Tag: life
member name: Ian Thorpe
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September 22, 2006 01:09 PM EDT --
This poem should have been up yesterday but I am still catching up after a month of problems with the local network exchange. Ho - de - hum...
Equinox
When dawn rose on the twins your dance began,
an . . . more
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May 10, 2006 01:07 PM EDT --
Many people ask me what exactly poetry is, others say "well it all seems like a load of old tosh to me Ian, so what's it all about?" So I thought I would write a series of articles aimed . . . more
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December 20, 2006 12:47 PM EST --
Decriminalising Drugs and Prostitution.
In my previous article about the murders of six prostitutes in a mid - sized British town I suggested a way to solve the "crack - ho" problem is . . . more
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December 14, 2006 01:09 PM EST --
One story has dominated the news here in the UK for the past few days.
This week we have learned of the violent deaths of at least three, probably more, young women who made their living as prostitutes . . . more
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August 06, 2006 01:17 PM EDT --
Just over a week ago I was branded anti-Semitic for suggesting the Israelis are a gang of murderous war junkies. I was not the only one of course to come under fire, anybody who criticised the acts of . . . more
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November 07, 2006 11:22 AM EST --
1 November 2006
Its that time of year again when as a good pagan I should be recovering from my naked romp over Pendle Hill where on Halloween night we meet to cavort around under the stars, calling the . . . more
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May 10, 2006 01:27 PM EDT --
Many people ask me what exactly poetry is, others say "well it all seems like a load of old tosh to me Ian, so what's it all about?" So I thought I would write a series of articles aimed . . . more
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May 10, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
go back to part 1
How should English poetry be defined. Aha! English is the most flexible of all languages which, experts acknowledge, makes it overall the best language for poetry (Italian is the . . . more
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June 07, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
Gay Marriage is getting churchy folk worked up across the pond again I see.
When people of the same gender want to get married it causes a lot of bad feeling all around the English - speaking world . . . more
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October 10, 2006 01:44 PM EDT --
I learned Iran's president Ahmadinejad is a fan of sixties rock music. There is nothing he likes better when relaxing than to listen to The Stones.................>
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October 11, 2006 11:30 AM EDT --
It must be the greatest newspaper headline of all time and so long as there are such stories the traditional media has nothing to fear from us miserable rabble of bloggers.
But can this story from The . . . more
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April 30, 2006 12:53 PM EDT --
Mayday is a holiday all around the world. Like many just global feasts it has survived from the old Earth Mother tradition of early man. In Britain, it is called Beltane or Good . . . more
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October 05, 2006 01:55 PM EDT --
According to the current issue of Biological Chemistry, research by Dr. Barbara Ehrlich of Yale University shows that too much testosterone kills brain cells.
Another academic giving us food for . . . more
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December 22, 2006 12:14 PM EST --
It always happens at Christmas - or maybe Thanksgiving for you. You have worked yourself to a frazzle and driven everybody crazy trying to make sure things are perfect. And then one little thing goes . . . more
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April 15, 2006 12:49 PM EDT --
Not long ago a news item appeared about the removal of the Easter Bunny from schools and public buildings as it may offend non - Christians. There were the usual blustering about political correctness . . . more
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May 20, 2006 12:10 PM EDT --
Spring has arrived late this year, but the warm days are arriving and the main flowers in the garden are coming into bud; Geraniums, Lavender, Cistus, Hollyhocks. The early flowering shrubs are almost . . . more
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June 20, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Humankind has to get back to the rhythm of the Cosmos.
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August 02, 2006 11:51 AM EDT --
'Fraid its nothing to do with that famous misheard lyric. Last weekend me ears really were alight - ish.
My daughter is newly qualified in ear torching, or Hopi ear candle therapy, which is . . . more
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October 17, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
There has been controversy over Madonna's decision to bring a little Fair Trade baby from a poor village in Malawi to be brought up as part of her family in England and America.
People are asking . . . more
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July 02, 2006 12:44 PM EDT --
Hi there poets and everyone else. You might like to check outr the new issue of Poetry Life and Times which features a set of poems from our Gather colleague Barbary Chaapell plus a few poems from myself . . . more
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