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Is Aix en Provence
Worth more than a glance?
Is effortless taste
Just cute cut and paste?
Poems of Place: Aix
30 Wednesday Apr 2014
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Zimri or The Duke of Buckingham as described by John Dryden in ‘Absalom and Achitophel’
30 Wednesday Apr 2014
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A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind’s epitome:
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But, in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon.
Modern Vintage
24 Thursday Apr 2014
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For Cath Kidston and Becky
Cath Kidston
Kept her mitts on
To pluck rose petals
To stick on kettles.
She knew her chicks
Would love a mix
Of something borrowed,
Something blue,
Something old and something new.
Modern Vintage
Or cozy printage?
Real fashion hints
Or death by chintz?
O, Cath Kidston
You made real quids on
How you’re smuggage
By flogging luggage!
Oh ya…..
Songs: Flatterers Meet
23 Wednesday Apr 2014
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Your words just failed to rally me,
(though I admit it was a near thing)
The rain just dissolved them
But such things happen
When flatterers meet
Your tricks have stopped amusing me
Though it’s true you do try hard
I can’t compete with flattery
Lest you catch me
Off my guard
You’re far too smart
For your own good
Thought I suppose
You’d disagree
To fight the world is easy
But you try fighting me
New Inn Hall Street
Hilary, 1976
Songs: All We All Enjoyed
16 Wednesday Apr 2014
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Farewell the summer did you say?
So factually? Without a thought for they
Who love you?
Tell me you don’t mean to lose
All we all enjoyed.
Farewell to gown and books today,
Put pen and ink and me away?
No more
The life of learning’s passion that
All we all enjoyed
Should the things that were us two
Fall into some void,
Abandoned empty skins of former lives?
I know a terminal urge grows
Within you now.
I must not need you
Till I don’t know how.
Farewell the vanguard of the day
My hand stumbles nervously on its way
Upon your brow,
Tell me you did not mean to lose
All we all enjoyed?
An A to Z of Provenance
11 Friday Apr 2014
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A Arbroath Smokies, Aberdeen Angus, Amalfi Lemons, Asti
B Bakewell Tart, Black Forest Gateaux, Baked Alaska, Buffalo Wings
C Cornish Pasties
D Dublin Bay Prawns, Dundee Cake
E Eccles Cakes
F Frankfurter
G Gouda
H Hildon Water
I Idaho Red
J Jersey Royals, Jaffa Cakes, Jarlsberg
K Kentucky Fried Chicken, Kendal Mint Cake, Key Lime, Chicken Kiev
L Lancashire Hot Pot
M Melton Mowbray Pie, Madras Curry
N New England Chowder, Salade Niçoise
O Oxford Blue
P Parma ham, Pilsener, Philadelphia Cheesecake
Q Quiche Lorraine
R Roquefort
S Sisteron Lamb, Sancerre
T Turkish Delight
U Ulster Fry
V Vougeot
W Wensleydale
X Xeres
Y Yorkshire Pudding
Z Zamarano
Songs: Titan (Hearing Mahler’s First Symphony)
07 Monday Apr 2014
Posted in Poetry
A warm hand to a cold, cold face
Awakes that eerie, weary trace,
That strain so familiar to hear,
So painful and yet so clear.
And what shall your critique be of me?
A bass line without a melody?
Or that strain so familiar to hear
Cold, cold cheeks and a falling tear?
For how can you say that you know me?
Have you trespassed in my dreams?
Has this erring led you to believe?
This man is not what he seems?
New Inn Hall Street
Michaelmas 1975
Flotsam and Jetsam 