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Without people yer nothing.
Homage to Joe Strummer of the Clash, I had the privilege of meeting him and Mick jones and saw them several times. Joe just spoke the truth and fought for people. Without people yer nothin’ Punk rocker unrepentant Why the fuck should I be? Lose the resentment? Have all the social jokes Become a real hilarity? Yes I see it all the time. Because they’re back! But so are we. We never left. Here’s the ...
24 Hours of Love.
A visit to Vancouver BC. 24 Hours of Love. Ive often wandered if I’ve kissed The serial killer in our midst. I was on a bit of a sailing manoeuvre Across in rainy dank Vancouver Her name was Mona, Mona Bird Yes lemon curds the rhymah. And her mothers name was Mynah. Occasionally worried about the strife Cause she always carried a knife Met her in a club in Gas-town Vancouver city The Orange Five, ...
Anticipating Picked
Passion - more experimental poetry ...
Little Prince of the Skies Picked
Intro: up to 50 words (delete this text and enter your own) ...
Beamo’s Gold part 32
Beamo and the Sawbird Gang get ambushed ...
Reality Bites
Intro: up to 50 words (delete this text and enter your own) ...
Letters (After One’s Name)
II have friends and relations with letters after their name ...
No Gift Outright
The original - The Gift Outright, has troubled me for some time; so, following Hugh MacDiarmids rebuttal of Housman's Epitaph of an army of Mercenaries' I offer the following; with the proviso that Frost was writing for his time. And it's well worth googling the reading he gave at JFK's inauguration in 1962. I will also try an article on this later ...
A death refracted – Part 5.5
The wedding ceremony in the UK is coming to an end ...
Ehva’s story
How I found Ehva ...
A Bit of A Do
A kerfuffle in Handforth, my hometown ...
Beamo’s Gold part 31
Beamo and the outlaws debate lights in the sky ...
The Novice Picked
I wrote this - my first poem, in 1995. At the time I was living in a Benedictine monastery, as the lay guest master; this being after eight years as a Buddhist monk. Some of the subject matter is autobiographical, I found my life's soul mate while living there; but it also evokes a young novice in the older times. Please excuse any faults - it can never be changed in any way. ...