The Romantic Scent

of Rose, Orchid and

Golden jasmine, softly

embraced by Sandalwood

and Vanilla

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Ingredients: BUTANE, ISOBUTANE, PROPANE, ALCOHOL DENAT, PARFUM FRAGRANCE, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, TRIETHYL CITRATE, FARNESOL, LINALOOL, COUMARIN, ALPHA ISOMETHYL IONONE, GERANIOL, LIMONENE, HYDROCITRONELL...

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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?
 

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'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)

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Our Guest Poet

Roger Cliffe-Thompson

His front room was once a reconstructed crime scene (Ala...

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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

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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

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'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)

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Our Guest Poet

David Bateman

Originally from River Hill in rural west Kent, David Bateman came to Live...

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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...

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'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 ...

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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...

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'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....

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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 ...

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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 ...

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'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)

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Our Guest Poet

Wol's own! 'Harry O'Neil'

Harry read across Liverpool towards the end of the old poetry scene ...

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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...

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'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...

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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...

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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.
 

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'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)

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Our Guest Poet

'Wols own, Best of Manchester poet 'Laura Taylor'

Laura's poetry pulls no punches, hard hitting...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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'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...

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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...

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'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...

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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...

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'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...

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Life starts at the bridge

the End is not the journey

the goals of Juan Mata

Juan to think of for Chelski fans.

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Upon leaving the army

the country gained

one more scrounger.

Swapping medals for disability

bullets for cuts.

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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.

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'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...

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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...

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