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West Euston Time Bank Purple
Poets
Member 2005
Carol Moon
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Carol Moon
Poetry-in-Progress
HOW DID YOU DO IT, MR. WILBERFORCE?
Camden Heroes
Postcard Poems
read with the Purple Poets and the TADs
at the Camden Town Hall
National Poetry Day
October 8 2009
THE THIRD AGE PROJECT
(written to celebrate the tenth anniversary of West Euston T.A.P. 2007)
Purple Poet invited Guests: Rose Hacker
and former Mayor of Camden and Jill Fraser.
RACISM
(written to celebrate the Bi-Centennial Anniversary
of the British Abolition of Slavery, March 25th 2007)
FOR WOMEN
BLACK HISTORY
HOW DID YOU DO IT, MR. WILBERFORCE?
HOW DID HE KNOW ME?
WRITER'S BLOCK
GARDENS
MY MOTHER SAID
TO BE ON TIME
(All poems © Carol Moon. All rights reserved).
Latest Poem:
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Carol Moon
The Third Age Project
10.05.2007
a voyage of discovery in later age:
a group - different shapes and colours,
different sizes
comfort, friendship and
a place to be.
what you seek inside yourself
surprises.
what you find inside yourself
gives you peace.
Carol Moon wrote this
poem for the 10th Anniversary
Celebration of the West Euston Third Age Project (T.A.P) at The Crypt
Centre, Munster Square, West Euston, London on June 9th 2007. First
published in the T.A.P. Newsletter, June 2007. |
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First Draft: ARTISTS AGAINST
RACISM
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RACISM
22.03.2007
Japanese?
What did they do to their prisoners of war?
Black
Kill the bastards!
A Paki?
Eat with us? You must be joking.
An Indian?
Untouchables?
A Russian?
And how is the gulag these days?
A German?
The Hun. Think Auschwitz. Think Ravensbruck.
English?
Perfect.
Carol Moon wrote this poem in a Purple Poet workshop to
commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery March 25th
2007. |
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For
WOMEN
by Carol Moon
written 17.02.2006
The Suffragettes
The South American women saving a forest
Sacharov's wife sharing lonely exile
Sharansky's girl waiting, waiting
Mothers loving without condition.
But, isn't all this about love?
Carol Moon first performed this poem with the Purple Poets
at the International Women's Day Celebration,
Dick Collins Hall, West Euston, 11.08.2006. |
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MY MOTHER
SAID
by Carol Moon
13 January 2006
My Mother said
Don't be afraid of this day
13 is a number only
And you Little One
Are a fact of living
My Mother said
Don't be afraid of this day
T'is another step for you
To explore all kinds of things
Don't be afraid of this day
My child
Walk towards it, straight towards it
Then, then the trembles will disappear
My Mother said.
Carol Moon wrote this poem in a Purple Poet workshop exploring
superstitions surrounding Friday the Thirteenth. |
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GARDENS
by Carol Moon
4 November 2005
she hasn't left any food out again not
on the blue and white place
drat that cat he's dirty again and looks so he's probably ripped one
of me apart like he did last week but there she is good it's bread
and nuts she looks cold and old and lonely though queer because
the house is big but it's not as comfortable as my house so maybe
I should do a warble through the window pane for her
Carol Moon wrote this poem in a Purple Poet workshop exploring
the form of prose-poetry (The Blurb). The poem is meant to be said quickly,
without taking a breath. Carol first performed this poem with the Purple
Poets at the 2006 Cumberland Market Festival and also read it for 2006 National
Poetry Day London Time Bank Guest Poet Richard Price,
whose own bird poems isequence inspired this poem. |
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Carol Moon
TO BE ON
TIME
(a found poem)
by Carol Moon
Autumn 2005
Important appointment
The pain screams through my gum
The bus doesn't stop
Quite blatently not picking up passengers
The following one drives off as well
Through a veil of pain I hear on the next one
If you don't like waiting for the bus
Take a taxi
Carol Moon wrote this poem in a Purple Poet workshop exploring
the technique of 'found poetry' (in this case, specifically poetry found
in other people's oral histories). The speaker was fellow Time Bank Member
Cass, who very kindly told the Purple Poets his story. |
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