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3 weeks ago |
disabilityarts.online | Richard Downes
Blogs Artist Perspectives Poetry and spoken word Visual Arts Mental Health Survivor Arts Written by Richard Downes A prompt from Growing Poetry’s Winter Advent Calendar 2019; Day 5 Prompt: Write about a time where you too were filled with snow, The State Of Being Full With Snow I woke up one wet morning full of snow In the dark my love light flickering low These wintry days nothing left in my heart My engine spluttering so hard to start I felt the cold trickle of ice and shook Out of bed,...
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1 month ago |
disabilityarts.online | Richard Downes
Blogs BBC Covid Outside-In Artist Perspectives Poetry and spoken word Visual Arts Chronic illness Disability Arts BBC Covid Outside-In Survivors Poetry Wendy Young Artist Perspectives Poetry and spoken word Visual Arts Chronic illness Disability Arts Survivor Arts Written by Richard Downes This newie is derived from an Outside In e-bulletin promoting news of “exciting and ambitious two-year project Patient Artworks”.
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1 month ago |
disabilityarts.online | Richard Downes
Blogs memorial resilience Artist Perspectives Poetry and spoken word Written by Richard Downes I am thinking through the themes for Thrive Aid, (3rd December 2020 – International Day of Disabled People). Resilience is one of the six we proposed in the UK. I’m not sure that I know what resilience is but i’m learning that the label applies to me. It applies to you to. Enjoy this bit of braggadocio.
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1 month ago |
disabilityarts.online | Richard Downes
Blogs Artist Perspectives Poetry and spoken word Visual Arts Written by Richard Downes Her bright colours drape Covering the smog of birth In ethnic Patterns Richard Downes 27th October 2020 The gathering storm Turns from black to blue to purple Like a bruise rising Richard Downes 29th October 2020 On the bluest shore Scum raises to the surface Pleading more favour Richard Downes 30th October 2020 Meet the fishermen Walking across the water To be by their side Richard Downes 2nd November 2020...
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1 month ago |
disabilityarts.online | Richard Downes
Blogs digital arts Artist Perspectives Poetry and spoken word Visual Arts Written by Richard Downes Close to Halloween, Facebook’s The Daily Haiku 222 is an amalgan of ‘afraid’ and ‘grace’. One of the reasons I love the Daily Haiku is the attendance of Donal Dempsey and Dino Maloney who regularly amuse me. I look for both grace and being fraid in this piece but aim to amuse too.
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I think @BBCNews misunderstands the (admittedly peculiar) Irish voting system and their report on the 10 o’clock news was … ahem … poor and also inaccurate

Is dere anyting to be said for a bit of auld comphuters lads … surely this would be all over by now

If you can’t vote because you’re having a baby in hospital … I mean, I really give up