Another Psychosis written and performed by Carol Robson
Soundtrack ‘Paranoia’ Fesliyan Studios
Photo courtesy of Trust a Fox photography
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Category: Poet
Born This Way
Born This Way performed at Harms of Hate event Magna Science Park
Copyright: Carol Robson 2018.
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Paranoid Party Poet intro and Hometown
This is one of my usual starts to a performance as the Paranoid Party Poet. Hometown was written 3 years ago after a visit on a May Saturday night.
©Carol Robson
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Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: Carol Robson
Appreciative Words
Appreciative words from one of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival organisers
Truth.
Oct 2015 ‘A Reflection’
Van Gogh Museum performance of the intergenerational words piece The Open Sky with Robyn Haddon and Rory Pilgrim October 2015.
“A Reflection.
The Open Sky is about words and what they mean for different people.
It’s about intergenerational words,
I bring words with me from childhood.
Family words that have stayed with me.
Sometimes these words have got blurred through the years.
There are words I want to term as family words.
There are also words I want to term as friendship words.
Sometimes the words in friendship can mean more to some people than family words because for some, their friends are also their family who they share their lives with.
There’s a four letter word, which is really important – just a four letter word – LOVE.
Carol Robson.
Just Be You by Carol Robson.
Just Be You
You’ve endured a life of!
Told it will be this way
told it will be that way
told, told, told told,
from the earliest time.
Roles decided.
Learn this, learn that
the right way
it has to be
their way.
Be different,
free thinking,
challenge them,
use constructive argument
be prepared
to be labelled,
different,
a rebel.
We are not
all the same
challenge them
your life,
your choice,
your human rights,
being broken
challenge them
your life,
your choice
stop them,
shaping you
just be you.
Told you cannot,
ask why not
challenge
be different
make mistakes
they’re your mistakes
learn from them
stand out
make a difference
your choice
your life
shape yourself
true to yourself
just be you
not what others,
want you to be.
You don’t need,
role models.
©Carol Robson
DANCE OF GOOD AND EVIL
DANCE OF GOOD AND EVIL
Uncommon sense breaks the frailness;
a mind disorganised, yet still not broken.
Good, light thoughts; evil, dark thoughts,
like bed-fellows – side by side.
A constant battle of wills:
good and evil challenging
like a passionate circling dance –
Tarantellas courting each other.
Your behaviours challenged by desires;
your free will attracts the evil,
your morality fights to transcend this,
your virtues fight for spiritual purity.
In time you fight your final battle,
the final dance of light and dark,
the brightness of your soul
rejecting the deep darkness of your mind.
You’re now here in a good place –
at least, until you’re asked for another dance.
Carol Robson
Insomniac Mind by Carol Robson
Insomniac Mind
Pens leak the words
scrawls or rants
line after line
of new thoughts
or juxtaposed words
in scrappy books
or post-it notes
decorating a duvet
like a poetic quilt
to be sorted later
by a clearer mind.
Hours or days
poetic verbiage juggling
parking of words
in the right place
to be read
to be spoken
down through time
by you, by others
who empathise
where the words arose
from the restless sea
of the poets
Insomniac Mind.
© Carol Robson
