National Poetry Day

I am still amazed at how often the 'same' blips appear by different blippers, or the same subject matter. Pets, plants, children, books, etc. etc. The themes are so often very similar. Maybe the it is the very nature of blippers that means we are all quite like minded, which has brought us here and has got us all addicted, and thus the same subject matter tends to appeal.

Today has been no different. The blip stream has been full of apples, pictures of Apple products, tributes to and tales of how Mr Steve Jobs has impacted on so many people's daily lives.
I'm no different. I bought my first iPod, an iPod Mini, pretty much eight years ago, in my early days of my first term at university. I have since had an iPod nano, and three iPod touches. Since the iPod touch arrived in my life, there has probably not been a day since I haven't used it. It contains my diary, my music collection, many games (which I rarely use). I use it to check Twitter and Facebook first thing in the morning, last thing at night and several times throughout the day when I am not near my computer. I use it to check the weather. It's wi-fi connectivity in combination with the BBC iPlayer has allowed me to discover The Chris Moyles Radio One Breakfast Show - something I would never listen to live as I wake up too late, but love and now never miss. And I fall asleep to it playing me audio books through my speaker pillow. If it leaves my pocket it is a rarity (or I'm in the shower). It has taken on the mobile phone property of making me feel naked without it.

Thank you Mr Jobs. Sleep well.

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In other news, (also widely blipped) it's National Poetry Day. I love poetry. Downloaded some AA Milne onto my Kindle yesterday and relived some amazing childhood memories. As a family we've recited many of his poems for years. They are impossible to read in your head.
Today's blip therefore is my collection of poetry books:

Two of them book-end my education:
Simon Armitage's The Dead Sea Poems - studied at A Level and Roger McGough - a poet I remember watching on videos at primary school.

Pam Ayres was someone I think I became aware of as a teenager, almost certainly watching her on Loose Women.

The Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems - I do like a poem with a comic edge.

and "All Aboard for West Yorkshire" - a collection of poems written by primary school age children. I am one of these children. I was a published poet, aged 9.

Food
Some nice, some not,
Fruit 'n' vegetables in a pot!
We eat it every day.

There's a lot of food,
Pumpkinds, apples, potatoes too!
Feed me, feed me, please please do.

Would like to write more poetry, I've written a few since, but the periods of inspiration are quite brief ones. I can't do it all the time.