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Terence Mullan
During the hot Balkan afternoons it’s grand to lie on the settee with jugs of glacial tea and a summer soundtrack. Joni Mitchell, Joseph Canteloube, Bob Marley and Mississippi John Hurt on scratchy vinyl all sooth as Pavlovian mosquitos snarl from their sides of insect screens.
Those afternoons will be back soon, I hope. I don't care for this having to wear socks nonsense.
My stories
The Chips at Twerton Park
When Raleigh’s ship came into port the gentry gathered round To see the cargo in its hold of veggies small and brown. But little did the people know...
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Time (Clock of The Heart)
‘That one’s five hundred quid mate, but I could probably let you have it for four eighty,’ said the very gaunt looking man pointing to the clock that...
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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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Optimism
Posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2024
There's a lot of hope in your well thought out words Paul.
I hope the hope comes true.
Good on you!
Read full commentPosted in January Panorama
Having lived in the West Country
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
Having lived in the West Country for twenty years, none of this surprises me Paul.
A well written and gripping tale.
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I really like this. I like
Posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2024
I really like this. I like the way you've highlighted how water is used over and over again in nature; many times in the past and many times in the future, as well as here and now.
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Hoover
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
Thanks to you too Di.
Send your Hoover over here with a nice crisp tenner and we'll have it fixed for you before you can say Dimitar's your uncle.
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B
There's a lot of thinking
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024
There's a lot of thinking going on here, and wondering. Involuntary thinking, perhaps. I like the way the raindrops dictate the rhythm of your morning.
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Very best wishes to you.
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024
Ah, 6th January... Women's Christmas in Ireland. I hope all goes well for you and Siobhán and you both have a great time then and long after.
It's good and brave of you to share your story, problems and personal thoughts with us here....
Read full commentPosted in New year's rant
If ever I form a punk band,
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
If ever I form a punk band, with your approval, I'll call it A Box Full of Kale.
I'm glad I was on the right track.
Flogging Molly are a great band, by the way. Here I'm still mourning the recent departure of Shane MacGowan.
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I’ll put a knobbly lorry
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
I’ll put a knobbly lorry under me in bed …
An effective measure but maybe a bit drastic. I'd have probably gone for a couple of bits of Lego.
Nice poem Rhiannon... entertaining and amusing.
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Having formerly lived in
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
Having formerly lived in Wiltshire for many a moon, I would have calculated from your words that you had set this poem in that part of the world, even if you hadn't told me.
Superstition, antiquity and mystery; this is the stuff of the...
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Chez Ó Maoláin
Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023
Yes thank you Di. All is rosy at the moment chez Ó Maoláin.
I hope you are fit and well yourself and you got your son and his illness and his sick note sorted out.
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