Andrew Motion?
He's loco
Philip Larkin?
N’aubade
Sylvia Plath?
A pure gas, man
Seamus Heaney?
A jist don’t dig him
Jackie Kay?
No as black as she’s paintit
Edwin Morgan?
Whit planet is he oan?
Kathleen Jamie?
Wild!
Tom Gunn?
Am wi Goebbels
Tuesday 30 September 2008
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Songs That Didn't Quite Make The Album (I Wonder Why?)
Sympathy For The Grocer
See Marjorie Play
Stuck Inside of Mobile With Some Cheese and Onion Crisps
Big Yellow Transit
Fairytale of East Cheam
Happiness Is A Warm Bath
...you no doubt have your own...
See Marjorie Play
Stuck Inside of Mobile With Some Cheese and Onion Crisps
Big Yellow Transit
Fairytale of East Cheam
Happiness Is A Warm Bath
...you no doubt have your own...
Tuesday 22 April 2008
small thoughts on a sunny day
spirits sometimes refuse to soar, but may be prepared to gently float
over time, the knife and fork have reached an accommodation
leaves do fall, but also often stumble, stutter or skitter along
good (and bad) things come along in all sorts of numbers, and sometimes not at all
books gather that dust may be approaching, but remain sanguine
the best thing is often just to think of the best thing
not sleeping a wink – surely that’s unlikely?
Monday 31 March 2008
many things start this way
many things start this way
with ideas, plans etc
everything seems possible
many hurdles, ditches, cul-de-sacs
remain unseen
perhaps happily
if you were to write it all down
it might seem fantastical
things you did, and others,
those strange coming togethers
now seem like so much serendipity
you wonder how anything
involving hope, love or mystery
ever happened
with ideas, plans etc
everything seems possible
many hurdles, ditches, cul-de-sacs
remain unseen
perhaps happily
if you were to write it all down
it might seem fantastical
things you did, and others,
those strange coming togethers
now seem like so much serendipity
you wonder how anything
involving hope, love or mystery
ever happened
Sunday 30 March 2008
and then the rain stopped
you emerge onto an endless field
happiness stretches behind you like a blue wave
you look ahead and see it in the distance
your shoes are heavy, your coat warm
memories of yesterday are beginning to come back
the window, the street outside, the rain
there was just you, the radio
the rain, and the street outside
it might have been that way for hours
you, the radio, the street outside, the rain
(might have been)
a word was reverberating in your head
a word you couldn’t grasp
it was something about categories of things
it may have been taxonomy, maybe not
you think it was to do with butterflies,
stamps or other collectible things,
possibly
then
the one o’clock pips went on the radio
you remember saying to yourself
must go for a walk tomorrow
and then the rain stopped
happiness stretches behind you like a blue wave
you look ahead and see it in the distance
your shoes are heavy, your coat warm
memories of yesterday are beginning to come back
the window, the street outside, the rain
there was just you, the radio
the rain, and the street outside
it might have been that way for hours
you, the radio, the street outside, the rain
(might have been)
a word was reverberating in your head
a word you couldn’t grasp
it was something about categories of things
it may have been taxonomy, maybe not
you think it was to do with butterflies,
stamps or other collectible things,
possibly
then
the one o’clock pips went on the radio
you remember saying to yourself
must go for a walk tomorrow
and then the rain stopped
the people in sweden
what is it?
that sound, that thing
is it
something far away
water falling onto stones
voices whispering
is it something you don’t recognise
a scene from a film you’ve forgotten
a book you read somewhere, sometime
call people you know and ask them what it is
write to everyone in Sweden if that will help
perhaps nothing will
sometimes even the people in Sweden can’t help
paul might indicate a line of enquiry
although then again…
sadness might follow any action that you consider prudent
the specifics of love may escape you
the lure of the past may pull you under
synchronicity is not guaranteed, indeed may be unwelcome
the fruits of a life spent walking, talking and being you
may not lead to whatever conclusion you may have been thinking of
however, rule nothing in or out
it may all work out in the end
that sound, that thing
is it
something far away
water falling onto stones
voices whispering
is it something you don’t recognise
a scene from a film you’ve forgotten
a book you read somewhere, sometime
call people you know and ask them what it is
write to everyone in Sweden if that will help
perhaps nothing will
sometimes even the people in Sweden can’t help
paul might indicate a line of enquiry
although then again…
sadness might follow any action that you consider prudent
the specifics of love may escape you
the lure of the past may pull you under
synchronicity is not guaranteed, indeed may be unwelcome
the fruits of a life spent walking, talking and being you
may not lead to whatever conclusion you may have been thinking of
however, rule nothing in or out
it may all work out in the end
Wednesday 19 March 2008
Silly Second Lines
These don't fit any known tune, they merely rhyme!
1
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
I wish I hadn't bothered being the Queen
2
It ain't necessarily so
That there's a hereafter, after we go
3
In the beginning was the word
Then sometime later, Douglas Hurd
4
In Christ there is no East or West
Nor mention of a thermal vest
1
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
I wish I hadn't bothered being the Queen
2
It ain't necessarily so
That there's a hereafter, after we go
3
In the beginning was the word
Then sometime later, Douglas Hurd
4
In Christ there is no East or West
Nor mention of a thermal vest
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