I always think that playlists are a little lazy, this is because of my age and I remember doing cassettes for friends and girlfriends to share the music that mattered and obviously these had to be put together in real time and could only really be shared with one person , or put on at a party. You could also do a tape for the car , so any passengers would be treated to your musical taste (or lack of).
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Pride
Introduction This is a poem from this challenge: The flag image is taken from this site: I have tried to do a simple visual acrostic starting with each colour and the flowers I have seen in those colours to show what spring means to me. I hope this works.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a month ago in Poets
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York โฆ
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred2 years ago in Poets
What Colour Is Your Canvas? From White To Black , or Black To White? A Single Colour Is A start For Others A Base To Start From To Build A Picture of You Or Me I Start at White You May Start At Black I Add Red For Blood With White It Drifts To Pink Then Green for Grass and For Go Blue for The Ocean A Place To Go The more shades The More we become The More We Paint Ourselves The Colours of The Rainbow On Your own Canvas Painting You Painting Me Our Colours Showing Who We Are Us From Canvas To Work of Art
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Poets
Introduction This is for A New Challenge from Queer Vocal Voices. Although the challenge asks for a poem, it has to be in the PRIDE community which requires six hundred words, so this introduction will have to be about my interactions with the LGBT+ community.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred4 months ago in Pride
When I first joined Vocal, and then upgraded to Vocal Plus, there was no option to subscribe to other writers. When I found a favorite, I added their name to a list in a notebook near my computer, and I looked for those readers when I logged on to read.
By Paula Shablo3 years ago in Journal
I was looking through the Vocal communities and noticed the most unsubscribed one was Pride , 388 stories from 297 contributors. Now it may be a relatively new community, but if we look at others , contributors are in their thousands.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Pride
You know who this is for . She is the one who makes me glow. She Is My Spark. She is My Inspiration. She is my love. The difficulty of this poem is to list her achievements without mentioning her or what she has done, but I love the challenges she causes for me.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred2 years ago in Poets
A poem for a wonderful friend and her daughter Autumn ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ I Am So Proud Of The Rainbow Girls Lovely Smiles Lift My Spirits Each Day Coffee, Cake, Cats And Laughter Atwirl Over The Rainbow and Far Away ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ I Do Love To See The Rainbow Girls Painting Their Faces With Love And Pride Without Them, Life Would Be Drab And Grey They Love Coming Down That Waterslide ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ Autumn And Mom, Girls Of A Feather Always Laughing, Always Together Two Tolkien Aficionados Two Beautiful Rainbow Tornadoes Autumn And Mom, The Pride Flag Unfurls My Two Lovely Friends, My Rainbow Girls ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred2 years ago in Poets
I am writing this because I have found the Psyche community on Vocal and though I have written many pieces dealing with Mental Health they have ended up in Journal or Humans. I usually feel I have no right to post in communities because I have not been (and donโt expect to be) diagnosed with any mental health conditions.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Psyche
Introduction I know this will probably be of no interest to a lot of people, whenever I bring these things up with people the lack of interest is almost deafening but I am going to write about it anyway. That is the good thing about platforms like Vocal and Medium is that you can write about virtually anything you choose and it will be published. Whether people will read or not is a different matter, but it is other peopleโs choice whether to read what you create and produce.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred2 years ago in 01
An Interview With Louise Distras I first met Louise three years back supporting The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing at The Cluny 2 in Newcastle. I was really impressed by her perfomance and grabbed a copy of the "Street Revolution" EP (there's a link to my review at the end of this piece).
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred2 years ago in Interview
Monarchy In The UK seemed a good play on the Sex Pistols "Anarchy In The UK" for a vaguely British Royal Title based playlist. It's hardly ground-breaking but a bit if fun. There will be a hell of a lot that I miss off and where the artist is the one with the Royal title you will probably disagree with my choice, but you can easily make your own up and then share it with me. In fact I would love you to do that.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Beat
Ich Bien Ein Auslรคnder (I Am A Foreigner) is a song by the band Pop will eat itself. This phrase is repeated throughout and is and is an essential part of this powerful song. This contains a lot of German phrases but is essentially a review of this powerful song and why itโs words should be listed too.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in The Swamp
Introduction This came from a chat with someone very special, the song is one she loves. I tried to weave some elements of the song into the villanelle but if you listen as you read you may hear where Shania's words and mine coincide.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
We lost an amazing friend this week to Cancer , it hit very quickly. He was out for lunch last Wednesday and this hit him at the weekend and by Monday we had lost him. He was cheerful right to the end, although he must have been in pain , oh , and he was 101.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Poets
This is my 888th Vocal post and is for the Vocal "High-Ku" Challenge which you can read below. ๐ผ๐๏ธ๐ผ ๐ผ๐๏ธ๐ผ ๐ผ๐๏ธ๐ผ Like The Empire State Eight Eight Eight Stories Of Awe Tis My Vocal Peak ๐ผ๐๏ธ๐ผ ๐ผ๐๏ธ๐ผ ๐ผ๐๏ธ๐ผ
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred2 years ago in Poets
There was a recent event which upset me , but was caused by me actually breaking a major rule that I was ignorant of, and really this should never have occurred but that is by the way now and it is , as far as I am concerned , water under the bridge.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Confessions