jacket and cap Tap-tapping at the soles Of...
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Lenin's ghost
Posted on Thu, 30 Nov 2023
He's everywhere... I'll ask him.
Read full commentPosted in Reasons to Be Bulgarian… Naz-dra-vee!
Fur and snuffle
Posted on Tue, 28 Nov 2023
Aha, you've got it almost spot on, except it's a house full of fur and snuffle rather than a lap full.
Many thanks to you for taking the time to read and comment.
Read full commentPosted in The Targovishte Quandary - Part 3 of 3
There was a Sydney Pollack
Posted on Wed, 29 Nov 2023
There was a Sydney Pollack film about this sort of event. It was called They Shoot Horses, Don't They? I'll have to try to watch it again and think of you.
I searched on Google for START Charity and was taken to a website that...
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Reading your evocative words
Posted on Wed, 29 Nov 2023
Reading your evocative words has made me shiver.
I pity those avian visitors, but I suppose they know what they're doing.
Read full commentPosted in Black and White Survival.
I imagine you sitting alone
Posted on Tue, 28 Nov 2023
I imagine you sitting alone on a rock on a deserted seashore as you write this. There's nothing there except the nature that your words describe so beautifully.
I particularly liked lavender sheets which brought to mind those grey...
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Your words sum up the
Posted on Sun, 26 Nov 2023
Your words sum up the grimness of this time of year. especially the monochrome landscape line.
A nicely written poem that I enjoyed in a grim sort of way.
Read full commentPosted in A Murder of Crows (Transcendence)
Oh to be a cat. They always
Posted on Sat, 25 Nov 2023
Oh to be a cat. They always have a multitude of favourite places in which to languish in sleepy comfort and regularly in places where they're not supposed to be.
We can't make plans for cats. Your poem captures this well.
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But Israel's neighbours plus
Posted on Tue, 21 Nov 2023
But Israel's neighbours plus the USA plus the European Union plus Britain have too much money tied up in Israel to go upsetting them. None of them are worried about investments they have made in Palestine because their aren't any, or if there are...
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National leaders and
Posted on Tue, 21 Nov 2023
National leaders and governments throughout the world and throughout history can all be graded by their different levels of madness and greed for money and territory. Thoughts of human suffering come second place when rich men strive to become...
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A good read Mono.
Posted on Mon, 20 Nov 2023
A good read Mono.
I've got the Dubliners' song The Zoological Gardens stuck in my head now.
Read full commentPosted in May 4th (chapter 5 part 2)
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