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14 Wednesday Aug 2019

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Haiku, photo, Poetry, Thoughts

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books, haiku, poetry, rain, reading, weather

persistent drizzle
time to catch up on reading
now, what shall it be?

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Times

03 Wednesday Jul 2019

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Short Stories, Thoughts

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reading, thoughts, time, woe

A note:
Somewhat disconcertingly, I have just looked to the top
left corner of my book in order to check the time, woe is me!

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MASH+

23 Wednesday Jan 2019

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, Haiku, humour, poem, Poetry, Thoughts

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books, catch22, haiku, humour, MASH, poem, reading

On >52 books this year

Treatise on madness
Read Heller’s ‘Catch 22’
‘M.A.S.H.’, but on steroids

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Success 2

31 Wednesday Jan 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in Blogs I Like, Poetry, Thoughts

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beauty, books, enjoyment, Joyce, reading, story, Ulysses

On re-reading Joyce

(see 19th December)

I’ve returned to Ulysses, no longer a task but an enjoyment, and it is a delight. Perhaps ‘finishing’ has to be got out of the way. It had corrupted my perception and now I’m free. I may be some time.

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Success!

19 Tuesday Dec 2017

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, Haiku, poem, Poetry, Thoughts

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haiku, James Joyce, Novel, poetry, reading, resolution, success, Ulysses

After several false starts

With but days to go
resolution completed
Joyce’s Ulysses

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again

14 Monday Aug 2017

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, Haiku, poem, Poetry, Thoughts

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books, favourites, haiku, literature, read, reading

for the umpteenth time
picking up a dear old friend
some books get better

 

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theft!

14 Monday Aug 2017

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Blogs I Like, Haiku, humour, poem, Poetry

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books, felony, haiku, humour, poetry, read, reading, seduction, theft

felonious books
seduce my curious mind
and steal all my time

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life

03 Saturday Sep 2016

Posted by Bill Bisgood in Blogs I Like, Haiku, Poetry

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books, haiku, hobbies, life, philosophy, reading, wine

‘there is more’, said she
‘to life, than books and good wine.
I just have to think.’

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