Tweet Remembrance Day Etched in unforgiving stone The Glorious Dead implacable stands alone washed in rain and bitter tears blood red poppies do not atone across the bitter years the sadness and the loss As each November nears we mourn our honoured dead with military pomp and facile prayers power privilege and marching bands through […]

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TweetA Sense Of Tragedy Turn your eyes towards our pain I beg of you look look see what you yes you not your God have done Wash your hands in not of our blood feel feel sense the hate you yes you not your God glorify Come close listen to the whisper of our fear […]

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Tweet(A ‘found’ poem based upon Slavoj Žižek’s views on movies). Žižek’s Movies Anxiety alone does not deceive Subjectivity is to see what is missing from reality Libido need fantasy to sustain itself before the abyss of another mind Fantasy realised is nightmare but the final nightmare is immortality not death Desires are not given but […]

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Tweet For those without religious belief who gave their lives and those who mourn them. If There Is No Eden If there is no Eden no paradise to be where shall rest the solace that sets our grieving free No hymns of praise console us still less serried bands the pomp and circumstance of mourning […]

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Tweet SAVAGES The earth sang to me of ancient things calling my unknowing soul to remembrance The sun smiled on me and led my soul up towards the sky as a sunflower turns to receive the gift of life The wind called to me lifting my soul on eagle’s wings towards the destiny a proud […]

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TweetThe London Bombings 7th July 2005 This was posted in the week of the London bombings (7/7 2005) on www.writewords.org.uk a writers’ web site I belong to. Many poems had been posted that week trying to express the inexpressible anger and grief we all felt – hence the remarks below written with respect: “Like the […]

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Tweet I’m Not There It may depend when you joined the train Young people all around the world came on board obedience denied blood-stained patriotic flags torn or burnt or furled “why” their parents cried as one voice came the shout “because the bastards lied” Drawn on board by the music that thrilled their souls […]

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TweetI went with a friend to this concert on his recommendation. The lady blew me away. Patti Smith She stands in a pool of light pawing the stage with the grace of a grey-maned mustang wise in the ways of world and man waiting to lead her bate-breathed feral fans towards the storm of music […]

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TweetHearts and Minds Hearts and minds, hearts and minds if we can break their grieving hearts and make them lose their anguished minds and set dismembered bodies free in pious hope we think they will salute our victory. Hearts and minds, hearts and minds a nation born in genocide with self-regarding destiny in breach of […]

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Tweet City of Blues The city of blues is cryin’ bitter tears of shame it’s the rich that gets the buses the poor that gets the blame White WASP’s buzzin’ bull shit disgracin’ America’s name The city of blues is dyin’ black is now death’s name the rich escape to safety the rest just lose […]

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