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Banjo Nick
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River devotee, marathon single sculler, travelling troubadour, playwright-director (George Devine Award 1988: Nick Ward Plays 1 published by Faber and Faber, 1995). Banjo Nick Rambles on Facebook.
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · Nov 12
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 2d
Mandolin pioneer #ChrisThile exhuberantly enthusing on (and demonstrating) his very early campfire #bluegrass roots and later influences from #Beatles to #Bach 'Wishful hearing' is a wonderful expression of the will to practice until wishful thinking and reality converge.

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The INSANE Musical Mind of Chris Thile
YouTube video by Rick Beato
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 3d
Following earthworks
Wallingford Castle remains
Old Moat with Rabbits

Blackening seed pods
One fly on many berries
Time not standing still

Scarlet and orange
Beyond the Outer Bailey
Yesterday's berries

#haiku
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 4d
Diwali refresh
Try something new: joyfullness!
Pre dawn Morning Star

#haiku

Hey Elle I tried to post this in the pre dawn but the little wheel of frustration was spinning... felt your presence in liminal... inspired by your recent postings. Thank you.
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 4d
Happy with my solar charged transistor radio and occasional youtube sessions on mobile. Anyway, with new battery, and engine in fine form, it's good to know I can stow the gangplanks and cast off if the mood takes me. 2
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 4d
Very thankful to Yorkshire Mark for checking Snowy's electrics (new battery) and engine and giving her the ok. I foolishly ran the battery flat back in June from watching TV. I haven't watched TV for years, I was only watching it because it's there. Now covered with decorated remains of uke case. 1
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 5d
'Oary-footed' Swans
Rain last night, rain this morning
Indefinatness

Need to go deeper
'Only connect' constantly
How much more hardcore?

#haiku #yoga #thames
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 6d
Fun day yesterday as guest aboard marine engineer mate Yorkshire Mark's Pampata. Down to Cleeve Lock to top up on water supply. Also stopped at Sheridan Marina to buy new pins for Tender.
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 6d
This morning:

Not far to travel
Daisy and Dandelions
Red Kite is circling

#haiku #thames
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 6d
Yesterday:

Dawn broke smudgily
Thames river of fallen leaves
Crab Apples, Pine Cones

#haiku #thames
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 6d
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 7d
Abandonment dream
Festival of betrayal
Price of attachment

Night Owl - creaking boughs
See beyond the speed of light
Instantaneous

Process is the goal
Goddess tend these mortal thoughts
Goal is the process

We forget to love
Snap off battery lantern
Flickering dream time

#haiku sequence
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 7d
Well done. Not many #haiku posters understand the power of break lines as you do. Lovely work and refreshingly strict 5-7-5 syllable structure too.
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 7d
Dip into Gita
Crowley The Beast died perplexed
Yogi navartate

Willow bark faces
Gravity defying Wren
Autumnal shadings

#haiku #thames
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 7d
Dip into Gita
Crowley The Beast died perplexed
Yogi navartate

Willow bark faces
Gravity defying Wren
Autumnal shadings

#haiku #thames
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 8d
I would be in danger of losing hard-earned Siddhis dear Elle if I were to expound on the delightfully energetic 'wow' charge I experienced on reading your magical moment haiku and seeing the rainbow on the page as the clouds parted journeying from Cambridge to Bedford yesterday. Stopped you reading?
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 8d
I blame the Plymouth Brethren for this cruel and empty aristocrat. Anti-Christian philosophy is minor compared to Nietsche. Beyond Good and Evil? A dangerous charleton whose writing is stodgy and incoherent.
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 8d
BOOO! Down with the Pantomime Beast!

Crowley is the occult equivalent of Trump. A malignant narcissist who only attracts the attention he does because Western spirituality is so fucked up by materialism and craven desire for self gratification and idiotic need for 'leaders'.

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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 8d
When the clouds have parted
Midlife to old age
When sunlight spreads the meadow grass
Soft whiskers of a sage
Half-remembered songs of love will drift from us so blue
A love despite our pledging which was not one but two
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 8d
I love your witchy Wrinkles
I love your crows feet eyes
I love your perfect aging
Does it take you by surprise?
Does it mollify your anger?
Does it satisfy your lust?
Does it turn your pain-wracked body to fossil bones and dust

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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 8d
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Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks
YouTube video by Machinegunhalligan
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 9d
Let's hope so!
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 9d
Time for a bit of this, Rupert!

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Bob Dylan Unplugged - FULL REHEARSAL
YouTube video by Axilla
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 9d
Yes, you're right. I'm so against what's it doing to our judgements of authenticity. Thank you, Rupert, I'll be paying more attention in future. Its disturbing. One of the reasons I usually go for live youtube performances. No excuses! But in was waiting for medical appointment.
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 9d
Swamp Brothers session in progress with Scottish Alex with thanks to Moa for hosting.

One for Halloween:

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Witchy Wrinkles (Banjo Nick): The Swamp Brothers (Banjo Nick & Gene Thunderbolt) with Alex.
YouTube video by BanjoNick
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Banjo Nick @banjonick8.bsky.social · 11d
Mmmmm... I much prefer 'losers' to 'leaders' unless it's the quiet kind of leader who seeks no followers and is beyond the power games of addictive desire, romantic love and love of money. Lonesome and untouchable...and emanating peace and kindness. Easily mistaken as losers!
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