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Carl Halling. Christian actor, singer, songwriter, writer, other. I was born on the Goldhawk Road, W6, in the Chiswick/Shepherds Bush/Hammersmith district of west London, UK. CD (Tasman Records) A Taste of Summer Wine - James Hughes, Carl Halling and the London

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Passion: 272 of 427
She Dear One who Followed MeIntroductionSporadically throughout the 1980s, I catalogued my existence via notebooks, cassette tapes, odd scraps of paper, and so on. Transforming some of these rough diary entries into literary works as I did recently produced "La Tres Chere Qui M'a Suivit" ("She Dear One Who Followed Me") which... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Nostalgia: 29 of 41
Such a Short Space of TimeI love...not just those...I knew back then,But those...Who were youngBack then,But who've sinceCome to grief, who...Having soared so high,Found theConsequent descentToo dreadful to bear,With my past itself,Which was onlyyesterday,No...even less time...A moment ago,And when I playRecords from 1975,Sou... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Escape: 90 of 126
In such a stateAs thisI could fallIn loveWith anyone.The nightBefore lastI wentTo the ballCouplesFiling outI wanted to beOne halfOf ev'ry oneBut I didn't wantTo lose "her".I've done little todayExcept mopeDolefully aroundI'll get overHowI feel now,And very soon.GraduallyI'll freeze again,Even assumingAn extra layerOf snow.I h... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Travel: 10 of 14
Narcissus in ParisI was scarcely unspotted by the time I first set foot in Bretigny, a suburb in the department of Essonne in the Ile de France. That said, I can distinctly recall feeling at some point not too long after my arrival that I wasn't quite as angelic as I may have once imagined myself to be. Precisely why I cannot... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Yearning: 38 of 52
the catholic nurseall sensitivecaring noticingeverythingwhat can she thinkof my hot/cold tormentalways near blowing itliving in the fast laneso friendly kindthe girlsdewy eyedwanda abandoned mebolton is in my handsand yet my coldnesshurtsthe more emotionalthey staytrying to find a reasonfor my ice-like suspicionfish eyescoldl... More..
Creative Writing > Songs Songs: Christian: 104 of 140
Glorify the KingGive me words that will glorify your name,Give me strength that will overcome my shame.Give me power and give me wings,To do your will wherever you decree,Everything to glorify the King.Give me thoughts that are purer than the snow,Give me a love that will last forever more.Give me the joy only you can bring,A... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Childhood: 55 of 72
...I was born Friday 7 October 1955 close to the undistinguished source of west London's Goldhawk Road and my first home was in Bulmer Place near Notting Hill Gate. My brother was born two and a half years later, by which time my parents had bought their own house in Bedford Park in what was then the London Borough of Acton, ... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Memories: 80 of 102
Memoirs: London 197777 was a darker year than its immediate predecessors as I see it, it having been marked by the ascendancy of Punk, a musical and cultural movement which perhaps somewhat hampered Rock's uneven progress as an art form by dint of its DIY ethic, disseminating a mood of raw rebellious fury combined with an ext... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Confusion: 103 of 131
The following piece began its life as, and consists in its present form as amalgam of, two almost identical unfinished and somewhat jejune pieces of poetry composed possibly around 1980, and while I have altered the original structure somewhat as a means of ameliorating it on an aesthetic level, in its finished state it remai... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Soldiers & Veterans Reflections: My first Navy duty assignment: 8 of 10
Toilers of the Thames1973 was the year of my first voyage as an Ordinary Seaman with the British Royal Naval Reserve onboard the minesweeper HMS Thames. Late in the summer it set out for Bordeaux in Gironde in the south west of France. I was just seventeen years old.During the trip I made my best-ever RNR friend in the shape ... More..