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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Axiomatic – 2
I often don’t bother to look up the meaning of words , words that already know me words that know exactly how they’ll get used ; They all know their places , where each and everyone of them is expected … Continue reading
Posted in Destiny Poets, Fun with words, Literacy, Poetry, whimsy, Writing
Tagged Destiny Poets, Literacy, Louis Kasatkin, Social satire
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Welfare Dependency : Ode to Skivers
No legs, no arms , no eyes it came as quite a surprise , when I heard the Man on the radio say how healthy I was feeling today ; No legs, no arms , no eyes he asked who … Continue reading
Zoo
Dolphins don’t recite poetry Pandas never discuss Kant , Seagulls are rarely eloquent and Hyenas do nothing but rant ; Orangutans like listening to Brahms Piranhas enjoy Winter sports , Mountain Lions are socially maladroit and Kangaroos never wear shorts … Continue reading
Posted in Magic Realism, Nonsense verse, Poetry, spoof, whimsy
Tagged nonsense verse, whimsy
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The Photograph
empty of people, there is just light on a rain moistened street, the matinee performance sans audience sans plaudits; The years before The Hindenburg, their melange of sweet perfumed absinthe memories subverted by acrid pyre gauloises the looking-glass stained by … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Cinema, Ennui, Existential, Homage to Borges, Identity, Nature/Environment, Nostalgia, Philosophy, Poetry, Popular Culture
Tagged Cartier Bresson, Culture, Ennui, Existential, Memory, Philosophy, Social History
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The Bridge on the River Aire :Castleford 2008
Spine spinal, vertebrae marks to be read lines in a story in tongues we once knew; thread and threads threadbare woven in movement thro’ stilness, alive in the noise of silence, flow flowing ebb ebbing, a corpus of whom, of … Continue reading
SAW..
That metallic odour, the sonorous tearing of flesh, the sotto-voce breaking of bone, incense-perfume clouds of carnage, a cloying aroma of slaughter; all our hopes hung upside down, in steel-hooked rows; drip dripping in welters weltering in channels, channelling and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Classic Cinema, Contemporary Society, Dystopia, Ennui, Homage to Film Noir, Horror, Poetry Noir, Popular Culture, spoof
Tagged Cinema, Dystopia, Horror, Poetry Noir, Popular Culture
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Metropolis
Stark geometric lines intersecting clean marble and steel; horizonless concourses deserted entrance halls, empty corridors vacant escalators ascending, descending in relentless progress; Walls hyphenated with reminders to purchase, to consume bellowing mutely into the void; shimmering platform mirrors, clipped automated … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Society, Culture, Dystopia, Ennui, Existential, Identity, Nature/Environment, Philosophy, Science Fiction
Tagged Culture, Dystopia, Ennui, Existential, Philosophy, Social History
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Economic Crisis
STAND..Stand..stand and STARE..Stare..stare , After all there’ll always be somebody else to care ; STOP..Stop..stop and GO..Go..go , what you’ve missed out on in life you will never know ; HELLO..Hello..hello G’BYE..G’bye..g’bye , All your tears have been wasted but … Continue reading
Posted in 20th.Century History, About Britain, Contemporary Austerity Economics, Contemporary Society, Dystopia, Existential, Homage to Pink Floyd, Philosophy, Poetry Noir, Politics, Popular Culture, Revolution, Social History, social satire
Tagged 20th.Century History, British History, Dystopia, Existential, Homage to Pink Floyd, Philosophy, Social History
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Requiem for a Tyrant
Sat at the head of the table you waged war on yourself with every breath , it seemed like it was all for nothing for those towns you had put to death ; While others broke down their walls you … Continue reading
Axiomatic
I sometimes look up the meaning of words , words that I already know words that are well acquainted with me , my use of them has a purpose a plan and outcome ; I’d rather not waste them nor … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Destiny Poets, Existential, Louis Kasatkin, Philosophy, Poetry, Popular Culture, Writing
Tagged Culture, Destiny Poets, Philosophy, Popular Culture, Words, Writing
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