Poem twelve..

           Phillip Le Barr... ..........................Spike Milligan..


   Phillip Le Barr
   Was knocked down by a car
   On the road to Mandalay,
   He was knocked down again
   By a dust cart in Spain
   And again in Zanzibar
   So,
   He traveled at night
   In the pale moonlight
   Away from the traffic's growl
   But terrible luck
   He was hit by a duck
   Driven by an owl

Daniela Andrade - Shore (Live)

Link... shore

Barcelona - Ronnie Lane

Link.. ...Love it..

"Ooh La La" (live) - Ronnie Lane

Can he say that?...               Love the dancer at the end...(his wife?)



Link... full screen.. full screen

Poem eleven....

                 No goodbye....                       Derek H.

       "Can I please talk to you?"
       "Which one of you to which one of me".. I said.
       "Is it the you that was part of the we,,,.. now dead?"
       "Or is it the you that I see"
       "And this thing now me?"

      "Look just, just talk to me"
      "Fine, I'll talk to the you that I see"... I replied
      "Was it the you that  was part of the we... who lied?"
      "Or were you always and only the you I now see?"

      "So you won't talk to me?"
      "No, I don't know you"...

Carmen: "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Elina Garanca)

I posted a version of this (by Agnes Baltsa) a while back
but this version by Elina Garanca is brilliant, wonderful.


Link.. ..full screen.(I want to be an orange..

PS.   wonder what the #Me Too ladies think of her performance.

Elina Garanca, O mon Fernand, La Favorite, Donizetti

Link...  Truly something else..

you can't beat a good wallow in sadness

I've been re-reading some of Prof, Cox' stuff, now that is sad,
not the fact I've been reading the Prof's stuff, but what he says.
First the earth will leave the "Goldilocks" orbit in 2-3 billion years
and be swallowed by our sun in it's death throes (humans long
since gone before this happens) that's sad. Next, in about 4 billion
years our galaxy will collide with Andromeda , the end for billions
of stars, that's sad. The span of time these events take seems so
large that it's hard to think they will happen, but they will.
  Finally, in maybe a trillion years or more,( but it will happen,)
our universe will be dead, not a beam of light, no movement,
a cold, dark emptiness, with no events happening even time
will stop.....





The lucky toe- rags, they're all smoking

Link...full screen and loud

Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus ( acoustic )

Link...  Jesus

Poem 10

        Fairy tales.....                    Derek H.

If all the Irish were in Ireland
What a crowded land it would be,
No Pixie dens deep green, nor hills
Rolling gently to the sea.
If Gods and saints were mortal
And all faith began this day,
Should we then ask for reasons
Why this time, this place, this way?

KRO

Serena Ryder Daydream

Serena Ryder Daydream



Link... young and ace...

Poem nine...

Poem eight..

             "When I have fears"  ...........   John Keats.

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love; -- then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Clean Up Woman Betty Wright cover Sarah Collins

Link... clean up

The Strumbellas - Ride On (Live)

Link..  get a shave

Claire ...

... as Kathy says, none of us ever have enough time..

click on link to see her speech.    Link... Claire Wineland

You will never get what you want until you want what you have.

KRO

Simon

Link... poor boy..



KRO

Cooky...

Alastair Cook
                         update.. link.. Chef

Slow dance

Link... slow dance to guitars

Les Filles de Illighadad Paris 2018 Les Nuits de L'Alligator

Link... sounds.

It's only an old salty swedish sea dog

Link....  hurden daflurpen

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.

inkybluekro seventeen

,,recorded a long time ago, wonder how the two Elizabeth's are...




Link... Seventeen

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.

Aretha Franklin - Chain Of Fools (Lyrics)

...news on  Aretha... it ain't good

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.

Georgia..

Go kiddo ...

Link... Open champion..

KRO

Donald

.. one of those events that I remember where
   I was when he died ...

Link.... Donald Cambell

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.
.........................................................................................



      On Mundane Acquaintances ....  Hilaire Belloc..

Good morning, Algernon: Good morning, Percy.
Good morning, Mrs. Roebeck. Christ have mercy!

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         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

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

Johnny Nice Painter

.. It comes to us all in the end.........







Link....  BLACK...

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

Norah Jones - Nightingale

Link....  Magic...

Norah Jones - Miriam

Link... Miriam

Norah Jones - "Those Sweet Words" [Live from Austin, TX]

Link... what did you say

Serena Ryder - Just Another Day - Live

link... just another day

Willy Mason Where The Humans Eat

Link...  don't eat...

Serena Ryder At Last

Serena Ryder At Last..............

Link... Serena

link to my twitter ... Finbar..

David Byrne - St. Vincent - Strange Overtones

Link.. a heart is not enough..
Annie Clark.... nutter...

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..........

Lawrence of Arabia: "So long as the Arabs tribe fight against tribe..."

Link.. Full screen

Lawrence of Arabia - Nothing is Written!

Link... Full screen

Lawrence of Arabia - officers' bar scene

Link.. full screen

The Best Edit Ever: Lawrence of Arabia

Linkk..  full screen

Lawrence of Arabia -- Penultimate Scene (no car)

Link.. full screen

she looks French

  Link... Mont, she ain't French

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime LIVE Los Angeles '83

this is the best 42 ever ....





Link.. talking heads

The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (Cover) by Daniela Andrade

Link.. Beatles cover

Benazir Bhutto

world service..

.
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

'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