APRIL FIRST!!! Good Morning

APRIL FOOL!!!

We're RE-RUNNING CHRISTMAS!!

Below, the 2019 Team

‘Snowball’  by Shel Silverstein

I made myself a snowball

As perfect as could be.

I thought I'd keep it as a pet

And let it sleep with me.

I made it some pajamas

And a pillow for its head.

Then last night it ran away,

But first it wet the bed.

Christmas   Wendy Cope

Tis the season to be jolly,

Put up the tree and lots of holly,

Then pass around the loving cup...

And let the men do the washing up.

VIDEO

1) Highlights from 2016
Our Very First Poetry Show 13-17 min
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2)  Doggy Christmas Dinner 1.54 min 
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April 2nd - Good Morning!

VIDEO links at bottom of Post


The Smallest Library

Peek inside, books and dvds

Spring is on the line         liz

A call from Cambridge* and spring arrived

with the gentle burbling of a wood pigeon

clear behind my cousin's telling of

how cold and still the day’d begun,

out with Baxter on his early morning run,

air crisp, grass crunching underfoot,

stiff and white with hoar-frost.

Now late afternoon, sitting outside

in a sun warmed corner,

the view empty of roads...people...

just a roll of fields, trees and sky.

“I’m hot!” she muttered,

a muffled sound of clothing being shed,

(a wood pigeon’s coo filled the pause)

then, “I’m basking in my bra!”

We talked of family, things that warm the cockles,

of kids and grandkids, her recent holiday,

and all the while, the sound of wood pigeons

kept sifting down the line,

and when we said goodbye,

it was like hanging up on spring.

*from cousin Sarah.

This poem's video - see link below

1)  Spring is on the Line....including wood pigeon cooing  1.21 mins
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2)  EXTRA-ordinary - The Marsh family sharing their lockdown-themed coronavirus pandemic in the style of Les Misérables.  This version best - begins with family being "normal" before they sing...4.01 mins
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March 31st Something Tasty for Lunch

An Hors d'Oeuvre Before Lunch

 

VIDEOS

I put two videos from Xmas up on YouTube - notably the absurd poem PAM ... of course with subtitles

However there are copyright problems....so, watch them soon, as I may have to take them down quickly

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1)  A trio of Artistic Achievements  7.73 min

(Tossini-Skating-Tiny Dancer)

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2) "PAM" by Victoria Wood with ST  4.09 min

CLICK HERE 

March 31 GOOD MORNING!

VIDEOS - at end of Post

HELLO and Good Morning!

Take Up the POETRY CHALLENGE


Send me 
ONE LINE - JUST ONE LINE
of a poem, either by you, or someone else
(ps line can be short, or long)
and email it to me

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And I'll put them all together and make a poem
The More the Merrier
Liz... 

PS  Great Photos Welcome too!

BE CREATIVE

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To Stephany

who LOVED clothes with upmarket labels.

Haute Couture   Liz

Oh, how I love it when I wear

Christian's fashions, clothes by Pierre!

How I revel in the fame

Bestowed by garments with their name!

With joy I give in to temptation

When clothing bears their appelation

And gaily hand across the cheque

To have their name tag at my neck!

But, oh, I wish the world were able

To see how chic the inner label

For the price I paid I've got no pride

And damn well want their name OUTSIDE!

 

“I Worried"     Mary Oliver

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, 

will the rivers flow in the right direction, 

will the earth turn as it was taught, 

and if not how shall

I correct it?

Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,

can I do better?

Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows

can do it and I am, well,

hopeless.

Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,

am I going to get rheumatism,

lockjaw, dementia?

Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.

And gave it up. And took my old body

and went out into the morning,

and sang.

VIDEOS

1)  Photo Stream - Lions in Tree & More   8.39 min

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2) Homage to WALKING -
A Pedestrian Love Affair  1.53 mins
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3)  Stella and the Shower curtain   0.55 mins
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