Musings from the Merse
Friday, April 27, 2007
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Huttonian occasionally lobs poems in the direction of various poetry competitions-and they generally get lobbed back in the stamped and addressed envelope demanded by the organisers. Another second class stamp down the proverbial.Usually the conditions of entry are standard -42-80 lines maximum, never been published, self published, published on any broadcast or website. And most important 'must be entirely the work of the entrant'. Scanning the Bridport Prize 2007-much as usual but suddenly I was struck by the final condition: important and underlined :
Entries submitted posthumously will not be eligible
Honest: http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/postalentryrules.htm
Must get on with it then. I feel a chill coming on and at my age....
Lazarus raised from the Tomb
rushed homb.
'Raised from the Dies*
I'll have a go
at the Pries'
* Dies OE Equiv Dead-Blogg-ed (poetry)
Last years Bridport Runner Up)
Huttonian occasionally lobs poems in the direction of various poetry competitions-and they generally get lobbed back in the stamped and addressed envelope demanded by the organisers. Another second class stamp down the proverbial.Usually the conditions of entry are standard -42-80 lines maximum, never been published, self published, published on any broadcast or website. And most important 'must be entirely the work of the entrant'. Scanning the Bridport Prize 2007-much as usual but suddenly I was struck by the final condition: important and underlined :
Entries submitted posthumously will not be eligible
Honest: http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/postalentryrules.htm
Must get on with it then. I feel a chill coming on and at my age....
Lazarus raised from the Tomb
rushed homb.
'Raised from the Dies*
I'll have a go
at the Pries'
* Dies OE Equiv Dead-Blogg-ed (poetry)
Last years Bridport Runner Up)
Comments:
Why is there no monument
to porridge in our land.
If it’s good enough to eat,
it’s good enough to stand
On a plinth in London
A statue we would see
Of porridge made in Scotland
Signed, Oatmeal OBE
(A Young dog of three)
Submitted by me, who's alive, for one of our greatest dead poets, Spike (I told you I was ill) Milligan
to porridge in our land.
If it’s good enough to eat,
it’s good enough to stand
On a plinth in London
A statue we would see
Of porridge made in Scotland
Signed, Oatmeal OBE
(A Young dog of three)
Submitted by me, who's alive, for one of our greatest dead poets, Spike (I told you I was ill) Milligan
Proper Bo! And the longer Porridge
Stands the better it is. It reminds me of an elderly Yankee visitor coming down for Breakfast at a Kirkudbright Hotel finding a member of her party contemplating a vast bowl of Porridge. 'Gracious Bill-are you about to have that or have you just had it?'
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Stands the better it is. It reminds me of an elderly Yankee visitor coming down for Breakfast at a Kirkudbright Hotel finding a member of her party contemplating a vast bowl of Porridge. 'Gracious Bill-are you about to have that or have you just had it?'
