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Juden für Palästina! (Jews for Palestine!)
The accompanying video is of Emma Kirkby (an old family favourite of ours) singing “Dido’s Lament” by Henry Purcell. It’s one of the saddest pieces of English music I’ve ever heard, and so, is most appropriate.
I’ve modelled my poem around Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night”, on the premise that the night we currently face is not, in any sense ...
Friday 8th March 2024 12:40 pm
Bread and Roses for All
My original intention had been to write a humorous poem around the proverbial swallow, and words such as pint, summer and lies etc.
But with the UK now being in a world of deepest doggy-do, and with a Starmerite (his dad was a tool-maker don’t you know!) purge of genuine Socialists under way, I thought I’d try to write a sonnet whose tone reflects the dire straits in which British cit...
Friday 16th June 2023 11:10 am
Tory Haiku
Mis-Match of the Day,
Tories; Truth and Compassion.
Wife-beaters; Knighthoods.
Tuesday 21st March 2023 11:39 am
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