Roger
@justrandomwords
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Books, words, music, comedy, a little bit of politics.
Joined October 2009
For this week's @TopTweetTuesday, on the theme of winter & winter festivals, a poem inspired by that mythical Roman festival Dies Natalis Solis Invicti. Seems to come round earlier every year..
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Wick Library was built by the great Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and given as a gift to the people of Wick, who wanted to name it after him, but he said, “No, you will call it simply, The Town of Wick Library.” Now @HighlandCouncil are trying to sell it..
‘I want to see the deeds’: Highland Council challenged over future of Carnegie building in Wick
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A short poem about #Anarchy for @TopTweetTuesday. Doesn’t meet the word count, not very imagistic, contains rhyme and is neatly organised into tercets with proper use of punctuation. Rules? That’s what I think of your rules.
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Classic oneupmanship here, after someone in a facebook literature group mentions he read Proust.. 😆
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One year since Janey Godley went “Off’t Grans”… (A painting she loved by David Coulter.)
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A 14 word poem about #Halloween for @TopTweetTuesday. (Yes, I know it’s Friday.) Have a great Halloween everyone! 💀🎃👻
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@batcountry1980 I’m not sure if you like poetry, but I know you appreciate a good Elvis Costello reference..
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Very honoured and grateful to have my poem 'No News' (based on a true story) as feature of the day in the wonderful online feast of art and images that is 'The Starbeck Orion', curated by the also wonderful @PaulDragonwolf1. You can check it out here.. https://t.co/gp75TI9uPx
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A short poem on the theme of the supernatural for @TopTweetTuesday. Thanks to @MatthewMCSmith for hosting..
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A pretty good analogy. Campbell’s Tomato Soup IS just like a pretty girl entering the room. (Until it got to the part about delighting in every delicious spoonful..) 🤔
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I typed “Ferlinghetti” wrong. Apologies. And spellcheck was no help.
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For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday, a poem about writing a poem about writing a poem. (Yes.) Thanks as always to @MatthewMCSmith and @blackboughpoems for providing this creative space and for setting these ridiculous challenges..
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These posts keep popping up in my feed. Sometimes they post nice photos, but “we’ll award kudos” must be one of my most hated phrases. How many kudos? Where can I pick up these kudos? Hate it. #kudos
WHERE IN SCOTLAND? Where is this? This is part of an image that appears somewhere on Undiscovered Scotland. Please reply with your answers. We'll award kudos to the first correct response before posting the next in the series tomorrow.
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Sounds great in Italian. Like an Umberto Eco novel..
Sono molto felice che il mio libro sia ora in vendita in Italia, in italiano! Se solo ci fossero degli spettacoli di B&S in Italia l'anno prossimo...😉
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// NOW LIVE Issue 65 - Memorabilia // Four new poems as part of being poet in residence at haus-a-rest, alongside amazing art and writing from so many fabulous artists exploring the topic of memorabilia. Now live at https://t.co/E162zexXrS
#artist #poetrycommunity #hausarest
haus-a-rest.com
Memorabilia are not only objects—concert tickets, photographs, letters, keepsakes—but also fragments of memory, gestures, words, and feelings that we cling to, reimagine, or transform. For artists...
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80 words about words for @TopTweetTuesday. Thank you to @MatthewMCSmith and @blackboughpoems for hosting..
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So many fabulous parts to this video - @Rhona_Greene’s wonderful mother, the raspberry beret (!), & shout out to @EatTheStorms’s new episode #season10. Congrats @justrandomwords, hope you enjoy! 💫
Drum Roll 🥁 And the winner of @Citizen_Chris fab new collection Why I Wear My Past To Work is….. ………. …. 🥁 ……….. ……………. 🥁 💫💫💫💫 🥁 @justrandomwords 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Congratulations Roger🥳 We’ll be in touch to arrange delivery 📕 🚚 ✈️ 🚢 📪
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Augusto Giacometti was a member of the Giacometti dynasty of artists and was among the very first painters of the 20thC to venture into non-representational painting. He moved back to figurative painting later in his career. 'Books and Cup,' is from 1940.
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Happy to have my poem “shoebox” included amongst the fantastic art and poetry in Haus-A-Rest’s “Memorabilia” issue. Thanks to @petedevonald and everyone involved. You can check it out here.. https://t.co/lB64M11t7w
haus-a-rest.com
Memorabilia are not only objects—concert tickets, photographs, letters, keepsakes—but also fragments of memory, gestures, words, and feelings that we cling to, reimagine, or transform. For artists...
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How algorithms work..
if you saw this post, the algo decided we’re besties
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