Tag: poem
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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April 13, 2008 12:11 PM EDT --
Why are there so many flavours of Gather Thought Police. And why do these people have in common that irritating trait of hitting the keyboard before they switch on their brain.
Today someone called . . . 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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July 05, 2006 12:29 PM EDT --
NOTE: this is not about an Irishman, the fictional name just happened to pop into my head while I was looking for sometjing that scanned. His real name is Carl Purseglove, he is a well known local character . . . more
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February 25, 2008 11:46 AM EST --
We Made Love
I hate what Flash graphics does to video, this should be
much better quality, but we get back to the refusal of
the web gods to use professional tools.
It . . . more
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August 09, 2006 12:44 PM EDT --
American Friends are always kicking my backside and telling me not to be so diffident about things I have done. So when I saw someone had opened a group for rhymed poetry I thought as this one is nominated . . . more
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March 21, 2008 02:06 PM EDT --
Peccavimus
(we have sinned)
The world spins endlessly around
its dying sun in endless space.
Seers and science seek a sign;
are we alone or might we be
mutations of an older race
planted . . . 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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September 27, 2006 01:26 PM EDT --
I decided to post the first poem that ever earned me anything.
A while ago I started to post a series of articles on reading and writing poetry with the hope of encouraging people who dismiss poetry as . . . more
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February 01, 2008 11:32 AM EST --
I have not brougt any verse to Gather for a while, no reason except I lost interest in the site. Anyway, I decided its time to up my visibility so here we go...
Whenever our leaders make a . . . more
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February 14, 2008 11:11 AM EST --
(Love looks not with eyes but with the mind: - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 scene 1)
There was an Italian waiter
who dated a girl named Ruth Slater,
They did something . . . more
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June 20, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Humankind has to get back to the rhythm of the Cosmos.
. . . 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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October 29, 2006 01:10 PM EST --
This year's first Halloween special is just a bit of spooky fun. Read through the poem before you play the audio track though, the voice is so heavily distorted (deliberately, to make it . . . more
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February 08, 2008 12:01 PM EST --
FINGERS -the video (click this link)
Fingers
(text version for people on slow connections)
Fingers hold your sandwiches
And fingers scratch your head
And fingers . . . more
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November 12, 2006 12:29 PM EST --
Click to view Fingers - The Video
Fingers
Fingers hold your sandwiches
And fingers scratch your head
And fingers pick your nose
When you're lying in your bed
Fingers play piano, trumpet . . . more
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October 31, 2006 12:41 PM EST --
The Days Upon The Year
Follow the road from Pendle, east
through forest, moss and moor
when overworld's portal hangs agape
in the days upon the year,
So many lonely travellers
have passed that way . . . more
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March 18, 2006 01:14 PM EST --
SPECIAL BONUS CONTENT: See end of article for a link to Tribute To McGonagall, two poems specially written by myself to mark the centenary of the great man's death.
William McGonagall, allegedly the . . . more
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June 03, 2006 01:26 PM EDT --
Today the Epsom Derby, the most famous horse race in the world was run. Here, with more than a passing nod to Dylan Thomas' poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (for reasons which will become . . . more
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