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The Idiots’ Guide to Being a Successful Musician

28/05/2023 / N. P. Ryan

The_Rolling_Stones_Summerfest_in_Milwaukee_-_2015And what’s more it comes in poetic form!

Header image (cropped from original) showing the Rolling Stones on stage by Jim Pietryga, 2015, licensing. Continue reading →

Handsome Devil

21/05/202321/05/2023 / N. P. Ryan

handdevA.k.a. the vain atheist’s prayer.

With thanks to Максим Власенко for use of the header image (alt text; a man visible from the waist up, naked, painted red and wearing horns, he looks to the camera unamused). Continue reading →

Hey, Teacher!

14/05/2023 / N. P. Ryan

pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3771074Contemplating the origin of teaching in abstract poetic form.

With thanks to  Andrea Piacquadio for use of the header image (alt text; a teacher with an open book, looks to the class while pointing at a chalk board). 

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About Your Lovely Teenaged Kids

01/05/2023 / N. P. Ryan

pexels-cottonbro-studio-10535375Influenced by numerous friends’ belief in angels, despite the no-longer-so-little cherubs also being their teenaged children.

With thanks to C Ottonbro Studio for use of the header image. Continue reading →

Disgusting

23/04/2023 / N. P. Ryan

pexels-pixabay-266755I wrote this while celebrating 420 Day; maybe I should’ve left it there? Continue reading →

Great Expectations; a modern take of little resemblance

02/04/202303/04/2023 / N. P. Ryan

pexels-asad-photo-maldives-169195The following is founded in truth. If it were not, there’d be no basis or reason for its potentially offensive nature. Many aspects, though, have been changed to protect the guilty. As for the guilty, well, it’s all a matter of perspective.

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Us We Humanity

11/03/2023 / N. P. Ryan
alt text: a picture of Earth taken from space, the lower part of the planet eclipsed in darkness.

alt text: a picture of Earth taken from space, the lower part of the planet eclipsed in darkness.

A verse about us.

With thanks to NASA for use of the header image. Continue reading →

Cata Doxa

08/03/2023 / N. P. Ryan

Written when the snow was but a forecast on the TV . . . Continue reading →

Gobbledegook

05/03/2023 / N. P. Ryan

pexels-amine-mayoufi-3069334An absurdity of words.
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Where in the World

22/02/202322/02/2023 / N. P. Ryan

nasa-xFO2Xt33xgI-unsplashIf one must insist on clichés, then at least have the common decency to be unique about it!  

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Drinking in a dingy bar by the sea, crumpled postcard from Her and World’s Biggest Ray Zero for company; then the son of a starts saying I’m cursed. Praise Be to lighting-up another smoke. Inhale, taste a foul brand: the Hex She put on me. Promised Heaven, delivered a dive nightclub Hell. Thank the Lord for liquor loving hot chicks. Though nothing compares to how it’ll feel catching up with Her.

Wanted a quick bit of business and gone. Bath had other ideas. First, battered and left for dead after a hundred heart-breaking truths. Then a Police Chief with a saggy old treasure chest of secrets to keep needs a scapegoat. Dumps me in the middle of corruption so deep it eases through bone to suck greedy at marrow. With every gun pointing my way, Hell, not even He’s gonna get me outta this one.

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Scarebears debut single ‘Scapegoat’ opens with stern spoken word that acts as launch pad for an audio OOF! factor ten take-off, each note from there unleashing like a tightly coiled spring so embroiled are they in the energy and conviction of the lyrical message; one that takes serious issue with the idea of the far […]

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BELZEBONG: The End Is High EP Incoming

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The 20th February, 2026, will see the release of BELZEBONG’s The End Is High EP; in the meantime track ‘420 Horseman’ is available for a listen and to download for pre-orders.

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