Rum TAR Tar Tum Tum Tum

I’m tearing into brambles

They are tearing into me

One week and they’ve become a barrier

Snaking across my path

A valley now in shadow

From cloaks of frantic ferns

Slip/trip/walk s-tumble

Loose and crumbled under foot

A grudging route

Should have put my boots on

1st Sunday in June-out on my own

Blindly follow steep unfamiliar line

My steps speed up

Slip slide into the deep

Bang-bang-bang-closeby

Bang bang throb

I recognise the beat

Bang-bang-bang

Breath and movement slows

It is my heart catching up

RD 7/6/2020

Bring your words- poem-stories-ideas-company-

Zoom with us from 7-45pm ID 603 854 102 Pw 018454

Thursday 13th August 8pm

Special guest Performance Poet

Sally Jenkinson

reading her stuff and introducing a new Zine project

stuff about me

Hello There

My name is Sally Jenkinson. I am a poet, writer and performer based in the beautiful Forest of Dean (before that, Brighton, before that, Bristol). I grew up in Doncaster in God’s own county of Yorkshire, where we say poem like this: ‘poym’.

I mostly write poetry, but also some theatre, short stories and creative non-fiction.

I am working on a new collection, Sensory, exploring the experience of being a support worker.

Usual suspects- friends from many fields…..

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Thursday 21st may 3pm

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Call Out for Your Poetry/Words!

If you’re based in Gloucestershire, Luke Jerram is seeking your original words and poetry for a new art project.

The text and poetry for Of Earth and Sky will come from the community through this call out and a series of online workshops delivered by Luke Jerram and Gloucestershire based poet JPDL.

Gloucester: 2020

Launching in August this year, Of Earth and Sky is a new artwork by Luke Jerram commissioned by the Gloucester Culture Trust in partnership with the City Council and the Cathedral.

Created from poetry and text submitted by the public, the artwork will be embedded within communities and presented in over 25 locations across Gloucester for people discover and enjoy.

Call Out for Your Poetry!
If you’re based in Gloucestershire, we are seeking your original words and poetry for this new art project. Read and complete the submissions form here!

As we begin to cautiously emerge from the lockdown, there is a sense that we better appreciate the value of local parks and green space for our wellbeing, mental and physical health. This installation will celebrate the city’s outdoor spaces and encourage people to look differently at Gloucester – to see the beauty in its heritage and in its green spaces. Find out more

With bookings planned to plot our way through to the summer

all is suddenly different

there are words to be made sense of

but mostly times that are to be engraved…

keep in touch

we hope to join you online

meanwhile stay safe

“Oh Crumbs”

Ethel Mannin*

‘OH CRUMBS’ no27b

 LIVE online Thurs 16^th April 3pm

will include readings from

Ziggy’s Task

“ before you go to bed spend 20 minutes staring- look out the window and write what you see”

or a Haiku – which can be 5/7/5 syllables or not!!

something short and forward looking…

readers will have up to 5 minutes to share these but you can send them to thecolefordhub@coalway.f9.co.uk where selections will go live.

Those taking part will include ‘Oh Crumbs’ regulars and guests- please register your interest at above address

*Ethel Mannin is a novelist from 1940s/ read ‘Captain Moonlight’ about rural rights

“Oh Crumbs” is a regular spoken word/performance event in better times we meet at Bream Coffee shop for now.

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                                                                      its all 2020 now

                                                             alarmed but unharmed

                                                                safety thirst arrives first

                                                               so slow when we meet

Last Thursday

Postponed

 

Until further notice

 

it seems sensible that we all  take care and stay safe at this point

so we have decided  to postpone Last Thursday events until further notice

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A familiar image for Oh Crumbs regulars- Rhys Trimble in full flow

a memorable night/ one of our special guest events

 

Ziggy’s Challenge by Charlie Markwick

 

My childhood garden, the soil in which I grew.

So much richness in my life.

And as I flail around,

The weft of grief crossing my life’s thread.

I’m thankful for the warmth of garden past.

 

My mother’s form is kneeling,

Squeezing secateurs to snip.

Her gift, rosebuds in the stonewalled living room.

 

I see my father clench his shiny spade.

His pride, the tool he hefts to sculpt the kitchen patch.

His gift, fruit and veg for each and every day.

 

But most of all the thrill of winter’s night

The snow imbuing dark with eerie light.

The waking and clouds of morning breath.

The strange and alien crystal pattern on the glass

Not outside this but in the room itself.

The crunch of scraping ice to view the garden snow

Beckoning my play.

Then frost cold hands that hurt as warmth returns

With stinging slaps to make my blood run bold and warm.

 

So much to nurture me in times of need

Each memory a lovely precious seed.

 

Walton House 24/04/19

 

OH CRUMBS LIVE ONLINE

THursday 16th  From 3pm sign up to Zoom

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Oh Crumbs thurs 16th April  from 3pm

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Time passes-

OH Crmbs back on line

 

Ay Corumba special no 2

Words will flow Thursday  16th  April from 3pm

Forest Bard Maggie Clutterbuck, Hybrid shepherd / Story Teller Darren Hoskins,

Leonard Custard, Pam Singer , Charlie Markwick , Ziggy Slug  plus open mic

Contact  for online details we will be using Zoom so best to download the free programme now

if you want to read /perform something think about finding a place that is not too much of an acho chamber

or of course if you just want to listen to the buzz of words/ ideas/ performance saet yourself close by…

Get in touch with Oh Crumbs  by  e mail to  OHCrumbs@coalway.f9.co.uk  and we will send you an invitation

you can also listen and read just using a phone….

Third edition of Oh Crumbs LIVE this Thursday from 3pm

lively session last week Haikus and low queues

home work to share

‘Write about the most extra-ordinary thing that you’ve experienced in last 3 weeks’

join us on Zoom to read/comment or just listen/ 

the circulation of alphabets to date has been pretty efficient- so do claim your share

The sessions have included a range of writing and audiences and we are inviting more outsiders to have a taste of ‘Oh Crumbs’ having cake close by  does add to the occasion

Its using Zoom which is very easy to sign up and remains free- Charlie runs the tech for us

so get in touch for the Pass word and sign in from 2-45 next thursday 23rd April

next week Gloucester Poetry Festival is running a series of word events info on ‘Yarn Whispering’

Oh Crumbs will return soon if you want to add friends to this list send e mail to OHC@coalway.f9.co.uk or contact www.thecolefordhub.info

Best to all