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Haiku for 2025 [N. 12 KNEECAP]
BIGOTS MADE LEGLESS
KNEECAPPED BY NOTHING BUT TRUTH
SPRINGTIME FOR FREEDOM
Saturday 26th April 2025 11:44 am
I swear to tell the … the Whole … and Nothing but the … ! [or The Client Hack’s Tale]
The Berlin Holocaust Memorial is stark.
For the Tool though, those Stelae made a brilliant backdrop
to his ‘Twenty-Two election publicity lark;
The Shoa, he reduced to a pantomime prop,
Behind you, behind you! Look, Sir, it’s the …!
At Auschwitz yer man is on ‘Twenty-Five’s photo-shoot,
The strain in his face, act studiously honed
to show that he cares, oh, look at him, ...
Sunday 26th January 2025 12:29 pm
Haiku for 2025 [No. 4. True Peace or Pieces?]
Seek truth and justice.
Absence of war’s mere pretence!
True peace, not pieces.
Sunday 19th January 2025 7:58 pm
Land and Freedom
The title of my sonnet is inspired by that of the excellent 1995 film, Land and Freedom, directed by eminent film director, Ken Loach, persecuted in the UK and elsewhere for his compassionate socialist views.
With reference to my last six lines: the terrorist murder in 1946 of British soldiers, of Jews and others should not be forgotten in the rush to attempt to justify the seven-decades-long ...
Monday 7th October 2024 9:26 am
Just Say No!
It’s time to say NO!
It’s time to turn left,
To staunch the blood flow,
Of truth they’re bereft,
It’s time for the many,
To stand up to the few,
To liars ten-a-penny,
To red ties turned blue,
You’re a friend of apartheid
You’ve just lied to this nation,
You enabler of genocide,
And illegal occupation,
The targets weren’t civilian,
Your pants ar...
Saturday 5th October 2024 3:24 pm
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