Tag: poetry
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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October 23, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
As usual this post, originally published at Boggart Blog is a bit late arriving at Gather.
Following the shock of last week’s announcement that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 had been awarded . . .
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April 10, 2006 12:04 PM EDT --
Sometimes I despair of our language, and of other languages too. The English speaking nations are not the only ones that are abandoning the beauty of language for speed and efficiency, French, Italian, . . .
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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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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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May 03, 2006 01:20 PM EDT --
Its always nice to be featured in a poetry mag, but to be invited to submit work to the relaunch edition, as I have been this month, is especially pleasing.
If you are a poet or enjoy reading poetry . . .
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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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July 05, 2006 12:29 PM EDT --
NOTE: this is not about an Irishman, the fictional name just happened to pop into my head while I was looking for sometjing that scanned. His real name is Carl Purseglove, he is a well known local character . . .
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August 09, 2006 12:44 PM EDT --
American Friends are always kicking my backside and telling me not to be so diffident about things I have done. So when I saw someone had opened a group for rhymed poetry I thought as this one is nominated . . .
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October 30, 2008 03:39 PM EDT --
I live near Top Withins, Wuthering Heights to lovers of dark romances (yes it's a real place) so that gives you an idea of the kind of landscape in which this narrative verse is set. . . .
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January 25, 2009 01:24 PM EST --
Two hundred and fifty years ago today Scotland's national poets was born and after two and a half centuries his work, though deeply unfashionable by the standards of the modern literary . . .
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September 27, 2006 01:26 PM EDT --
I decided to post the first poem that ever earned me anything.
A while ago I started to post a series of articles on reading and writing poetry with the hope of encouraging people who dismiss poetry as . . .
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January 22, 2008 12:32 PM EST --
Rethinking My Beliefs
As readers know I am not at all a religious person. The belief system I find closest to my view of life is Druidism. Now Druids have suffered a lot from the negative spin put . . .
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February 01, 2008 11:32 AM EST --
I have not brougt any verse to Gather for a while, no reason except I lost interest in the site. Anyway, I decided its time to up my visibility so here we go...
Whenever our leaders make a . . .
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June 23, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
Hi, friends
This is a very late call to poets on my "friends" list to submite anti war poems for pssible inclusion in a special feature in the July edition of the highly regarded e-zine Poetry . . .
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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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December 08, 2007 12:30 PM EST --
More and more often we hear the phrase "the wisdom of crowds" being used to explain the stupidity of the Internet and those who profit from it. It is a stupid line in many ways, not least because . . .
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June 20, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Humankind has to get back to the rhythm of the Cosmos.
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August 18, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
Recently I have been sharing a few laughs with Karen D, Ishbel and various other friends about the differences between American English and British English. It is not just in differences of understanding . . .
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