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Poetic Works of Grace Cadbury Sobey

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My Interests

I enjoy pretending everything is ok when it isnt. Remembering people that have long gone, counting the calories in food, tape casettes, long walks, hats, bath-tubs, cigarettes, books, intoxicating substances, friends, falling in love, flowers, daisy chains, hop skotch, skipping ropes, cobbled streets and penny sweets.

Music:

the million dollar quartet, rolling stones, TREX, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Rogers, Buddy Holly, Billy Bragg, Guy Mitchell, Leonard cohen, Jerry Lee Lewis, The beatles, The beach boys, The ronettes, dusty springfield, Bobby Darin, otis reding, jackie wilson, james brown, leadbelly, sam cooke, billy ocean, bill withers, john lee hooker, the rat-pack, frank sinatra, dean martin, nat king cole, the who, the clash, astec camera, velvet underground, blondie, tom lehrer, elvis costello, iggy pop and the stooges, the kinks, tim buckley, jeff Buckley, Pink floyd, the jam, paul weller, the smiths, the doors, the ruts, new york dolls, nick drake, brian jonestown massacre, glenn miller orchestra, john cale, electric light orchestra, patti smith, billie holiday, new order, joy division, public enemy, gil scott heron, roxy music, brian ferry, the small faces, the faces, rod stewart, the fall, jimi hendrix, nick cave and the bad seeds...

Movies:

The L-shaped room, darling, the final ..s, all the presidents men, a taste of honey, the killing fields, the piano, hungry i reunion, stoned, ladies and gentleman mr lenny bruce, naked lunch, nora, dogville, the green mile, capote, ray, de tweeling, rolling stones circus, poor cow, the secretary, T-rex on tv, the great escape, divorce his divorce hers, walk the line, little shop of horrors, masculine femanine, the musus, pans labarinth, motorcycle diaries, any foriegn film. I heart huckabees, ginger in the morning, the sound of music, when harry met sally, annie hall, bananas, love and death, manhatten, everything you wanted to know about sex but were too afraid to ask, 24 hour party people, breakfast at tiffanys, rebel without a cause, white christmas, scrooge.

Television:

whatever happend to the likely lads, porridge, flying circus, room 101, happy days, murder she wrote, rising damp, the southbank show, so it goes, car 54 where are you? the monkees, knightrider, faulty towers, mr bean...

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Books:

The flowers of evil, chaste maid in cheapside, pamela, the iliad, portrait of an artist as a young man, collected poems of John donne, the poetic off liscense, northanger abbey, robinson crusoe, brick lane, pilgrims progress, fear and loathing in las vegas, vanity fair, the spiritual teaching of marcus aurelius, any charles dickens novel particularly the christmas stories, emily bronte novels, billy liar, eleven minutes, the bell jar, yellow wallpaper, Popcorn.

Heroes:

William shakespeare, John Wilmot, Bette Davies, Julie Cristie, Grace Kelly, John Donne, Betty Page, Sandra Dee, William Burroughs, William wordsworth, Steven Patrick Morrissey, samuel taylor coleridge, Henry Miller, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Karl Marx, Albert Camus, Jean Rhys, Mary and Percy Shelley, John Betjeman, Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Engels. Lord Byron. ..

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My Blog

Le belle dela danse, monsieur?

Le belle dela danse, monsieur? Such harmony, in vain, we bring, Inspire the flute, and pluck the string. To dwell upon this disco hall, And hear the partisan recall. Of memories to his sweetheart, The...
Posted by Poetic Works of Grace Cadbury Sobey on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:57:00 PST

The Libertine

The Libertine Or Memoirs of John Wilmott You seek to strive and strive to seek a dame, Then fall upon the wisdom of my name And without reference, preference or with deeds, How often does your charm...
Posted by Poetic Works of Grace Cadbury Sobey on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:50:00 PST

A Bingo Stub & For you love women too much

For you who love women too much   Sometimes I feel obliged, To say your name without reason. Marking all your acts of treason With false brides, Being tied by this corrupt society. Where piety ha...
Posted by Poetic Works of Grace Cadbury Sobey on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:46:00 PST

The last of the perry boys x and others....

I've little faith in what resides, For fear of the undignified, In polo shirts, and bomber jackets, And cigarettes in lucky strike packets. For wanton weekends, with goalless winnings, Or happy ending...
Posted by Poetic Works of Grace Cadbury Sobey on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:15:00 PST

Forget-me-nots, and For love of a Jester.....

If speech be the art of maidenly transgression, Then he hath made a lasting impression, For ranked with these words, And sealed with this kiss, It's hard to miss what's never been missed. And yet I f...
Posted by Poetic Works of Grace Cadbury Sobey on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:10:00 PST

Poems: Mick Jones, How She did you in, Portrait of a Catholic, If he...

"This One's for Mick Jones."   She's holding out for her Mick Jones, For faith in love leaves her alone, From Kingsmen Cavalry to forgotten thrones, She marked the cross and saved her own. And wa...
Posted by Poetic Works of Grace Cadbury Sobey on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:30:00 PST

more poems: Cobbled Streets and Penny Sweets...

In memory of R.F.Langley.. Would it be this way if it wasn't like her father and mother forsake us? She stole her own self portrait; for she knew she couldn't paint love. And now nothing stands so al...
Posted by Poetic Works of Grace Cadbury Sobey on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:16:00 PST

THE MAKINGS OF THE 'MADCHESTER-MOD' by Grace Cadbury Sobey 25/03/07

The Makings of the 'Madchester Mod' The Manchester music scene has always maintained a strong loyalty towards its community, atmosphere and place, constantly revelling in the huge list of charac...
Posted by Poetic Works of Grace Cadbury Sobey on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:37:00 PST