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Remembrance – Your Day: Poem – companion piece to ‘Remembrance Day’

TweetRemembrance – Your Day This is my remembrance day no bands or marching men no pomp or circumstance just private cherished memory This is my thoughtful day when I think just of you your kindness and your love the comfort I could see In your eyes This is my day to miss you feel you […]

L’heure Bleu (The Blue Hour) – between day and night – artists’ and lovers’ light

TweetThe Blue Hour The icy cold of fear-filled night retreats before the warmth of dawn In the breath-held pause between the blue hour Madrugada bewitches artists defying pigments eluding skill to represent The death-blood blue of night comes to life and saturates the coming day with the gift of lifelight.

The New World – New? New to whom?

Tweet The New World – Terence Malik Critical response to this movie beggars belief. If he had just made the dullest movie ever (people walked out of my showing), Malik could be forgiven. But this empty, patronising, sentimentalised farrago of historic lies is scandalously ethnocentrically, totally white European. It perpetuates the worst form of a […]

Quantum of Solace – a cut-to-the-chase Bond

Tweet Quantum Of Solace – Marc Foster Daniel Craig’s is a ‘cut-to-the-chase’ Bond in every sense. Solace begins where Casino Royale left off and opens with a car chase. A bit of plot; then cut to the sea chase; a bit more plot and cut to the air chase. In between, a couple of Jason […]

Miss Understanding – Poem: see what we want to see, think what we want to think

TweetMiss Understanding She thought He thought about her the way she thought he thought about her but he didn’t He thought She thought about him the way he wanted her to think about him but she didn’t tragedy in the making