Greg Freeman
Big Fish in Masvingo Lake
by Greg Freeman
Old, fat, and ugly, it won’t be caught
I glimpsed it once, on the end of my hook;
Thought I had it, saw its cruel, fierce eyes
The fishing isn’t good in the lake.
The big old one has eaten almost all the others.
People still come to try and catch it
Maybe if the lake dries up
It will be found there at the bottom...
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Tuesday 15th December 2009 9:46 am
Tags: Africa
Sandy Denny
by Greg Freeman
transforming old English ballads
and Dylan bootlegs
into something precious, priceless
Magic and mystery,
Liege and Lief playing
on bank holiday trips to the Surrey hills,
down lanes like dark tunnels, full of possibilities:
Peaslake, Ewhurst, Abinger Hammer, Friday Street
Her voice, water bubbling over pebbles,
luring unsuspecting young men
into...
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Tuesday 24th November 2009 9:03 am
Tags: pop music
Andy Williams
by Greg Freeman
the crooning, whining, almost girlish voice.
Middle of road, gotta die before I get that old.
Music my girlfriend's parents danced to,
Waltzing with stern expressions and stiff backs
Thirty years later, watching them still dancing,
I thought, if we could only move like that.
Wouldn't it be wonderful? And then I understood.
Andy Williams, so smooth, the k...
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Tuesday 24th November 2009 8:58 am
Tags: pop music
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