IS IT A BIRD...IS IT A PLANE!?

Settlement After a time, (Some 19 years or so), I asked him, Boldly, And straight out, If we had a relationship. He denied it flatly. Relieved, I went on loving him the more. Edward Hughes Misplaced Where are all those things? I can't remember. Still, I have the symbols. What were those things like? We were not acquainted, But I painted pictures. How many of those things were there? I reach for the matchbox. What could those things mean? We need to talk. What about? Squiggles, daubs, and matchsticks. What about those things? I lost them long ago. Edward Hughes Ascendancy When Mother died there was an absence. It wasn't her; Mum's still a fixture In many a memory, Each sharper than mine. Her's was a life taken In its unsuspecting flow, Before appropriate time. This yawning gap Served as a warning: Fickle fullness leads not to resolution; Everything must some day drain. I now look for lightness, Not light. I'm eyeshut to fleeting image, Immune to all experience, And r...

Christmas is a time of maximum stress on relationships so try to remember, its supposed to be fun! Don't take things too seriously and if the turkey gets ruined just order a take away instead. Whatever happens don't let it end in a divorce court or you could end up with your most expensive Christmas ever. Here are some cautionary tales: The Most Outrageous Divorce Clauses Ever Written Author: Monica Sanders There are all kinds of divorce clauses: clauses to keep quiet, clauses to pay an escalating portion of one's future earnings, and even clauses that some might consider the most extreme – those that mandate therapy. Hollywood seems to be the source of endless fodder. In fact, it's not unusual to find all sorts of written clauses so that an ex will keep quiet about the nasty details of the marriage until the day they die…or perhaps get a more lucrative book deal. Britney as well as former Beatle Paul McCartney have both opted for gag clauses in the hopes of muzzling t...

THE PUMPKIN EATER The story of a marriage of two sensitive, articulate people, bound together by the strongest physical and emotional ties yet helpless in their inability to communicate. Just watched this film, now I can't sleep because it's haunting me. I recommend it, just make sure you have plenty of chill out time before you need to sleep because it makes you think. The Pumpkin Eater takes its title from the nursery rhyme: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater / Had a wife and couldn't keep her. / He put her in a pumpkin shell / And there he kept her very well." As this allusion suggests, one of the central concerns of the film is female entrapment - the experience of being kept 'in a shell'. The heroine, Jo, has all the ostensible trappings of a happy life: a handsome, successful husband, a beautiful house, an enviably affluent lifestyle, and battalions of healthy children. Yet she still comes to the conclusion that her life is "an empty place". ...

pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp Poetry by Edward Hughes aka Bernard Badpoet aka BB aka my "significant other". Geoff's Death (in memoriam Geoffrey France 1917-2006) Nov 6 2006 Exit. Stage managed, Without applause. Footlights dimmed, And then out. It's over. He's gone. What was Isness Is now Wasness. There's no more business To transact. No show to transfer, And no bow taken. Forsaken? We all are. For each run ends, And every House darkens. Bernard Badpoet Nov 2006 The Human Delusion (Inspired by Richard Dawkins' book 'The God Delusion") I am Dawkins' Robot, Complex in my way, it's true, But I only exist to serve to serve my genes, As they are the ones that do. They allow my sham existence, Whilst turning to their task Of striding across the millennia With a single-minded zest. From Amoeba to Me they've condescended To join in Corporate groups, And even Albert Einstein Was simply one of the troops. My life story weaves a ...