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Three Witches
For some reason, I was thinking of the Three Witches who foretold Macbeth’s rise to become King of Scotland and his eventual demise. I wondered if I could write a poem about their conversations and activities leading up to Macbeth's arrival. Obviously, it is All Hallows Eve so that may be something to do with it.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Poets
Louise Distras
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 performance 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 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Interview
Some Electric Light Orchestra Favourites
Introduction I know a lot of people will disagree with me because I won’t include “Mr Blue Sky” which I find trite, boring and overplayed, but I will tell you a little about how the band were formed and the original idea behind it.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
Some Vocal Statistical Observations
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 people’s choice whether to read what you create and produce.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in 01
Street Revolution by Louise Distras
Introduction Today I recieved a Facebook friend request from Louise Distras. I was a little suspricious at first as spammers and the like take names and then send friend requests, then mine your friend list to spam them.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
Darkness Comes
This is a villanelle for Halloween from a prompt by Cathy Holmes here, but as always I make it difficult for myself. I am trying not to include any definite Halloween touchstones, but also am putting together a reading of my Edgar Allen Poe inspired “Another Raven” that you can read at the end of this poem.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Poets
Brevity
The Idea I was wondering how little I could get away with writing in a poem. Taking the concept of brevity as far as I can. I did posit the concept of a one-word poem in my poem “Impossible” (check it out at the end of this story), but I will do a FIB (Fibonacci poem) followed by a Haiku.). I am expecting no reads for this, not because people don’t read it, but because the poems are so short and people will not stay here long.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Poets
A Conventional Playlist - Reggae Stylee
Introduction I just shared a story about alternative Elvis Presley experiences which you can check out at the end of this story, but one of thesongs I featured in that piece was Dead Zeppelin's cover of Led Zeppelin's "Your Time Is Gonna Come" featuring Tortelvis on vocals in a really fun video, and thought why not create a playlist with a theme of mainstreamish songs done reggae style. So even though they are not Jamaican Reggae we will kick of with Dread Zeppelin.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
Dirk Wears White Socks
This is another story about #CatsinNam, well one cat in ‘Nam (That’s Fenham, not Viet-Nam). As you know part of my steps regime to keep myself reasonably fit is to walk around taking photographs of cats, incidentally, some new neighbours also have a cat so there may be more to share in future.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Petlife
