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Ealing Jazz Festival 2015

On Saturday 1 August I attended the Ealing Jazz Festival (http://www.ealingsummerfestivals.com/events/jazz-festival/). Although jazz is not, in truth my favourite cup of tea, the music made for pleasant background listening and, most importantly the festival afforded me the opportunity to catch up with close friends. The beer drunk while sitting on the grass was, of course purely incidental to proceedings …!

Being blind I have always enjoyed employing my sense of touch to explore objects. I w...

Storm

Virgin white sheets.

His icey feet.

Two bodies meet.

“Why are you never warm?

I feel a storm coming.

I see dark clouds.

Do you hear the thunder’s voice angry and loud?

But no. though the sky is forlorn,

There will be no storm.

The weather needs to break.

This humidity I can not take.

I long for the cooling rain.

It will cleanse my fevered brain.

No, please,

your rough paws I do not need!”

Love’s Pyre

Sense loses itself in desire.

Man burns on passion’s pyre.

Love’s heat inflames,

Befuddles his brains.

Come the cooling rain,

He feels only shame,

Yet will return again,

To joy and pain

Shameless Promotion (Because I can and this is my blog!)

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I featured one of Sophie’s stories here some time ago and am looking forward to checking out her book. Kevin

Originally posted on Sophie Speaks Up:

If you have $5 to spare, a Kindle, and an addiction to ANY type of poetry, please click this link. Proceeds will go to my, um, lifetime supply of Hershey’s Kisses. (Yeah, that sounds like a good cause.) Blood, tears, sweat, and flesh were sacrificed for this, people! Okay. Maybe not. But I still worked hard for it.

If you d...

Innocence Lost

Tentative knocking on a suburban door,

Innocence enters but departs no more.

Clothes scattered on the bedroom floor,

Dreams shattered to be dreamed no more.

Guide Dogs Not Allowed IN

The following email (reproduced below) about the discrimination faced by guide dog owners is self explanatory. As a guide dog owner I am saddened and angered by the fact that 75 percent of guide dog owners report having been refused access to a taxi when accompanied by their guide dog. I am saddened but not surprised because the same thing has happened to me on several occasions (I.E. taxi drivers flouting the law by refusing to carry me when accompanied by my guide dog Trigger). If you live...

Yeats Is Dead

Yeats is dead.

Poetry has fled.

Nonsense fills the collective head.

The falcon has flown.

Chaos is sown. .

We reap the whirlwind alone.

(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172062?gclid=COymhN2TiscCFaYfwwodsmoO_Q).

Masks

Girls apply their masks.

No one asks.

A rumpled bed.

The words unsaid.

The night before

Is a closed door

To be opened no more.

The Wolf’s Moon – An Audio Book Update…

Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:

From Pat & Sandy Jones

Amazon:

UK – USA – Canada – Australia

“The Wolf’s Moon” Audio Bookis in the final production steps for release in August/September 2015 timeframe! Working with ACX Audible to bring the book to life has been a “THRILLING”experience with Mark Westfield of Westfield Audio Artsat the helm!

Please find a “SNEAK PEAK”of the retail audio sample below with an accompanying picture and short bio of Mark Westfield.

Just cli...

Reluctant Lovers

The joyless kiss.

The passing lips.

The empty bliss.

No, not this!