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They Think I’ve Gone Berserk (with music video)
This is a poem I wrote about forty years ago. I was working as a waiter in a cocktail bar at the time. My dear friend Anthony Healey found the faded...
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The Merry Moth of December
I think that in a previous life I may have been a moth. Although I’ve never eaten a woolly jumper or bashed my brains out on a car windscreen, I can’...
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Christmas With Monsieur Bublé
A portfolio of lively tunes A carousel and gay balloons To start, the handsome Gaul festoons Season’s greetings most profound To all of those who’ve...
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Fantasies of Enya (with music video)
I'd like to be the owner of a butcher's shop in Newry. I'd like to shake my hips about and sing like Billy Fury. I'd like to be a cosmonaut like...
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It Being December
Dulled A mind follows a rainbow Seven shades of jet In hope to find A faerie shoemaker In wee black jacket and cap Tap-tapping at the soles Of...
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A terrible story, a sharp
Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2024
A terrible story, a sharp reminder and a well written poem.
Nice one Luigi!
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Optimism
Posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2024
There's a lot of hope in your well thought out words Paul.
I hope the hope comes true.
Good on you!
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Having lived in the West Country
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
Having lived in the West Country for twenty years, none of this surprises me Paul.
A well written and gripping tale.
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I really like this. I like
Posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2024
I really like this. I like the way you've highlighted how water is used over and over again in nature; many times in the past and many times in the future, as well as here and now.
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Hoover
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
Thanks to you too Di.
Send your Hoover over here with a nice crisp tenner and we'll have it fixed for you before you can say Dimitar's your uncle.
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B
There's a lot of thinking
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024
There's a lot of thinking going on here, and wondering. Involuntary thinking, perhaps. I like the way the raindrops dictate the rhythm of your morning.
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Very best wishes to you.
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024
Ah, 6th January... Women's Christmas in Ireland. I hope all goes well for you and Siobhán and you both have a great time then and long after.
It's good and brave of you to share your story, problems and personal thoughts with us here....
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If ever I form a punk band,
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
If ever I form a punk band, with your approval, I'll call it A Box Full of Kale.
I'm glad I was on the right track.
Flogging Molly are a great band, by the way. Here I'm still mourning the recent departure of Shane MacGowan.
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I’ll put a knobbly lorry
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
I’ll put a knobbly lorry under me in bed …
An effective measure but maybe a bit drastic. I'd have probably gone for a couple of bits of Lego.
Nice poem Rhiannon... entertaining and amusing.
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Having formerly lived in
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
Having formerly lived in Wiltshire for many a moon, I would have calculated from your words that you had set this poem in that part of the world, even if you hadn't told me.
Superstition, antiquity and mystery; this is the stuff of the...
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