When summer gnats were lightly weaving skeins,
While swift and martin skimmed in graceful flight,
As squirrels danced, and through the leafy lanes
The zephyrs whispered to the solstice night.
When England stood in splendour, green, unbowed,
Cast as the promise of an ancient wood
Of mighty oaks, magnificent and proud,
Wherein we sought the ghost of Robin Hood.
When time regressed, and only you and I
Where locked inside this ’cosm on our own,
Not caring that tomorrow we may die,
Then were the seeds of love so sweetly sown.
Today I stand alone above your bed,
Where cold and darkness are your sharers now,
And in my mind’s eye kiss your lips of red,
And mime again, again, our marriage vow.
Sleep long my Love, for soon I’ll join you here,
Then we’ll both rest in peace while others play,
And share their secrets with a kiss and tear,
As did the young betrothed of yesterday.
[I won a prize for this in a competition, well a certificate; I think it may have been inspired by THE UNQUIET GRAVE or more likely THE ASH GROVE, the former I read as a poem sometime in my teens, and the latter, a very well known song from my schooldays which eventually I learned to play reasonably competently on the classical guitar.]
An ad hoc interview with a homeless man in Sydenham:
https://thedarkman.substack.com/p/an-ad-hoc-interview-with-a-homeless-204
An update on homelessness in Sydenham:
https://thedarkman.substack.com/p/an-update-on-homelessness-in-sydenham
Link to the entire body of my published work:
https://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/links.html
The Planned ERASURE Of The Natives Of These Islands:
https://archive.org/details/the-planned-erasure
The Evolution Of No-Platform:
https://archive.org/details/the-evolution-of-no-platform-enhanced-volume
The Great Free Speech Experiment:
https://archive.org/details/the-great-free-speech-experiment
Trump And Mosley — Parallels And Dissimilarities:
https://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/wikinut/wikinut-trump-parallels-and-dissimilarities.html
What Came Before Repressive Tolerance
https://theduran.com/what-came-before-repressive-tolerance/
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If “Chestnuts” sounds extremely simply that is because it is the first piece of music I ever composed, circa 1979. It was written on the acoustic guitar at Chestnut Avenue, Leeds. The jazz musician Xero Slingsby lived in the same house for a time. I found out a year or two ago that he had died young.
This recording was arranged and performed by Diana Bliss in March 2026. Better late than never!
A much earlier recording played (badly) by me on the guitar can be found here:
“Transsanity”
https://archive.org/details/transsanity-enhanced
&
“Fight Like A Girl”
https://vennerroad.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/fight-like-girl.html
“Should Women Box Men? Should Women Box At All? ”
https://thedarkman.substack.com/p/should-women-box-men-should-women
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A slight clarification, Blenheim Square is the name the so-called developers have given this project. The shopping centre is actually called the Blenheim Centre. It also housed the Wilko store which closed sometime ago, and today I noticed the card shop CARD FACTORY had closed. Not that there is much call for cards nowadays.
The square outside the Blenheim Centre is called Empire Square.
This video was uploaded to YouTube on January 7, 2026.
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A photograph of Alexander Baron delivering THE TRUTH ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY at David Parry’s meeting. A later recording and transcript can be found at this link:
https://archive.org/details/the-truth-about-pornography
