David billington
60 years. Widower. Living around Norwich. Interested in Arnold Schwitser. And most other things.
Location Norwich,E.Anglia.
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Very Good
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Interest in poetry
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Ni Hao
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I suppose the danger would be a person getting lost in the system once more ; since the framework is maze-like it seems
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Again the justification for separating children would need to be enormous to have validity, I believe.
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I think children should never be parted from their immediate family: it is counterproductive obviously
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The skills and knowledge of a barrister, probably
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There probably needs to be some independent appeal organ, somewhere.
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Erdogan has opened the his Balkans once more today
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Could be a conflict between persons best interests
governments best interests
and what the person actually wants.
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All governments seem to have their own agendas and will produce state organs to select for these preferentially. The UN must use its teeth to insist upon compliance with its rather nice ideologies., I think. England
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The coastal guard structures probably. Very little moves without attracting some comment. With facial recognition programmes et al the question may become academic England
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I wonder why the violence is so intense at the border. We have been half way here before
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Very important to carry a couple of bars of chocolate around with you. Everybody is very hungry.
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I have read that some of the children have disappeared (into the system ? ) in Italy. Though what numbers and where , are questions. Sad that the Dubbs amendment was not accepted by Johnson, in England, yet.
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I wonder how often families are parted--despite the proscription- for convenience perhaps.
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Minors may have a right to have a view, but is it ever heard ?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter, it looks like.
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"The Migrants Tale"
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The Central Med. route sounds dangerous. Some very good picture-books on the subject: eg "Zenobia": and the Gambian ones ( educational ! )
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The million migrants on the Turkish border certainly need comforting
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As a recap: the problems that arise with miners gaining maturity: with detention of miners: with miners with parents in the destination country: with miners being able to work legally: and with compulsory repatriation without review eg Mexico
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Large numbers of children in England were sent either abroad or into the country to protect them from the bombing of cities. I wonder how many made their own way there.
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Some situations though seem obviously wrong. Referring to the separation of Caribbean migrants , returning their children to the Island when they are born in England.
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The UN seems to be slipping a bit to the right on some of its proposals: they seem to allow the state too much arbitrary power. (if it is the UN)
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Easy to read: as easy to get around, I have seen
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Money seems to be one problem
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The Aarsal camps are extensive in Lebanon
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England: Not yet. The last internal displacements were the evacuations of 1939-45. Perhaps the present absurd displacements of Carribean English.
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I am David. There seem to be a lot of children on the move. I was wondering why ?
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Invaluable
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Try to stop leaving things unfinished
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Only one hour left so will press on
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Found Morris "Life and Death of Jason" (tedious, for him), in ryming couplets for 600 pages. Like Byrons Troubles perhaps, who switched to ryming couplets, and took a while to get used to them also: is probably the answer.
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David billington replied to Pieter de Kooker
Tempo; metre rythme; I wonder if they are all the same
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I'm still two chapters back, on instilling technique into metre or rythme: and The Draft. Useful things to come away with. What would McCavity say ? The final lady from the readings says, the poet should have given a clue to her poems meaning. I find that to be my usual complaint. Time is always short: But, so is life.
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David billington replied to John Moriarty
You generally find them in all cities
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A mixed workshop as described.
With learners and published writers .
The ideal scenario
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The Aenid is the most puzzling title. In all of its thousand pages, what does it have to do with Enid?
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Title would be :"Old Possums Book of Practical Cats". Poetry written to demonstrate poetry technique.
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You say its good to turn around
But you just don't know
You say you want to be the queen
But man you've got long to go
You say the stars shine from your Hair
But ill tell you somet else
Youll only live when you've been their
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Its shaped like a wine glass
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Thanks. Ill try all of this.
Got this gen up on Form
Time to be reborn
In the galactic
plastic
outer space
where mind can pace
And a new kind of face
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Comments going all wrong. Beware!
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David billington replied to Betty Doyle
Can write novels with poetry; in metre perhaps, isn't so bad.
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Anything is better than starving
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Waiting for inspiration to fall can get a lengthy process, I have found. Anything that helps is invaluable., I believe.
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The limerick is as good as the haiku;
The lovely professors of Dons
Decided to follow the swans
The loyal hall-porter
Said sir take my daughter
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You need to use Shakespeares rythme. I think its four blocks per line.
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"The Sonnets" by Shakespear, do the opposite. Their form sets the mind free by distracting it so the unconscious is tricked into writing what it wants to, I have found. The ryme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (usually). Make them up out loud and you will see the effect.
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David billington replied to John Cuthill
Mixed rythme; very effective
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David billington replied to Raoul W
Someone on horseback
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David billington replied to Kathleen M
Slow train coming
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David billington replied to Susannah R
Freudian
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The Haiku: must have scent, sound, colour, suddenness (often laughter). Is a ink-sketch of a complete memory. Pre Basho, probably.
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1)The virtual field:
White-drift fields overgraze,
mirror, sky warm, the soft gentle
below2)Over sky-gentle
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I found the Universe the opposite to Random. It is highly organised
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David billington replied to JOHN SHARP
Or the poem in music
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The lines can be blocked instead
"McCavities a mystery cat"
That would be 3 block
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The line breaks in the first version emphasise her confusion, and follow the metre as it breaks also
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David billington replied to Rosa Maria Ruiz
O Sole Mio !
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Hope is a hammer that besails the memory
And spoons forgotten yesterdays as pap
That feeds the loom that whirs all day
In the green memories of our needle ########
"Eat your Yoghurt Grandad dear"
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The "Billington:"
Rabalasian
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David billington replied to Jean Carter
Perhaps it was Chlamydia.
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The Octet is wilder in metre: the sextet is more subdued and resigned to the metre
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Robotic eyes look blindly out too sea
They ear they reach look nor catch
The falling or the striking of a blinded match
That fizzles in the nether dark: and by the lea
Of a muted blasted life the stife
Of a newborn life is brought to bear
Upon the two souls , one open, one bare,
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A Couplet: A Capulet and a Montague closely aprest
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"Ulysees", James Joyce is full of poetry that seldom rymes.
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David billington replied to WAHIDA HAJI
Haiku are useful devices for memory
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Used to need a desk and still: now anything, anywhere. Climbing sounds good; you need to do things. The problem with ritual is that others can commandeer it !!
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David billington replied to Alexia Kondylidou
You can hear the rythme
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Word processor and cheap printer/ink. Youd be amazed !
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Living
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The course teaches, it looks like, that you have to try, and not wait for inspiration, since the muses are fickle. Henry Millers main daily task was finding his dinner before night-fall, I remember reading. (?) That went on for a long time.
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I will go blind through the world
Hearing nothing and knowing less
I shall be an empty simulacrum
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Mr Perec seems to have some fair ways of getting free.
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Sources: Leaflets: 1 Volunteer at your Library
2 What's On (a guide to events )
Opposing Couplets
What's on June
Make a difference girl
Borrow Discover Connect
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Isnt all this a bit Freudian
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When purple ribbons band the hill.............Jean Toomer
What lurks behind this doubt-filled thrill ?...........Myself -
David billington replied to Frankie Gillett
Thanks
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David billington replied to Liza Dezfouli
Has some echoes of The Sonnets
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Poetry Foundation: Poem of the Day: Jean Toomer: "Tell me"
Strong little poem. Red skins in them thar hills. ! (You can join.) -
David billington replied to Karen P
Very Good, Thanks
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Very Good
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Poetry Foundation web site is very good for modern etc.
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Sharron Olds , the laureat of NY, is good .
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David billington replied to Liz Pearl
The haiku is good as a tool
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1957; Palgrave: "Golden Treasury of Poetry"
Edgar Allen Poe..... all
1960's "The Waste Land" etc. T S Eliot (Ezra Pound )
"El Cid " in French. A good teacher of poetry and the language.
The war poets (Ist world war) (I note none from second world war ) changed poetry forever, I think. eg Sasoon,et al . All... -
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Professor Kureichi sounds and looks as if he comes from a Phillip Marlowe novel (about holywood ) (re: the references )
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Took me 7 years to learn French.A good teacher would have cut it down to one year, I bet. That bit about finding the right chords certainly worked with me. Mathew Arnold's poem about waiting for inspiration to fall is succinct. (The Scholar Gypsy ). You can write without these long pauses if you have learned how to make a long plan, I found. And, as with...
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David billington replied to Sue Goodman
Ezra Pound
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T S Eliot " Old Possums Book of Practical Cats" , is the only poetry teacher I have found . Its very good as well, since it deals with all the poetry techniques presenting them as poems, in a sequence.
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"Genius is 99% effort". Whoever wrote that was pretty overworked.
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Rhythm and music in words. Reading each day for two or three hours develops most of the skills naturally
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They want you to accept the cookies first, and man, there so acrid !
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T .S .Eliotts Book of Cats (Old Possums Book of Cats)
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It is startling to see what happens if you use the wrong medicine and how other organisms are easily selected for when given the advantage. All Darwin, I suppose.
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It seems to be a guideline that the hospitals which I have encountered are already following.
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The reading suggests that combination therapy ie an azole and L-AMP B together with surgery. Presumably the surgery is for allergic reactions to the fungus ball in a lung site. Perhaps it is all an allergic response by the older immune reaction systems shared by many organisms. Perhaps it is an disseminated aspergillus resistance. As long as you don't stress...
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So, Aspergillus infections , being breathed in, are primarily lung infections: and Candida infections may disseminate. I will try to remember this.