letters to Fanny.. John Keats 1795/1821

John Keats - Bright Star (love poems) | Poetry reading with text Poem 38

Spitfire - lower your head!

🇬🇧 The Mighty Vulcan XH558 At Farnborough

Poem 33 ... Man oh man

 Man oh man .....                         by Derek Hinks

Man oh man what a mood I'm in

If I had windows I'd  kick 'em in

If I had a cat I'd boil it's head

Then eat it's eyes with a slice of bread

Man oh man what a mood I'm in

They're gonna know where I've bin

They're gonna see a bloody trail

Of bulls balls and sucked dry snail.

They're gonna see puppy's brains

Comin down like tropical rains

They're gonna wish they'd stayed in,

Man oh man what a mood I'm in .....................

Poem 32.......... Time's end..............

 Time's end        by Derek Hinks.

We vowed to love did she and I

Until the end of time.

Now her love is no-longer mine

She has not broken her vow,

For though alone I sit and cry

No matter, for the end of time is now .............

Poem 30.. the morning after..

 The Morning after...   by Derek Hinks

The morning has arrived again

And the mouth is dry.

Sleep restrains the eye from opening.

The ear's are to lazy

To sort out the hazy sounds of the street,

Here today I shall remain, 

I shall not challenge the world today..

Poem 29 Lunar...

 Lunar....   by Derek Hinks.

She has a soft and mellow light

Which even the darkest hour of night

Cannot make harsh with its contrast.

Her very shape is a gentle kind

A shape surely formed by mankind

With looks of wonder in times long past

Poem 28.... Just me...

 ...Just me..           by Derek Hinks

Time and chance are partners old

Space and thought are as the same

Unaware of thoughts I cast the mold

And watch as a universe plays my game.

Orbs of time and spheres of chance

I spin stretch halt or dice,

What visions shall space enhance

What heat the sun or spread of ice

Shall the earth suffer or greet

Who shall conquer or admit defeat?

I am destiny, I am fate, I am life.

Within the skull, behind the eye

That which is straddles the knife

Awaiting the moment they, and my brain shall die...

Russell Crowe wishes solo British sailor on her birthday; fans in awe [w...

Sea Wolves - Pip Hare finishes her Vendee Globe 2020

Amy Macdonald - Shilo (live)

Cable - (eighteen) seventy

...Like all good bands their best work was in the studio,   

so sad that having learnt their "trade" they were about to record

 some great stuff, how great we'll never know and can only guess...

KRO

Empty seas

Weekends

Adele - Daydreamer (Later... Jools Holland in June 2007)

Feist - The park

Snowcake clip "Dazlious"

Snape: Innocent Man

Nina Simone ''Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues''

Just.. well...

KRO

High walls

..so this 'nothing' piece of rock in the north sea is our home,

a home of  pirates, brigands and cut-throats. A home from where

we roamed the world doing all that was good and all that was bad.

We still have a monarch and we are subjects of HRH, we don't

have rights but we have 'freedoms'  and they have come with a

heavy price. These freedoms have been earned over centuries 

but in just a few short months we have rolled over, had our

belly's tickled and given away so many of them. We have gone

from being traders and shop keepers to being lighthouse keepers

ps.. has he bitten off his mates finger or is his pipe upside down...

KRO

Kandace Springs - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Live) - Le Grand Stud...

The Avengers - Wherever You Will Go [John Steed & Emma Peel]

Beth Orton - Galaxy Of Emptiness

The stars light a sky
And a galaxy of emptiness tonight
Though I'm happiest
When there's no
Reason for me to be
With no-ones expectation to weigh
Heavy on my heart
And so much hope it some times tears
Me all apart ....
Could you please knock me off my feet for a while.............

KRO

Beth Orton - Dawn Chorus | Live in Los Angeles | Moshcam

Ozymandias.... poem 26

Talking of tearing down statues...

..when dear Percy Byssh saw this bust of Ramasses 11 in the museum
in London circa 1817 he wrote ......

                    Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said :  Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the dessert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that it's sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear :
" My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty and despair"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. 

The Italian Job (Car Chase-Mini Coopers)

First car I bought was a brand new Mini from Dents garage
cost me (well my mom actually ) £490 quid. I drove it like
all roads were the track at Silverstone,  I was seventeen,
how I got be eighteen I'll never know but, back then I was immortal..
... and so alive.......



KRO

The Ronettes - Baby, I Love You

Short People

"Black lives matter"no shit Sherlock..
Me? I'm a white privileged English man so of course
I must be a bigoted racist , but if the law knew what I'd
done for ............................................. they'd arrest me.
   You know I recon if every person on this planet were
stripped naked then sprayed with a permanent blue
dye,  had their hair shaved off and we all wore blonde
wigs, I'd give us a week at most.  Then we'd find some
reason to bully a group of us. Can't think of any?
Well what about short people...............
... "you gotta pick 'em up just to say hello"...



KRO

Blondie - Dreaming [best pictures of Debbie]

....Oh Debbie....
   ...so sorry I broke her heart..
      so sad she just never got over me...
.
KRO

Lymit ..

KRO

Lisa Hannigan - What'll I Do (Official HD Video)

KRO

...woman's work....

..here hare here..

I don't know just how good this film is, but for me
there are none better. Grants performance as Withnail
is wonderful and the character of Withnail is so close
to how .............................
You need to watch the film to get the ending, but
the closing scene is heartbreaking . It's still the
only piece of Will S. that I love... here hare here...
 


kro

Lou Reed - New York - 03 Dirty Blvd

Be My Baby - The Ronettes - 1963 - Stereo - Music Video

BIRMINGHAM - A CITY ABANDONED

Salomé Leclerc - Le bon moment

By The Light Of The Magical Moon

KRO

Find a little Wood Tyrannosaurus Rex (featuring Forest Fairies)

Hello In There - John Prine cover - Katie Cole Tunesday

... it ain't so bad... life is good..  xx



   ... cheer-up...

Hermits cover

Step away ...

... from another time, another place. another girl

Dancing dress

... dearly beloved, we are gathered here today....
'Cause it's pissing down outside....





There's a fat lady sings in a bar I use
There's a guy that brings black dancing shoes
There's a kid that I know with just half an eye
And he holds the hand of a taller guy
There's a dancing dress all out of time
And a Rasta I guess who's words don't rhyme
There's a bugle man who's lips are dry
And a bare-foot priest who says a sigh
And there's a fat lady sings in a bar I use
And there's a guy that brings black dancing shoes
And there's a fat lady sings in a bar I use
And there's a guy that brings black dancing shoes
There's a bugle man who's lips are dry
And a bare foot priest who says a sigh
There's a fat lady sings in a bar I use

Poem 25

.....Twentieth of March..  Derek H.

And so here we are again 

Yep it's my birthday today

(Some years it's the last day of winter

Others the first day of spring)

Softening now the grey skies of rain

So close now, so close again

Almost there with each lengthening day

To the green of April, the bright green of May..

life is good... KRO

Goldfrapp: Monster Love (Live Acoustic Version)

Goldfrapp - Clowns, BBC Electric Proms, 5 of 6

Goldfrapp - A

put this up before but they took it down so I'll try again
'cause I think it's brill......



KRO

..Poem twenty four..

       This Be The Verse...

By Philip Larkin... additional lines by Derek H.

They fuck you up your mom and dad
They may not mean to but they do
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra just for you

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats

Man hands on misery to man
It deepens like a coastal shelf
Get out as early as you can
And don't have any kids yourself.

They fuck you up the kids you had
They may not mean to but they do
Pouring guilt on their mum and dad
Saying you're some-one they never knew

But they'll be fucked up in their turn
By brats who won't wear threadbare coats
Who'll half the time refuse to learn
And half spent filling their throats

Man hands on misery to man
It deepens like a coastal shelf
Get out as early as you can
Return to being a kid yourself.

They fuck you up the dreams you had
They may not seem to but they do
Pouring guilt, good hidden by bad
Drowning in shame as they never flew

But dreams were fucked up long before
By 'Holy' men and men of books
Selling dreams to those unsure
'Cause freedom ain't the prize it looks

Man hands on misery to man
It deepens like a coastal shelf
Get out as early as you can....
But always be a dreamer yourself....

Not sure Philip would approve, but hey, he's dead.

KRO

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)