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Enjoy. Jussi Björling & Robert Merrill - Pearl Fishers Duet

Each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it...

You might think a poem about George Bush is a funny way to introduce a post about Barack Obama, but for me it makes sense, there is a parall...

. I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. I...

Update; All the vids were down, so apart from this little bit, I have trashed the rest of the post. . I think the best introduction to t...

. As always (in my case) trusting memory ain't the smartest thing to do. Consequently I haven't a cue where I lifted this wee ditty ...

In contrast to yesterday's thoughtful piece, something a little lighter. First Fig My candle burns at both ends It will not last t...

Porphyria's Lover THE rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its w...

I thought something a little different to end the day and perhaps in future I might post one or two more pieces of poetry. It is nice to es...

'I loved my love with a platform ticket, A jazz song, A handbag, a pair of stockings of Paris Sand-- I loved her long. I loved her betwe...

Inarticulate, dumb, fumbling. lazy, failed, ignorant, unworldly, under qualified, not a ticket you would choose to run on for the most respo...

Light pollution, sure their wasn't a hint of it, somewhere near midway 'twixt France and Ireland. There was just the one colour, b...

A Soldier's Statement "I AM making this statement * because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who...

Does it Matter? D OES it matter?--losing your legs?... For people will always be kind, And you need not show that you mind When th...

I much admire this earthy timeless piece, taken from MacNeice's Autumn Journal. Surbiton, and a woman gets in, painted With dyed hair bu...

I rise up singing from your belly, like some glad keeper of the palace swans content to serve your navel as an acolyte would serve his unsee...

Dubya You've Spent What Wasn't Yours To Spend You have spent the good will of the world This piece came about as a result of the Col...