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Author Archives: A S H Smyth

Haikus are like

Friday, November 26, 2010

postcards – no matter how concise you may be, you tend to run out of

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Silence

Monday, November 22, 2010

My Yr9 class did not do their homework. Now they are being punished.

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If you build it they may come

Monday, November 22, 2010

An inter-cultural stroll around Colombo. — For theartsdesk

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Horses for courses

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

SOSL Première Concert Like a veteran sprinter in a distance race, the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka was quickly away, found stride of genuine grace and quality, travelled well, and then, all-too-predictably, weakened through the latter furlongs until eventually, but barely, making the finish. They came out of the gate with Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in […]

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On looking at the dodo with Dom

Monday, November 15, 2010

See that? he said. That’s your ex-bird, that is.

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The Lydia Davis School of Banter

Friday, November 12, 2010

– Call me, bitch. – Don’t call me bitch.

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Rain

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Rain is – as they say in the army – ‘just wet. It ‘ll dry, you bastards!’

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Remembering

Friday, November 5, 2010

apropos of nothing, the short-haired girl who kissed me one summer music camp and called and called from her boarding-school pay-phone and wanted to ‘go out’. I let her down as gently as an adolescent can – aware, even then, that saying no is not OK – and only found, months later, in the rosin […]

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New Love Poetry #?

Friday, November 5, 2010

I loved a girl with all my heart – and then she was gone and I did not care. Which makes you wonder about the heart. (My heart.)

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Love giveth

Friday, November 5, 2010

Love giveth and love taketh away again. Blesséd be the hooker at the top of my lane.

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