Yes I’m writing live now about our village

Hoping the ideas are going to flow

And as things go, I feel it strong

A compulsion to write and highlight 

Things to be excited about, right or wrong

Just about the things we see, as we observe

The flowers, shrubs and trees

In the vast green areas we still have 

In this place we live, maligned and blighted

We may be, but the truth is, the apple doesn’t fall,

far from the tree, in those places where they criticise,

but have never seen the whites of our eyes,

Only forming opinions from what they hear

and read in a media world that makes us cry 

With their ‘tragic’ stories to get us to buy

Their shoddy tabloids, a far cry from the truth

‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’

A live poem©️Fred Varden 21.44pm

15th September 2018