RIP Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

♥ ♥ ♥ RIP ♥ ♥ ♥

Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 192?-2021

With regrets and sadness I must respond to the death of our beloved "Prince" Philip (aka The Duke of Edinburgh).  This is a solomen occastion for all Scotsfolk.  I offer my condolensenses to Philip's wife, city and other loved ones.

The Virus has taken its most high profile victim but we must stay strong and continue to fight it.  I urge all readers to make sure they have a mask on at all times.  After many changes in my life (as of the last couple of months) I had been intending to return to this blog with new news.  But not this news.  Why this news?  Sad, sad news.

 

 

Here is my tribute (which I am making public domain to celebrate this most charitable of men)

 

Elegy for a fellow feminist

Touched by you

A century of us were

Humbled and dominated

But lovingly, as if free

A marriage intact

Gender roles flipped

You showed women

They could be King

It was his ambition all young able-bodied boys compete in various outdoor challenges so I would urge you donate money in memory of the dead Philip here: https://www.dofe.org/donate/

With love, R x

Goodbye, Keith.

Yesterday, Monday 11th December 2017, was a grave day.

With immense sorrow, the day literally no-one wanted to see, arrived. The day Keith "Cheggers" Chegwin died.

I can't believe it. So little time has passed but I feel compelled to lay down my feelings although still so raw, so painful.

Hearing his name on the radio yesterday my heart leapt. I assumed, as presumably we all did hearing his name on the news, that Our Keith was coming back to the screen. The big screen? The little screen? Perhaps the theatre? Panto surely?

No. Vae autem homini pulchra mortuus est.

It is at these darkest of times we question the Mother Spirit on High. How can such "evil" come to pass? The deepest of primal vibrations shake us to the core. Such a beautiful man. Taken. His family mourns, his friends mourn, all humanity mourns.

I loved Keith Chegwin. I never met him and it is with tears I shall not get to meet him on this plane of existence. However I know he is throned up on high and if I continue to lead a life of humble positivity, I may - the Gods willing - eventually meet him in spirit. I know I am not worthy, but I must try my hardest.

KC stood for honour, integrity, joviality, loyalty, excellence. He made us laugh, he made us think, and now - his final act - he made us cry.

I can only hope his final twitter post is a portent of a possible rebirth - a messianic call the 21st Century is waiting for, the true second coming. He who may return to guide us through the darker times to come in his absence. I, with the world, live in hope.

To end, the words of a fellow Scot:

Praise of a Man (Norman MacCraig)

He went through a company like a lamplighter –
see the dull minds, one after another,
begin to glow, to shed
a beneficent light.

He went through a company like
a knifegrinder – see the dull minds
scattering sparks of themselves,
becoming razory, becoming useful.

He went through a company
as himself. But now he's one
of the multitudinous company of the dead
where are no individuals.

The beneficent lights dim
but don't vanish. The razory edges
dull, but still cut. He's gone: but you can see
his tracks still, in the snow of the world.

RIP Keith.
Gone but NEVER forgotten.

R.

"Obsessive Possessive"

Obsessive
Possessive
Excessive
Depressive

Aggressive
Oppressive
Regressive
Recessive

Expressive
Progressive
Impressive
Successive

Life goes on (a thanks)

I would like to dedicate a few words to my good friends Steve and Robert. From the possibility of an emotionally irksome week, today they helped me see that life goes on. They continue to shape me for the better both externally (courtesy of Steve's fashion direction) and internally (Rob's philosophy). I am deeply in gratitude for all they have done and continue to do in my life. This is for them, with (brotherly) love.

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LIFE GOES ON (A THANKS)
Construction from evulsion

To thee and thou I express gratitude

In the way I only know how.

A poem for him

Indebted to your kindness,
through sacred natured time
we dance in the name of Eros.
Randy.

"No Motherland Without You"

Alternate lyrics for a track recorded in the Kissing Sally sessions but unreleased in its original form. It instead received two arrangements on the Valentines Day Single: Rob Heart providing the "Let's Save Our Love (Until Marriage)" lyrics, my variation using a lines from a recent touching tribute to Kim Jung-Il I had been working on at the time.

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No Motherland Without You (Part 2)

Like lost lover’s trapped in time

We graced this Earth apart

Your name belittled by the mouth of the fool

But you’ll always reign my heart

Twas the coda of your life

Became the prelude to mine

The final night of ophiuchus

You set your sights to the sky

The deity you don’t doubt is real

His name is Kim Jung-Il

Like lost lover’s trapped in time

We graced this Earth apart

Your name belittled by the mouth of the fool

But you’ll always reign my heart

They called you father

To me you were just Kim

The Dear Leader formally

Proud the spirit within

I sense your presence in the lap of the Gods

Can’t disprove your heavenly-real

Forever: Kim Jung-Il

Like lost lover’s trapped in time

We graced this Earth apart

Your name belittled by the mouth of the fool

You’ll always reign my heart

Like lost lover’s trapped in time

We graced this Earth apart

Your name belittled by the mouth of the fool

But you’ll always reign my heart

What the fuck it’s the twenty-first century

And you’re no longer here to feel

But this hymn will be heard through the lands

Remember Kim Jung-Il!

Like lost lover’s trapped in time

We graced this Earth apart

The Motherland may cease to exist

But Kim’s erotic beauty will forever – reign my

Like lost lover’s trapped in time

We graced this Earth apart

Your name belittled by the mouth of the fool

You’ll always reign my heart

Like lost lover’s trapped in time

We graced this Earth apart

Your name belittled by the mouth of the fool

But you’ll always reign my…

Poems for The Great One

The recording sessions which went on to produce Kissing Sally In The Smoking Room, had humble beginnings: a tribute to Kim Jung-Il. Steve and Rob spent the session attempting to write a Korean pop song whilst I meditated on The Great Man himself, in the process writing the following material. A rather erotic dream the previous night starring the Dear Leader, proved ample inspiration. Elements of these poems made their way into my eventual tribute song "No Motherland Without You (Part 2)" which appeared on the Valentine's Day Single several months later.

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Poems for The Great One
Like lovers trapped by time
We graced this Earth so long apart
Our destiny however was to be that way
Whilst I prayed you could but look

They called you father
To me you were Kim
Jung-Il was your forename
Young the spirit within

Like the Gods you wandered
Your land an Eden blossoming
From the Southern traitors brewing
In that Korean-hell: at worst avoided
At best your next conquest

Long-live you with the name Kim
A son takes the throne
But what fate beholds him?
Long shall your presence
Upon my heart reign
We never got to meet
Jung-Il, I pray we yet may.

To be apart is to doubt
To know your heart is to shout
With a love ever-lasting
Your face a picture of perfection
Inspiring the words in this hymn sung, yield:
The erotic beauty of Kim Jung-Il!

You think your shit is real?
You got an army of women at heel?
Did you invent a meal?
Or course not: you're no Kim Jung-Il!

Slim sung seal
Dim young Neil
Rim rung real
Kim Jung-Il
Gym tongue yield

Bring dung meal
Hymn flung feel
Kim Jung-Il

"(Bring Back!) News Of The World"

The Garibaldis' breakaway 2011 hit was written and recorded in a day. I have often wondered if it is morally wrong to write a hit-song in support of an issue you happen to disagree with. Steve persuaded me years back that all songwriters do it and he's right. RIP Rupert Murdoch.

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(BRING BACK) NEWS OF THE WORLD
Bring back
News Of The World!

Weren't given no warning
You just went away
An empire grounded but
We're here to say

Bring it back, bring it back
Bring it back
News Of The World

Your influence massive
You broke all the rules
Until you were shot down
By those distrustful of you
But they were all jealous of you

Bring back
News Of The World

Bring it back, bring it back

Bring back
News Of The World

"Oh, Jesus"

Fan favourite since its release on A Christmas Garibaldi, the song was written in approximately 7 minutes as documented on Glenson Heart McBrute's Rhombic Dodecahedron ("07//085/168//190810" - "07//088/168//190810 #1"). 

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OH, JESUS (WE HEART YOU)
Jesus Jesus, we love you
We promise to follow all
The Bible tells us to
Jesus Jesus, you truly are great
You fill our lives with joy
And diminish all possibilities of hate

I was reading the Bible
Just the other day
Filled with joyful tales
Of war, hatred and flaying
I asked the father
Why all this hate?
He said "read on son, to
Revelation, before it's too late!"


Jesus Jesus, we love you
We promise to follow all
The Bible tells us to
Jesus Jesus, you truly are great
You fill our lives with joy
And diminish all possibilities of hate

The end of the World is coming
Quick - the end of the World is coming!
Or could it just be the end of an age?
Mistranslations? I doubt it:
We're all going to die.
The end of the World is coming so pray
The end of the World is coming so pray
The end of the World is coming so pray
The end of the World is coming,
So pray