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Cor that really hits that 'feel-good' factor, Martin, and it's pitched quite well about the 20 line block - just a wee bit longer -(after all, we mustn't vex attention spans) in fact if you don't mind I might take this with me to recite in the Waiting Room next time I visit the GP - I'm sure it vibrate inspiring feelings among the fishtanks, miserable kidneys and clogged lungs. I find it conceptually exciting, maybe you were inspired by the poetry project being "funded entirely by Lee Donaldson Associates, economic and environmental consultants, in collaboration with the Poetry Society." I certainly found those words uplifting and look forward to being able to see work (of a suitable nature) by people like Heaney, Duffy, Armitage, Maxwell, O'Brien, Greenlaw etc among the puddles in many a November waiting room. Best Dave David Bircumshaw Leicester, England A Chide's Alphabet www.chidesplay.8m.com Painting Without Numbers www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin J. Walker" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 10:13 AM Subject: Re: Fw: [little-magazines-updates] Poems in the Waiting Room > Dear Madam(s) and and Michael Lee, > I have read your plea for poetic nourishment for the waiting rooms of the > National Health Servive, (which is doing an excellent job IMHO, btw) and > thought that I could do my bit for the national well-being, as I am a > trainee poet (mature student) hoping to be published one day (soon!) I hope > I fulfil all the desiderata mentioned in your info, and as you say that > "Email submission are especially welcome" I am taking this liberty to > "copy/paste"! > Yours truly > M.J.Walker > waitin' room high > I am somebody, bod- body > and that body is feelin' good > (like Bigears with his Noddy)~ > sittin' here 'n waitin' > like a babe in the wood > my mood is resonatin' > with the doctor 'n his nurse > 'cause they make me feel happy 'n good > (I've often felt much worse...) > I'm glowin' all over my skin, > I know I'm simply lightin' up the room > that I'm in: > It's not a serious condition > just a bit too much ignition > of the nerves ~ > so I make myself at home > and pick up a little po'm > 'cause it serves > to show there's somethin' ~ yeah everythin' > to live for, > even if there is a war > far away ~ > who's to say? > I say wow! > 'cause I know I'm really feelin' this way > right now, and how! >