Been there done that three times this year..not my favourite pastime. Love the poem..?
Comment is about Avalanche Of Leaves (blog)
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Thank you for stopping by to read my Winter Haiku Steve. Much appreciated..?
Comment is about steve pottinger (poet profile)
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If they ever fade, Brian, I’ve still got the boots.
Comment is about AN UNPLEASANT PLAYER (blog)
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Wed 28th Nov 2018 17:21
You swine John...I've still got the scars from those studmarks!
Comment is about AN UNPLEASANT PLAYER (blog)
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Wed 28th Nov 2018 16:32
Wed 28th Nov 2018 16:25
Leaves leave their branches
yet I affirm
can't wait for springtime
to return
in the meantime raking
is my fate
for greener pastures
i can't wait.
Comment is about Avalanche Of Leaves (blog)
Original item by d.knape
If only we could find within ourselves some of the perpetual youth, a positive thought of when we began and what we will achieve. Nevertheless would we have changed anything, if we were at the beginning of each choice, relationship, career. I was very touched by your honesty. Keep it real
Comment is about Hero (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Hi Graham, this friend was a true war hero, but now, just getting from one day to the next is truly heroic work.
Comment is about Hero (blog)
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An emotive and surely deserving area of appraisal, admiration and affection. Thanks for this - now added to my list of "asks" for this
Christmas.
Comment is about Poems for the NHS: ed. Matt Barnard, Onslaught Press (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thanks for the interest, folks. For my part, I'm surprised the
complainers haven't added an "ism" to the word.
Comment is about MISANDRY - You Too? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for the Santa-banter cheer!
Comment is about Christmas Fairy (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Disturbing, polemical, a cutting narrative. A really powerful reportage piece Hazel without wallowing in either sides argument! Well done!
Comment is about Hero (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Thanks Anya. Been in a bit of a bubble recently, trying to face up to a few home truths of my own.
Comment is about Hero (blog)
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Yes, a lovely story, embellished or not. We had a good trip to Sardinia, avoided the expensive parts and we may return one time.
Comment is about An infamous last word. (blog)
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Wed 28th Nov 2018 10:25
Welcome indeed, Thea, both to the team and back in the local poetry community. As you know, we have log been proud of you as a poet and a person. Looking forward to working with you again.
Comment is about Write Out Loud Welcomes Thea Ayres to the Team! (article)
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Wed 28th Nov 2018 09:56
Wow, very well done, Jade! Write Out Loud is dead proud of you.
Comment is about A Gold Creative Future For Our Own Jade Cuttle! (article)
Original item by Mike Took
elPintor
Wed 28th Nov 2018 02:15
More politization means more division--it benefits only a powerful few in the end.
Think of how politicians appeal to us based upon our opinions of the most polarizing ideals, and then proceed to run ungoverned by the populace once elected--we are easy targets for propaganda, and that's been proven time after time after time...
Rachel
PS
This is all said in the belief that laws should account for everyone, equally--that, in itself, should cause us to look more closely upon our judicial system than our elected officials.
PPS
Maybe this argument will come full circle to nonresolution if I continue...
Comment is about MISANDRY - You Too? (blog)
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Hi Stu, thanks a lot for your comment on Souvenir, really appreciate your feedback. T ?
Comment is about Stuart Buck (poet profile)
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Tue 27th Nov 2018 21:59
Couldn't have said it better myself Jennifer.
Comment is about My Lady of the Beeches (blog)
Original item by Chris Armstrong
Well worth the telling, Trev.
Comment is about Christmas Fairy (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Take your point M.C. and echo Alan's comments..
Comment is about MISANDRY - You Too? (blog)
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Enjoyed this poem Trevor very much..?
Comment is about Christmas Fairy (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Thanks all for looking in and commenting. This (repost) was meant to be a serious piece, but I guess my style is better suited for comedy.in my attempt to get the facts out, I probably trivialised the events, which wasn't my intention.
I came across this unsavoury character when researching my family tree. Three of his victims were Calladines, and I was looking for people with that sir-name in that area.
my intention when I wrote this was to bring the story back to life, so that people may spare a thought for his victims
here are some details
British Executions
Home Chronology Links Forum
Albert Edward Burrows
Age: 62
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 8 Aug 1923
Crime Location:
Execution Place: Nottingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Albert Edward Burrows murdered Hannah Calladine 28, Albert Edward Calladine (Burrows) 1, Elsie Calladine (Large) 5 and Thomas Johnson Wood 4 who he battered and strangled to death on Symmondley Moor, Glossop. He murdered them and then threw them down a pit shaft.
see Nottingham Evening Post - Monday 06 August 1923
see National Archives - ASSI 13/53
Comment is about Albert Edward Burrows (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Hello Alan, thanks for the kind words about The Legacy.Was interested to hear you're a mycologist. I knew dead mens' trumpets (not the latin name) from Italy, where they dry them and sprinkle the powder on food, rather like truffles. I found a lot of funghi in Angus in my sister's wood, so took them home to look them up, and there found the amethyst deceivers! That book, however, said they were toxic! Here many people go looking for funghi in autumn especially, and there is a special office where you can take your catch to have it vetted, as people die every year from eating poisonous ones. Interesting you went to Tiscali - the wild flowers in Sardinia are wonderful late April early May. Entire roadsides of asphodel, orchids, French lavender, marvellous thistles, rock roses, rosemary, Aegean Lilies, witches fingers, Barbary nut, and later sea squill and those beautiful sea daffodils. A real Eden.
Thanks again, Jennifer
Comment is about Alan Travis Braddock (poet profile)
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Well deserved Beno! Very clever. Liked Eolos very much too. Keep it up!
Jennifer
Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
There's a lot to be said for do as you would be done by!
Comment is about MISANDRY - You Too? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Congratulations, Jade!
Comment is about A Gold Creative Future For Our Own Jade Cuttle! (article)
Original item by Mike Took
A story well told of a villain now cold, well done
Comment is about Albert Edward Burrows (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
<Deleted User> (18980)
Tue 27th Nov 2018 16:03
A bit Edward the Secondish Trev. Very good.
Comment is about Christmas Fairy (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Yes OK. I take your point -
...and I'm an older man just now, and I'm too old for wars.
and we will like the folk we like, whatever be the cause
We all will hate the folk we shun
Not cat'gor-ising anywun.
People are just people, no need for modern laws.
Comment is about MISANDRY - You Too? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
An old story, I know, but always worth re-telling around this time of year...
Comment is about Christmas Fairy (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
It is said that dogs have owners but cats have staff...
Comment is about Dogs & Cats (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Take a pinch of poetry , mix with nostalgia, stir vigorously ,add some pepper until the eyes water and give yourself a badge of total competence and inspiration to portray the times you describe so well Beno. That period gave us hope at a big price. Congratulations, much deserved.
Ray
Comment is about Our Poem of the Week is ‘Scooter Club and the Lost Boys’ by Beno (article)
Original item by steve pottinger
I can imagine this being told in Stanley Holloway style before an
enthralled attentive audience in some old music hall. The dastardly
devil gets his deserved come-uppance!
Comment is about Albert Edward Burrows (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
Steer and go
As long as you know
The way ahead
That tempts you so! ?
Comment is about Rudder, Drive (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Big Sal
Tue 27th Nov 2018 13:51
Congrats on the publications.?
Comment is about Khaled Selem (poet profile)
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Are you quite sure this is a direct quote from Dickens, Gus? If it is, your familiarity with Dickens is greater than mine. Speaking personally, I’ve never been to one.
Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
...as Scrooge said of Tiny Tim,
'He's a bastard and I just don't like him!'
Cant you put this to music?
Regards
Gus
Comment is about 'THOU SHAN'T GO SHORT OF SHITE' (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I like your poem its very honest and contains a starkness like a cold room.
By the way, the isles I believe you intended aisles not isles.
That's my little Mitzvah for the day.
Kind regards
Gus
Comment is about Wednesday November 14, 2018, 1:51 PM (blog)
Original item by hk
Wonderfully spun story. You have piqued my curiosity of the case..
Comment is about Albert Edward Burrows (blog)
Original item by kJ Walker
A constant battle Don..which side will triumph??
Comment is about Rudder, Drive (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
One of my favourites Damon
Comment is about Firefly A Reason To Drink (blog)
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Taylor Crowshaw
Wed 28th Nov 2018 19:26
I thought this an excellent poem. Raw hard hitting, truth. ❤
Comment is about Hero (blog)
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