Friday, 24 August 2018
Thursday, 23 August 2018
Poem 7
The road not taken ...............................Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth:
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear:
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden back.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads onto way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Thursday, 16 August 2018
Wednesday, 15 August 2018
High windows... poem 6
Sad Steps......................... Philip Larkin..
Groping back to bed after a piss
I part thick curtains, and am startled by
The rapid clouds, the moon's cleanliness.
Four o'clock: wedge- shadowed gardens lie
Under a cavernous, a wind picked sky.
There's something laughable about this,
The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow
Loosely as cannon-smoke to stand apart
(Stone coloured light sharpening the roofs below)
High and preposterous and separate-
Lozenge of love! Medallion of art!
O wolves of memory! Immensements ! No,
One shivers slightly, looking up there.
The hardness and the brightness and the plain
Far-reaching singleness of that wide stare
Is a reminder of the strength and pain
Of being young; that it can't come again,
But is for others undiminished somewhere.
Monday, 13 August 2018
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
Poem 5
On His Queerness ............ Christopher Isherwood
When I was young and wanted to see the sights,
They told me: 'Cast an eye over the Roman Camp
If you care to,
But plan to spend most of your day at the Aquarium-
Because, after all, the Aquarium-
Well, I mean to say, the Aquarium-
Till you've seen the Aquarium you ain't seen nothing.'
So I cast an eye over
The Roman Camp-
And that old Roman Camp,
That old, old Roman Camp
Got me
Interested.
So that now, near closing time,
I find that I still know nothing-
And am not even sorry that I know nothing-
About fish.
Monday, 6 August 2018
Saturday, 4 August 2018
Monday, 30 July 2018
Poem 2 and 3 and 4
An Epiloge ...... John Masefield ..
I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too.
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On Mundane Acquaintances .... Hilaire Belloc..
Good morning, Algernon: Good morning, Percy.
Good morning, Mrs. Roebeck. Christ have mercy!
...........................................................................................
Siegfried Sassoon (no title?)
'When I'm alone' ......the words tripped of his tongue
As though to be alone were nothing strange.
'When I was young' he said. 'when I was young....
I thought of age, and loneliness, and change.
I thought how strange we grow when we're alone,
And how unlike the selves that meet, and talk,
And blow the candle out, and say good-night.
Alone... The word is life endured and known.
It is the stillness where our spirits walk
And all but inmost faith is overthrown
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Goldfrapp - Stranger (Official Video)
Playing Miriam reminded me of this track from 'Tales of Us'
the whole album, brilliant stuff from Goldfrapp, she's one
dark lady.. click on the link and play more of the album
Link... Stranger
the whole album, brilliant stuff from Goldfrapp, she's one
dark lady.. click on the link and play more of the album
Link... Stranger
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
poems...
Apart from up-loading music from you tube
I have nothing to say on here anymore, so to keep it going
I'll try and post a poem a week, here's the first...
A Quoi Bon Dire... by Charlotte Mew..
Seventeen years ago you said
Something that sounded like Good-bye;
And everybody thinks that you are dead,
But I.
So I, as I grow stiff and cold
To this and that say Good-bye too;
And everybody sees that I am old
But you.
And one fine morning in a sunny lane
Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear
That nobody can love their way again
While over there
You will have smiled, and I shall have tossed your hair.
KRO
Sunday, 15 July 2018
Friday, 13 July 2018
Thursday, 12 July 2018
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Saturday, 30 June 2018
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Sunday, 24 June 2018
Saturday, 16 June 2018
Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera
Link... the wind will...
There's a translation on Google if you want it...
Unless the wind has carried it away..........
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Friday, 8 June 2018
Friday, 25 May 2018
Sunday, 20 May 2018
Benazir Bhutto
.
Whether you think she's just another corrupt politician or a
larger than life woman who belongs in the 1400s
you have to admire her bravery ...
Click on' world service' to listen, you'll have to open an
account with the BBC... it's free.
KRO
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
'Blues Run the Game'
So here we go again, will we stay or will we go, being the Blues
we won't know until the last day of the season as always,
as always " the Blues are just the same."..roll on Sunday..
KRO
we won't know until the last day of the season as always,
as always " the Blues are just the same."..roll on Sunday..
KRO
Friday, 20 April 2018
Visions Of Johanna
Link... best of the best..
for me, the best version of the best of Dylan..
no idea who they are but wow.. some how
they've merged Dylan with the velvet underground..ace..
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
Friday, 6 April 2018
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Saturday, 24 March 2018
Monday, 19 March 2018
50 Mums | 50 Kids | 1 Extra Chromosome
A while back I watched a brilliant film by the magical
Sally Phillips about downs syndrome ( she has a child
born with this.) It seems we can now,( with early means
of detection and a woman's right to have an abortion)
stop anymore children with downs syndrome being
born. It looks like Iceland is well on the way to
becoming the first country to do this, the first country
to never have little bundles of pure love and joy
like these in this clip...
..think about it... what's next.... on second thoughts
don't think about it..
Link...50 mums...
the Sally Phillips film by the way
is here...Sally...
...
Sally Phillips about downs syndrome ( she has a child
born with this.) It seems we can now,( with early means
of detection and a woman's right to have an abortion)
stop anymore children with downs syndrome being
born. It looks like Iceland is well on the way to
becoming the first country to do this, the first country
to never have little bundles of pure love and joy
like these in this clip...
..think about it... what's next.... on second thoughts
don't think about it..
Link...50 mums...
the Sally Phillips film by the way
is here...Sally...
...
Sunday, 18 March 2018
Iron and Wine - Naked As We Came
link... back to the stars
In a hundred years everyone (save a handful of us) alive
today will be dead so, why worry?
KRO
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
Saturday, 24 February 2018
Sunday, 11 February 2018
Friday, 9 February 2018
Sunday, 4 February 2018
The Story of a Giant Inflatable Violin
link..it's a cello not a violin..
what ever it is you'd never get it under your chin...
..first bit of vid is me in my unit (cow shed) at Runway farm
second bit is Tim the painter at ABC
KRO
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Linda Ronstadt In Atlanta 1977 05 Willin'
link..don't tell but...
so sad Parkinsons disease has taken away her fantastic voice,
wonder how she is now..
Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Friday, 12 January 2018
Wednesday, 3 January 2018
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