Protest (Remove filter)
Time Was II
Once I was a pacifist, I was an objector.
A campaigning reformer, I was a protester.
Now I’m a radical extremist and snowflake moaner.
Mob rule wokeist, another social-justice warrior.
Someone who’s made their point but won’t shut up.
Prepared to tear society apart, a loon, and a zealot.
An agitator and disrupter, someone who must be reined in.
A danger ...
Monday 11th March 2024 4:51 pm
FLAMETHROWER
FLAMETHROWER
_____________
My internal spirit of rebellion
Is far from calm--
Incendiary
Anger builds
Single spark ignites
Observing injustice
From figures of authority,
Power moves, prejudice--
Inferno in the making
Refusing to be
The next victim, the next pawn,
I know these sensations well--
Long ago, I marched on California's streets
...Thursday 29th February 2024 3:23 am
Protestor
I block the traffic in the road;
And chain my body to railings,
To illustrate the catalogue
Of governments’ climate failings.
I march in the demonstrations,
Sit down on the Minister’s lawn,
To give some hope to the children
And those who have not yet been born.
Last month I was twice arrested,
For challenging this dirty game.
Fines and days in court are...
Saturday 21st October 2023 4:18 pm
Pause!
Flags and placards round Big Ben
say
PAUSE! PAUSE!
Shouts and chants of Waddawewant?
a
PAUSE! PAUSE!
We call a pause on oil and then
we all lie down. We stand up again.
We shout demands at Parliament
to
PAUSE! PAUSE!
No new gas! No new oil!
PAUSE! PAUSE!
One point five degrees soon gone.
PAUSE! PAUSE!
Arctic in meltdown, blood on the boil,
w...
Thursday 8th June 2023 10:44 am
#6 (thank you, dears)
Thank you, dears.
For marched words
rawed bare, from
placard rage
to simpered
platitudes.
For now, plain,
awful grief
is just. Mine.
Tuesday 30th March 2021 10:04 am
Freedom
Please share, like, take your own protest selfie with a poster about our freedom and, freedom of movement. It's important that we fight for it, it's actually in danger.
Please sign my petition for the freedom of movement. Our rights are in danger now, the EU borders are closed since 16th March 2020
https://www.change.org/p/we-want-to-keep-our-freedom-of-movement-in-the-european-union-f...
Sunday 15th March 2020 6:47 pm
Intertextual protest
I like my music ANGRY. My favourite types of song
Are those that call for change, to try to right some wrongs.
I’ll take lyrics about war or peace or duty socially bound,
Over any heartfelt soulful dirge about love lost or found.
But it seems my favourite protest songs have limited success,
Judging by the fact the world is still in such a mess.
The answers blowing in the win...
Saturday 27th October 2018 8:14 am
Watching a Group of Angry College Kids is Weirdly Entertaining
Downtown
east of
High street
where cars run rare
and exude mating calls
through means
of
rap.
Across from
the
funeral home
with running rust
that is
synonymous to melting
is an
art school
who prides a sign
that
arches over 9th street
that reads
A R T
and in essence
is bodied
of what could be known as design
or
in other wo...
Friday 12th May 2017 4:33 am
On Censorship
Given what's happening in America right now, I suspect it won't be long before the First Amendment begins fighting for its life.
With that in mind, I thought I'd share my most successful poem to date, though it's hardly a poem at all.
It is based on my experience of living in South Africa during Apartheid.
In The Tradition Of The Star
This poem is censored.
I cannot mentio...
Friday 17th March 2017 1:08 pm
Please Dont Send Me Home
Please dont send me back home to my parents house.
I have a new home, and started my own family
So that I may forget the pain of where I was raised.
Please dont send me to my parents house.
Although I love them dearly,
I have my own kids to watch after,
And who will raise them better than me?
Who will raise my children while I am gone?
Who will care and love my children if ...
Friday 17th February 2017 2:52 pm
Blizzard
Blizzard
I’m a snowflake mate
if you like
unique
beautiful crystal
joining others
in a blizzard
that will white out
your false politics
stop your momentum
as we drift
into insurmountable
impassable glaciers
and in an avalanche
of hope
bury you forever
I’m a snowflake mate
whether you like it or not
one
a few
many
interlocking
...Sunday 5th February 2017 6:41 pm
Why I Will Not Keep Calm and Carry On
With events across the pond, this seems an appropriate time to raise a little cry of defiance over the state of my own nation, and to remind myself that there's still some fight left in us...
Why I Will Not Keep Calm and Carry On
When I was young, the golden rule
of how to get along at school
was Keep your head down. Don’t make waves.
Don’t stand apart – you’re not that brave.
Sad...
Wednesday 9th November 2016 12:25 pm
THE LIE
How can a lie
make the whole world cry,
yet they claim there is nothing to see,
where nefarious knaves
and the covetous crave
beneath covers so stealthily, free?
No thought for the plebs
as they weave dangerous webs
in a world already complex,
where the sins of the saints
have done nothing but taint,
confuse, deceive and perplex.
To forgive and forget,
...Sunday 16th August 2015 5:17 pm
RAW EMOTION
Live every day like it was meant to be,
helping all those who want to be free.
Feel the warmth in a genuine smile,
a childish giggle can bridge the miles.
Surround everybody with happy ways,
bask in the heat of the suns warm rays.
A world of love and peace for all,
where we help the ones who trip and fall.
...
I may be a dreamer of fanciful sights
but dreams are better than childis...
Wednesday 5th August 2015 10:51 pm
Fracking (Cinquain #1)
Fracking (Cinquain #1)
Pressure
from injection
opens gaping fissure.
The whole process needs inspection.
Action!
Monday 27th January 2014 10:37 pm
My Long-Suffering Ukraine
We live in an unpredictable world
Where everything is so much twirled.
Each new day brings a surprise.
And how easy is it to realize
What can turn into bad or nice?
The evil today is a plan of some possessed
To destroy those who were by God blessed.
To turn into the colony Ukraine,
And the main: Ukrainians - into slaves.
The empire of greed craves the grav...
Friday 17th January 2014 1:10 pm
PoLieTics - NaPoWriMo Day 2
We're all in this together,
we're here to represent you.
We will protect the NHS,
pensions, public services, free speech,
the right to protest, journalistic independence
and repair the economy.
But we must keep money
we NEED money.
Generators will not work without capital,
the magnetic pulse of the world will cease
and the crust shall become ...
Tuesday 2nd April 2013 4:38 pm
A civil war, where the mind is as powerful as the gun
I think we need a civil war,
‘Cos change can never come from petitions,
Whilst politicians don’t even make the decisions.
And it’s not about royalty or roundhead,
It’s more like Malcom X said there’s field slaves,
And those stuck in the house brain dead.
A civil war,
Overthrowing central banks,
Burning Union flags and oil tanks,
Knocking on ...
Saturday 2nd February 2013 11:02 pm
G.I.A.B.O.
You don't have to look far to see where we're headin',
Look at Greece and Ireland it's a bloodless armageden.
The Global Insurection Against Banker Occuption,
Is being fought on the front line by european nations.
Mothers and fathers skipping meals for sons and daughters,
The electricity's cut off, like the water.
Then it's out in the street,
The downbeat's com...
Thursday 8th November 2012 9:24 pm
I might look like a mortal man to you
Updated 2/2/13
I might look like a mortal man to you,
But I was brought here tonight just to speak to you,
From a higher dimension, where nobody is ever born or dies,
Where we don't get cataracts on our mind's eye.
Sometimes I like to sit alone on a throne of bone,
Made from children social services stole from their homes,
And kids who lost their souls in...
Sunday 4th November 2012 7:19 pm
Lack of information is obscene and cronic
Lack of information is obscene and cronic,
Holds you back like the bars of a prison that are socio-economic,
When all you know is what Fiona Bruce told you so
Why would you worry about GMOs from Monsanto?
In schools we're taught no sense of identity,
Like a man running for office, no personality,
Because they know if we had any sense of who we are,
There's no way in hell we'd let ...
Sunday 4th November 2012 5:38 pm
I'm from a land where
I'm from a land where,
Two girls on the bus to school is revolutionary,
Where we bury boxes full of our still born children,
'Cos experimental biological weapons more or less killed them.
Plus the starvation, and working on the opium plantation,
Whilst Halibuton gets paid to rebuild my nation,
MPs with hidden interests plan my leader's assasination.
From London to Lo...
Sunday 4th November 2012 5:34 pm
My Opinion of the Christian God is shitty
My opinion of the Christian God is shitty,
I'll put my hand on the Bible and tell any girl she's pretty!
Like a homeless child clinging to a pipe for warmth, steaming
Flithy, but I'll give her a cleaning.
If you think there's a difference between Tories and Labour you're dreaming,
Like two junkies and one crack pipe they're fiending,
Besides all the power's with the cent...
Sunday 4th November 2012 5:17 pm
Make a stand
Make a stand
You can make a stand against wrong-doing or stand for what is right,
You can make a stand as a pacifist as to stand is not to fight.
You can make a stand with a fist aloft or stand with a lowered gaze,
You can make a stand that’s popular or stand without seeking praise.
You can make a stand by marching or stand up by sitting down,
You can make a stand if yo...
Sunday 27th November 2011 9:51 pm
New X (30 years after the tragic fire)
On the 18th of January 1981, 13 young people died in a fire in New Cross, South East London (a fourteenth committed suicide after losing so many friends). Just shy of thirty years on, these are the contemporary reflections of a man who was a seven year old boy at the time. Widely thought to have been a racially motivated attack, more recent advances in forensic technology have suggested o...
Saturday 8th January 2011 5:45 pm
Who Pays the Real Cost?
Tesco Tesco
(audience) We say no!
Treating our land like
A big fat hoe
Tesco Tesco
(audience) We say go!
Destroying local businesses
Spreading GMO
We don’t need your no good
Cheap ‘goods’, low wages
2 quid battery chicken
Homeworkers of all ages
Working hard and gaining little
Being kept in poverty-
When you buy from Tesc...
Saturday 4th September 2010 8:45 pm
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