Random Jottings ~ Sunshine
without sunshine summer isn’t summer at all
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the sun rose like a goddess from the sea
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the caress of warm sunshine is delicious
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‘you are my sunshine….’ he said
and then she burned him
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‘I promise you I’ll make the sunshine come every day…..’
after that it rained a lot
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just as a flower blooms in the sunshine
so blooms a woman in love
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it’s hard to see the sunshine the morning after she dumped you
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
in summer she always wears virginal white
it isn’t her colour
Words I Suddenly Dislike
some words should never have been invented
let’s think about the English Language
I published this list a while ago, but I just had to update it after going back to reading some left-liberal newspaper columnist today. The new words are in an eco-friendly green.
Awe-Inspiringly, Awefulize, Awesome, Bigsie, BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color), Cancel Culture, Contact-Tracing, Contactless, COVID-19, Denialism, E-Scooter, Fantoosh, Franger, Influencer, Juneteenth, Lateral-Flow, LGBTQIA+, Life-Coach, Lockdown, LOL, MacGyver, Meghan Markle, Mentionitis, Misgendering, Pride-Month, ROLF, ROTFLMAO, Sad-Fishing, Segway, Shero, Skin Color, Social Distancing, Stonewall, Taking the Knee, Truthiness, Unconscious Bias, Wannabe, WFH, WIP, WTF, Woke, Wokerose, Wuhan, Zoodle
I have no idea what some of the above mean, and honestly, I don’t really want to know. However, in my honest effort to become more accepting, liberal, understanding, and woke I intend to sprinkle these terms among my writing and conversation.
I may not have a clue WTF I’m talking about, but that makes me no different to all the other influencers out there.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
I don’t know what that means either
Seascapes and Serenity Lost
poetry is nearer to reality than is the unadorned truth
Both the kindle and print versions of my poetry anthology Seascapes and Serenity Lost are now available on Amazon. Trust me, the 8 x 10 paperback edition will look fabulous on your coffee table.
I must pay tribute to Jan Olandese who did all the hard work of editing and formatting both editions.
The one review I think I’ve received thus far is pretty damn positive.
Some of the stuff I’ve written is more than brutally truthful.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the original photograph that appears on the book’s cover
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Paperback Writer
poetry is a equal mixture of English and angst
The printed version of my poetry anthology Seascapes and Serenity Lost should be available on Amazon within the next couple of hours. It’s a 10 by 8 inches, magazine-sized, paperback. So, I thought this old Beatles song would be rather fun.
There’s also a much cheaper kindle version of the book.
Of course the paperback will look great on your coffee table.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the picture is mine too
it’s all in a dream
Random Jottings ~ Vacations
she had going to the wrong place,
with the wrong, man down to an art
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the trouble with real life vacations is there’s no background music
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women in bikinis pose, and sometimes that posing is an invitation
or so some men would like to believe
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‘I promise you I’ll make the sun shine every day…..’ he said
after that it rained a lot
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it’s unlucky to go back to work the day after you’ve been off
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never throw a message in a bottle into the sea
you could get arrested for littering
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it’s good to be bad on vacation
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
my favourite place to vacation
is anyplace by the ocean
Random Jottings ~ Vampires
vampires do not drive sensible cars
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never offer a vampire a drink
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he tasted the blood in the water
well, she was that kind of vampire
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she was bad, she was mean, she was dangerous
but she did drive a vintage red Corvette
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most vampire’s theme song isn’t the toccata and fugue
it’s bat out of hell
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I once loved a vampire, but she was a few hundred years older than me
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
she had wise eyes
a face of angelic innocence
damn shame she was a vampyre
Writing
English, the finest and truest language ever known to mankind
Nobody can write a scene like Shakespeare, even though he couldn’t even spell his own name.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
I cannot write prose like Mark Twain, even though he was naught but a steam boat pilot.
Never allow someone else to be your priority
while allowing yourself to be their option
Few can stir the blood like a Tennyson or Coleridge.
Half a league, half a league, half a league onward
into the valley of death rode the six hundred
Or evoke love and passion in the way of a Keats or Shelly.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness
But I can write like me ~ direct, pithy, sanguine, and terse.
Haunting music of the wind, wave counterpointed, pink sky echoed
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
perhaps not the greatest writer
Fleming created an iconic character
Random Jottings #3
she was an angel craving chaos and excitement
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it might seem a long way to Purgatory
but it’s a hell of a long walk back
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some say that the longest journey starts with the first step
I think it’s better if you decide where to go first
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she was mad, she was bad, she was exotic, she was erotic
she was Alicia, his designated demon for the evening
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
she was a demon seeking peace
she was a witch seeking tranquility
Random Jottings #2
come not between a dragon and her wrath
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the secret of Life, the Universe, and everything
probably isn’t written on the back of a cornflake packet
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what does a computer think about when it’s been switched off?
obviously windows ~ but what does it see through the glass?
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OK, so let’s go and explore the Universe
OK, so let’s go into town, have a few beers and a curry, and pick up a couple of girls first
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
OK, so if you want to prove your love for me
go and kill me a dragon
do u wanna be a writer?
you can write about everything in life, if you have the courage
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath.
The Beatles, probably the best band in the history of the world.
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Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. ~ Virginia Woolf.
Please listen with enthusiasm.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass;
Anton Chekhov
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