# DAVE BY DAVE

> The work of David Saunders


## Posts

- [Woman Smoking](https://davebydave.co.uk/uncategorized/559/)
- [90s Self Portrait](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/548/)
- [90s Self Portrait (Morning)](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/533/)
- [2000 Pastel Woman Smoking](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/521/)
- ['79 Drawing (Gill)](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/gill-79/)
- [DSC03284](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc03284/)
- [DSC03287](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc03287/)
- [DSC03289](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc03289/)
- [DSC03292](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc03292/)
- [DSC03260](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc03260/)
- [DSC03262](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc03262/)
- [DSC01412](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc01412/)
- [DSC01411](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc01411/)
- [DSC01416](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc01416/)
- [DSC01415](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/dsc01415/)
- [1995 Gouache 2](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/1995-gouache-2/)
- [1995 Gouache 1](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/1995-gouache-1/)
- [Nude DSC03294](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/nude-dsc03294/)
- [Nude DSC03295](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/nude-dsc03295/)
- [The Magician](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/the-magician/)
- [M-W-DSC01418](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/m-w-dsc01418/)
- [Left on the sofa](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/left-on-the-sofa/)
- [Family](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/family/)
- [Bogarde-Co-DSC01419](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/bogarde-co-dsc01419/)
- [Acrylic-72](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/acrylic-72/)
- [You](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/you/)
- [a bit wet](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/a-bit-wet/): and by Sir Larry cooling it in my painted on-stage perilous raft i was there and i said a bit wet, all this, isn't it?
- [Greek Statues for Ever](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/greek-statues-for-ever/): or I have to be told that people die and do not stand greek statues for ever.
- [Monopoly](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/monopoly/): If she played Life like she plays Monopoly my wife would have the power to buy and sell me many times over.
- [Underlying Themes](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/underlying-themes/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent="100" overlay_alpha="50" gutter_size="3" medium_width="0" shift_x="0" shift_y="0" z_index="0" width="1/3"][vc_custom_heading text_size="h3"]Underlying Themes[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]A bit of sun is giving me some assistance vis-à-vis a line of darks I’ve just hung out.
- [The Artist as Threat to Society](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/the-artist-as-threat-to-society/): I feel as time goes by, my socks get smellier my vision tellier my boots wellier my flops bellier my catessens dellier my will-power jellier my romanticism Shellier my West Wind umbrellier my Sachas Distellier my Zeros Mostellier my Fawlties hotelier my Boleros Ravellier my toffees caramellier (my Mounts Carmellier) my lines parallelllier my follow-ups sequellier my Fitzgeralds(and Grecos) Ellier my Henries Purcellier (and Kellier) my Georges (and Pells) Mellier my Kims (and Hairies) Nellier my sixth sense foretellier my islands Seychellier my Cocos Chanellier my calandars (and tyres) Pirellier my Isambard Kingdoms Brunellier my Fermors Arabellier my keyboards Corellier my Merlins (and dictionaries) spellier my monopolies cartellier my german breakfasts pretzellier my Marx Engellier my own house dwellier my old Beatles Michellier my Andrews Marvellier my Jersey saints (and –fire Clubs) hellier my coming-on-with-heaviness sellier my excitements eventually quellier my last forests and fences somehow fellier.
- [More Moon-Power](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/more-moon-power/): Unseen on sodium-yellow streets, bright blue moonlight busks, performs feats dazzling anyone going down the lane, and anyone would feel intensely vain with that power to entertain all comers – troops, non-combatants, Genghis Khans – gift of a million Dylans, inspired by endless Laugharnes.
- [Most things toast](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/most-things-toast/): Don’t want to boast but I’m not quite as low as the most-things-toast brigade of cooks.
- [Check-out Girl](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/check-out-girl/): Is it of arab princes that she dreams while punching up the grocery bills, or Lawrentian lovers, miner’s sons, beating in time to he electronic drums?
- [A Couple of Fibbers](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/a-couple-of-fibbers/): Down from my Daily Mirror foot-hills to a plain of Guardian-reading mums, I drag my phantom dark satanic mills – penance for using the wrong medium.
- [The Singer](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/the-singer/)
- [Don't Drop Me](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/dont-drop-me/): Mystics, mistresses, madams and mattresses You are the monsters now, in the fields and towns, on the map.
- [Canvas](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/canvas/): The brush can only try to light a canvass with a candle flicker the hammer and the chisel are dumb dividers of a hot-faced whisper the wind of flame can never even gasp a dying semblance of an ember in the stolen wood of sapless lead.
- [Before Sundown](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/before-sundown/): Once there was a rainbow with many colours. I was young then and I looked at it for hours.
- [Devil's Disciples](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/devils-disciples/): The hair, the clothes the jumble sales the box, the used cars, the telephone the used houses, the yellow pages the young solicitors and agents.
- [Dream of Bean](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/dream-of-bean/): I’ve got a dream of bean I’ve got a dream of bean I’ve got a dream of bean I’ve got a dream of bean I’ve got a dream of bean It’s the best you ever seen.
- [William's Clocks](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/williams-clocks/): William's clocks go tic tic toc and sometimes toc toc tic. They bing and bong upon the hour… though often bong and bing.
- [Chanson Pour Norman](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/chanson-pour-norman/): In that odd moment stopping for black coffee halfway through Hemingway the first really educated man in the family is always attacked by unforgettable silences though he feels bound to call them noises.
- [Punch](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/punch/): Who hates authority and hits the policeman? Who hates women and hates Judy? Who has a long aggressive jaw? Who fights the green croc who isn’t there?
- [A Poor Man's Belly](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/a-poor-mans-belly/): Why When something beneath the eye has been born must we zoom down to zero in the analytic sights of some chunk of glass ?
- [After the Clowns](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/after-the-clowns/): We grope darkly You serene in a way but just as frightened as me aware that the moment must be held now or lost in a murmer of satisfied customers.
- [June 1965](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/june-1965/): And when you think you’re in a house of keys and the doors even themselves have secrets what do you do when the gaoler gets a plastic death in his cold bomb brain ?
- [The Tomb of Sigmund Freud](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/the-tomb-of-sigmund-freud/): Every year in a beautiful part of Beverly Hills many people of many different lands end up by admitting that the only place to go is the tomb of Sigmund Freud which luckily is also in a beautiful part of Beverly Hills.
- [Identity Parade](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/identity-parade/): When i am the i the alphabetless whisper of a seen thing that you would let me be because we are not simple lovers but unlettered phrases in an unfettered styleless hand i am your eye and you are my i and we are the seen things that God marches by that graves hide from that seas and harvests and alphabets and grains and placards gain form and meaning from and would die sightless out of our i.
- [The Confrontation](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/the-confrontation/): So we confront each other right here where the concrete is familiar having agreed that we no longer believe in the wind-blown green discovery.
- [Things that Fit](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/things-that-fit/): Nobody whispers because it’s Sunday even the sky seems a bit orderly not fit for blank verse in any case silence never did anyone any good.
- [A Kind of Language](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/a-kind-of-language/): I should understand something by now I’ve thought plenty I should but I don’t.
- [A Poem for Holden](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/a-poem-for-holden/): it makes me cry like a lost child and my tears once ran straight from a point of knowledge but now they die unjourneyed immediately choked by sand not that it was ever easy before but now even pain is killed in the death rush and the best we can do now is quickly commiserate shake hands without disturbing one grain of sand although we do it a million times a minute.
- [Painting title 10](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title-10/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="119" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text] I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Painting title 9](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title-9/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="118" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text] I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Painting title 8](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title-8/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="117" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text] I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Painting title 7](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title-7/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="116" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text] I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Painting title 6](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title-6/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="115" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text] I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Painting title 5](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title-5/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="114" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text] I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Painting title 4](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title-4/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="113" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text] I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Painting title 3](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title-3/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="112" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text] I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Painting title 2](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title-2/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="110" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text]I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Painting title 1](https://davebydave.co.uk/visual-art/painting-title/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="14" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text]I am text block. Click edit button to change this text.
- [Endangered Species](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/endangered-species/): I love your shyness, your highness reluctant lioness (but fierce at first hint of untruth or injustice) Two green stars your eyes are, piercing the black jungle of my head, finding my roots with deadly aim and cauterizing rot.
- [Three Bears in Blue](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/three-bears-in-blue/): Three bears in blue all in a row in fairyland like objects d’art quite personal but on display to tell a cautionary tale in brief of honey that we need, of porridge that we eat.
- [Hat Hog](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/hat-hog/): You ride upon my hat to the ringside seat because you’re feeling flat yet you still crave meat.
- [Silent Film](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/silent-film/): Coming to bed late she having retired gracelessly long since he checks the electric blanket and snuggles down next her but in the opposite direction to go to sleep.
- [Spoiling the image](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/spoiling-the-image/): We lay on the grass in Horse Guards Avenue Sunning ourselves in deliberate splendour (I felt the Underground under the ground like a pulse under skin) She did not feel it (Spoiling the image).
- [Great White Shine Machine](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/great-white-shine-machine/): Is there life on other planets and if there is should we not ban it? Is there death upon Mallorca as discreet as their streetwalkers?
- [Inside Job](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/inside-job/): Franz Kafka where are you now?

## Pages

- [Exhibition](https://davebydave.co.uk/exhibition/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="608" media_width_percent="80" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent="0" override_padding="yes" h_padding="3" top_padding="2" bottom_padding="0" overlay_alpha="50" gutter_size="3" shift_y="0"][vc_column column_width_percent="100" align_horizontal="align_center" overlay_alpha="50" gutter_size="2" medium_width="0" shift_x="0" shift_y="0" z_index="0" width="1/1"][vc_custom_heading]UNRULY REFUGE[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_button outline="yes" link="url:http%3A%2F%2Fdavebydave.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F03%2FD.J.M.-Saunders-Unruly-Refuge.pdf|title:Exhibition%20catalogue|target:%20_blank|"]Download exhibition catalogue[/vc_button][vc_column_text]Cardiff M.A.D.E.
- [Music files](https://davebydave.co.uk/music-files/)
- [Miscellaneous Poetry](https://davebydave.co.uk/miscellaneous-poetry/)
- [Later Work](https://davebydave.co.uk/later-work/)
- [Mid-Life Work](https://davebydave.co.uk/mid-life-work/)
- [Early Work](https://davebydave.co.uk/early-painting/)
- [Lyrics](https://davebydave.co.uk/lyrics/)
- [Later Poetry](https://davebydave.co.uk/later-poetry/)
- [Mid Life Poetry](https://davebydave.co.uk/mid-life-poetry/)
- [Early poetry](https://davebydave.co.uk/early-poetry/)
- [Contact](https://davebydave.co.uk/contact/)
- [Writing](https://davebydave.co.uk/writing/)
- [Music](https://davebydave.co.uk/music/): [vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_custom_heading]Music[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]This page contains a selection of piece of music.
- [Poetry](https://davebydave.co.uk/poetry/): [vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent="100" align_horizontal="align_center" overlay_alpha="50" gutter_size="3" medium_width="0" shift_x="0" shift_y="0" z_index="0" width="1/1"][vc_custom_heading]Full list of all poetry[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]This is an alphabetically ordered list of all poetry.
- [Visual Art](https://davebydave.co.uk/painting/): [vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent="100" align_horizontal="align_center" overlay_alpha="50" gutter_size="3" medium_width="0" shift_x="0" shift_y="0" z_index="0" width="1/1"][vc_custom_heading]Visual art[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]This is a sample of all work.
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