Mike Singleton ๐ Mikeydred
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A Texas Rose
A Sonnet for a lovely Texas Rose that I met on Instagram through a shared love of the music of the Moody Blues ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ๐นโค๏ธ
By Mike Singleton ๐ Mikeydred 4 years ago in Poets
The Witch Of The North
This is a tribute to my friend Sophia , The Witch of the North , an incredibly talented, female friendly and lovely tattooist in Newcastle. Sometimes girls may be wary of male tattooists , Sophia will put you at ease. She is on Instagram and Facebook , and we nearly played in a band together once.
By Mike Singleton ๐ Mikeydred 4 years ago in Poets
Heart As Big As Liverpool
Around 1980 I started my job as a computer programmer for Littlewoods in Liverpool. My programming mentor Dave Homan told me he had a mate called Pete Wylie an a band called Wah! Heat who had released a single called โSeven Minutes To Midnightโ about the Doomsday Clock.
By Mike Singleton ๐ Mikeydred 4 years ago in Beat
Warmth
Yesterday I picked up a book of poems by Jah Wobble (real name John Wardle , but nickname came about cos John Lydon couldnโt pronounce his name) called "Odds & Sods & Epilogues" , and he had written a sonnet in a format that differed to the standard one that I have been using. In fact it is three quatrains and a couplet each line containing only five syllables , which caused me problems as I have been writing my sonnets in a vague iambic pentameter.
By Mike Singleton ๐ Mikeydred 4 years ago in Poets
On My Desert Island
My friend Krista published her Desert Island Discs selection on Facebook here, (you will need to be logged into Facebook to see it) and has such inspired me to do one. I thought I best read the concept of what it is, though I roughly knew it, but here's a definition:
By Mike Singleton ๐ Mikeydred 4 years ago in Gamers
Bible Black
I first heard the phrase Starless and Bible Black as the title of a King Crimson album , and later discovered it was written by Dylan Thomas as part of his wonderful tone poem โUnder Milk Woodโ, so as we are in this universe and I have stolen this perfect description of the darkest of nights I will share โUnder Dub Woodโ which uses a King Tubby rhythm track (as used for John Holtโs โAli Babaโ which you can listen to here) and narration by Sir Richard Burton as the lead in song.
By Mike Singleton ๐ Mikeydred 4 years ago in Poets
Making Your Presence Felt On Vocal
When I started on Vocal i wasnโt sure what I was letting myself in for. Big prize money , paid reads, oh wow. My own Seven Days In Blog gets 3000-500 visits a day at the moment and since I started over 600,000 , but as a comparison a tweet about Christiano Ronaldo joining Manchester United got retweeted 750,00 just today while my total took fifteen years.
By Mike Singleton ๐ Mikeydred 4 years ago in Journal
