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Friday 27 April 2018

Volveremos


Aromas of gingerbread
Rosemary haze:
Andalucia

Siestas where stray, supine,
Yawning cats laze
And dream of morcilla:
Andalucia

Alhambra gardens, where
History played
For a thousand years.
The emerald pearl
Blooms precise traceria:
Andalucia

Let me stalk the Sierra
A lynx for a day
Gazing toward Tangier;
Sharp my claws on the cork
To hunt grubbing boar
And fat-marbled deer:
Andalucia

Let us fall in love there,
Set dullness ablaze
In Jaén and Sevilla.
Burn the skin of the world
To white marrowbone core,
Quench souls in the water
Of Guadalquivir
Andalucia


Saturday 21 April 2018

I've imported all the kids' poems from my other blog

So most of Oct and Nov 2013 are (mostly) poems written to order, for a kindergarten/infant school in Los Angeles where my friend Brian Wright was teaching. They had a different theme every week. It was a whole lot of fun, so it was. A couple seeped into December, too. Then their poem module thing finished and so did I.

The longer ones - Granddad Pat, John the Woodcutter - weren't for the class. They're just things I did, and I still really like them both.

Isn't it a lovely day today?

JS

Poetry In The Dark (Performance) x2


Pre-performance:

First, write a poem. A really, really nice one. A good one that says everything and yet leaves spaces for magic and interpretation. Language is music; phrases are stone-carved and majestic or flit with the will’o’wisps of the forests – or both.

Rehearse this poem and get the delivery just right; try it out in front of family or friends, if you like.

How to perform it at a reading:

Option 1

·         Enter stage

·         Introduce yourself and the poem

·         Turn all the house lights off

·         The audience leaves and goes to the bar

·         Perform your poem to an empty house

·         There must be no piped video or audio of the performance to any area of the venue where the audience is

·         The audience may read your poem from the booklet

·         The audience may come in as they finish their personal reading. You may still be talking at this point, or not. It doesn't make any difference.

·         They may applaud or otherwise as they see fit

·         When all are back, thank them and leave stage



Option 2

·         Enter stage

·         Introduce yourself and the poem

·         Turn all the house lights off

·         You must leave and go to the bar

·         The audience reads your poem from the booklet

·         As they finish reading they may applaud or otherwise depending on their mood

·         After all the applause has died down return to the stage

·         Thank them and leave



A poem called Loss

DIRECTIONS:

1. Write a poem.
2. Call it 'Loss'.
3. Leave it on a bus.
4. Do not make any attempt to remember it.


Saturday 7 April 2018

On football

fuck off
you cunts

you fucking cunts

all of you cunts

you cunts with no fans

you cunts with flags

you cunts with ah fuck I dunno

it makes me the cunt

fuck off
you cunt


shitcuntfuck

this is what happens when you affiliate

affiliate

oh look at me I am the team I was born in

oooooo

well fuck nobody else is

yeah they fucking care course they do


fuck off
cunts