Backing poet's fight against deportation
Liverpool’s Writing on the Wall festival presents a poetry evening in support of poet Lily Mosini’s campaign against deportation at the Bluecoat in Liverpool on Thursday 19 May. Reading with Lily Mosini will be poets Rommi Smith and Clare Shaw, award-winning writer Brian Chikwava and Gambian-born novelist Dayo Forster. Lily Mosini has experienced brutal persecution in Iran because of her work, and has the threat of deportation hanging above her – something that would put her life at risk. Venue: Sandon Room, The Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX. Time: 7.30pm - 10.30pm. More details
Noetic-fret!
Sun 24th Apr 2011 12:35
Ode for Joy
How many rods in the
Front of your genes?
How many genes in the
Rods of your being?
Did you call on nature –
An altruistic favour?
Become a butch fallacy
Filling people’s with hatred?
How many careers in a
Jobseekers tears?
How corrupted the man
For a gallon of beer?
Did you nestle compassion –
An empathy to savour?
Are you an extraction of man,
Your childhood tastefully flavoured!
All in all, is Society
Judged by peers, just to be billed?
Billed like an omen from a
Gardener forcefully willed?
(A Joy on the wing,
Prayers we did sing),
Not bending the laws for wiping
The floors of innocent victims,
‘You,’ haven’t killed.
Do you stretch out
A tale to invigorate results?
Are you applauding your own
While patching targets in butts?
Am I now pricking your
Conscience? Perhaps teasing
The best, for if you didn’t care,
You wouldn’t be consciously blessed,
For if trust be pushed by
Bigots wailing in blue,
A truth must be known –
Convicted in you,
A man’s just a man,
A dame but a dame,
Social reactions is all
To this World at blame, and if
God be a policeman – charging –
Judging the weakness of ‘Man,’
I would shout
“Stop the trial Lord,
Put Your soul in remand.”
Michael J Waite Sunday 14th September 2008. 2015hrs.