Overcome with envy that you've seen him live. I quite often stick on the Brixton Academy gig for 'that' version of Stagger Lee - it's offensively brilliant, and the band are breathtaking.
Ooo enjoy the book! Reckon you'll love it!
Beg to differ - as poets, we can make up all the words we bloody well choose to. I made up 'shittens', so 'Caveian' is now in the lexiconnnn! :D
ps - a good friend of mine once used 'drim' in her poem, to describe the weather, and the printer changed it to 'grim' even after she'd proofed 'drim'. She was well pissed off!
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Stu - love it mate and thanks for making it available for public consumption.
Rob
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thanks both!
i have never read that laura and i cant believe i have not. i have seen nick cave in concert (i sat next to my emotional man friend stefan who cried like a baby when he played the ship song) and it was phenomenal. murder ballads is an astonishing album and this poem is totally caveian although that isnt a word...
i am ordering that book off amazon as we type.
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Sanguine - an under-used word if ever there was one.
Once again Stu, you've given us a crack in the door to something very strange and unsettling, in the vein of Nick Cave, I would say. You ever read And the Ass Saw the Angel?
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Fungal mirrors? Hmmm. Interesting image. I shall think on that, doesn't throw anything up immediately mind, but I will ponder.
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*applauds*
As you well know Lynn, this is right up my street :) Well done, good piece, the lying shysters.
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Yes yes yes! Can not WAIT for this!!
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It started off with telling visitors downstairs that the poetry reading was taking place upstairs - - - then more acts turned up and this really set it off! We ended up asking for more time to the staff downstairs who had just cleared all the food and wine away but we managed it and everyone had a ball!
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Thank you Jemima and MC, much appreciated.
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Thanks Harry. I wrote this last Easter, following a very productive day making bonnets for my kids. My boy won a prize, my girl didn't (cue lots of dramatic tears lol)
Thanks for commenting :)
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Thanks chaps. Yes, it has been a breath of fresh air and I think anyone and everyone who isn't a Spurs fan is willing Leicester to finish top.
What a story! I only wish i'd have had Vardy and Mahrez in my dream team from the start haha :)
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This is so good (and actually so me). Well written, Dusty.
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I like this, and can identify with it a bit - my memory's been 'spotty' for years!
I also remember Pickie, though - always freezing as I recall!
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yeh, I was going to cite Aristotle and Plato, though we're not really on nodding terms, but sifting through this I think Harry makes the point best, don't dismiss anyone as outdated for visiting hell on everyone else: and the psychologist might say god is near, that is, "in the last analysis we discover only ourselves."
As a western European, thus somewhat Christian I found Ian's alternative first line adjusted the tone to the spirit I wanted from it. There is an unreliable bible rhyme there somewhere MC: what next?
kind rgards all
Dom.
Aristotle Aristotle
was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbs was fond of his dram,
and old Descartes was a drunken old fart,
I drink therefore I am.
Monty Python.
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Wed 6th Apr 2016 23:51
job so well done Lynn,attagirl! Thank you.Jemima.
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Nice triolet, Helen.
Can't see them blowing it now. The mighty Spurs will do well to settle for top 4.
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I'm old enough to remember the words of Denis Healey -
holding forth about squeezing them (the rich of his day)
"until the pips squeak".
Those that make it,
Who earn or take it,
You can bet your bottom dollar
Won't volunteer to forsake it.
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Hi Jemima - thanks for the encouragement - I needed a little push, ha ha.
Actually, I can't help wondering if I am actually less shocked about the Panama papers than most. This is because I have known about a lot of it for some years from blogs I've read online, but of course fresh evidence has brought it all to a head, and rightly so too.
Hi Patricia and Stef, I think that's a good suggestion for a title, but seeing as the poem I came up with was on a couple of other issues as well as the Panama papers, I chose something else.
Well, after all, I couldn't have you asking for royalties, could I? Ha ha ha. Thanks guys x
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Thanks P &S. They do wind me up when I meet them!!
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Helen,
A lady called Dora won ours...but Annes (all sleek sophisticated feathers) should have got it!
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This has me imagining Vardey in a crown and a cloak.
(just saying this is hurting me)
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Lads...lads!...didn`t you ever see `The Life of Brian` ?...The Christian `Holy teachings` were written in the glory days of the Roman Empire...Remember? Sanitation, roads, bridges, acqueducts, Baths, dome construction, etc;...not to mention such trifles as philosophy, drama, architecture, law, Military discipline... a working world order. Oh, and I almost forgot Hippocrates and medicine. (my voice is getting tired).
Within a relatively short time, (after the persecution) the
implications of those holy teachings were being debated and scrutinised by some of the best philosophic brains in the empire under the chairmanship of the Emperor.
Some hundreds of years later, the priceless early translations of Aristotle and co (which had by then vanished from the West) were recovered via the efforts of the Moslem Philosophers in Alexandria and Spain who had been studying them. (all of this is in the -uncontested- history books).
We should also not forget that this `scientific` age has brought with it two enormously fatal world wars (And in the last one - which we tend to overlook - two atom bombs were actually dropped on densely populated cities).
But to get back (wearily) to the actual poem (which, on its own is quite reasonable)
As the Christian doctrine of the Fall tries to indicate: Mankind will maim and murder in the name of almost anything.
When The murdering and maiming of others (and oneself) is done in the name of a scripture, then the recognised present-day authorities of that scripture should come out and make themselves clear about such an interpretation of it...I don`t hear of that being done.
We`ll never get anywhere by imagining that the highly scientifically educated terrorists are ignorant savages sitting around campfires.
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yep! defo! we go with J.J. on her idea-our suggestion for a title should you have go would be along the lines of......
'keeping it in the family'.....eh what!?
P&S
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Ian -
"I would not seek to separate Christians from their Bible
Or the deeds for which it's liable!"
I need only consider the "Christian Militias" of backward
lands to go along with your reply.
It is a matter for incredulity that in this 21st century
(when you'll probably find a television in a mud hut!)
we still have sections of humanity that fall back on the
products of two thousand years ago and make selective
choices to suit their depredations.
"Love thy neighbour as thyself" is thin on their ground!
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heavy splitting mawl is in itself a poetic turn of phrase!
i did write a poem this morning and posted it, first time in a while, and it found me in disturbing mood. its funny on here though, as soon as its up its gone due to the sheer amount of stuff posted. not a bad thing though i suppose.
I cant say I have given up the pen entirely, as I am now 10,000 words deep into my first novel which is as unappetizing and strange as you would imagine! it is completely exhausting writing it though, being in someone elses headspace all day.
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Always nice to get a comment on prematurely buried poems, Stu! I am at work with a very heavy splitting mawl, and have gone all primitive. I know you're busy, but pick up thy pen and write, please when poss.
All the best to you and yours.
Ray
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a touch of dylan thomas here i think, if only in the lines;
the log splitter's axe
the forceful blow
or the ravage of tooth and claw
lightning striking a shivering moor.
which are wonderful.
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ian this is fantastic, like the song tupelo by nick cave mixed with deadwood. i totally get the underlying themes but even taken as a descriptive piece it is wonderful.
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Wed 6th Apr 2016 09:13
Lynn,you must do a poem on this 'Panama papers' scandal.Can you believe how bloody hard faced these people are,even after being exposed! grrrr! Thank you.Jemima.
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Thanks for your kind comments on my poem, Boys and girls, Ray.
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Hi Tommy, cheers for your comments on Scroungers. I like your profile piccie, and have to say that yes, I voted for Corbyn too.
Incidentally, I saw him in person yesterday giving a terrific speech at Harlow, pressing for all the important things for the majority, instead of the elite few. Power to the people!
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Nicola Beckett
Wed 6th Apr 2016 02:12
I like your poetry Martin especially returning to something she once saw allowing her to break all the rules break what had become law :)
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Nicola Beckett
Wed 6th Apr 2016 02:05
I would not seek to separate Christians from their Bibles;
Religious belief should not be a cause for blame
But I stand shoulder to shoulder with any free-thinking man
Against those who maim and murder in its name.
just saying *wink*
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Thanks very much for your kind and supportive comments on 'Catechism' Lynn - much appreciated
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thanks for the comments and thoughts on 'Catechism' MC - we can only hope that we would be prepared to make that stand - but until we are tested, I guess we just don't know
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thanks for the insightful comments on 'Catechism' Harry - yes, it was a very sad tale - but, in a way, it just made the poem more poignant and relative - it is only in what we say and our own actions that we can and should be judged - I think the victim in Glasgow was a truly honourable man..
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Thanks to everyone for the comments and likes
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Cheers, Tommy, thanks for your kind comments.
Actually, I wondered if it would have sounded better if I had sworn, lol, particularly about those paper clips! :o)
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What a great rhythm to this Ronnie. A small masterpiece of analysis and quite a deep concept all round. It can't be faulted in my view. It has humour too. It could be used almost as a reference manual for macho behaviour.
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STOP PRESS - due to unforeseen circs at the club, the April event will be Thurs 21st (3ed tues after that) thank you
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Lynn Hamilton
Tue 5th Apr 2016 21:03
Thanks Martin. If in doubt, cover with woodchip and paint over. I have a feeling woodchip might have a resurgence but with much bigger chips (would have great texture). x
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Sh*t wind and paraffin! By the time I logged on I've forgotten what I wanted to say.
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Apologies and thanks for pointing out the spelling blip M.C.Newberry.
thanks so much for your comments
many thanks tommy
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In the late 18th century, the emergent America relied heavily on Mediterranean trade but that was fraught
with risk and danger. The captain and his charges
aboard a US merchant ship that was boarded by the
Barbary coast pirates (Morocco., Algeria, Tunis and
Tripoli - with their allegiance to the Ottoman Empire)
were held captive for 10 years. It has been estimated
that well over a million Christian captives were taken
between 1530 and 1780 by these Muslim autocracies
during raids on ships and lands beyond their own. The
UK and France were left alone because they could afford
to pay a "tribute" and it suited them to do so. The
depredations ceased when the US approved funds for a
punitive naval expedition to confront and defeat the
offending lands and their rulers during the following
decades. The line from the US Marine Corps anthem
"From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli"
- has the last words recalling that important victory.
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This is fun - and so many of us will identify with "the here
and now" loss. My long-term memory seems to click in
when I'm lying in bed, putting off getting up!
In closing, I mentally edit your last line as -
"Just lost the here and now."
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Laura Taylor
Thu 7th Apr 2016 12:29
Fab. I do love a well written haiku. I used to use them to break me out of certain rhythmic patterns that I fall into without noticing.
Hmm. Not done one for ages. Might give it a go!
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