Journals by Mairi bheag, by newest first

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  • Todays blog...
    ... is just a  few thoughts about statues .   * 
    by Mairi bheag on Mar 9 6:38 AM, 100 words. → 2 comments, Add one?
  • The blog about "block poetry" continues
    Here . I still keep those quotation marks around the words "block poetry", as I don't want to be thought of as striving for some kind of "new" form. There is nothing new under the sun ( nil nove sub sole - a handy latin proverb, balanced by  ex Africa semper aliquid novi
    by Mairi bheag on Mar 6 11:34 AM, 200 words. → Make first comment?
  • An explanation of my "block poetry"
    My  current blog  is a response to someone's request for me to talk a little about my recent use of words arranged in blocks in my poems. I can't say a great deal about it, because I am still experimenting with it, and thinking of using it prominently in an ongoing project I have in mind. Of cour
    by Mairi bheag on Mar 6 1:55 AM, 200 words. → 1 comment, Add one?
  • Sorry...
    ... not a whole lot of time for logging in and reading this week. I have started to keep a blog running, though - mainly because I have been thinking up stuff to say while at work. You might like to see the dramatic photo in  today's entry . *
    by Mairi bheag on Mar 3 12:43 AM, 100 words. → 1 comment, Add one?
  • Okay, you win...
    ... I found a reason to add a  blog page  to my web site. *
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 28 7:18 AM, 100 words. → 3 comments, Add one?
  • Just...
    ... given my  website  a face-lift, a cleaner look, updated a few pages.     * 
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 27 8:05 AM, 100 words. → 9 comments, Add one?
  • A Note
    One of my AP family mentioned that I hadn't been reading her poems lately. With a couple of exceptions I haven't been reading anything on AP. I am usually only logged in for about five minutes every day, due to pressure of work (my "Musings" were written during tea-break at work and emailed home), and th
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 14 10:15 AM, 200 words. → 6 comments, Add one?
  • Ay, que linda!
    Ay, que linda!
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 14 3:47 AM, → 2 comments, Add one?
  • 65 years ago today...
    ... the  city of Dresden was destroyed by allied bombing .   So it goes... so it goes.    * 
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 13 9:53 AM, 100 words. → 15 comments, Add one?
  • Note
    It is always a wise move not to carry on with something that isn't working despite honest effort. My satirical/absurdist "Musings from my teepee" isn't working and the number of people reading it has dropped significantly; therefore I am discontinuing it, despite having notes towards future "musings". I shall conce
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 13 7:00 AM, 100 words. → 2 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 17
    Heartening news from the hinterland. Someone has offered a farm, near Glencarse, to be turned into a sanctuary for unwanted health insurance companies. There they will be turned loose into the grassy fields to trot and gambol to their hearts' content, freed forever from their cruel yokes. O
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 12 12:30 AM, 700 words. → Make first comment?
  • Musings from my teepee - 16
    Disturbing news (how did I miss it?) from an American correspondent, that the common or garden health insurance company is now an endangered species! What? Something must be done! A campaign must be started to save this once-ubiquitous and once-loved-by-all beastie. I have (yesterday) opened a page on TwitBook
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 11 12:05 AM, 200 words. → Make first comment?
  • Musings from my teepee - 15
    Teepee closed for repairs (burst water pipe).
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 10 12:19 AM, → 5 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 14
    I thought you might like an up-date on my campaign to encourage people not to vote. Remember that? I'll bet you do!  
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 9 10:39 AM, 1,700 words. → 4 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 13
    For once a serious subject. I read once... somewhere... heaven knows where... that after the first occasion that prime minister Harold MacMillan met US president John F Kennedy, the former was mildly amused by the latter's "ignorance". The "ignorance" to which he was referring was of classical Greek and Latin l
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 8 11:13 AM, 400 words. → 1 comment, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 12
    Yesterday I decided to have a sort-out of the documents in my antique rosewood document box (the one designed by Hieronymus Gloistein, the Moldovan master, and executed by pupils of his latter-day fabrique in Alsace; oh blimey you know the one I’m talking about – it’s made of dark rosewood with an inlay of pol
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 7 3:57 AM, 500 words. → 2 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 11
    Items from today’s postbag:   BD from Cape Town asks “Marie, what is the view like from the flap of your tepee?” In reply I can only say – stunning. (No, really, I can only say that, so don’t expect more.)
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 6 1:48 AM, 1,200 words. → 1 comment, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 10
    Something must be done about those darned wood pigeons, y’know. They’re at my winter wheat again. I have been lying here on my faux Louis Quinze chaise longue (a little detail there to keep the appetite of those correspondents who want that guided tour of the interior of the tepee whetted) for at least an hour
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 4 11:53 PM, 800 words. → 7 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 9
    Recently, a friend likened me to an old lounge suite: over-stuffed and leaking without anything to stop it.   I ask you!
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 4 1:50 AM, 400 words. → 3 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 8
    I was awakened from a dream last night by the horrid sensation of having bitten my tongue (memo to self: buy a tube of Bonjela). The dream was a little weird; I was entertaining Sarah Palin to tea here in the tepee. But it wasn’t your regular Sarah Palin, it was a duppy * . Serving Lapsang Suchong and chocolate Ho
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 3 2:06 AM, 400 words. → 4 comments, Add one?
  • musings from my teepee - 7
    Let’s hear it for today’s Unsung Hero from History – Giordano Bruno. Bruno was a 16c philosopher whose message appears to have been that science lost something of its soul when it divorced itself from philosophy, that religion lost something of its soul when it stopped concerning itself with Truth and started co
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 2 12:55 AM, 200 words. → 5 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 6
    This morning I heard the sound of a diesel pick-up pulling up outside, and a brisk knock at the flap of the teepee. I opened up to find a couple of smiling Romany chavs. “It’s about your drive,” they said. I thought to myself, “Ah, how times have changed”, remembering the sunburnt woman who, regular as spring
    by Mairi bheag on Feb 1 12:22 AM, 200 words. → 3 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 5
    During idle moments (such as they are - ha!) here in the tepee, I had been speculating about the origins of the word "okay". I am au fait with the usual explanations. I had always been rather partial to the notion that it stemmed from the practice of a particular migrant to America from somewhere in Europ
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 31 2:44 AM, 300 words. → 5 comments, Add one?
  • Dalaney
    I have just been told that Lane has another poem published in issue 80 of the British poetry fold-over  Bard . The poem is entitled Spin the Bottle .  
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 30 5:55 AM, 200 words. → 7 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee - 4
    While I was out Wes Studi (of all people!) must have been here at the tepee. I found a hastily-handwritten note (in biro, on the torn-out flyleaf of a 1955 Automobile Association handbook) asking whether next Wednesday at 3pm would be okay for that skinny latte.     . 
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 30 2:13 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Musings from my teepee - extra
    I have decided I like the late Harry S Truman. Not necessarily his policies, nor his controversial endorsement of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nor anything much except the attitude which led him to place a big, friendly sign on his desk: “The buck stops here”. A bloke – a politician no less – who is
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 29 10:57 AM, 500 words. → 2 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee 3
    Only one letter this morning lay on the doormat, obscuring the cheerful Gaelic motto (or rather obscuring a portion of the words, so that what remained looked as though it might mean something offensive in Uzbek). The letter asked me if I would care to elaborate on my reference to the Cheyenne account of the Ba
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 29 12:21 AM, 200 words. → 6 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee 2
    My head emerged from the gaily-painted blanket this morning (the one which has a simple but effective depiction of the Cheyenne account of the Battle of the Little Big Horn), and the first glimmers of dawn intruded through the flap of the tepee, accompanied by the thud of a larger-than-usual delivery of mail. I
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 27 11:41 PM, 200 words. → 4 comments, Add one?
  • Musings from my teepee 1
    We in Britain as soon to enjoy (if that is the right word) a general election. I have already started a modest campaign which, I hope, will gather momentum in the coming months, to persuade people not to vote. The idea behind this is, of course, to ensure that the triumph of those Members of Parliament who are
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 27 11:12 AM, 300 words. → 6 comments, Add one?
  • Another win at Pitlochry! Yay me!
    Yes, I have to blow my own trumpet today. I have just been informed that my macabre short story "The Place of Safety" is one of the winners of the " Fearie Tales " competition at the event that kicks off Scotland's literary year - the Winter Words literary festival at Pitlochry. It will be read out by a pr
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 25 11:48 AM, 200 words. → 26 comments, Add one?
  • Halleluja! Halleluja in Ewigkeit!
      If Richard Wagner's  Gesang der alteren Pilger  from Tannhäuser is not the greatest pure melody ever composed, then it must be bucking for a podium place. Progressing slowly, modulating from major to minor and back to major, growing in volume as the weary pilgrims are allowed to see their ho
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 25 1:48 AM, 300 words. → 4 comments, Add one?
  • On Viewless Wings
    It strikes me that there may be some readers of my poetry and of my journal who don't know about the poetry anthology On Viewless Wings , even though it is a project which has been undertaken by people who "met" on AllPoetry. For those who don't know the book, I guess this is by way of being a commercial
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 23 1:24 AM, 400 words. → 6 comments, Add one?
  • My email account got hacked
    So any of you whom I might have in my address book will have received a weird message from "me" about a black iPhone. Please disregard it.
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 21 12:48 PM, → 11 comments, Add one?
  • Who am I kidding?
    I am currently looking through many of my old poems, trying to select some for a small collection which I hope to publish in summer of 2010, occasionally re-writing a line here and there. In the process I have put aside two other, smaller groups to make into chapbooks. All of this is, of course, displacement activ
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 20 1:11 AM, 100 words. → 22 comments, Add one?
  • Mb puckers up and blows...
      ... her own trumpet again. 1   2 My poem  The Carnation and the Whiskey Glass  has just been published. Details on  my web site . 3
    by Mairi bheag on Jan 3 10:53 AM, 100 words. → 4 comments, Add one?
  • Question about publishing
    I would welcome your thoughts. 1 I have written two novels. One was finished in 2004, the other was finished earlier this year. It is the one from 2004 about which I am concerned. 2 It has been the rounds of every publisher in the United Kingdom and has been rejected. I am not surprised; although it is a good
    by Mairi bheag on Dec 8 12:52 AM 2009, 200 words. → 20 comments, Add one?
  • More sharing
    This has been making my hair stand on end today - a Sacred Harp version of Charles Wesley's hymn tune  Idumea  ( And Am I Born To Die ). This kind of full-throated choral singing is heard mainly amongst rural congregations in the USA, and comes from the "shape note" music whereby itinerant p
    by Mairi bheag on Nov 22 6:26 AM 2009, 200 words. → 9 comments, Add one?
  • Just a note...
    ... to say that updated news of items selected for publication is now on  my web site  and  my blog . 1   2 M. 
    by Mairi bheag on Nov 21 6:53 AM 2009, 200 words. → 3 comments, Add one?
  • Just a note to my friends
    Just a note to my friends, and to people on whose work I most often comment. I have been very tired lately, and unable to write. I have decided to stop worrying about the latter and take this opportunity to rest. Please don't worry too much if you don't hear from me very much for a while. I will still come and read y
    by Mairi bheag on Nov 12 12:20 AM 2009, 100 words. → 19 comments, Add one?
  • Meu Fado Meu
    I just want to share  this  with you all.
    by Mairi bheag on Nov 4 11:29 AM 2009, → 8 comments, Add one?
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