To a Fellow Artist

It’s often asked: wherein does beauty lie,

In mystery bound, proportions magical,

Deciphered only by the observer’s eye,

Or in some poet’s words deemed lyrical?

I know that beauty’s not in sparkling dross,

Perfection is for fools; an empty frame,

In masterpieces, lines are found and lost,

And here, in life’s chiaroscuro lives a flame,

A caring smi...

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T’Chrismus Gammon have gone spittin’ mad,

‘cos t’asylum seekers are gooin’  AWOL

fer Chrismus; aye, here in t’UK it’s reet bad,

there’s nowt reawnd ‘ere but strife on’ trouble,

so t’forinners‘re seekin’ asylum back whoam!

Gee Beebie News‘re ‘avin’ a meltdown,

they’re at it like rabid dogs wi’ a bone,

parliament’s an asylum, on’ t’loons‘re in charge,

con wi not send ‘em t’li...

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With client hacks,

quiet words in ears,

he loves the craic

at working lunches

with the journo sewer,

making numbers crunch.

more twists and turns

than a snake with an itch,

humanity burns

while he makes his pitch,

purging list,

ever ready,

on power pissed

biding time,

keeping steady

the applecart,

election ready

steady fart!

The Lobby’s man,

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https://youtu.be/88kJd9PwVwY?list=RD88kJd9PwVwY

Here’s candle light

for our darkness;

here’s calming prayer

for our grief and pain;

here’s atonement,

healing separation;

their hands are joined in prayer,

I wait in dread, for them I fear;

de profundis clamavi ad te Domine.  

שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּֽעֲל֑וֹת מִמַּֽעֲמַקִּ֖ים קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהֹוָֽה

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The trouble with continually crying wolf

is that you end up being trampled

by the herd of elephants in the room,

you for too long ignored

and who will make of you an example;

like it or not, I’m a poet,

whether a good one

or a bad one’s

for you to decide;

but if there’s a line,

my task’s not to toe it,

but to write it,

to tell it out loud,

tell the truth ...

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A decade old now,

Those Blackthorn whips I planted.

Hope will come with Spring.

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Zephaniah

told them to take their Order of the British Empire

and shove it right where the monkey shoves his nuts;

to higher things than that he did aspire,

not for him, life as an elite sucker up;

a man of his word, he, for his entire life

fought against empire, racism and slavery,

against colonial imposition and strife;

he inspired others to personal bravery,

connecti...

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With dinner simmering nicely on the hob,

in comfort and with gratitude, I watched

the ritual enacted on our screen;

a sombre scene, demanding dignity,

respectful silence, mindfulness of grief.

The whistle blown, straight o’er the top they went,

did Tommy Atkins and his brave young pals,

the destiny of most - Eternity.

Two minutes’ quiet, the very least required;

no...

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النكبةAl Nakba: Day 27,375 and Counting…

With client hacks,

quiet words in ears,

he loves the craic

at working lunch

with the journo sewer,

making numbers crunch,

his purging list,

is at the ready,

on power pissed

he’s biding time,

and keeping steady

the applecart,

election ready,

to be off like a fart,

the lobby’s man,

so quiet when

it suits him ...

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Your Jewish Voice for Labour

is another voice for me,

a voice for cooperation,

a voice for good, not ill;

your Jewish Voice for Peace,

asks no more blood be spilled,

let your protests’ sound increase;

speak up my sisters, brothers,

for all humanity,

speak out against vile smears,

against hypocrisy,

speak out against apartheid,

Mandela was correct:

our freedom...

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The good folk of the North-East UK

will surely be delighted to learn today

that thirty-four per cent of their children,

the victims of that corrupt brethren,

are living in poverty because Stockton’s “a shithole”,

in a country ruined by complete arseholes;

their mission’s complete, they’re finally there,

with their wealth and their health, saying “sod your nightmare”,

it’s ...

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What’s Alawa for

“A man who speaks through his arse”?

Gangurru anus.

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No, Board of Deputies of British Jews,

you do not speak for her;

neither does the tool-maker’s son,

he does not speak for her;

nor you, Hotovely, you don’t speak for her…

…for that brave Jewish lady with a conscience

whose family died in The Holocaust,

who, in London, engaged in peaceful protest,

was harassed, arrested and detained

for twenty-four hours by a bored-...

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They’ve just let the cat

out of Number Ten,

she’s going going,

going gone;

No Scene Of Crime tape

across the door;

hate-crime's OK,

and genocide too;

but look on the bright side,

to avoid accusations

of anti-Semitism

Magellan’s out,

Netanyahu’s in.

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Futility (apologies to Wilfred Owen)

Forget, forget,

Her rallying cry;

Forget, forget

The reason why;

Forget, forget

Our fathers lied,

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?

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https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/home-secretary-faces-uproar-over-entry-spanish-neo-nazi-far-right-extremist-britain-1719878

Her Deathstyle Choice!

The red red rose of Lancashire, it’s red for love,

the poppy, flower of Palestine which gives me hope,

the fragile Armistice poppy, of hope, not hate,

trodden in the mud by Braverman’s Nat C. friends,

by the Nazi hate-mob...

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A letter dropped through my post box the other day, it was addressed to The Occupier,

so I forwarded it to Benjamin Netanyahu (C/o UK and USA).

We want...

What do we want?

Armistice!

We want it now,

In our thousands,

in our millions,

we are all

Palestinians.

Sir Kid starver

backs kid killing,

put up

shut up

no more.

We want...

what do we want?

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No, king Charlie number three,

Do not presume to speak for me,

I will not brook a genocide.

No, Hate-Monger General,

In Washington you spoke for hate,

Now slander you, those who wish peace

Upon all those whose hearts do break,

Who mourn the deaths of innocents.

That poppy pinned upon your left lapel?

It does not show you care, it’s all pretence;

You hands are red wit...

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Jihad, jihad, toil and trouble!

In the cause of public safety

Honest Bobprick’s banned that word;

The Met Plod’s also banned a road,

The road in question being “The Struggle”,

Or, as it’s known in Palestine,

The “Jihad”, yes, wot broke my gearbox!

That ain’t no amble for this old crock,

Ban it now, that darned Jihad!

Jihad! Struggle! Jihad! Struggle!

Double, double to...

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In a state born from terrorism, what could go wrong,

with Ben Yahoo funding terrorists to bring Abbas to his knees;

his blind eyes turned to incendiaries and to rockets,

with millions in cash allowed through the crossing,

to maintain a ceasefire with Hamas in The Strip?

In a state born from terrorism, what could go wrong?

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A nasty old witch called Cruella

That spreader of Legionella,

Lived on an old barge

With some arsehole called George,

Now the UK’s got rampant Chlamydia.

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Goodbye Election

That barrel full’s finally flushed,

He didn’t just go, he was pushed;

He followed his flow chart

To hell in a handcart,

And through a side door he eff-offed

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God Bless you Ahed Tamimi

https://youtu.be/XPhEjECGjAs?list=TLPQMjAxMDIwMjPF8r18c89eeQ

In February 2018, the famous Israeli poet Yehonatan Geffen, the nephew of Moshe Dayan, posted a poem on his Instagram page that ended with the following lines:

את, אהד תמימי,

אדומת השיער,

כמו דוד שסטר לגולית,

תהיי באותה שורה עם

ז'אן דארק, חנה סנש ואנה פרנק.

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Sunday Prayers

Yesterday was Sunday.

It was our Sabbath;

a walk in the park

in the autumn sun;

and that was the day

right after Shabbat;

and that was the day

after their Jumu’ah;

Three days of prayer,

of reflection and quiet.

We walked in the park

with family and friends

in the autumn sun,

then sat in the riotous

children’s playground,

whic...

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Yesterday was Sunday;

which was our Sabbath;

a walk in the park

in the autumn sun.

That was the day

right after Shabbat,

and that was the day

after their Jumu’ah;

Three days of prayer,

of reflection and quiet.

We walked in the park

with family and friends

in the autumn sun,

then sat in the riotous

children’s playground,

which wasn’t so quiet

for...

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If I haven't liked or commented on your poems over the last few weeks/months, it's not because I've fallen out with you, or because I don't like what you write; it's because I've been preoccupied, engaged in a struggle: perhaps a struggle for sanity?

But we'll get through this together. Love and best wishes.

Writers of the world Unite! 

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It’s with a heavy heart that I make this post, overwhelmed as I am, with emotions ranging from despair to incandescent rage about the tragic events in Israel and Palestine. I can’t find any helpful words to describe how I feel, so I’ll leave you with this.

It’s a beautiful love poem/song which I think is sung here in Hebrew, with what I think is possibly music of Arabic influence?

The sourc...

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The evil they once did lives after them;

Once more, the monster they created, strikes.

But ever-strident hypocrites demand

that I condemn out loud those evil deeds.

They browbeat me, a great granddad who sees

fresh hell before me, each and every day,

in far-flung corners of this grieving world,

with tears that well up in my ageing eyes,

at images of newly orphaned babes,

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Message for admirers of this well-nigh fascist regime:

over the last few weeks, I’ve had a kind of Damascene moment;

so you can shove your bloody culture wars

up your self-important ever-vocal fundaments.

I’ve decided there are far bigger fish to fry,

Like under-nourished British school kids,

Who go to school hungry and cry;

or are bullied because they can’t afford

the requ...

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Just to make myself perfectly clear from:

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/

"To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors.”

Marek Edelman – last surviving leader, Warsaw ghetto uprising.

By way of contrast, this from Ntanyahu: “Israel is not a state of all its citizens… [but rather] the nation-state of the Jewish people and only them”. Israel...

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Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth, like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!

(From the Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Below is what I consider to be a Manifesto of Hope, to whose motives and principles I wholly subscribe.

Public ownership of all public services and infrastructure, including ...

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Welcome to Manchester;

To the Tóraidhe Party Confluence;

to the land in which

the pursuit of greater affluence on behalf of

the already obscenely affluent

results in vast quantities of verbal and physical effluent;

which will of course be removed

by United Futilities

who’ll dump it

on our land and in our streams;

a “service” paid for

by those who have next to no...

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You can’t afford to pay your heating bills?

Well, here’s some hate to keep you nice and warm.

Aim it at them, and them; they’ve caused your ills.

With love from me to you; a firestorm.

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Britain’s now drifting

Rudderless and no compass.

Send for the Blackshirts!

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Desist from your rave and your rant,

But indulge in hypocrisy and cant.

Dead Yemenis are boring,

Europeans, alluring.

Oh look, there’s a rather large elephant!

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Fascism needs tools.

Holocaust survivor banned

From speaking the truth.

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Your particular point of view,

Ain’t permitted ’cos it’s red;

No matter whether it’s false or true,

It annoys me that it can be read.

Blackshirts are marching down the street,

Coming to sort dissenters out,

Thirty Pee’s thrown some red meat,

Sod your civil rights, they’re up the spout.

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I’ve never glued my hands

to anything,

except for that time

when I was making that model

of a Fokker Triplane

that my mam got me

for passing some exams.

I’ve been on loads of demos,

protesting against

the racist National Front

who marched through my town,

whilst police dogs

snapped at my heels.

I’ve been on demos against the BNP ,

who admired a so-calle...

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The Tories treat

our nurses with contempt

our doctors with disdain

our firefighters with derision

our ambulance workers with disrespect

our railway staff with scorn

our carers with despisal

our armed forces with antipathy

our sick with neglect

our elderly with indignity

our teachers with ridicule

our children with condescension

our pensioners with contempt

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Oh, would it were the happy truth: consigned

Unto the flames of hell, that Crooked House, 

Where Mammon’s ermined scarlet whores decide

Which trough they’ll dig with snuffling filthy snouts!

Those arsonists so proudly pose in food

Pantries, yet loudly praise the firefight;

Rapacious brutes, they Gaîa do denude 

Of hope; they’re criminals, who firelight.

Rich ...

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Bravo Greenpeace,

now it’s time

to stop the Tory stunts,

those cunning stunts.

Lock ‘em up

on HMS Grenfell,

or on the Broads,

in massive punts.

Oh hell, I really must

learn to spell!

Addendum: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/aug/03/oliver-dowden-asylum-seekers-bibby-stockholm-uk-politics-live

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In Praise of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The words in German are from a revised version of Schiller’s Poem "An die Freude" Ode to Joy. I’ve paraphrased them in English to form the first four lines of my poem.

Part of Schilller’s poem formed the basis  of the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, an extract of which, was adopted by the European Union, on the grounds that ...

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Rent a Gob Fartage, please quit ballooning, we have had enough,

Of your complaining that your bank’s given you the old ho-heave,                                                                                        

So why don’t you (in short sharp jerky movements) just bloody well bugger right off,

Your best ever promise was, if Brexit was a failure, the UK you would leave,

So sod r...

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So, fellow poets, Rwanda’s safe…isn’t it?

Tell that to our friend, Innocent Bahati,

The Kigali school teacher, whose words are illicit,

And offensive to Rwanda’s high and mighty.

Come on, you poets, do you fancy a visit

To Rwanda to tell Bahati: it’s safe!

Well you can’t, because Bahati’s simply, disappeared,

Desaparecido, as Thatcher’s generals would say.

Worldwide, one h...

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Asked the philosopher from Devizes.

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“Comment is free…
but facts are sacred”,
an ed. once said.
But I’m fact-free,
and my prejudice naked,
when things are said
with which I don’t agree.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

4th July 2023

PEN International calls on the Rwandan authorities to urgently come clear and publicly account for the whereabouts of poet Innocent Bahati who has been missing since 7 February 2021.

https://www.pen...

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During the American Civil War, which ended in 1866, Walt Whitman worked as a clerk in Washington, DC. For a period of three years, he cared for soldiers, dressing their wounds, and comforting the injured.

His 1865 publication of poetry, Drum-Taps, which drew from his experiences in the civil war, includes, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Whitman’s elegy for President Lincoln.

I ...

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My love of Beauty, nurtured through the years,     

Of form and fair proportion’s served me well.    

Yet often I ask: where does my true love dwell?   

Within my soul; this heart; these eyes; or ears? 

Does she conduct the music of the spheres? 

Or, sit in silence sweet on Lakeland fell? 

Are roses’ heavenly scent bound by her spell?    

Her spirit surely lives in all...

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If you care anything at all about Mental Health Services in Tory UK, and about how the Tories treat their citizens watch this: https://youtu.be/OTkqQX2xvqQ

Modus Operandi-Conscious Cruelty

National Emergency; declare a General Strike;

Are we Hearts of Oak, or timid wee mice?

Stop kissing their boots, tell ‘em to take a hike,

I for one, am itching to get rid of these lice;

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His dad was a toolmaker,

he’s frequently said;

no surprise whatsoever,

that the tool’s now in bed

with foul Rupert Murdoch;

why don’t he just get wed,

to the thing under that rock,

the source of the sewer,

read by a gullible flock,

that rag filled with bile;

justice for the many?

no, not by a mile,

justice for fewer!

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A nation,

That steals

From the

Poorest

To give

To the

Richest;

Not good

Enough

For me.

Swearing

Like a

Trooper;

Good enough

For World

War Two;

Good enough

For me.

Philip

Fuckin’

Almost

Laureate

Larkin,

Good enough

For royalty;

Good enough

For me.

Socialism’s

Loaves and fishes,

Bread and roses;

Good e...

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   A Larkinesque Souvenir of the Left Bank

(and of the Left Wing-only by permission of the cops)

They fuck you up, your mummies and daddies,

They make you mean, and moody blue,

Their fault you’re dummy-spitting saddies,

That life’s turned shit, oh yes, it’s true.

Some fuckers, though, will never learn,

Fooled by posh twats with Latin quotes,

Whose nanny’s...

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Bread and Roses for All

One swallow will not our glorious summer make,

Nor red-tied frauds, true friends of labouring folk:

No friend of mine can love Apartheid’s yolk,

More swallowed lies, our nation’s heart will break:

Britannia’s future guard, for our Children’s sake,

Compassion’s spirit we must now invoke,

Let zeal for justice fill our Hearts of Oak,

Lest fate make any ...

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Orate Fratres

Our raison d’être? to fulfil the Lord’s prophecy!

For we are the Tory Party at prayer;

Prayerfully, we arrange the country’s economy

So the wealth of our friends should never be impaired.

Jesus preached that: ‘the poor will always be with us’,

In fulfillment whereof, we his Kingdom prepare;

Let us implement with care, Austerity’s cuts,

With the deserving p...

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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...

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The Dishonours List

or

The  Polishing & Flushing of Sundry Richard IIIrds on the 9th of June 2023

It’s said that he ran; or perhaps he was pushed?

Is the admiring herd now immune to his sleaze?

Will the Çee U Next Tuesdays be finally flushed?

Perchance we may dream of not swimming in fæces!

There’s a proverb of old:‘One can’t polish a turd’;

An impossible task...

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If poetry be the food of love, write on!

If it be food for freedom, then kick off!

If you care aught for poetry Write Out Loud!

If you care aught for love then stay not quiet!

If you care aught for freedom, then kick off!

If you will fight with me then you are on!

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Trigger warning-the following is a very bad pome!

-apologies, it was written when i woz very tired and very angry-innit! If the person who resuntly commented that one of my pomes WUSN'T a POME, could have advised mi wot a POME WAS, 'appen I coud ave ritten a better wun!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/jun/09/conservatives-labour-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-boris-johnson-honours-...

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Pinocchio Johnson and Tim,

What a combo was ‘Spoons and Wrecksit,

Being egged on by Farage’s grin.

But the Moggian uplands aren’t sunlit,

Now we’re weeping into our gin,

As we crunch on our unicorn shit,

It’s a damn sight more ardua than astra,

To be frank, it’s a bloody disaster!

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By Eric Corbett - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3839862

FOR THE MORE POETIC AMONGST YOU:

My oeuvre primitif is based on the methodology of Jean-Jaques Marie de la Sainte Verité. I challenge conventional forms of poetry through a combination of texts in both majuscule and miniscule cases, which interplay with the intersectionality of vibrant chromac...

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More Gammon Imports!!!!!

Project Fear!!!!!

OOPS!

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This is my first serious attempt at Blank Verse.

It rambles on a bit, and it's rather long, for which I apologise.

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How many

of your

LOVED ONES

DIED

as a result of

POLITICAL DESCISIONS

made by

this

TORY GOVERNMENT?

WHO THE HELL CARES

JUST KEEP YOUR EYES

ON THOSE REFUGEES

STOP THE BOATS!

OH LOOK AT THAT

CELEBRITY’S ARSE

LOOK AT HIS PECS!

In the

UNITED KINGDOM

If you are a

VICTIM

of

RAPE

You have no

PRIV...

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https://youtu.be/vqJHUkOTLOQ

From the frying pan

Of lying thieving scumbags,

To Tory-lite fire;

The tool-maker’s son,

Palestine’s blood on his hands,

Purging our Red Rose.

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The Heege Manuscript which ‘pokes fun at everyone, high and low’ is among the earliest evidence of the life and work of a real minstrel

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/31/mad-and-offensive-texts-shed-light-on-the-role-played-by-minstrels-in-medieval-society

Fellow WOLers, you must never be boring,

For the high and the mighty need lowering,

Now you stand on the shoulders

...

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Desperate to get out and exercise

My increasingly bloated physiology,

I follow advice that I’ve learned from life,

Two magic formulae, KISS and TOFFEE,

My first is: Keep It Simple Stupid!

Then: Time on Feet,-without the t!-well spent, I hope.

And I follow the wisdom undiluted,

Contained in the words of Alexander Pope:

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread!

So on Frid...

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Anyone who gives a flying cluck about the hell some UK citizens are currently going through should listen to this.

https://youtu.be/BqwWUNZlTOA

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Last week I managed to walk six miles or so.

This Tuesday I walked three miles along the canal.

My God it was warm and how thirsty I was at the end!

I went straight to the pub for a pint, to rest and reflect.

One hour and fifteen minutes to walk three and a bit miles.

And here at the bar, by my side was a man in a wheelchair.

He had had both legs amputated below the knee.

This...

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The last time that I wrote in or spoke French was about ten years ago. This is the first time I’ve ever written a poem in French; so I hope that this blog post will not be, like Brexit, a Titanic débâcle. Any corrections or advice will be welcome.

La dernière fois que j'ai écrit ou que j’ai parlé le français, était il y a une dizaine d’années. Et c’est la toute première fois que j’ai écrit un p...

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A Disunited King-dom,
Socialism for the obscenely rich,
A United Futilities Turd-dom,
Sleep on the streets-or in a ditch,
Can't even heat water for a bath,
"Let 'em eat turnips" sez one fat bitch,
Homes for ...

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Here at Classy Bangalore,

Full English breakfast we do serve,

A touch of class we do adore,

And from no challenge will we swerve,

We’ve catered for UK royalty,

Our cuisine’s well ahead of the curve...

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Mis-Match of the Day

Tories-Compassion-the Truth

Abuser-Knighthood

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I Citizen, can let no king be mine,

I will not swear an oath in your god’s name.

You do not reign by any right divine,

To my loyalty you have no right, no claim.

 I swear I’ll pay to these my true allegian...

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Nothing did I swear.

Silence never so golden.

Kept my own counsell.

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No warning did I ever get,

That I really should have been born white,

Before the shooting and the bombing,

That ruined our economy.

How silly of me to not be white,

What’s more, I’m not indigenous;

My adoptive dad’s lived there for years,

He’s white (but not indigenous),

And a fluent speaker of the Queen’s English,

So I guess he ticks all the right boxes.

I’d love to...

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It was an ordinary Sunday,

‘Til you turned up, then it was Fuuunday!

We took along bread for feeding the birds,

God’s creatures need love, both feathered and furred,

We settled for the path with the steepest rake,

Which leads directly down to the lake,

Exercise for the legs, the heart and the mind,

But to granddads’s old knees, not quite so kind!

Wit...

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I've just been watching a heart-rendingly sad documentary about the American Civil War, and its aftermath.

It's a disgrace to the memory of the fallen, that some of our politicians deliberately and repeatedly use language which could lead to the repetition of such horrors.

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Soggy Moggy

A valiant young lass from Nanking,

Excelled at the sport of dunking;

Pushing William Rees Moggy,

Into a bog made him soggy,

And he’s falling to pieces, poor thing;

Now he’s weeping and wailing for nanny,

Is that great soft Victorian fanny;

He’s a compulsive liar,

Who belongs in the mire;

His resemblance to slime is uncanny.

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I had been in the process of writing and recording this, prior to posting it in advance of the 15:00 hrs Orwellian PANIC NOW! Message.

However, when it came to choosing between this, and an impromptu visit by a 3 and a half year old who wants to go for a walk with Granddad, guess who won!

Turn The Bugger Off!

Masked zombies fearful, walk the line,

Believers, they still serve their...

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There was an old lady called Widdecombe,

As bitter and twisted as they come.

“Making Great Britain Grate”,

She has dangled as bait,

Off to hell in a handcart, we are gone.

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To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling:

We could not dig; nor in daylight rob:

Therefore we lied to please the mob.

Now all our lies are proved untrue

They’ll never live the dreams we slew.

What tale shall serve us here among

Defrauded angry old and young?

Has anyone told Anne Widdecombe that:

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE BREXIT PROMISES HAS BEEN BR...

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Springtime for Hitler;

More than willing April fools.

Frogs slowly boiling.

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He’s risen! To Christendom everywhere, it’s been announced,

A victory for the poor and downtrodden, evil’s been trounced;

That crucified carpenter’s son did not suffer in vain,

Said the Archbishop-who’d sided with slanderers, dealers of pain.

But the tool-maker’s son does not care about justice and light,

Nor turds in the Thames, nor nurses, nor the school-teachers’ plight;

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As part of a long-running smear campaign against the elected leadership of the Labour Party, Dame Margaret Hodge accused Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of being a 'fucking antisemite and racist'. For this she received a mild rebuke by letter from Labour's Disciplinary Committee. Hodge compared this harrowing experience to that of being a Jew in the 1930s. Norman Finkel...

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ABOUT COLERIDGE:

https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=128660#page_comment_276591

Before and after Coleridge's time, there were "Christians" (I use that appellation loosely) who sought to justify the slave trade, on the grounds that the Bible justified it.

And there are today, obnoxious nut jobs, who, on the grounds that The Bible tells them to do so, seek...

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April Fool! - If You Voted for this “Vote Leave” Pack of Lies

You’ll benefit from better care provided by our NHS thanks to the re-allocation of funds from the EU budget.

Controlled immigration will lead to reduced wating times for you and your loved ones.

Excess funding that would otherwise be sent to Brussels can also be directed to education, meaning better prospects for your ...

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Jeremy Clarkson Said..."Striking Public Sector Workers Should be Shot in Front of Their Families".

Why wasn't he sacked,and arrested for incitement to murder +or grievous bodily harm?

https://youtu.be/ovacofuB63A

L'internationale: French; and English below. https://youtu.be/Ptc1c5wi_X8

Debout, les damnés de la terre
Debout, les forçats de la faim
La raison tonne en son cra...

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I've just found this recording of a little girl singing the Ukraine National Anthem.

I first heard her singing "Let it Go" whilst she was in a bunker in Kyiv, a while back.

This is heart-breaking to listen to.

My thoughts and prayers are for the people of Ukraine, and for the people of Russia, including journalists and other actvists who are doing what they can to stop this evil madness.

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Greed and stupidity in equal measure!

Kwasi Kwarteng also co-wrote book with Jeremy Hunt recommending get rid of NHS.

https://youtu.be/LD6A9huZM7c

Led by donkeys, led by donkeys,

Down the Brexit road,

Leading UK brain-washed zombies,

Into mental overload.

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But sir, it wasn’t us, that’s so unfair!

We’ve only been in power for thirteen years,

It was those nasty Europeans, there,

Made of Britannia such a great pig’s ear.

It wasn't Hunt spelled with a C who wrote

That pamphlet saying “Kill the NHS”,

It was those forinners in small rubber boats,

That made the UK an omnishambolic mess.

Oh look at that, a dead cat in the street!

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Mis-Match of the Day,

Tories; Truth and Compassion.

Wife-beaters; Knighthoods.

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Thanks are due to Siobhán of Bitesize Irish for the excellent videos on the pronunciation of Irish poetry etc. https://youtu.be/6RrjBERQzt4

My poem below is in Irish, in Celtic script. Below that, is the poem in Roman script and in English.

Apologies to native Irish speakers!

Scríobh amach os ard é,

Tá mé I ngrá le...

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The UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, is believe it or not, a barrister; yet she is proposing to break the law with her dog-whistle of a bill.

So she has been forced to make the following admission, under section 19(1)(b) of the Human Rights Act 1998:

“I am unable to make a statement that, in my view, the provisions of the Illegal Migration Bill are compatible with the Convention rig...

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First they came for freedom of speech, but I did not speak out

Because my sources told me what I wanted to hear, 

Then they came for the Poor, but I did not speak out 

Because I was not poor, 

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, but I did not speak out 

Because I was not a Trade Unionist, 

Then they came for the Socialists, but I did not speak out 

Becau...

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There’s a flower, that’s for Remembrance;

Poppy of Hope in the rat-race gutter,

Some ego trip by town hall plastic patriots,

Aimed to set our hearts a-flutter,

Whilst sentimental platitudes they parrot;

It might as well be on the Brighton Line,

As into oblivion it’s daily smeared and ground,

By t...

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Who, if anyone, will survive

to read our words?

Will they be found in an archive...

reductio in absurdum,

read in a nuclear winter-proofed bunker

by the very one who

mocked, maligned

and slandered

the prophet

who said

that

they

would

not

press

the

button,

on the grounds that the deterrent was not a deterrent?

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Imperceptibly,

Snowdrops nudging their way up.

Almost the New Moon.

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The text I've used in my post is called Old English Script.

I used photoshop to produce the text and images.

The purpose of calligraphic art is not primarily legibility, but artistic expression.

I've imitated the traditional form of Japanese Haiku.

For example: https://en.wi...

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Oh-and the Refugees and immigrants in Merseyside (according to  UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman).

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