Weaving Words: Chinese New Year: To celebrate Chinese new year we are having a change tomorrow, we will meet in the library as usual at 5.30pm and have a workshop on the Yea…
Month: January 2012
Just Poets “open mic” at the Baum, Rochdale
Just Poets are running their next open mic night on Sunday evening, 8th January 2012 at 8.00pm.
The session is always fun with a wide mix of poets and some music.
Best to arrive a bit ahead of the start time to get drinks from the bar and then head to the upstairs room for the session. Come and join us!
Weaving Words – Rochdale
Weaving Words is Rochdale’s creative writing group meeting in the Wheatsheaf Library at 5.30pm on the second and fourth Monday of each month.
The next meeting is on Monday 9th January 2012 and will be held in the room by the Maskew Collection upstairs in the library. The theme for the meeting is “New Life” and you are invited to bring along something written on the theme to share with the group.
There are regular workshops with those currently planned including;
23rd January – Chinese New Year – by Julia
27th February – Poetic Forms- by Sam
26th March – Fictional Monologues – by Maggie
All are welcome and details are also updated on our Facebook Group “Weaving Words”
The beige and the greys
I was having fun fun thinking about at the way that older people tend to wear grey and beige and had the idea that Littlewoods, BHS and Greenwoods were pushers getting the older generation hooked on those colours – so here it is, another case of thinking too much:
There’s a new drug in town
Unscrupulous dealers skulking
Behind pseudo respectable facades
Littlewoods, Greenwoods, BHS
Pushing the beige and the greys
When you walk a little slowly
See a little less clearly
Hear a little more quietly
They’re on to you
Chasing the grey dragon
Advertising, peer pressure
They’ll do you a special deal
An offer you can’t refuse
Half price on pension day
Vouchers at the bingo
You think you’re in control
With defiant splash of colour
You think you’re one of us
Once bitten you’re hooked
You’re one of them now
Insidious beige and greys
You’ll blend in, fade away
Another lost generation
Colourless, powerless
Gone
And the dealers move on
Regroup and adapt
To younger victims
A beige hoody in Topshop
Grey Kickers in JJB
Don’t give up
Fight for your brights
Resist the bland
Dump the dealers
Don’t be colourless
Powerless
Done
Big Print
Ever noticed how when you get to my age you need to hold things further away to read them, and then the text gets too small. There are two solutions bigger print or glasses. Of course sometimes we just try without either. If I wear my glasses I can’t see anything more than a few feet away so for poetry performance it has to be the big print:
Squinting, me?I don’t think so!
It’s not me
It’s just the light
It’s too dim
Wrong sort of bulb
My eyes are fine
Reading at arms length
I don’t think so!
It’s not my age
It’s just the print
Poor quality
Wrong type of paper
My eyes are fine
Using big print, me?
I don’t think so!
It’s not me
It’s just the font
Big by nature
Default style
My eyes are fine
Got a prescription, me?
I don’t think so!
It’s not my eyes
It’s just the optician
Has to say something
Earn his pay
My eyes are fine
Giving in, me?
I don’t think so!
It’s not my eyes
The glasses?
They look cool
Distinguished
My eyes are fine
Going grey, me?
I don’t think so!
Can’t see it myself
My eyes are fine