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Anglo-Boer(-ing) War Conference

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} To kick start each morning of the South African Military Societies International Anglo Boer War History conference,…

neilcoppenFebruary 8, 2010

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Lung full of Fir Trees and Bellyfull of Butterflies

I recently read a newspaper article about a man named Artyom Sidorkin who two Sundays ago woke with terrible pain in his chest-- a scratching,…

neilcoppenMay 1, 2009

musings poetry

That it should come

Four years you sat in mom's closet. Behind the birthday soaps, hand creams and Christmas-card packs.In a closet In a packet In a box with…

neilcoppenNovember 18, 2008

musings poetry

THE MOUTH OF HELL FELL OPEN

Jesus jumped off my bathroom wall this morning. Cracked his sacred heart. Last night there was a police helly hovering over my head woke to…

neilcoppenOctober 28, 2008

musings

Biggles

He arrived when I was thirteen. I have a pen portrait of him in a journal marked November 1995. We picked him from a litter,…

neilcoppenJuly 22, 2008

commentry musings

Blame the burning man on the Moon

We could of course blame it all on the moon-- this insanity. Last nights orb more ominous, potent, pregnant then ever. Such a force has…

neilcoppenMay 20, 2008

musings South American travel travel

In Search Of San Pedros Keys (The Wiz of Hauncabamba ) Part 2

The maestro ushers me into the basement of his homestead. A cramped room with cattle hides carpeting the floor and a raised altar (messa) at…

neilcoppenJanuary 11, 2008

musings South American travel

Letter from a Shipwrecked Sailor- Final thoughts for 2007

Fine place to be at the closing of the year- Haunchaco in Northern Peru. Spanish ballads aching from a beach bar stereo, beer bottle perspiring…

neilcoppenJanuary 6, 2008

musings South American travel

Revolt of Eggs and Cymbals

You might dread the endless scroll the meets your eyes when you open these entries. Why you might say, Get outside see the continent and…

neilcoppenDecember 28, 2007

musings South American travel

God bless the Homos (and tales of Bus Trip Festivities/Traversties)

Buses I have seen many the last few days, climbing from Cusco ( Memories of Mrs Piccua -unreal- swathed in her ancient mists) toward Lima.…

neilcoppenDecember 26, 2007