Tag: life
member name: Ian Thorpe
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September 22, 2006 01:09 PM EDT --
This poem should have been up yesterday but I am still catching up after a month of problems with the local network exchange. Ho - de - hum...
Equinox
When dawn rose on the twins your dance began,
an . . .
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May 10, 2006 01:07 PM EDT --
Many people ask me what exactly poetry is, others say "well it all seems like a load of old tosh to me Ian, so what's it all about?" So I thought I would write a series of articles aimed . . .
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May 10, 2006 01:27 PM EDT --
Many people ask me what exactly poetry is, others say "well it all seems like a load of old tosh to me Ian, so what's it all about?" So I thought I would write a series of articles aimed . . .
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December 20, 2006 12:47 PM EST --
Decriminalising Drugs and Prostitution.
In my previous article about the murders of six prostitutes in a mid - sized British town I suggested a way to solve the "crack - ho" problem is . . .
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May 10, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
go back to part 1
How should English poetry be defined. Aha! English is the most flexible of all languages which, experts acknowledge, makes it overall the best language for poetry (Italian is the . . .
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December 14, 2006 01:09 PM EST --
One story has dominated the news here in the UK for the past few days.
This week we have learned of the violent deaths of at least three, probably more, young women who made their living as prostitutes . . .
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August 06, 2006 01:17 PM EDT --
Just over a week ago I was branded anti-Semitic for suggesting the Israelis are a gang of murderous war junkies. I was not the only one of course to come under fire, anybody who criticised the acts of . . .
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October 10, 2006 01:44 PM EDT --
I learned Iran's president Ahmadinejad is a fan of sixties rock music. There is nothing he likes better when relaxing than to listen to The Stones.................>
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October 11, 2006 11:30 AM EDT --
It must be the greatest newspaper headline of all time and so long as there are such stories the traditional media has nothing to fear from us miserable rabble of bloggers.
But can this story from The . . .
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June 07, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
Gay Marriage is getting churchy folk worked up across the pond again I see.
When people of the same gender want to get married it causes a lot of bad feeling all around the English - speaking world . . .
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August 02, 2006 11:51 AM EDT --
'Fraid its nothing to do with that famous misheard lyric. Last weekend me ears really were alight - ish.
My daughter is newly qualified in ear torching, or Hopi ear candle therapy, which is . . .
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October 05, 2006 01:55 PM EDT --
According to the current issue of Biological Chemistry, research by Dr. Barbara Ehrlich of Yale University shows that too much testosterone kills brain cells.
Another academic giving us food for . . .
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November 07, 2006 11:22 AM EST --
1 November 2006
Its that time of year again when as a good pagan I should be recovering from my naked romp over Pendle Hill where on Halloween night we meet to cavort around under the . . .
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July 02, 2006 12:44 PM EDT --
Hi there poets and everyone else. You might like to check outr the new issue of Poetry Life and Times which features a set of poems from our Gather colleague Barbary Chaapell plus a few poems from myself . . .
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April 30, 2006 12:53 PM EDT --
Mayday is a holiday all around the world. Like many just global feasts it has survived from the old Earth Mother tradition of early man. In Britain, it is called Beltane or Good . . .
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May 16, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
I was sent this by a fellow stroke - survivor, Sue Harris from Wales. If we are over 30 we are all survivors it seems. Your comments will be forwarded. We might even get Sue, who is very funny and more . . .
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December 22, 2006 12:14 PM EST --
It always happens at Christmas - or maybe Thanksgiving for you. You have worked yourself to a frazzle and driven everybody crazy trying to make sure things are perfect. And then one little thing goes . . .
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May 20, 2006 12:10 PM EDT --
Spring has arrived late this year, but the warm days are arriving and the main flowers in the garden are coming into bud; Geraniums, Lavender, Cistus, Hollyhocks. The early flowering shrubs are almost . . .
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June 14, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
When my friend Sandy Knaur posted an item defending Simon Cowell's brutally honest assessment of the potential of many candidates for stardom in American Idol (Simon and Paula ) there were predictably . . .
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October 17, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
There has been controversy over Madonna's decision to bring a little Fair Trade baby from a poor village in Malawi to be brought up as part of her family in England and America.
People are asking . . .
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