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The Barge
It’ll take 500.
in cabins with twin bunks
It’s not a Cunard liner
No need to bring your trunks
There is no captain’s table
Nor cocktails on the deck
No space for any loungers
On this brutal prefab wreck
It’s a worry for the fire brigade
Whose natural concern
Is how to evacuate the inmates
Should it ignite, and burn
Did I say inmates? A Freudian slip
But this ...
Wednesday 18th October 2023 5:27 pm
Politics For People Who Don't Do Politics
There’s politics for people who do politics
And politics for people who don’t do politics,
And the politics for people who don’t do politics
Hides behind the politics for people who do politics
Who say “You all need to understand the politics”
To people who say “It’s all the same, the politics”
While the politics is laughing in their face,
And ripping off their money to give it to their mat...
Tuesday 15th August 2023 12:26 pm
The Body Politic
Politics lurks everywhere we look:
Politics of dithering and backtrack,
Of scaremongers and big-boy nostalgia.
Nowhere to hide. In the US of A,
Blusterman is lying through his teeth.
Meanwhile, the same old suspects starve,
Or steal to fill their bellies or their habit,
While, next door to this, others lead their lives,
Trying honesty to round off each year’s end.
Throug...
Saturday 5th August 2023 5:00 pm
In the beginning, God [early draft]
And in that first wailing cry my ashes were ordained:
As the ocean acknowledges its horizon,
knows infinity's finite edge
so my cry knew a destiny
knew my play and my learning
my work, my leisure, my sleep
the evil of my hands and the goodness of my heart
my loves, my hates, my pleasures.
Knew my world: that tiny flesh held all my futures
and in those fragile bones resid...
Friday 14th July 2023 12:32 pm
Captain Crappy Rides Again (Or 'God Help Us')
Does he know that he’s lying
Or is he perhaps past caring?
Or has he now crossed that line
Where rights and wrongs intertwine
To a point beyond repairing?
Do we care if he’s telling lies?
Well, it seems that some people do;
They’ve had it up to here with him
And for the moment things look grim
For the Captain and his motley crew.
Could it be true he’s finall...
Wednesday 14th June 2023 6:23 am
Does anyone care?
Old-world women gossip
Disgorging air and candy floss,
Talking, talking, talking.
Just trumpery coming across,
Irrational chatter
Mindless natter,
Suffrage, forgotten, such a loss.
Old-world men jabber
As they prop up the local bar,
Bullshit bullshit bullshit.
Taking ignorance far too far.
Incoherent prattle
Constant cackle.
Franchised rights, or an...
Wednesday 8th March 2023 9:36 am
Back To Square One
So I have borrowed few words
No, not from the dictionary of civilization
Yet civilized enough in their own terms
At first they observed my intentions
Diving deep into my desires and design
Perhaps to measure my honesty or hypocrisy
The day was bright as usual like our lies
Everywhere the newspapers were shouting
As much as they have been instructed
...
Tuesday 14th February 2023 6:23 pm
The Dark Passages
Sleepless nights and the
Monsoon rain, drops after drops
Sharing little secrets besides
Greenwood trees. All alone!
I, like the other homo sapiens
Behind the closed doors with
Abandoned theories of truth
In conversation with myself.
Under all the hidden floors
History with frozen steps
May start its own story
Hushed and covered up!
The obvious is ...
Tuesday 7th February 2023 4:42 am
We Don't Trust Them
We don’t trust them.
Those giants who rule the Earth;
those fallen ones who stole our dominion.
We don’t trust them.
Those royal descendants of “gods”;
those of the divine blood line.
Why should we trust them?
They live in castles even today,
while we still cower in caves.
Why should we trust them?
From days of old,
we die in their wars,
we beg to consume what they own.
Why sh...
Saturday 21st January 2023 3:17 pm
Rule Britannia
Britain.
Find an island teetered
On frightened migrants, barrels of oil,
And African diamonds.
Find a child swathed in red water,
defiled by the law of the man up top,
pockets heavy, conscience ready
to burn and claw at power
To grovel, devour
To fester in Westminster
the cries of innocents
talked around, spat on
With self-serving ambivalence
A game of bla...
Wednesday 11th January 2023 6:22 pm
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