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• A Little Too Green...

  

  There've been some great pieces of poetry this week. Some eclectic views on nature, fracking awful frackers, philosophical and biological serial killers. Yep,... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Green and Pleasant

  The Song of Wandering AengusBy William Butler Yeats I went out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head,And cut and peeled a hazel wand,And hooked a berr... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Fifth Person Perspective

  Welcome to my recycling. The fifth of its kind. The fifth person. The fifth ‘Me’. The fifth birth. The fifth death.Seven years. You do know that's all it... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• To Be Truely Green.

  The theme this week on the blog is “we’re green”. An apt theme for the time we’re in. Summer is a beautiful season and our native woodlands do ‘green’ very well. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Postcard from Frackpool

  

  Well, prepare yourself for gas flares firing at the end of your driveway- and strengthen those listed rectory walls whilst you’re at it- words to that effect... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Postcard from the Somme

  

  The Lochnagar Crater at La BoiselleThis crater is preserved as a reminder of the first day of the Somme offensive on 1st July 1916. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 CULTURE

• Dead Good Poetry on the Radio

  

  By Ashley Lister On Monday, August 5th, I’m going to start hosting a radio show: The Dead Good Poetry Show and I’d love for you to join me. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 CREATIVITY

• The Biggest Lie.

  I'm sorry this is late folks i've been having major issues with my laptop all day. Just revived it. Here is a little poem... Picturesque with sunny vales,Tight... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sheep on a Hill

  WHAT IS THIS LIGHT!Oh it's morning. Daybreak bursting through the crack in my curtains infecting my light starved eyes with blurred pain. DAM! It's like this... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Birth Rights

  George. It was a name that featured fairly prominently in our ‘potential children of the future list’. Links in the family, quite traditional, not as common... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wish You Weren't Here...

  by Ashley Lister The theme this week is the back yard. Specifically, it's the phrase, "not in my back yard". Sadly, abundant in my back yard, are these things. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Not in My Back Garden...

  

  So the theme for this week is 'Not in my back yard...' Well I don’t have a back yard, not since we moved from Liverpool to Blackpool for the bracing sea air... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Literal Interpretation

  

  Not In My Back Yard arbouraviarybee hivebenchbird bathchickenscompost heapdeckingfire pitgnomegranite sculpturekoi carplabradorlanternslawnminiature... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Drip, Drip, Drip... SPLASH!!

  The sound of time passing isn't the tick of a clock but the dripping of a tap. We are permeable: transient creatures, soaking up particles of who knows what fro... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Native Garden.

  The woods are my back-garden, Or what little there is left, With mankind drumming the earth for fuel, Leaving native animals bereft. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Not in My Backyard

  Rip up the landscape,Lay down the tracks,Let them who claim to lead us,Get quickly there and back.Through this green and pleasant land,From the smoke around... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Mystery Beds

  I used to worry what was under my bed.As a child I kept monsters there, which were useful for imaginative writing even if I never actually got around to it. Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• And So to Bed

  

  by Ashley Lister OMG. WTF? FFS. There are some days when I despise modern life. Admittedly, I ♥ my smartphone, and I love broadband, microwave pizza and... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Cast Iron Skillet Will Sort out Most of the Dark Things...

  For children, monsters are real. As a parent this means you need to believe in them too. To ignore the monsters is to tell your children you have no faith in... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Before I Wake

  

  The reason we fear the space under the bed is linked to our need to feel secure when we sleep. When we surrender to the leaden eyelids, the urge to drool freely... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION