A foreign wood
The empire called for more men, and they came.
Shipped from sub-continent
to western front,
Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, East Africa,
largest volunteer army in the world.
They weren’t ready for the cold;
couldn’t understand new officers
when theirs were slain.
Some wounded, shipped to England,
died and were buried
in a corner of a foreign wood
with Muslim honours...
Sunday 10th March 2024 8:05 pm
The 'rules' of modern poetry
Tell it slant, don't tell it straight.
Don't tell it at all. Show me.
Lyrical is ok, up to a point.
Don't overload with details.
Whoa! Hold it right there.
This is veering towards
the anecdotal,
the confessional,
the conversational,
and, Heaven forbid,
the sentimental.
I find it easier to get obscure
poems published, than ones
where the mea...
Sunday 10th March 2024 4:15 pm
The computer said 'No'
for the many hard-working and innocent
Post Office operators wrongly accused and
defrauded by their employer. Some were jailed,
and four took their own lives
The best comedy lines are funny
because they resonate with truth.
Funny in a mirthless kind of way.
Some Post Office manager
got a huge bonus for installing
a computer system that didn’t work.
They coul...
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