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[The Ace1983]

Some of you may know that I'm a poet and some of you might know that I run my own website regarding my poems and a bit of philosophy. Anyway, I just recently added a page of poems (4 at the moment) that are about Liverpool. Just thought that if anyone's interested in reading them, they should go to

www.Musingsandpoetics.com

and head to the page titled "Poetics - Mighty Reds". (it'll be on the left hand menu).

Also, if there are any other aspiring poets about (we are a rare breed so I'm not expecting a rush) who have composed something about LFC, feel free to PM a poem to me and hopefully soon I'll get round to adding them to M&P.com

Hope you enjoy them, and check back because the site is growing every week.

[metalhead]

reading the might reds section, loved the first one "Dear Rafa" , but in the verse : " you see him as a curse", whats your literary meaning by it?

all in all its very nice work ace

[The Ace1983]

I wrote "Dear Rafa" when we were all a little p-ed off with with Gerrard being stuck on the right side rather than in the middle, as you may have gathered. In fact, I was very drunk. That line was, i think, down to some comment about our embaressment of riches in the middle of the park with Momo, Xabi and Stevie all fit and well at the time. It was a while back. It just seemed that because Rafa liked having two defence minded central midfielders, Gerrard being an all-round player (able to attack and defend) made Rafa uneasy. With Momo and Alonso, he didn't have to worry about being caught short on the break, but Gerrard, though he would run like the wind to get back was a player that didn't really fit Rafa's model of the ideal central player. Thankfully that has changed and now we have the squad to allow Gerrard to play in his better role, the middle. It was something like that anyway. So it is more of a figuaritive curse than a literal one.

[metalhead]

I've read all of them about 3 times, "The Kop" was beautiful! 

I'm not a good poem writer, but i do read alot of poems and usually analyse them.

You should try to write a poem on our greatest comeback in 2005, call it "Mission Impossible" or "Miricale Day".. something like that 

really good ones you write mate.

[Emerald Red]

Those brought a smile to my face. Excellent, and I'm not one to give praise lightly. I write poems myself, but it's been some time since I last wrote anything, much like my art. I don't practice enough as I should.

I liked this one:

The Beard, The Boss, The Brain

Take a man, a mould for mixture
And concoct this fine elixir
Add a pinch of facial fuzz
To a brain that’s all a-buzz
With thoughts too deep for our comprehension
This brain is in a strange and new dimension
Give him suits of fine old cut
Give him a by-line on which to strut
Add some specks and watch him go
Then stand back and see Rafa glow

Dare I say it, but that reminded me of Yeats. Not all of it, but some lines.

[The Ace1983]

I'm glad you liked that one, Emerald. I have this tendancy to drift into older styles of poetry so Yeats would probably be a good comparisson. I dunno. When I've had a few, I just start talking in verse and if I'm lucky someone's either filmed it or I've scribbled it down somewhere. It just turned out that that one was quite,... nice I suppose. It was writen after our win over South China.

[The Ace1983]

Ok, went to the pub and wrote a new one today which is now on the site on the same Mighty Reds page. It is an 11 stanza epic, based on the greek oral tradition (feel free to make any jokes about "oral" thatyou like) an is about the CL final of 2005. It is called 25.05.05 - An Epic and should be read dramatically out loud with lots of emotion and action, but reading should do. Hope you like it.

[wavertree]

Thanx for share!!

[metalhead]

When there stood the fabled Pole
With shaking legs and his noble soul


loved that verse.