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Last Updated: 11/01/2008 18:02:15
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Darren Sant
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Darren Sant has been writing for thisisUll.com
for some time and has proved himself to be one of our most talented writers.
Darren's contributions are listed below..
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Poetry - An Indian's Lament By Darren Sant
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Betrayed by the white man,
Robbed of our homeland,
The Great Spirit will avenge us,
We were free as an eagle,
Now we are bound to the earth,
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Poetry - A Slave to the Poison By Darren Sant
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Rotten, stinking but irresistible,
Hemlock disguised as nectar,
Venus flytrap for the soul,
Let the good times roll,
Forsaking all others as you go.
Slave to the poison
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Poetry - Insanity By Darren Sant
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You could be like Syd a musical genius,
A flawed but crazy diamond,
Why live in conventions cage?
Why must we act out age?
Slide into hysterias velvet embrace,
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Poetry - War By Darren Sant
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Faces contorted in fear & pain,
Please don't let it happen again,
Stolen from an afternoon of fun,
Placed in a field with a smoking gun,
What is the price of victory?
Who will consign you to history?
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Poetry - Where Did I Go? By Darren Sant
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Shrinking from the light,
Away fleeing into the night,
Scared to get that toe wet,
Too much fear, no emergence yet.
Withdrawn from the race,
Pride only to save face,
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Poetry - Marriage and Boredom By Darren Sant
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You can't be happy forever,
Are you barking mad?
Have you lost your senses?
Is what I hear.
May be a pagan ritual,
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Poetry - Friendship By Darren Sant
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If love is satins sheets,
Then friendship is an easy smile,
If hate is a loaded gun,
Then friendship is a white dove,
If oppression is a wall,
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Poetry - Dreams By Darren Sant
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A wavery image flutters before a bleary eye,
You reach for it,
In vain you try to make sense of the image,
Freud & Jung laugh at your attempts,
Does it bode well for the future?
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Poetry - The Lost Generation By Darren Sant
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A boy steals a car for a thrill
An hour later he pops a pill
The Internet generation is cyber fucked
Life ended with a shotgun loaded and locked
McDonalds casually slung from cars
Beagle goes missing on Mars
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Articles - Writing Life By Darren Sant
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It's strange and sometimes lonely being a writer. Friends look at you with bewilderment.
Your partner smiles at you encouragingly but doesn't quite understand how the
one she loves can at times appear to be a complete lunatic.
This is how it is when you are a writer.
Inspiration is like an exotic disease it can strike you down without warning
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Articles - A Perspective on Hull By Darren Sant
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I suppose you could call this article a follow to my article entitled Stranger in a Strange Land also on this website.
I wanted to explore my perception of Hull in a stream of consciousness kind of style.
One phrase that springs to mind when thinking of Hull is self-deprecating.
Something I have, rightly, being accused of being myself. Perhaps that is why I have grown to like Hull so much.
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Humour - Merchant Bankers By Darren Sant
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Where do I start? I was enjoying a lovely Saturday afternoon snooze, as you do, and the phone started ringing. Having worked in an office for years it is second nature for me to answer a ringing phone. I roused myself from sleep and tiredly picked up the phone.
I was greeted by a chirpy chinless wonder who
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Humour - Ghostly Moans By Darren Sant
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It isn't easy being a ghost. We are the only supernatural entity without a union.
Anaemic vampires are well looked after in their retirement. Werewolves with mange get reduced vets bills. I mean for god's sake even Banshee's with laryngitis get given free strepsils.
What do we have? Bloody ectoplasm. Have you any idea how hard it is to shift ectoplasm from
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Humour - The Sims By Darren Sant
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For anyone over 40 or those living on Venus there is a computer game phenomenon known as the Sims. In these games, which attempt to simulate real life, you have almost god like control over every aspect of the characters lives. You can design
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Humour - Horoscopes - We look into your stars..and give you the bad news By Darren Sant
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Aquarius 21 Jan - 19 Feb: This month mercury is entering Uranus. Seek immediate medical attention.
Pisces 20 Feb - 20 Mar: Now might be a good time to write your last will and testament.
Aries 21 Mar - 20 Apr: Mars is dominant in your sign this month. If you happen to spot Beagle please let NASA know.
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Humour - Unofficial Quotes - What they might have said..
By Darren Sant
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Well I did shout Duck! - J.F.K's Presidential Bodyguard.
I thought it was mayonnaise - Monica Lewinski's Housekeeper.
It's a hotbed of lies, intrigue and goat sex -
Steve Interesting Davies on his upcoming biography.
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Opinions - Blame By Darren Sant
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I didn't say you were to blame, I said I'm blaming you.
I am getting heartily sick of the blame culture we live in these days. Something goes wrong in the hospital, we sue. The dentist pulls out the wrong tooth, we sue.
Admittedly we are not as bad as Americans yet, thank god, but
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Opinions - Life in a Modern World By Darren Sant
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Some of my thoughts on bizarre aspects of our modern world..
Unreality TV
Is it me or is the world getting weirder? This is a world where people watch TV programmes like Big Brother.
People sit around on a settee watching the telly watching people sitting on a settee. I'm beginning to get a headache.
Now if they all had little cages on their heads
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Fiction - The Wall by Darren Sant
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Sometimes your best is just not enough.
Panic stricken and panting I arrive.
There it is, a fucking huge wall. An obstacle blocking my progress.
A visible representation of all that I can't achieve.
Nervously I look behind me. I lash out at it, kicking and punching but to no avail.
It is rock solid. I jump but find it too high. I take a running jump
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Reviews, Books - "A Child Called 'It'" by Dave Pelzer
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By Darren Sant
What can I say about this book? Anyone that knows me well would perhaps describe me as a "sentimental bugger". I am therefore surprised that I did not cry buckets of tears after every page of this book. A Child Called 'It' is the first in a trilogy of books. The books are the memoirs of Dave Pelzer. This first book covers Dave's life from ages 4 to 12.
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Reviews, Books - A Friend of the Family by Lisa Jewell
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By Darren Sant
This book is a tale of the trials and tribulations of three brothers. The brothers are suffering from differing problems and there lives are not at present on the right track. Jewell's novels are accurately described as pop fiction but don't let that put you off. The characters are believably written and there is a high degree of what I can only call emotional depth to them.
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Reviews, Books - "The Lost Boy" by Dave Pelzer
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By Darren Sant
The memoirs of Dave Pelzer, see my review of the first book on this website. here
The first book leaves you with a naïve feeling of satisfaction as Dave finally escapes his cruel mother.
However, things are not as cut and dried, as we would like them to be.
This second book deals with Dave's life from ages 12 to 18.
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Reviews, Books - "A Man Named Dave" by Dave Pelzer
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By Darren Sant
A Man Named Dave is the third and final book in the memoirs of Dave Pelzer.
See this website for reviews of the first two books:
A Child Called "It".
and
The Lost Boy.
The first two books cover the authors early years and detail the abuse he suffered at the hands of his Mother.
The third book details Dave's life from late teens to the present day.
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Reviews, Books - Top Ten Books By Darren Sant
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Not exactly an original idea but I thought I might share my top ten favourite books with you. They are listed in no particular order of preference. Maybe you have a top ten to share with This is 'Ull?
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkien
Superlatives don't do this justice so I won't even try heaping praise on this one. Suffice to say that this classic grips your imagination
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Poetry - Void By Darren Sant
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"Where am I?"
Blackness. The absence of sound and light.
A non-entity floating in an inky void.
"Is anybody out there?"
Silence. Complete and utter nothingness.
Emptiness vast and lonely.
"Please answer me."
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By Darren Sant
Excited young faces,
Stick thin legs and untied laces,
Breathlessly chasing the ball,
Youngsters large and small.
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Poetry - The Big Issue
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By Darren Sant
He stands in the pouring rain,
Ignored again and again,
Biting wind chills his bones,
People rush to their warm homes.
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Poetry - Electronic Liars.com
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By Darren Sant
You electronic cheating liars,
Words are your funeral pyres,
Words so silky smooth,
What is it you are trying to prove?
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Poetry - Mirror
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By Darren Sant
I tell only the truth hturt eht ylno llet I
A tale of lost youth htuoy tsol fo elat A
Endless tale of sadness ssnedas fo elat sseldnE
Endless tale of woe eow fo elat sseldnE
Where does our beauty go? ?og ytuaeb ruo seod erehW
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Poetry The Watcher Above
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By Darren Sant
The Sharpest Eye
A piercing Cry
Oily Black Feathers
Watcher in all weather
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