Finding Me(Take Me As I Am)
‘The putty-like flexibility of spoken word allows
[Robson] to navigate this ever-changing universe with lyrical élan’
Edinburgh Fringe:
BroadwayBaby 4 Star Review
Category: live performance
Edinburgh Fringe Show
Edinburgh Fringe Poster/Flyer
Copyright: Carol Robson 2014
2014 A fabulous year for me.
2014 A fabulous year for me.
Copyright Carol Robson 2014
Who Am I? (Video)
From my set ‘Just Saying How It Is’ performed at Tea and Tarts WI Huddersfield Central on March 8th
Copyright Carol Robson 2014
Sod’Em (Sodom)
SOD’EM
(SODOM)
(this is a poem from my Gay Biblical Whispers Set: Sod’Em using Yorkshire dialect words, see picture for word meanings)
Eyup
Sitha a reet rum lot these
nowt like being a bit blathered
heads together
having a good chunter
perhaps without gumption
can’t keep dawks off each other
having a fratch
or a good feight
seen by religious leaders
who are really
a reet maungy mardy lot
to be getting narked
with a group baht common sense
who appear to be fugglin
who they treat as Straif
or just the Trammel of society
who they would never Tig
or never Lig with.
Perhaps there was,
really nowt indecent
perhaps they called,
each other Conny
affection shown,
just having a reet good time
they weren’t really bad un’s
just showing love
eeh by gum I love everyone.
Now then my flowers
I’m certainly not flummoxed
when I say they should have
huggered up and shouted
at the Mardy bums
SOD’EM ALL!
©Carol Robson 2013
Hypocrisy.
First poem from my Gay Biblical Whispers set performed at Hidden Perspectives festival June 1st (Bringing the Bible Out of the Closet) which looked at the Homosexual and Homophobic narratives in the Bible.
Hypocrisy.
Man should not lie with man
woman should not lie with woman
an abomination should end in death
they would take your very last breath.
Homosexuality seen as such a sin
putting to death, their patrilineal kin.
Hypocrisy abounds, thou shall not kill
a sin decreed by their Father’s will.
Gay and Trans people are condemned
procreation of life will be stemmed.
Yet the conception of the son of God
in all narratives just appears a little odd.
Mary’s immaculate conception without stain
a virgin birth, which told, we must not profane.
The vision of the Holy Spirit to take Mary was foretold
or is it simply, that the greatest fairy-tale ever was about to unfold.
©Carol Robson 2013
Finding Me. Ilkley Fringe Flyer
Finding Me at Ilkley Literature Festival Fringe Oct 16th
Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Theatre
This is a free event
