Ashleylister
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A Dead Good Blog
http://deadgoodpoets.blogspot.co.uk/
A group of poets from Blackpool, Lancashire, discussing poetry, inspiration and writing in general.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 2046 )
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Tragedy - Greek Goats Love to Climb Trees.
Tragedy - noun (plural tragedies) 1 - An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe: a... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
History
My bookshelves groan with the evidence of a full and varied education in History and English Literature coupled with a love of reading.Much of my free time... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
History
Part two of this Shakespeare mini-series devotes itself to history. Here's a brief one about the man himself. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is generally... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
History - Living Names in the Here and Now.
This week our theme is history. I have to confess to you that as soon as I hear the word, my mind springs back to school days, to Miss Swift and endless... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
History
As a schoolchild I was not at all interested in history as I found it altogether boring . It seemed that I was expected to just remember a list of dates, and wh... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Comedy
When it comes to the funny side of life, stuff that makes us laugh, nothing, it seems, creates a bigger comedic splash than a good dollop of lavatory humour,... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Comedy - You Should Have Been There.
Have you ever had one of those moments when you quite literally had to hold your sides, you were laughing so hard. One of those hysterical moments. You know wha... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Comedy
Well we all like a good laugh ! It's strange that we tend to recall and or laugh at visual comedy. That's why silent movies or mimed comedy so delights us. We... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Building Bridges
by Dean Tsang My history skills aren’t quite polished, so when I was given the theme of Building Bridges, my mind immediately jumped to the expression, the... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Mythemagical Bridge
If you've ever visited Cambridge (England, not Massachusetts) it is quite possible you've looked around some of the more picturesque colleges in that fine old... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Building Bridges - A Real Greek Dilema.
So here is the problem. We have a ferry service that is the only physical communication route linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese peninsula to Antirrio o... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Building Bridges
As you already know I admire old constructions....so today I'm going to talk about building bridges...taking the term as I like to think of it. The photo above... Read more
Posted on 28 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Green Shoots?
"Most reasonable minded people will see the green shoots of recovery are showing"... Bloomfield Road visited by aliens? Thus spake the chairman of our "cash-ric... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
...due to Unforseen Circumstances.
I watched it from the safety of the living room at my mother's house. A triple suicide bombing in Brussels, the (so called) European capital, on Tuesday morning... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
New Shoots
There is something uplifting about spotting new growth after winter's icy grip and barrenness . We expound on the sight of the first snowdrops and speculate the... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
New Shoots
Apologies for this not being posted until afternoon here in Blackpool, NW England, but both Kev and I have been battling with the gremlins affecting the router... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
I Am A Rock, I Am An Island
Island - okay, this feels like deja vu (all over again)! I've posted a Dead Good Blog on the topic before, albeit under a different heading: John Donne said... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Island - Escape to Tenerife
In 1988 I went on holiday for a week to Tenerife. On the Friday, instead of flying home, I ripped up my return ticket and decided to stay. The wonderful... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
Island
Of course we live on an island and yet remain fascinated by islands off our shores. Our weather is dictated by influences of the surrounding seas and much of ou... Read more
Posted on 15 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Dead Good Blog by Christo Heyworth on Monday 14th. March 2016 on ISLANDS
Here are some British Isles: The Scots writer, the late Hugh MacDiarmid states: I was better with the sound of the sea than with the voices of men And in... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2016 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION