cannot get a diamond jubilee mug and smash the monarchy mug as a gift set

a week to go and my jubilee poem still on target   of course it starts off totally republican  and inspired by revolution and ends with  me as  loyal subject caught up in the crowd  or "restless beef" as i refer to them

"of kings and a line of kings

  God gave them their stone 

 castle  fast tombs where they rest grinning like lords

red white and blue  

white rose 

white cockade "

white rose and white cockade referring to the Yorkist and Stuart claimants

read Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron & the Adversary (Making of the Christian Imagination) by  Fred parker  this writes of the old chestnut  poet as the devils party  milton's friend etc  an introduction to blakes ironic fantasies  byron with tall dark handsome demons and mann trying his best to be goethe 


Survival  of the beautiful  science and evolution by david Rothernberg 
how beautiful is nature   from the bnower birsds obession with  blue , aptterns of wings nad feathers  to  cave  art and the template for drawing  the perfect mammoth

Out of OZ  by Gregory macguire  thisi s book 4 of the wicked series  and the first I read 

a modernisation of baum   with  ageing characters from the Oz books and the imperial politics on the capital hill in EC  and the politics of the free state of Munchkinland  . an multispecies nation caught up   in  sebastianism for a lost pretender and Dorothy brought to trial for double witch murder  noted by the presence of folded corners and bookmarks  that i had been the first reader to get past page 200 

the fairy bible   everything you want to know about fairy folk and fairy lore  from spirits of the elementals   to flower fairies  and a belief  in nature creatures  rather simple illustrations   but  full of content and  melody 

wrote poems about time slips  and  the modern theories of heaven and hell   this week  

regina queen

read mistresses by  elizabeth abbot  strangely trite history of the mistress from the often told royal mistress  to  the kept woman, jewish mistress of nazi , gangsters moll    and  the literacy mistress  in fact and fiction    rather uninspiring brief biographies of what were in the main selfish  woman  stuck with selfish men  hope there will be companion piece on fancy men and male lovers
the travellers day book   a tour of the world in 366 days  by fergus fleming    a long year of a read and  of mixed content    a year a page using sources from the medieval to the  TV programme  but in the main   boring  content from travel writers  and novelist  journeymen   barely hiding their disdain  of foreigners  none of the extracts long enough to tell a story  but short enough for judgements  and solitude
rather a long laborious read  and had forgottten most of the days by the end

the victors crown Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium  by  david potter
interesting  history of early sports  and with good  new theories on minoan bull leaping    and with  2012  already here  a better than usual  section on the olympics   including not only the victors but their trainers  fans and promoters  leading to the mixing of greek and roman culture and early history of the games  avoiding the arena cliches  and giving new though to the myth  that the christian church ended the roman games
modern architecture a guide  since 1900   well illustrated history of architecture divided into   schools and  movements from classical and post classical modernist and post modern  including  the architecture of metropolis and the dictator  and showing how the patron works with the architect  many new designs fro cathedrals,  museums  skyscrapers and new multicities


mixed inspiration  and many loose lines     i had noted that there is a daily mail competition for   diamond jubilee poems  judged by sir andrew motion, pam ayres and  sir roy strong
love to send my England I love this republic  to sir and to judge  cannot expect  to win   if pam ayres is judge    for those who do not know  pam ayres started as unconscious  entertainer  of very simple  harmless verses  same is however true of sir And
my new currently fragementary  royal poem uses  the words " long diagonal, rectangle,elizabethan virgin, victorian virgin , silent architecture  severe vertical "  to describe  HM  who has been  so long on the throne almost an institution  and just a definition for stability  the Regina Queen
with new presidents in France  and Russia starting new terms
the idea of england having an elected president seemed odd after all our parliamentary politicians  are not worth rising to president and that leaves only a figurehead from the performing arts to fulfil the role of four year term head of state

up the Republic

with the queens diamond jubilee everyone

getting excited God bless her everyone

Even through no monarch has had a legitimate claim to the english throne since the deposition and murder of king Richard II in 1399 /1400 and that this dynasty of colburg stems from its protestant foundation and even futher back to the battle won accession of Henry VII who claimed right to the throne through his mothers cat being a descendant of the pet cat of edward III's fourth son

often thought about the british republic would life be any different ?

here are the main ideas

the tricolour flag above

an elected President head of state from the field of performing arts

A senate made up of volunteers who serve for 4 years and who deal with social and environment issues and if any business leader is elected to the senate they must give up all their business dealings

the parliament is elected by PR and all MPs who serve a maximum of two four years terms monitored for signs of corruption

the national motto is The Nation is the People The Nation is the Law

this replaces the current motto "for God and my Right "

i have written my own jubilee poem to celebrate