Its the time of the afternoon for my teatime treat...today it’s Shouldn’t Need To Be Like That by Norwegian group Fra Lippo Lippi...who took their name from an 1855 poem by English poet Robert Browning. And to think people thought a-ha were the...
Nov 17
Poets of the fall - carnival of rust
Nov 5
I’m taking you to Brazil today and a very successful and popular singer/songwriter and poet, who has managed to blend folk music from the northeast region of Brazil around Pernambuco where he was born, and a broad range of electronic and pop ...
Nov 2
LINK POLITICAL THEORY - John Maynard Keynes - YouTube
Oct 16
Debate 2020
Sep 29
Lawyer: "Is it a crime to throw sodium in your enemy's eyes?" Judge: "Yes, that's assault." Lawyer: "I know it's a salt but is it a crime?"
Sep 14
I’ve been away to the land of poets and scholars in the west of Ireland for most of the week and thought I’d post this song from the pen of the great Percy French...Phil The Fluter’s Ball. Percy French was born in Co.Roscommon...right in the ...
Sep 6
The Verve. - Bittersweet Symphony live at Glastonbury in 2008. Glad that last year Richard Ashcroft finally got paid back the millions in royalties the Rolling Stones stole for this song. The Stones blamed their late manager Allen Klein for the ...
Aug 27
The poet Charles Bukowski had a great quote on those in charge. If you let them kill you -they will.
Aug 21
NE’ER-DO-WELL. - Noun...a person without a means of support; an idle worthless person; a loafer; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful or completely lacking in merit; a good-for-nothing.
A contraction of never-do-well “ne’er” has ...
Aug 15
"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." Gary Snyder, American poet.
Aug 14
How to travel the road to success...
Aug 6
Ridgetop · Jesse Colin
Aug 4
Satire Titania's way. Titania is a militant vegan who thinks she is a better poet than William Shakespeare. -Andrew Doyle.
Jul 25
One of the best prank ideas in the history of pranks.
Jul 20
I have just posted a different choir singing this in my World Music group...but as it’s based on a Dorset Folk tune, with words by poet William Barnes (1801-86), I’m posting here too. Linden Lea. - Ralph Vaughan Williams. Vaughan Williams ...
Jul 16
Linden Lea is a well known, and much loved English song by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on a Dorset folk tune with words by the poet William Barnes. It was first published in 1902 and became a standard in most British choir’s repertoires, ...
Jul 16
Estranged · Guns N' Roses
Jul 15
Schiller is a German electronic duo who took their name from the famous German poet and dramatist. Here they combine with the vocals of Sarah Brightman to great effect in - Smile. The accompanying video features French film actress Andrew Tatou....
Jul 14
I dont even understand this at all..
Jul 3
Leonard Cohen - Boogie Street
A long way from the simple productions of his earlier works. The collaboration with Sarah Robinson is at its best here. Yet behind it, there is still that great insight of a poet.
"And oh my love be not afraid,
we ...
Jun 30
“What need have I of a lofty roof?” a holy man asks a critic who says he can build a better house. “This that I have built is high enough for a dwelling which I must leave at death.” the poet Sa’di, C13th Iran.
Jun 24
Highest covid19 one day spike.
Jun 23
"Blood of a Poet" - a 1930 surrealistic film, the first of only 5 films French poet/artist Jean Cocteau made. This 55 minute film has no real story, but includes some remarkable special effects of statues coming to life, people turning into statues, ...
Jun 22
LINK Poet Eve Ewing Connects 1919 Chicago To Today's Racial Unrest : NPR
Jun 16
Gobekli Tepe: Predates Stonehenge and the Sphinx by thousands of years.
Jun 16
I have Amazon Prime so since being alone with 3 dogs and Ben and Jerry for company I've been watching movies. Soon as a church, priest or religion comes up I'm gone. So far I've begun about 7 movies I had to quit due to religion, prayers, churches, ...
Jun 7
Seems legit.
Jun 7
I have often said that Trump was a cross between the worst qualities of Nixon and Hitler, Paul Krugman, shares how he is so much worse than Nixon from NYT.
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters, killing four. ...
Jun 5
Wise words by one of my favorite emerging poets. If you haven't read Swear Words & Love Notes, it's a lovely compilation.
Jun 2
GENERALSTRIKE2020: HOW TO PARTICIPATE
!FAIR WARNING!
There's a lot of this going on now days. But before you jump into this puddle make sure you're wearing the right boots before you can no longer afford boots....
May 23
Poet's Justice · Uriah Heep
May 20
Best trust the happy moments. What they gave Makes man less fearful of a certain grave, And gives his work compassion and new eyes. The days that make us happy make us wise. The closing lines to the poem "Biology" by English poet John Mansfield.
May 16
I don't see what the big deal is. It's just paper, right?
May 13
Went to the grocery store today. 50% of the customers there weren't wearing masks :( The local grocery store is VERY big. This mask was only $5. The pandemic has really gotten to me. I'm very sad for all the deaths. Please wear masks & gloves when ...
May 10
Been listening to John Prine for weeks . Had tix for concert this month, but.... We lost a sensitive American story teller, a rare poet of people . I've had an "Illegal Smile" since April 8 . How 'bout you ?
May 7
Hmm... Tough decision.
May 6
Francoise Hardy, in 1965, singing Mon Ami la Rose. Recently I read that she built her fame on the number of records selling; that she did not give concerts. I remember how I wished that I could emulate her looks, with those wonderful sculpted ...
May 4
Hello Canadian friends! As a Dutchie I had a question because i don't get allot of news about Canada and your president. How are thing going in Canada with the quarantine, and how is Trudeau doing?
Apr 16
Happy Saturday Everyone! Been a busy day inside the house. Cleaning, laundry, Zoom meeting with my Freethinker Group, paid off my bed (got a reduction for the virus!), worked with Spectrum to fix my cable and made a shepherds pie. Have another Zoom ...
Mar 28
I have just read the preface to the Routledge classic edition of Bertrand Russell's "Why I am not a Christian". I had not previously realised that while T.S Eliot was a brilliant poet he was nevertheless a disaster area when it came to clarity of ...
Mar 28
Really baby I got the cure.
Mar 24
LINK Israeli poet apologizes for comparing Palestinian activist to Anne Frank
Mar 22
My Shameless Inner Poet inspired me with a poem this morning: Hickory Dickory Doke, The queen wore only a cloak. A mouse ran up, The cloak came off! Oh, my gadzooks! She's a bloke!
Mar 14
Dreams, Op.38, No.5 Composed by Rachmaninov in 1916, the op. 38 songs are settings of poems by various Russian Romantics, this one, by the poet Sologub. It's title, Son, is sometimes translated as "Sleep".
An alternate ...
Mar 13
The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, ...
Mar 8
A few more scans. The "mill" is not altered. It was shot with infra red film. The bridges are over the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, PA.
Mar 5
Late Goodbye by Poets Of The Fall-
Mar 5
LINK Trump calls on liberal justices to recuse themselves from his cases
Feb 26
Morten Harket made an album in 1993 called Poetenes Evangelium in Norwegian. It’s an anthology of old Norwegian poetry set to music, and Morten worked with a group of present day Norwegian poets and musicians in what ...
Feb 17
Brodsky Tune with words of the poet Joseph Brodsky. - Morten Harket (from his Wild Seed album in 1995).
Joseph Brodsky the Russian/American poet wrote this poem about the war and genocide in Bosnia, and Morten Harket, who is a ...
Feb 15
Godsmack - Running Blind
Feb 10
Joe Satriani - Always with Me, Always with You
Jan 30
25th January 1759...Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist who has become renowned as the National Bard of Scotland was born at Alloway in Ayrshire.
Jan 25
Jan 20
I'm reading a beautiful book, The Biology of Wonder, by Andreas Weber. About the subjectivity of living beings. Today this quote he gave from the poet Paul Valery really struck me: "You take my image, my appearance, I take yours. You are not I, ...
Jan 16
Morten Harket - Natten. This live performance on Norwegian TV has him singing a song from his solo 1993 album which he released shortly after a-ha split up for the first time. The album is called Poetenes Angelicum and it’s the ...
Jan 10
A poet I am not
Jan 9
Well now that's imaginative
Dec 30
Woody Guthrie was one of my heroes. If he was around today he woulda marched right into the White House and kicked the shit out of trump. His influence on the two greatest American poets of the last sixty years, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen has...
Dec 24
My Shameless Inner Poet has come up with a new version of "O Holy Night." Enjoy:
O holy crap! Jesus just pooped his diaper,
And he has smeared it all over his face!
He's spreading poop all over the manger.
It stinks so much, it's a holy ...
Dec 17
Beard
I am still swimming in dreamland.
Over, under, down through this little wave
and that, the clear and the murk, the dark
and the light. Twenty years ago I had my
powers (ha!) as I do again now. I have
been my own Delilah, purposely ...
Dec 15
Is it so, that poets with ideas such as Dylan Thomas’ ‘green fuse’ and Eliot’s ‘still point of the turning world’ in Burnt Norton are always a few steps ahead of the scientific mind?
Dec 11
Death Day
...und mitten im Leben
sind wir vom Tode umgeben.
from: The Book of Hours
,Rainer Maria Rilke, poet
People die all the time. Two prominent people died today: Rene` Auberjonois and Paul Volkers....
Dec 9
This would be perfect!
Dec 6
LINK The Danish Poet - YouTube
Dec 3
BEN BIERMAN. VALERIA STREET BLUES.
Nov 29
Here's a doomy Donovan cover I recorded today in Garage Band on my iPad. doommetal donovan homerecording
Nov 29
Pere Atkin & Clive James - No Dice
Today we learnt of the death of a great writer Clive James. Most famous as a critic then novelist but also a poet and lesser-known as a songwriter. I have posted a few of his songs on here. Quite cultish as they ...
Nov 27
Bob Dylan It ain't me, babe I used to read the lyrics wherever i could find them. After a while, I stopped translating them because my English got more and more real... He is my favorite American poet.
Nov 22
19th November 1850...Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth.
Nov 19
A silly little ditty---
Check, Please
The night is blowing down the stupid moon
Which carves its chalky recess from the air
And sits above my desk. A mere cartoon
Of poet, I brood within my frenzied hair,
Not cut for quite some time— I...
Nov 18
Art and the Nocturnal Imagination: Painter, Poet, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on Dreaming and Creativity
Nov 13
I might have posted this before, but if so, I don't remember. It's from my journal, and is about the importance of poetry.
Does poetry matter? I guess it matters to the people who write it, or they wouldn’t bother. But does other people’s ...
Nov 9
Giordano Bruno -1548 -1600 was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist.
He was burned at the stake for a stubborn adherence to his then unorthodox beliefs - including the ideas ...
Oct 31
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a...
Oct 27
Confusion says
Oct 26
I'm going to my first poetry reading tonight. It's not that I am a new poet, but that I have never read my poems in public before. I hope I don't get booed off the stage. :D
Oct 17
I posted this a long time ago in the Poet's Corner group. I don't know if anybody remembers it, but I ran across it again and still like it.
Salvation
I am nine years old again.
Suppressing peals of mirth
in the dour church
as the ...
Oct 9
Lisa (@Sassygirl3869) goes to afternoon dancing and potluck at Mickey B’s. Music by Duke Michaels.❤️
Sep 29
Daniel Day-Lewis
Born in London in 1957, the son of poet Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon.
Daniel started out in theatre, attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Received 6 Oscar nominations for Best Actor, winning 3 for: "My Left ...
Sep 25
Don’t you think it is wonderful how great literature allows you to sit in a comfy chair in the company of a great mind, and they will talk to you.
Poets, commentators, philosophers, writers from all ages, all there waiting to talk to you.
...
Sep 21
Heartland is a project which my local council...Mid-Ulster, has promoted and my friend Peter Lant who is Education Officer at the council was instrumental in launching. One of the Schools involved, Bellaghy Primary also has as it’s Head, another ...
Sep 21
tRump has no taste; the proof is that he loves himself so much.
Sep 19
September 17th, a few notable events in American history:
1787
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia approves the constitution for the United States of America.
1796
President George Washington delivers his "Farewell Address" to ...
Sep 17
So, I have a date today with someone from a dating site. We switched it to a lunch instead of dinner because he has a much longer drive than me (Cleveland). And tonight I'm going to a poetry reading with the first friend I made when I moved to WV ...
Sep 13
September 12, 1896
13 Filipinos, the "13 martyrs" of Cavite were executed by Spanish authorities at Plaza de Armas near Fort of San Felipe, Cavite City, for joining the Katipunan revolution.
With reports of impending plot against the ...
Sep 12
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made ...
Sep 10
I'm going to expose myself here, but I've never been known to withhold the truth: most poetry I've read confounds me. I read and reread lines that are so obtuse that I wind up shaking my aching head in despair. Poetry doesn't have to be obscure or ...
Sep 8
I was reminded today of a poem by the wonderfully awful victorian Scottish poet William McGonagall. "The chicken is a noble beast, the cow is much forlorner It stands alone upon a field, with a leg at every corner"
Aug 23
Trump Has Been Sending Creepy Handwritten Notes to Justin Trudeau "Zodiac Killer-inspired" hahaha. And what a vicious reply - facts, data.
Aug 13
Signed off other sites that are only about finding a relationship. Fastest time ever. I keep this one because I haven't ever used it in that manner but specifically it's a community to me of like minded individuals. A place to not feel alone in ...
Aug 12
Happy POETS day to all you North Americans on here. (Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday.)
Aug 9
Shark Week on Discovery -- I don't get it.
Why does the apex predator of the sea get its own week of programming on Discovery channel? Why not Eagle Week for the apex predator of the air, or Lion Week for the apex predator on land? Why all this ...
Aug 6
From a Facebook friend's post:
Look to this day,
for it is life, the very breath of life.
In its brief course lie
all the realities of your existence;
the bliss of growth,
the glory of action,
the splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is only a...
Aug 3
Breaking up is hard to do.
Aug 3
August 2nd 1865 United Kingdom ,Lewis Carroll (author,mathematician,poet and photographer) publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The second picture is the original cover in 1865.
Aug 2
Clever poet.. And he must know-it. His feet show it They're Longfellows!
Aug 1
A poet and a prophet
Jul 25
Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes: “Happiness is like a feather flying in the air. It flies light, but not for very long.”
Happiness is a human construct, an abstract idea with no equivalent in actual human experience.
We are not designed...
Jul 25
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