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Where is THIS Jerusalem?
Tuesday 12th August 2025 9:57 am
The War on the West
I’m your smooth - talking
free speech warrior,
I like posing in military gear
in helmets and flack-jackets
that say 'PRESS',
(not that I’d need one)
‘cos these are my mates,
yes, I’m here in the Middle East
‘cos I am defending THE WEST,
in the war THEY’ve declared,
‘cos they’re jealous that we’re the best,
well, that’s what I’ve heard!
know - what - I – mean?
...Friday 6th December 2024 11:47 am
Nativity
How has the shrine of wisdom and manger
Become a nightmare of fear and danger?
Lives tossed aside, like unwanted presents,
Of factory workers and toiling peasants?
How has Christmas, day of celebration,
Been transformed into a desecration,
Where the rocket, mortar, the flag and fist
Are the only currencies which subsist,
And the welcome afforded to a guest
Is replaced b...
Thursday 14th December 2023 1:35 pm
An Englishman in Israel
An Englishman in Israel
Jewels in the sand.
From a giant cushion of cloud I descend,
into evening sun-setting on the Middle East.
Blue into grey, into orange, into white
and finally falling back into blue.
Ground comes up to greet us as we seem to pass through tall bushy trees, …
… into what?
Had someone thrown jewels on a desert floor? Some gold, some silver, and some whit...
Monday 17th August 2020 3:04 pm
Leaked Truth
Flash of a camera.
Shot from a gun.
Click, a distant finger
Exposes the truth,
That you would have buried
Amongst the bodies in the sand.
Rolled over with aggressive force
So no trace could be left
Just red truth seeping into
The mouth of the thirsty beaten ground
Who will excrete the lies
Too hard to digest.
Deceitful coloured vomit
Stained
Is left on your h...
Tuesday 5th June 2012 4:44 pm
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