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• Beetroot

  

  I was born in Blackpool, the youngest by nearly seven years, into a household of three adults and three siblings. My maternal Grandmother Phyllis, by then in he... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Roots

  

  I once saw a man fall out of a tree. This wasn’t any old tree, but a sixty-foot high African oil palm. It happened one unassuming spring afternoon in Lagos,... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Forget Silver Bells ....

  Happy New Year!!! Welcome to 2015 on the Dead Good Blog! I hope you had a wonderful Festive period. Firstly, I would like to apologise for my absence for the... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• In a Stew

  

  Winter has long been my favourite season of the year, bringing as it does, ideally, those cold, crisp, sunny days when it is a pleasure to walk in a healthy... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Beatlemania Was Born in Blackpool

  

  The Beatles 'arrived' when I was nine and nothing would ever be quite the same again. They permeated our young lives and literally became the soundtrack to my... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Faithless

  Like yesterday's poem, this is another one that speaks for itself: Faithless Wedding bells’ Last toll Evaporates Beneath the threadbare sky. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Relationships - Mine Have Been Like Verlaine's and Rimbaud...

  

  ...not really. That's a quote from our man Dylan, who's done a better job than most [in my humble opinion] at apprehending the essence of male-female... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Welcome Home, Elsie

  

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  Posted on 17 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Escapism

  For as long as I can remember, I’ve only had to look up into the night sky to escape the daily grind. Trundling through the day-to-day, I sometimes forget that... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Escape To Reality!

  

  A trip to Blackpool has long been a form of escapism for many: a family holiday by the sea where the sun always shines; a wild week-end where, if you can... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Escapism

  We all need it in some form or other. Escapism. The ability to remove oneself from reality, if only for a short while, whether to re-charge ones batteries or tr... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Comfort and Joy?

  

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  Posted on 10 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Worlds - We Are Not Alone!

  Today's bleak blog is coming at you through the interstices between this world, formerly Great Britain CE 2014 [latter days of] and one of its contiguous,... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Worlds Apart?

  I despair sometimes, I really do. Watching the news, I see all the terrible things going on on this little speck of a planet and wonder why we do it to... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poems Have Feet

  . At least according to a lot of people. They are the units, some say, out of which lines of poetry are often constructed. In English (and many other... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Feet

  

  This week’s theme has so much scope, I’ve found it tough paring down ideas to something that can be shoe-horned into the Saturday blog. Nevertheless, here it is... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Love the Ones You're with ...

  On this weeks' theme I would love to go into the intricacies of feet being the meter of poetry .... but I'm not that clever. So instead, I'll go with a more... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hook - What's Yours?

  At face value we look in on an extreme initiation challenge. This crazy action is undertaken in order to belong. I have looked back at the poem though and have... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hook and I

  

  Hook. Hmmm - it's got to be JM Barrie, Peter Pan and all that Neverland shenanigans. I was always fascinated by the implications of having George Darling [fathe... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Hook to Remember

  I had drawn a blank when it came to this weeks theme ..... until yesterday. I received news that no-one welcomes. My Gran had passed away. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION