Born 1920. Served under three Kings and one Queen. No not Victoria, Elizabeth 2. Well what else was there to do? Go down a coal mine? Only .01 percent of brainy sods went to university in the 30`s. Spent a packaged holiday in Egypt & Iraq 1941/44 India 46/47 Germany 48/49, carrying coal instead of bombs to Berlin. Now retired and live on the Atlantic Coast of N.W. Ireland, with wife number five, brave woman, fortunately she understands the language.
I think writing poetry and doing crosswords helps to keep Alzheimers at bay. But this is probably imagination, as I am still looking for the bastard who wrote Dementia on my medical notes.
First wrote in the school mag. in 1934. First published poetry 1947. Appeared in several anthologies, when there was nothing better to make up the book. Achieved my ambition to become a professional writer. My work was published in many languages, in most of the world.....but you would not find it very interesting, they were Overhaul Manuals for Jumbo Jets! Well somebody has to write them.
Lived in retirement in Spain for 20 years, Gibraltar for 5. (Rock happy) Poetic style, old fashioned, too old to change now. If you would like to come on world wide, word visual journeys with me, read my stuff. Sorry I don`t write award winning adult content "poetry". Am too out of touch! and consider it best left on the top shelf in the newsagents. If you find me using the words awesome, or WOW, you have my permission to shoot to kill.
Now nearing 89 and located in the wildest of west Donegal, where the Atlantic beats onto sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. Where people know how to live without the benefits of CCTV cameras, council tax and Zip codes. (Correction) Ireland is going to crawl into the 20th century with the introduction of Zip codes next year. It will be a bit longer before we hit the 21st. century.Where else can you find on the cosmetic counter, next to the hair sprays, aerosols for color marking sheep?
I think writing poetry and doing crosswords helps to keep Alzheimers at bay. But this is probably imagination, as I am still looking for the bastard who wrote Dementia on my medical notes.
First wrote in the school mag. in 1934. First published poetry 1947. Appeared in several anthologies, when there was nothing better to make up the book. Achieved my ambition to become a professional writer. My work was published in many languages, in most of the world.....but you would not find it very interesting, they were Overhaul Manuals for Jumbo Jets! Well somebody has to write them.
Lived in retirement in Spain for 20 years, Gibraltar for 5. (Rock happy) Poetic style, old fashioned, too old to change now. If you would like to come on world wide, word visual journeys with me, read my stuff. Sorry I don`t write award winning adult content "poetry". Am too out of touch! and consider it best left on the top shelf in the newsagents. If you find me using the words awesome, or WOW, you have my permission to shoot to kill.
Now nearing 89 and located in the wildest of west Donegal, where the Atlantic beats onto sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. Where people know how to live without the benefits of CCTV cameras, council tax and Zip codes. (Correction) Ireland is going to crawl into the 20th century with the introduction of Zip codes next year. It will be a bit longer before we hit the 21st. century.Where else can you find on the cosmetic counter, next to the hair sprays, aerosols for color marking sheep?
- Last seen 8 hours ago. Member since February 14, 2006.
- I'm a pyrite eye poet for 1,045 comments.
- My mood is , and quote is "Nil Carborundum Desperandum (Don`t get ground down)".
- I am a 89 year old man (Ireland)
- When I'm not writing, I'm a Serial Husband (retired).
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My Poetry
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The guns are silenced, melted down
or rusted lying on the ground.20 lines, 2 comments, November 6 -
In Donegal where rainbows grow
and whisky tinted rivers flow.20 lines, 11 comments, November 5 -
Merrick and Mirren went blackberry pickin`
in places they grow wild,
My Stories
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417 lines, 2 comments, February 21, 2007. In <600 words
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blueyez on October 25I love all you have to say in your page... and fooey on the doc that wrote dementia on your chart
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ea on October 20
Wishing you all the best on your 89th birthday, William, and many happy returns of the day. 
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Vera Rich on October 12I learned your motto in a slightly different version as a child "Nil carborundum illegitimorum" (Don't let the bastards get you down!) Not good Latin, of course... but to the point!
But I do like the idea of the sheep marking dye being next to the hair-sprays. Particularly when one thinks of the etymology of "raddled"!!!!!!
Which, moving from sheep to cattle reminds me of the delightful name I found some 30 years ago in an Irish journal of occupational medicine,for the crushed fingers often suffered by artificial insemination personnel as a result of attending slender cows: "Bull-Man's Hand!"
Sorry... I seem to be in a crude mood this morning! -
Peripatetic on October 11Great stuff on you home page! It is good to know that life goes on until it doesn't. Thanks for not stopping before the journey's done!
