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Pics and Poems: The Death of this World.
Not unexpected after a long illness memory the first to go - the seasons for example forgetting when and how to organise them in what ...
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Pics and Poems: he ceases to exist
Every evening he passes shoulders hunched, catching the orange lamplight in tiny slivers that might be koi carp drowning in the air, th...
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Pics and Poems: exercises with moving parts
(Scroll down for the back story.) Take any two poems and open them up. Imagine they are clockwork clocks or watches. Relative to their r...
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Pics and Poems: An Experiment
I am hoping with your help, O good and faithful friends of the blogosphere, to test a pet theory of mine. It was revived for me when I recou...
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Pics and Poems: THE C WORD
Consider if you will the way an image or a word can hold a strong emotive charge (and what the physicists call spin ). As such, it's not ...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2008/10/chapels-sacred-and-secular.html?showComment=1224230100000
Pics and Poems: chapels, sacred and secular
A true story told to me many years ago goes something like this: a small boy was taken by his mother on his first ever trip round London to ...
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Pics and Poems: Lies, damned lies & my comments on your blog
Friko , commenting on my recent post, The Play's the Thing : true story mentioned that it was a pity that I'd had to stay factual to the en...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/03/100-word-play.html?showComment=1331233300003
Pics and Poems: 100-Word Play
The Royal Court Theatre is inviting ALL members of the public to submit 100-word plays for its Young Writers' Festival. The plays will not b...
pics and poemswordplay
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/10/out-of-wood-two-women-came.html
Pics and Poems: Out of the wood two women came.
I saw two women come from the wood, both looked evil and both looked good, both of them glowing, black as pitch. Mother and daughter, angel...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/09/haiku-270.html
Pics and Poems: Haiku #270
They're burning energy relaxing and chilling out -- exhausting for the brain
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Pics and Poems: The Fucking Has To Stop. NOW!
They're laying into her without restraint, her injuries are indescribable. She screams for mercy and the busy street absorbs her screams th...
pics and poemsfuckingstop
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/01/world-view.html?showComment=1325762387149
Pics and Poems: World View
There was darkness and the darkness that there was was on the face of everything. And there was fire. Cold fire, blue steel fire, sembla...
pics and poemsworldview
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/07/our-town.html?showComment=1342954072867
Pics and Poems: Our Town
We built the town, we gave the town away to folk who didn't love it well enough. We're back to see how it has fared. We trailed it ...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2013/04/too-hot-for-daffodils.html
Pics and Poems: Too hot for daffodils
How all the others lean on her or lay themselves across her back. Untidy bales of hay. She stoops CRUSHED beneath the withered corpses. E...
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Pics and Poems: The Dark Oath
Scary, harrowing, you might say, seeing all that blood run out of me thin and watery, transparent even. Not blood that I might recogni...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/11/lost-boy.html?showComment=1354110173939
Pics and Poems: Lost Boy
Black shapes, dark, predatory birds, sky full of them, they fell and swooped, I shrank to half my size, ducked dived, accelerated. Still th...
pics and poemslostboy
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2013/05/prelude-to-disaster.html?showComment=1368300098929
Pics and Poems: Prelude to Disaster
The sea's fluorescent hues deepen the shadows of the bay; the moon's graffiti on the crests and troughs shine white as chalk cliffs on ...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2009/05/ive-not-done-this-before.html?showComment=1242488220000
Pics and Poems: I've not done this before...
Tom Lubbock, writing in The Independent (friday 15 May 2009) returned to the age old topic of censorship in the arts. Well, in painting act...
pics and poemsnot done
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Pics and Poems: Between Two Worlds
A visit to The Chocolate Chip Waffle convinced me that I had to try to catch the current Poetry Bus. The prompt, an image (for which, click...
pics and poemstwoworlds
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/02/when-we-were-young-1.html
Pics and Poems: When we were young: #1
Somewhere in the mind, just for a second's fleeting glance, a part, a sixtieth or less, a shutter opened, and an image such as we have n...
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Pics and Poems: Postcard to a Pen-Friend from a Penguin
Hi Krilly! And thanks for yours. I received it safely, yesterday in snow that fell with all the weight and thunder of an avalanche. Yesterda...
pics and poemspostcardpenfriend
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/12/pirated.html?showComment=1355083454098
Pics and Poems: Pirated!
At some point, I suppose, I did leave school... Must have! The last that I recall of it was that limp operetta: all us bloodless pirates pr...
pics and poemspirated
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Pics and Poems: Like what you're looking at, then?
You know how it is when something catches your eye and you just have to post on it... well, it was this headline in Monday's Independent: To...
pics and poemswhat youlikelooking
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/02/poetry-is-my-poetry-is-art-is.html?showComment=1265138063745
Pics and Poems: Poetry is - My Poetry is - Art is
Poetry is... I am deeply indebted to Jim at The Truth About Lies for this first piece, Poetry is . It is an 81 minute video from George Q...
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Pics and Poems | Anne Emerson
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Pics and Poems: Balance
being the theme for Victoria Slotto's challenge at dVerse Poets Meeting the Bar : Critique. Everything in balance, if you please! The col...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2013/03/reflections.html
Pics and Poems: Reflections...
A place for everything, my mother said, and everything in its place. But not so easy when reflections flood and spill out of their sp...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/01/medley.html
Pics and Poems: Medley
Younger they are than us who lie beneath the ground, more voluble than us who never make a sound. Their projects are complete their ev...
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Pics and Poems: the gods and us
When we were gods we danced with gods, danced on the waves, held hands with gods, we walked with gods and talked with gods. When we...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/art-for-my-sake.html?showComment=1255791673117
Pics and Poems: Art for My Sake!
Henry Darger's Me to the Moon Back on the 3rd of April this year I posted a poem of mine looking back to an obsession I had in childhood w...
pics and poemsartsake
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Pics and Poems: Storm Wind
The wind it is a chainsaw in a forest made by man, it rips the buildings limb from limb and piles them storeys high. The mighty oaks a...
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Pics and Poems: Easter Treats
No, not chocolate eggs and Easter bunnies, though I have no objection to either, but no, I am thinking of larger treats than these, the sort...
pics and poemseastertreats
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/05/domination-of-black-wallace-stevens.html
Pics and Poems: Domination of Black : A Wallace Stevens Challenge
At Sunday Whirl, this challenge with three aspects: The title of Wallace Steven's great poem "Domination of Black", the poem itself and a w...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/02/haiku-61.html
Pics and Poems: Haiku #61
No more new angles - so find the artist's dark side thinks the critic.
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Pics and Poems: The Starling Proposition
Monotonous dull toll like funeral bell calls the faithful to their prayers. Sounds ring - shine like blinding light into the ears of corn ...
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Pics and Poems: Haiku #257
This one's really me. Normal service has been resumed. Cleavages don't help in ninety seconds they decide - bosses at interview
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2009/12/ok-im-going-soon-and-when-i-do.html?showComment=1261738532118
Pics and Poems: OK, I'm going soon - and when I do...
I am sure that those, whoever they are, who run the universe have a policy that says should ever any mortal soul be tempted to blog about sy...
pics and poemsokgoingsoon
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2009/01/tonight-is-burns-night.html?showComment=1232881560000
Pics and Poems: Tonight is Burns Night
Another year-old, recycled and somewhat expanded post, following in the footsteps (or keypresses) of my Christmas one. Maybe I ought to desi...
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Pics and Poems: Party Time : amuse - or lose - your friends this XMAS
It all depends, you see, how you go about it. And that I cannot tell you, for that will be dictated by you and by you knowing your friends...
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Pics and Poems: Haiku #64
How music moves us - to what effect, by what means - two distinct questions.
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Pics and Poems: Hopper's America
Edward Hopper's famous Night Hawk canvas He felt the weight of prairie vastness in the urban space, the loneliness such sparseness of expan...
pics and poemshopperamerica
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Pics and Poems: Party Time : amuse - or lose - your friends this XMAS
It all depends, you see, how you go about it. And that I cannot tell you, for that will be dictated by you and by you knowing your friends...
pics and poemsparty time
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2008/11/sister-arts.html?showComment=1226589420000
Pics and Poems: The Sister Arts
Painting and poetry have long been known as the sister or twin arts. Apropos of which, there is a story told of Michelangelo which is perhap...
pics and poemsthe sisterarts
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/05/haiku-161.html
Pics and Poems: Haiku #161
A place for swopping those clocks in your attic... or? antiquesexchange.com Go on, try it - I dare you!
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Pics and Poems: Haiku #133
Not just their furry coats to keep them on the move - Mammoth blood had anti-freeze.
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2013/01/body-sock.html?showComment=1358172211524
Pics and Poems: Body Sock
An artist may use clothing to disclose or hide a form. Henry Moore used shelter drawings to do both at once. Here, a performance artist ...
pics and poemsbodysock
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-hungry-hand-and-sleepy-foot.html?showComment=1272255885242
Pics and Poems: My Hungry Hand and Sleepy Foot
The other day I overheard a young man holding forth on what was obviously a pet theory of his. It was that portraitists concentrate too excl...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/05/everybody-will-want-this.html?showComment=1337270505468
Pics and Poems: Everybody will want this!
A teenage friend Asperger's syndrome sufferer * was tasked with this as homework for the holidays: Invent a new religion that everyone...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/02/night-garden.html?showComment=1330115178864
Pics and Poems: The Night Garden
(Written for the dVerse Poets' Visual writing masterclass.) Trees in the night garden scraped as on a scraper board stark black and dazzlin...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/10/plan-b-on-writing-poems.html
Pics and Poems: Plan B : On Writing Poems
I decided to introduce a plan B and hold over until tomorrow the promised poem on the second teacher, the reason being the suggestion from d...
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Pics and Poems: The Resilience of Plants
The resilience of the plants to survive against all odds a winter such as we have just experienced... what doesn't kill you, hardens I s...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/10/before-you-first-had-sex.html?showComment=1318339665885
Pics and Poems: Before You First Had Sex
Before you first had sex you'd have mused a great deal on how it would be. What it would be like? Then after you'd had it the questio...
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Pics and Poems: Lake Windermere
Towards the end of January I showed some of my earliest photographs, taken in my late teens or soon after, which I had come across in the p...
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Pics and Poems: Hopper's America
Edward Hopper's famous Night Hawk canvas He felt the weight of prairie vastness in the urban space, the loneliness such sparseness of expan...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/02/these-for-dverse-poetics-sculpting-poem.html?showComment=1330248004678
Pics and Poems: The River : three poems
These for dVerse Poetics Sculpting a Poem. I have chosen the option to write a poem then chip away at it as a sculptor might at a block of m...
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Pics and Poems: Hopper's America
Edward Hopper's famous Night Hawk canvas He felt the weight of prairie vastness in the urban space, the loneliness such sparseness of expan...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-books.html
Pics and Poems: Why Books?
Overheard in the supermarket: a woman bemoaning the fact that she had visited the local public library with aview to using one of its comput...
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Pics and Poems: Words from the Wise
I grew up with sayings, maxims, proverbs, knew them ere I understood, and every now and then some chance remark or action brings one cl...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/10/shes-just-paper-angel.html
Pics and Poems: She's Just a Paper Angel...
She's a tissue paper angel, more fragile than the light -- a whisper of a wind would blow her out of sight. She's a daily paper angel (alw...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/02/string-theory-for-puppets.html?showComment=1330254586493
Pics and Poems: String Theory for Puppets
Written for The Poets' United #85 Thursday Think Tank "strings". "I'll be there... like a puppet on a string," sang Sandie Shaw back in...
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Pics and Poems: Haiku thoughts from Guernsey
Recollected in tranquility: most of the following originated on the day I forgot to take my camera. I was about to bin them, but then though...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/09/kiss-gustav-klimt.html?showComment=1314966444745
Pics and Poems: The Kiss : Gustav Klimt
This my response to The Gooseberry Garden 's Poetry Picnic Week 2 prompt. son of a goldsmith gold was godly mystery gold was decadence ...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/04/confession.html?showComment=1335271813405
Pics and Poems: Confession
You've heard of Damien Hurst, Art Shark supreme, his fondness for formaldehyde fame and fortune overnight? I'll have a bit of th...
pics and poemsconfession
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiku-16.html?showComment=1263695809166
Pics and Poems: Haiku #16
Thinking of Haiti - and the news that at least one politician on the extreme right has advised people not to give... A great many images ...
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Pics and Poems: Choice
Job interview. Going O.K. So far so good. Not great. No worse than I'd expected - seeing how I lack experience and could do with more ...
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Pics and Poems: The Night Kitchen
Listen up, good soldiers all, I've such a tale to tell about the man of eight who ate the Maurice Sendak card - * the-not-quite-tru...
pics and poemsthe nightkitchen
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2009/06/yesterday-in-times.html?showComment=1244203445665
Pics and Poems: Yesterday in The Times
Two things: 1.) Each Tuesday The Times 2 publishes under the title of Modern Art Explained a work of art along with views about it expresse...
pics and poemsin theyesterdaytimes
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2009/06/400-feet-above-your-head.html?showComment=1245377203464
Pics and Poems: 400 Feet Above Your Head
Lie on your back among those giant redwoods if you can, or failing that amid wild Caledonian pines, then turn your lazy gaze towards the can...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-words.html?showComment=1271267857429
Pics and Poems: My Words
These words have been my children now these many days. They're well behaved, I've nourished them and guided them the way a parent should,...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/09/haiku-259.html?showComment=1284228595168
Pics and Poems: Clevedon Break and Haiku #259
Normal service has not lasted for long, I fear. This week is much taken care of with hospital trips, a cataract operation, a 70th birthday c...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/09/exercises-with-moving-parts_20.html?showComment=1348196289189
Pics and Poems: exercises with moving parts
(Scroll down for the back story.) Take any two poems and open them up. Imagine they are clockwork clocks or watches. Relative to their r...
pics and poemsexercisesmovingparts
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/11/for-poem-i-have-long-admired.html?showComment=1320473247723
Pics and Poems: for a poem I have long admired
(read it here) Damn and blast it, he was right: I'm with the kid; I'll not go gentle into his good night. No, when they come to close...
pics and poemslongadmired
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/03/larger-than-life.html?showComment=1331045160194
Pics and Poems: Larger than life
A Magpie Tales Tale. Larger than life that's how I like 'em women of mine gotta be larger than life! I wanna climb in through tho...
pics and poemslarger thanlife
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/02/sound-bite-artist.html?showComment=1329925272177
Pics and Poems: Sound Bite Artist
I'm top shot at my game. I pen the sound bites for a man you've heard of right enough - one too verbose for words. From long and convol...
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Pics and Poems: Larger than life
A Magpie Tales Tale. Larger than life that's how I like 'em women of mine gotta be larger than life! I wanna climb in through tho...
pics and poemslarger thanlife
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2009/11/blind-trace.html
Pics and Poems: Blind Trace
Back in February I re-posted a much older write-up of an exhibition I had seen of the later work of Victor Pasmore. My post was called With ...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/08/questions-on-self-crucifixion.html?showComment=1312461826910
Pics and Poems: Questions on Self-Crucifixion
How did he manage it, Graham Sutherland, his crucifixion? Imagine it: a landscape artist, simply that, resolved to paint a crucifixion...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2013/02/flame-for-lonely-man.html?showComment=1361968964459
Pics and Poems: Flame for a lonely Man
Written for the dVerse Poets Open Link Night bartended by Joseph Hesch It grew where few eyes witnessed it, a bloodstained hand upon th...
pics and poemsflamelonelyman
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-calling.html?showComment=1349516138819
Pics and Poems: The Calling
Someone is calling me. Sure of it. Someone or something. Calling. Not to a calling. No, nothing like that, this calling's a verb, not a n...
pics and poemscalling
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/06/secret-weapon.html?showComment=1308074595865
Pics and Poems: Secret Weapon
During World War II there was in our neigbourhood at least a rumour I had often heard ...
pics and poemssecretweapon
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/10/fissures-are-us.html?showComment=1319629165464
Pics and Poems: Fissures are Us.
The above prompt is from Magpie Tales to whom much thanks The world is fractured and here we see the truth of that made manifest. The...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/05/haiku-133.html?showComment=1272886065746
Pics and Poems: Haiku #133
Not just their furry coats to keep them on the move - Mammoth blood had anti-freeze.
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/10/talking-rubbish.html?showComment=1319189543473
Pics and Poems: Talking Rubbish...
Snow flakes fall like confetti ice-cold on oil-dark sea melt at the touch and are gone the sea absorbing t...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2012/04/vampires-i-have-loved.html?showComment=1335732680813
Pics and Poems: Vampires I have loved
I've loved so many vampires in my life, and with each one shared such a wond'rous love full of the joys of flesh, its sins and blood, tho...
pics and poemsvampiresloved
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiku-21.html
Pics and Poems: Haiku #21
The law protects a child from being smacked in school - though not if it's a faith school. For those who may have missed my disclaimer...
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/03/haiku-70.html?showComment=1267805182701
Pics and Poems: Haiku #70
Preferred wake-up sounds - bird song (cheeps, chirps and warbles), church bells... balloon squeaks?
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https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2010/12/whats-in-haiku.html
Pics and Poems: What's in a Haiku?
Spring loneliness - it falls short of the surf this stone I toss. Soon it will be a year since I began my (almost) daily "Haiku" on curr...
pics and poemshaiku
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/kandinsky-did-it-first.html?showComment=1236426300000
Pics and Poems: Kandinsky did it first...
... unless you know better, of course. I didn't. In fact, I had no thought of posting on Wassili Kandinsky until a few days ago, researching...
pics and poemskandinskyfirst
https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-sex-please-were-artists.html
Pics and Poems: no sex please, we're artists
For the new year I composed a light-hearted post , a collection of overheard snatches of conversation from around the galleries. Here are so...
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Pics and Poems: Skyscapes
The image below was sent to me in an email. It is obviously doing the rounds, so you may have seen it. It is the sunset at the North Pole wi...
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Pics and Poems: They're demanding answers to their questions.
Philistines must quantify: how many Euros, pounds or dollars is an opera worth? What makes it worth a dip into the public purse? How...
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Pics and Poems: August 2009
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Pics and Poems: Three Women
An interesting news item in The Guardian this morning: Three Women, a play by Sylvia Plath never performed on stage before has opened at T...
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Pics and Poems: From MAGPIE TALES a Puzzle...
(Do have a look at Magpie Tales .) A skeleton of something like a mini-whale (minutum- dwarfadon to such as us) that NASA found (o...
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Pics and Poems: ... and here's one I prepared earlier...
Several visitors commenting on my recent poem mentioned an interest or a delight in lily pools or pads, so I thought I would post one of my ...
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Pics and Poems: Ars Poetica
(for the prompt by Gay Reiser Cannon at dVerse Poets ) Writing a great poem the poet lights a fire builds a spray of flowers that is ...
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Pics and Poems: A Card in a Shop Window
Seen among the Lost Pet cards: Have you seen them? Two lost faiths, much loved and greatly missed: A fluffy kitten, black and white -- ...
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Pics and Poems: This made me smile
A letter in this morning's Guardian recalls a nonconformist minister who, leading his congregation in prayer, began:- Oh Lord, as though h...
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Pics and Poems: Better than sex?
I've heard it said... honest! You may or may not agree, I could not possibly bring myself to comment. What I will say is that Seamus Heaney ...
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Pics and Poems: A Glimpse of Darkness
He spoke to me of darkness, and his speech became a psychic force. A boy, untroubled still by any hormone rush, I could not, not for him,...
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