http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRfVM9f4nuU&feature=related All my brother’s wonderful family were around for Xmas and New year and amidst the joyful sharing of baby smiles and rascally impish toddlers, this shone out as a… Read More »sinead O'Connor: Nothing compares to you
The melon-flower nor dew nor web of eitherIs like to these. But in yourself is like:A sheaf of brilliant arrows flying straight,Flying and falling straightway for their pleasure, Their pleasure that… Read More »Wallace Stevens: Stars at Tallapoosa
Who’s to say What’s impossible Well they forgot This world keeps spinning And with each new day I can feel a change in everything And as the surface breaks reflections… Read More »Jack Johnson:Upside Down
…under her skin, deep down within her bones, there once lived a very small whimsy named hope, who insisted upon surfacing once in a while to remind she-who-forgot-herself that there was… Read More »whimsy
She parted the curtains and watched all her life’s ‘ifs’ go trudging off down the road, wearing boots that were ill fitting, garish and just bloody useless. She didn’t bother… Read More »Morning:JL
Perhaps a beginning ‘space’ that was motherly and enduring, might be my first teacher with flaming red hair who had a son called Edward and a Land Rover that made… Read More »Chapel-en-le-frith by Janet Lewison
So, tell me about you and I’ll tell you about me. Fair trade don’t you think? Of course with differing degrees of creativity we all make an entrance… Read More »Life in Dialogue: by MM
A Code Poem For The French Resistance The life that I have is all that I haveAnd the life that I have is yours.The love that I have of the… Read More »Resistance Poem by Leo Marks for Violet Szabo
Your Laughter Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. Do not take away the rose, the lance… Read More »Pablo Neruda
Scandalous mourning in the work of Amy Bloom In bereavement counselling they use the term- complicated grief and I often wonder what other kind there is. Well of course… Read More »Amy Bloom; Scandalous Mourning?
The Eye of the Story By VICTORIA GLENDINNING THE EYE OF THE STORY Selected Essays and Reviews.By Eudora Welty. n this invigorating selection of her reviews and essays, Eudora Welty… Read More »Eudora Welty reviewed by Glendinning: Perfect Criticism?
Yet the sense of place in Jazz, as Eudora Welty defines it in her essay “The Eye of the Story,” [1] is a fledgling, tentative one which only timidly heralds… Read More »Toni Morrison: Jazz and the City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKy73uTOhDc&feature=related I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping Still my… Read More »While my guitar gently weeps: George Harrison
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
“Sth, I know that woman,” the novel begins. “She used to live with a flock of birds on Lenox Avenue. Know her husband, too. He fell for an 18-year-old girl… Read More »Jazz by Toni Morrison
The day she walked the streets of Silk, a chafing wind kept the temperature low and the sun was helpless to move outdoor thermometers more than a few degrees above… Read More »Toni Morrison:Love
YOU Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head. so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name, like tears, soft, salt, on… Read More »Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy : You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGbwbTlplcI&feature=related I was mixed up when you came to meToo broke to fixSaid ‘daddy get you gone, I’m missing my baby’Still missing my baby… I was stitched up by the… Read More »George Michael: Amazing!
var registeredImages = new Object(); var numberToPreload = 6; var preloadCount = 0; function registerImage( id, image, html, caption ) { registeredImages[id] = new Object(); registeredImages[id].image = image; registeredImages[id].html =… Read More »Skellig: David Almond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCkoDJkIOc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6RWu9h2Ma0 Faith, loss and love-longing. Moby visits the big three of being? Ever since first heard ‘why does my heart feel so bad’ ( is it a… Read More »Moby: Why does my heart? and Natural Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW0HouUCZHg You light the skies, up above meA star, so bright, you blind me, yeahDon’t close your eyesDon’t fade away, don’t fade away- Oh Yeah you and me we can… Read More »Rule the World: Take That!
So much hair everywhere noted the girl who had not noticed very much anything for weeks. And why this zest for parted hair ? She zig-zagged the trolley around the red… Read More »shopping
Anne Hathaway: Carol Ann Duffy’s Written On the Body? Anne Hathawayby Carol Ann Duffy from The World’s Wife ‘Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed …’(from… Read More »Anne Hathaway: Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife
I THE opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free– The woman whom I loved so, and who… Read More »Beeny Cliff: Thomas Hardy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aijUTaDrn78 An amazingly catchy remix. Amy Winehouse has THE VOICE of today’s music. Just wish she would take up the slow lane and stop the self-destruction. Talents like her… Read More »Amy Winehouse with Mark Ronson: Valerie
She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance. She has sensed a shift in the weather. There is another gust of wind,… Read More »Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjT6uVJbSdg Baby Ladies Fellas Are you ready? Lets dance Baby (ooooh) I know you like me (I know you like me) I know you do (I know you do) Thats… Read More »Power to the Lip gloss Girls! Pussycat Dolls: Don't Cha
your conjurer’s fingers spelling lost traces… Your conjurer’s fingers tracing lost spells…
