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Yummy's Theme by Richard Evans ya' betta' run son- [329 words]
Trip by Richard Evans 1976 - the night I fell in love [41 words]
Such A Pretty Bow by Richard Evans A night to remember- [106 words]
Alma by Richard Evans love and hate- [23 words]
A - Wake by Mia Angello - [62 words]
Blackvein
A Choreographed Breakfast by Colin Baker - [68 words]
Thoughts On The Evolutionary School Of Life by Colin Baker - [177 words]
You Said.... by T J Rintoull Short freeform poem descriptive of the deserted wounded lover. [59 words]
Windows And Illusions by Stephisme i just write what i feel. a poem about life. [190 words]
Where I Came From by M Q Walters More woe is me stuff.The outside changes all the time...but the inside remembers where I came... [119 words]
Upon My Hands by Tara Bridget Moore - [309 words]
Trinty by Cedric McClester TRINITY questions the notion of a trinity, ie. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. [115 words]
Toward Insight by Jeffrey Lee Williams www.jlwonline.com [193 words]
The Comforting Fuzzy Protector by Andrews - [18 words]
Placate by Jeffrey Lee Williams - [29 words]
Never Have I Fallen by Sierra M L Short This poem is a very hard working poem and you should really like it because it's a very int... [70 words]
Name Droppers by Jeffrey Lee Williams www.jlwonline.com [75 words]
My Reason by Dri - [101 words]
My Pain by Sierra M L Short This poem was written because of one of my ex-boyfriends was this way as the boy in this poem. [59 words]
My Baby Is Having A Baby by Dri the anticipation of becoming a grandma. To Lucy. [184 words]
Mask by K M - [24 words]
Kidney Stones by Colin Baker - [13 words]
Key To My Heart by Sierra M L Short this poem came from the heart. It's about me and my boyfriend. [108 words]
Just Passing By! by Seema M Salman We see so many people in our daily life.But so fast as our life has become,many times we don't... [84 words]
In The Union Of Myanmar by Colin Baker - [38 words]
I Question Why? by Tara Bridget Moore A tale about love found and love lost.... [143 words]
I Own You by R Bennett Okerstrom Never forget that I own you. [88 words]
I Hate Mondays by T Demarest - [147 words]
Hope And Bewilderment by Jeffrey Lee Williams www.jlwonline.com [58 words]
Homecoming by Daniel Atkinson A short poem about my homecoming experences. [80 words]
Holiday Jumble by Emily C Johnson A poem about how we're running around during the holidays and how we should stop to think a litt... [138 words]
Hit The Sack by Colin Baker - [299 words]
He Shot His Daughter by Randy Johnson THIS IS A TRUE STORY. [68 words]
He Laughs At Me by Briony Carvalho OK being told off for not posting so here's a rubbish poem for you. [86 words]
Freedom To Me! by Seema M Salman A poem about what Freedom means to me! [97 words]
Forever Immortal by Peter Halpin Looking back over photographs of myself I thought no matter where I go from here I was always ... [58 words]
Fag-It Girls by Sooz Saw these two while I was out getting a butty. [189 words]
Dream Of A Past Life by M Southwell A poem I wrote about a very vivid dream I had one night. [513 words]
Dark Wave by R Bennett Okerstrom Exorcising demons of the past [113 words]
Cough & Drop by Colin Baker - [114 words]
A Lost Generation ? by Colin Baker - [52 words]

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TITLE (EDIT)
Blackvein
DESCRIPTION
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[103 words]
AUTHOR
Colin Baker
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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[October 2014]
AUTHOR'S E-MAIL ADDRESS
clnbkr@tiscali.co.uk
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (117)
25 Years On (Poetry) - [85 words]
2 Am (Poetry) - [115 words]
A Bus Commuter's Sonnet (Poetry) - [107 words]
A Choreographed Breakfast (Poetry) - [68 words]
A Dreamer's Song (Aka Wishful Thinking) (Poetry) - [85 words]
A Fibber's Prayer (Poetry) A short poem about making good some porkies. [291 words] [Humor]
A First Class Service (Poetry) - [15 words]
A Lost Generation ? (Poetry) - [52 words]
A Pious Gent (Poetry) - [11 words]
A Restraining Order For Jesus (Poetry) - [258 words]
A Smoker's Pledge Of Allegiance (Poetry) - [98 words]
A To Z Of Adolescence (Poetry) Ever been a parent ? Of three daughters ? [21 words]
A Visit To The Planetarium (Poetry) - [31 words]
Africans, Westerners And Intelligence. (Essays) A reply to Dr. James D. Watson's recent assertion that Africans are of inferior intelligence when compared to Westerners. [7,297 words]
An Apple A Day (Poetry) Fun poetry. [36 words]
Believe In Better (Short Stories) A philosophical alternative to the current mindset. [804 words]
Beneath Her Window (Poetry) - [34 words]
Benefit Cutting For Dummies (Non-Fiction) Benefit cutting is politically and ideologically motivated. [2,411 words]
Bill Gates Should Take A Tip From Karl And Fred (Essays) Bill Gates recently criticised capitalism. Hooray! one might be minded to cry out! But all is not as straight forward as it seems. [872 words] [Drama]
Bill The Bus Driver (Poetry) - [61 words]
Britain's Festival Of The Juggernaut. (Essays) Capitalist Britain and the Hindu tradition of Vishnu's incarnation have much in common. [1,277 words]
By Night When Others Soundly Slept (I'd Pinch Lots Of Stuff) (Poetry) - [114 words]
Christmas Conundrum (Poetry) Christmas can be a confusing time for some children. [197 words]
Coming To Terms (Poetry) Extolling the virtues of the human brain. [177 words]
Contradictory Deliverance (Poetry) - [37 words]
Cost-Effective Indifference (Poetry) - [29 words]
Cough & Drop (Poetry) - [114 words]
Debt (Poetry) Debt, Emily Dickinson style. [178 words]
' Doc ' (Poetry) A very brief reflection of the continued erosion of free health provision in contemporary Britain. [80 words]
Douglas R.I.P. (Poetry) - [270 words]
Ends And Means (Non-Fiction) The world we currently live in is a topsy turvy place. [215 words] [History]
Evening Class For A Grownup (Poetry) - [58 words]
Favour (Poetry) - [21 words]
Fruit And Vegetable Shortages (Non-Fiction) A spurious argument [269 words]
Get On Board, Iraqi Children (Poetry) Allah's train keeps a-comin' for thousands of Iraqi children. [181 words]
Good News Is No News (Short Stories) Good news isn't always what it seems. [470 words] [Literary Fiction]
Growing Up (2006) (Poetry) - [28 words]
Hey John! How Are Things My Friend? (Poetry) - [134 words]
Hit The Sack (Poetry) - [299 words]
If I Die (Poetry) Inspired by a conversation one evening at bedtime between my 6 year old daughter and I. Suddenly, she wanted to explore the concept of dying. [129 words]
Imperialism Dear Boy, Imperialism (Poetry) Limerick on the theme of the current Gulf conflict. [27 words]
In A Seaside Street (Poetry) - [167 words]
In The Top Right-Hand Corner (Poetry) - [21 words]
In The Union Of Myanmar (Poetry) - [38 words]
It's Like Hurricane Ike... (Poetry) - [112 words]
Kidney Stones (Poetry) - [13 words]
Killing At Camp - Justice? (Poetry) - [55 words]
Labour Pains (Poetry) - [93 words]
Last Wednesday: Peterchurch, Herefordshire. (Poetry) - [31 words]
Little Donkey - Revised (Poetry) A poem for christmas [16 words] [Humor]
Lovers Walking In A Lane In Summer (Poetry) - [126 words]
Margaret Thatcher's Funeral (Non-Fiction) - [270 words]
Meop Citsigoloen A (Poetry) - [28 words]
Milton! Art Thou Dying (Again)? (Poetry) Is Milton Friedman's free-market mantra now in tatters? [28 words]
Monday Morning (Poetry) - [59 words]
Moral Instruction (Poetry) - [107 words]
My Child X 3 (Poetry) - [23 words]
Newport - Stow Hill (Poetry) - [4 words]
Norman's Unemployment Policy - Britain, Summer 1981 (Poetry) - [158 words]
Oh Jesus! (Poetry) - [18 words]
Oh La La ! (Poetry) - [118 words]
On The Beach! (Poetry) - [48 words]
Over My Dead Body (Poetry) - [52 words]
Pardon Me But................... (Poetry) - [11 words]
Parliament? - It's History! (Essays) The role of Parliament as an institution here in the UK must now radically change. [1,398 words]
Partnership (Poetry) - [30 words]
Playing Pétanque (Poetry) - [141 words]
Pleasure Island (Poetry) - [114 words]
Poem Of The Cross (Poetry) - [32 words]
Poetry - No Doubt (Poetry) - [8 words]
Potential Human (Poetry) - [33 words]
Pregnancy And Politics (Non-Fiction) An argument against capitalism [1,096 words]
Prophecy (Poetry) - [28 words]
Psalm 17-30 (The Rush-Hour Psalm) (Poetry) - [261 words]
Psalm 23 (New Labour's Psalm) (Poetry) - [108 words]
Psalm 23 (The Mcjob Psalm) (Poetry) McJobs abound in capitalist society.... [122 words]
Rain Heading In From The West (Poetry) A poem written to mark the many innocent deaths brought about by Western political aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan. [243 words]
Raining Cats And Dogs (Poetry) Do you believe in metaphors coming true ? [187 words]
Reflections On God's Actions (Poetry) - [62 words]
Remembering (Poetry) - [144 words]
Saturday Night Dilemma (Poetry) Saturday nights out are not what they used to be. [92 words]
Saviour Self (Poetry) - [86 words]
School (Poetry) - [107 words]
Screwball Scramble (Essays) There is a good reason for the phenomenon of frenzied shopping in the Western world. [2,381 words]
September 03, 2007 (Poetry) To mark a particular President's recent visit to Iraq [18 words]
Social Inequality Is Not One-Sided (Non-Fiction) - [1,035 words]
Society, The Family And A Thatcher. (Essays) When UK conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher asserted in 1987 that 'there is no such thing as society', she overlooked all that it is to be human. [5,380 words]
Something For Nothing (Short Stories) The irony of political correctness [90 words]
Sometimes (Poetry) Sometimes, contemporary work roles seem to necessitate wishful thinking in a person. [69 words]
Spitting (At) Images (Poetry) - [28 words]
Take O Take Those Chips Away (Poetry) - [44 words]
Taking Leave (And All That) (Poetry) - [36 words]
The B B C (Poetry) - [12 words]
The Chair (Poetry) - [235 words]
The Chinese Medicine Shop (Poetry) - [43 words]
The Lords (Poetry) - [28 words]
The Poisonous Dart Frog, Politics And History (Essays) - [2,477 words]
The Religious Sum Of The Iraq War (Poetry) - [14 words]
The Retrospective Chicken (Poetry) Introspective journey of a chicken. [255 words]
The Sack Race (Poetry) A short poem, written to mark the occasion of my youngest daughter's recent triumphs in her school sack race. [207 words]
The State (Poetry) - [22 words]
The Sum Of Amon Goeth's Execution (Poetry) - [14 words]
The Valleys (Poetry) - [68 words]
The Western Alpha Bit (Poetry) Topic of Iraq [182 words]
Thoughts On The Evolutionary School Of Life (Poetry) - [177 words]
Thoughts On Youth Crime (Poetry) - [16 words]
Topsy Turvy (Poetry) - [33 words]
Up! (Poetry) - [64 words]
Up-Hill (Till M4 Junction 3, Then Head South) (Poetry) - [138 words]
We'd Sit And Sing Alway (Then Came A Barratt Team) (Poetry) Greenbelt, in certain parts of 21st century Britain, is a dwindling phenomenon. [71 words]
We'll Go No More A-Dogging (Poetry) - [70 words]
What Do We Want? Concrete Fairness! When Do We Want It? Now! (Essays) Live Aid and Live 8 failed because they made metaphysical appeals to fairness and justice. [4,232 words]
While God........... (Poetry) - [15 words]
Why And How We Spoke God Into Existence (Poetry) Have you ever wondered how God came to be? [234 words]
Why Bother At All? (Non-Fiction) Why bother struggling to save a decaying economic system like capitalism? [483 words]
Withdrawn Loners And Sparkling Drops (Non-Fiction) The recent shooting at Sandy Hook school in Connecticut USA is tragic beyond question, yet also revealing in some ways. [856 words] [Crime]
Yesterday (Poetry) (Inspired by one of Brittany's recent tree-climbing experiences, she being our youngest daughter) [177 words]
Blackvein
Colin Baker



Where a boy stares at some red brick houses and quilts of grass,
there was once a modest mass
of servile humans, young and old,
cutting daily at hunger, in a fossil forest beneath fields of green and gold.

Perhaps one day, we'll sink
a well here instead -559 feet deep- then drink
to those boys and men of December 1st, 1860,
toasting each, from crystal glasses filled with a mix of congealed blood and planxty.

For now though, the boy takes his forward gaze
in hand and goes on his way.
For my part, I pick
up a beech stick,
and gouge in a patch of rich vermillion earth for all to see:
-TODAY'S HISTORY-

 

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"Please explain, I guess I'm just not imaginative enough to get it. " -- Richard.
"Richard thank you. And your request for explanatory information has little if anything to do with your imaginative abilities, and everything to do with my neglecting to place a brief background to accompany the poem when first posting. It actually refers to a mining disaster (an explosion as it happens) which occured at the Blackvein colliery in South Wales, UK in December, 1860. The graves of some of the children killed in the disaster (only a small number of bodies were recovered) are only a few miles away from where I currently live. Colin" -- Colin Baker.

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