Tag: verse
member name: Ian Thorpe
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May 03, 2006 01:20 PM EDT --
Its always nice to be featured in a poetry mag, but to be invited to submit work to the relaunch edition, as I have been this month, is especially pleasing.
If you are a poet or enjoy reading poetry . . . 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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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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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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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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July 29, 2008 11:06 AM EDT --
Plenty of religious zealots have been styled "The Hound Of God" for their unrelenting pursuit of "heretics." With that in mind I wrote this piece of Doggerel to chronicle the efforts . . . 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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July 06, 2006 12:50 PM EDT --
Two comments on yesterdays post, Slaney O'Toole, mentioned Limericks. Now Slaney O' Toole is not a limerick though it has that bouncy rhythm associated with that form.
but the commenters did give . . . 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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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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June 20, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Humankind has to get back to the rhythm of the Cosmos.
. . . more
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March 01, 2008 01:24 PM EST --
Voices provided by Teri Thorpe - we had a lot of fun recording this. My wife is a trained singer so put a mic. in her hand and she comes over Maria Callas. So there was I saying, "Look its wannawannawanna," . . . 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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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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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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