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- Top Story - January 2023
See Saw
These are just some lines about the way I am, there are some rhymes and near rhymes but that is about the closest it comes to real poetry, but I do hope you like it. I have often said I feel lazy when I write a poem, but then find it takes longer than writing fiction, although most of these words came when I was out on one of my works.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
This Vicious Sky
This is an entry for the Vocal Improbable Paradise Challenge which you can read about below. The Fight They were on a tropical booze cruise somewhere in the Indian Ocean. They had won their tickets in a London Football Club draw, A: was a white racist West Ham supporter and B: was a Somalian Leyton Orient supporting thug who hated whites and West Ham supporters. There could not be two more undeserving benefactors of goodwill but life goes like that quite often.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Fiction
Maiden Of The Ice Lands
You know this is for my Muse who has daily battles with ice, snow and bad weather and always coming out on top. While this is inspired by my Muse it is a support sonnet to say that every woman and girl has power in themselves to overcome and to soar.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
The Vocal Good Life
Introduction I thought I had better write something about the good things that happened yesterday in case my Vocal friends and audience thought that I was descending into the “Slough of Despond”. Although I might complain and my vaguely autistic tendencies cause me to get upset at certain things there are still a lot more good things happening for me.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Confessions
All Apologies
Introduction I really didn't know how to do this. I can't expect anyone to read my stories if I don't make the effort to read theirs and sometimes I just get overwhelmed, I then don't read friends' stories and I am wracked with guilt. I do try to read things eventually but I know that I miss so much.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
Here's A Thing
Introduction This is Fiction. There is Nothing Wrong. This is made up. I thought I would write a poem, but that would be too much, so I will do it as a fictional story or situation, and just leave you guessing on the outcome, if there is one, and you know with my writing that sometimes there isn’t. Also, this may go off in random directions like Bob Dylans’s “TaraNtula” (yeah it has a capital “N” in there, that wasn’t a typo on my part) and that inspired me to write a book called MiTaraNtula but that was pre Vocal and is still lying in wait and may one day resurface.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Fiction
Kidney Bingos - The Music Of Wire
Introduction I think I first came across Wire on the "Live At The Roxy London WC2 - Jan - Apr 77" album, where two of their songs, "Lowdown" and "12XU", were featured. The album was a great live punk document but while their sound was very raw, for me, Wire stood out as being different and it turned out that they progressed while generally staying out of the mainstream and are still creating music today.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Beat
Bees Make Honey
The phrase came to mind because of the seventies pub rock band, and I thought it would be a chance to pen some loving words for my Muse. Bees Make Honey didn't have any songs that fitted this but Graham Parker's "White Honey" is a great song and does have Honey in the title.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets