Pics and Poems

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

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Hello everyone who follows David King (My Father). On behalf of the family this post is to let you know that Dad sadly passed away, peacefu...
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Monday, 16 September 2013

Why can only the living mourn?

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What makes us suppose that only the living grieve? Now all but lost in this new and familiar world of tall, leaning-together buildings...
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Friday, 13 September 2013

How do I prepare for death?

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(Not to read too much into this.) How do I prepare for death? I asked a wise man long ago. You don't, my son, the wise man said: ...
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Friday, 6 September 2013

There was a witch

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There was a witch once lived in a tree, as witchy as any old witch could be -- not that you'd know, for she dressed quite so, somet...
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Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Silly Little Nonsense Poem

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Down in the left hand corner of the world, beyond the rows of buttersplatch and gongoliferous trees, beyond the stirring spoonpools whe...
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Thursday, 29 August 2013

So who did Raphael Paint
if not Isabel de Requesens,
wife of the viceroy of Naples?

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( see here ) One thing that you should know about this portrait, deemed by many, the world's most perfect yet: the sitter and the a...
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Sunday, 18 August 2013

The Kaleidoscope and the Microscope

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My body had died and only my head and two hands were alive. So what can a head and two hands do when that is all there is of you? The ...
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Saturday, 17 August 2013

I Miss Me Hot Flushes!

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Mum! They're changing me treatment, me hot flushes have gone! With side-effects missing, it all feels quite wrong. Mum! There...
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Friday, 16 August 2013

Teaching the Kids to Cheat

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We took the kids to the beach for a week. My brother, having lost his wife, came too. We thought the kids might have a role to play, and...
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Thursday, 15 August 2013

I am far less visible in Bloggoland

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than I was when I was far more visible than I am now. Furthermore, numerous kind -- and tactful -- fellow bloggers have given me opportunit...
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Wednesday, 14 August 2013

The Original Dancing Bear

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Spirit Bear from Wiki Commons This is the bear not forced to dance, for this is the bear that was born to dance, this is the bear that...
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Friday, 9 August 2013

A Funny Thing

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In a week or so children in the playground will flee before him like chicks before some predatory bird -- or stutter to a stop transf...
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Tuesday, 6 August 2013

The Boys Run a Dolls' Slave Market.

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Against the fence are dolls arrayed: rag or china, wood or bone, never a doll stands there alone, and in their hands are signs displaye...
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Friday, 2 August 2013

A Love Poem

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Do you remember how it was? It was not always hearts and flowers and sunshine through the trees. The clichés sometimes passed us by, bu...
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Two Poems

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Where To? With our new technologies, awareness of the pitfalls of attempts to re-tune nature, new understandings of the ways that nat...
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Sunday, 28 July 2013

Conversation Piece

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Too far-fetched by half, it seemed, to those whose births had been less public, that you could bolt a man together. But so he'd be...
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Friday, 26 July 2013

The Great Exchange

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You are lost in a wood. It is a real wood, a wood you thought you knew -- that was until a moment back when all the trees changed place...
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

The Trees Are Pulling Up Their Roots

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The trees are pulling up their roots, not waiting for the end. They always did have cultures of their own, could calculate at dusk how m...
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Friday, 19 July 2013

Three Short Poems

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1 New boy on the block CostCutters shop has opened on the square and for our anniversary (Doreen's and mine) bedecked a corner ...
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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Fishing

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The neural net sifts ocean depths. Catching what? Old ideas, offspring of those old ideas, what is or was, rejects of the days befo...
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