Heaven Sent - body missed
The Romantic Scent
of Rose, Orchid and
Golden jasmine, softly
embraced by Sandalwood
and Vanilla
SOLVENT ABUSE CAN KILL INSTANTLY
Ingredients: BUTANE, ISOBUTANE, PROPANE, ALCOHOL DENAT, PARFUM FRAGRANCE, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, TRIETHYL CITRATE, FARNESOL, LINALOOL, COUMARIN, ALPHA ISOMETHYL IONONE, GERANIOL, LIMONENE, HYDROCITRONELL...
Friday 7th December 2012 8:41 pm
Prejudice
Flip flops and questionably rolled cigarette,
Alan a 1st from Cambridge and dishevelled,
raised a stare from a dense looking
navy tattooed Friday night clobber man.
My friend the actuary,
remunerated accordingly.
Piano recitals at 5
a piece of child prodigy
viewed in a pub
through views unkind.
A mirror is needed.
What sort of fool -
judges by appearance?
...
Wednesday 5th December 2012 1:14 am
ThePoetry Spoke November - Poetry Night & Guests
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music
This Tuesday - 27th November - doors open 8pm!
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide...
Our Guest Poet
Roger Cliffe-Thompson
His front room was once a reconstructed crime scene (Ala...
Monday 26th November 2012 3:40 pm
Wirral Ode Show 2012 Competition
Wirral Ode Show 2012 Competition
Prizes
1st Prize £75
2nd Prize £25
3rd Prize Bottle of Teachers whiskey
The Merseysider Prize;
a poem of the editor’s choosing to be published in The Merseysider Magazine.
Rules
The competition will take place on the 15th of November in the Egremont Ferry Hote...
Monday 5th November 2012 5:25 pm
Superstition
There's no fortune at the end of the cookie
the sky's rainbows are just refracted colour
and Facebook's just another aphorism away
from anything that really matters
Friday 2nd November 2012 3:07 am
ThePoetry Spoke October - Poetry Night & Guests
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music
This Tuesday - 23rd October- doors open 8pm
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide...
Our Guest Poet
David Bateman
Originally from River Hill in rural west Kent, David Bateman came to Live...
Saturday 20th October 2012 9:43 pm
Wirral Ode Show Open Mic October- plus poetry filming.
This Thursday Night
'Wirral Ode Show'
poetry open mic night
8pm for an 8:30 Start
The 'Egremont Ferry Hotel'
Tobin Street
Wallasey
CH44 8DF
We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at a wonderfully picturesque real ale pub that overlooks the river Mersey.
No closed set list!
No clique...
Monday 15th October 2012 10:34 pm
'ThePoetry Spoke' September - Open floor & Guests. (NOTE - a one off change of venue tonight)
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music
This Tuesday - 25th September (Tonight!) - doors open 8pm
Egremont Ferry Hotel
Tobin Street
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1DF (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide...
Our Guest Poet
John Hulme
'Spiritually strong, yet humanly fragile'. Philosophically ...
Tuesday 25th September 2012 3:18 pm
Wirral Ode Show Open Mic September- plus poetry filming.
This Thursday Night
'Wirral Ode Show'
poetry open mic night
8pm for an 8:30 Start
The 'Egremont Ferry Hotel'
Tobin Street
Wallasey
CH44 8DF
We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at a wonderfully picturesque real ale pub that overlooks the river Mersey.
No closed set list!
No clique...
Tuesday 18th September 2012 12:33 pm
'ThePoetry Spoke' August - Open floor & Guests.
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music
This Tuesday - 28th August- doors open 8pm
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide...
Our Guest Poet
David R. Mellor
'Powerful Stuff' think Independent radio. 'A feel for words' say BBC radio....
Saturday 25th August 2012 3:32 pm
Wirral Ode Show Open Mic August- plus poetry filming.
This Thursday Night
'Wirral Ode Show'
poetry open mic night
8pm for an 8:30 Start
The 'Egremont Ferry Hotel'
Tobin Street
Wallasey
CH44 8DF
We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at a wonderfully picturesque real ale pub that overlooks the river Mersey.
No closed set list!
No ...
Tuesday 14th August 2012 7:17 pm
ABC
ABC
An after dark refuge for the boredom
of wild lads, that would otherwise turn bad.
Hitting the pads they came to understand routine
know what discipline means, when told to break.
Rocky music raised the pulse here,
as boxers, not dead-beats skipped to the beat
of aspirations.
Hard work, bumps and bruises
came their way; a little blood ...
Monday 30th July 2012 9:01 pm
'ThePoetry Spoke' July Open floor & Guests.
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music
This Tuesday - 24th July- doors open 8pm
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide...
Our Guest Poet
Wol's own! 'Harry O'Neil'
Harry read across Liverpool towards the end of the old poetry scene ...
Sunday 22nd July 2012 1:55 pm
Wirral Ode Show Open Mic July- Plus Filming Poetry.
This Thursday Night
'Wirral Ode Show'
poetry open mic night
8pm for an 8:30 Start
The 'Egremont Ferry Hotel'
Tobin Street
Wallasey
CH44 8DF
We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at a wonderfully picturesque real ale pub that overlooks the river Mersey.
No closed set list!
No clique...
Monday 16th July 2012 6:59 pm
ThePoetry Spoke June- Open mic - David Subacchi & Jennifer Smith
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music
This Tuesday - 26th June- doors open 8pm
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide...
Our Guest Poet
'David Subacchi'
David's poetry was born in Aberystwyth into a family with strong Italian root...
Sunday 24th June 2012 7:17 pm
Wirral Ode Show Open Mic June- a chance at publication!
This Thursday Night
'Wirral Ode Show'
poetry open mic night
8pm for an 8:30 Start
The 'Egremont Ferry Hotel'
Tobin Street
Wallasey
CH44 8DF
We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at a wonderfully picturesque real ale pub that overlooks the river Mersey.
No closed set list!
No clique...
Monday 18th June 2012 5:48 pm
Secret
Secret
Single shots one after another
neat but not Vodka, ripple
their echoes through time.
In dark forests to the east
behind prison walls and elsewhere,
In shallow graves and single cells
light bulbs and piny smells
witnessed what happened here.
The ideological stain
from whence this all came
now lies bare but whispers;
let's not speak of skeletons.
Sunday 10th June 2012 1:55 am
ThePoetry Spoke - Open Mic Night - Guests, Laura Taylor & Bob Kettle!
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music
This Tuesday - 22nd May- doors open 8pm
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide...
Our Guest Poet
'Wols own, Best of Manchester poet 'Laura Taylor'
Laura's poetry pulls no punches, hard hitting...
Sunday 20th May 2012 4:17 pm
Wirral Ode Show Open mic & poetry filming.
Wirral Ode Show
This Thursday Night (17th)
poetry open mic night
8pm for an 8:30 Start
At The 'Egremont Ferry Hotel'
Tobin Street- Wallasey- CH44 8DF
A stones throw from Liverpool- easy acess via tunnels, train, bus and ferry.
We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at a wonderfully picturesque real al...
Tuesday 15th May 2012 10:59 pm
Right Thinking
Right wing and reactionary
Daily Mail politique,
you fought the ‘right thinking’ mans war
jousting logic- anger was your shield.
Well you can prove anything with facts
can’t you!
Dispelling reality
you insisted the world
into blacks and white,
contemptuous of all complexity.
You pitted words against worlds,
pet theory’s against natu...
Tuesday 1st May 2012 12:15 pm
Our day out
Between kicking a ball and vandalizing boredom, I swung around lamp posts
and mouthed my maisonette backdrop around the block.
I would burn spiders with a magnifying glass, a clear conscience, and a smile.
But in a few years - the estate molding me would be bulldozed,
thought so bad by Thatcher’s Britain, to not be fit
for the working class. An irony mocked
by the ...
Thursday 26th April 2012 4:32 am
ThePoetry Spoke- April and your poetry- with Guests Kevin McMahon, Yarbo and Laura James
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music tomorrow night!
This Tuesday Night 24th April- doors open 8pm
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide...
Our Guest Poet
The supremely talented Kevin McMahon
Kevin is a wordsmith who craf...
Monday 23rd April 2012 3:36 pm
Wirral Ode Show Open Mic- Thursday- NEW VENUE
This Thursday Night
'Wirral Ode Show'
poetry open mic night
8pm for an 8:30 Start
BRAND NEW VENUE!
The 'Egremont Ferry Hotel'
Tobin Street
Wallasey
CH44 8DF
We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at a wonderfully picturesque real ale pub that overlooks the river Mersey.
No closed s...
Tuesday 17th April 2012 5:44 pm
ThePoetry Spoke Open mic poetry- Guests John Coopey and Alan Ainsworth
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music night-
This Tuesday Night 27th March- doors open 8pm!
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide...
Our Guest Poet
WOL's very own Yorkshire Bard! 'John Coopey'
John's poetry is; Metrical, no...
Sunday 25th March 2012 6:18 pm
Wirral Ode Show open mic poetry night.
This Thursday Night
'Wirral Ode Show'
poetry open mic night
CH41 6JN
8:30- The Stork Hotel- 41 Price Street Birkenhead.
We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at the Stork.
No closed set list!
No cliques!
Just a great night with great people and great poetry; in a traditional real al...
Monday 12th March 2012 8:31 pm
ThePoetry Spoke Open Mic poetry night- Guests- Graham Robinson - Petrova C Fairhurst
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music night-
This Tuesday Night - 28th February - 8pm!
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide and view the photo- we're the venue/wine bar that has all the ivy going on lol.
Our Guest Poet
WOL poet and Wi...
Thursday 23rd February 2012 8:19 pm
Chelsea Zen Buddhist Haiku
Life starts at the bridge
the End is not the journey
the goals of Juan Mata
Juan to think of for Chelski fans.
Thursday 2nd February 2012 12:14 am
Insult to Injury
Upon leaving the army
the country gained
one more scrounger.
Swapping medals for disability
bullets for cuts.
Monday 30th January 2012 4:18 pm
Proper TV
The second world war
appeared terrible
on the History channel.
Monotone across Europe
Robert Powell’s voice distressed
till the tv was switched off.
It really makes you question why?
Why did he leave Holby City?
at least that was in colour with dolby surround
y’know proper TV.
Friday 27th January 2012 6:25 pm
ThePoetry Spoke Open Mic January- Guests Joy France- Dave Gilbey
'ThePoetry Spoke'
Great poetry and acoustic music night-
This Tuesday Night 24th January- 8pm!
La Gondola
22a Liscard Crescent
Wallasey- The Wirral
CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)
Check us out in the gig guide and view the photo- we're the venue/wine bar that has all the ivy going on lol.
Our Guest Poet
Proper Wigan, t...
Saturday 21st January 2012 4:40 pm
Yesterdays Post
The seasonal grind
through the gears
the autumn now
of working fears.
But what to do
when pension nears
as money’s tight
and mortgage rears?
The posties wife
she knew his mind
twenty years posting time;
but the wheels were falling off.
He chased the debts
with gambling ways
and soon she learnt
that better days;
w...
Monday 16th January 2012 12:16 pm
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