resolution
resolution
I don't do new year
there is a lot of noise here
none of it is mine
when the chimes kick in
auld lang syne hands are unlinked
as phones point skywards
cascading fireworks
fall on lost souls in doorways
where poverty lies
auld lang syne new year poverty selfie-culture tri-haiku waste of money
Comments
no problem Brian ?
Never thought I'd get to the end of this thread......
I liked your write Ian........
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 1st Jan 2020 21:08
Ian...thanks for the exchange. Hope we haven't fallen out...I am a supporter of your work.
Brian
I won't get into a political/ideological argument with you. One thing I will say is that poetry, music, art can highlight the facts in a way that (say) tory newspapers will not.
This does not alter the fact that your initial comment missed the point - so just to make it clear: £2,000,000 of fireworks, indeed, fell on everyone. It was the homeless who would suffer most by that money not being spent on them. So, as with rainfall, it rained on everyone and everyone got wet. Some people suffered that wetness more than others. Not political - FACT.
I don't explain my poems normally - in this case I feel I had to ?
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 1st Jan 2020 20:25
Ian, homelessness is a disgrace in a country as wealthy as the UK. Politics can solve it, not poetry. Unfortunately the party best equipped to solve it did not appeal to the demographic most at risk of homelessness...because they failed to represent their core vote's wishes. How mad is that?
It is about the homeless - and my comments are still valid about your challenge to that line - is there any wonder so many poems are about the homeless these days? As a good friend of mine is wont to say 'we fight until they lose'.
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 1st Jan 2020 19:50
Sorry Ian, perhaps I jumped to a conclusion that your poem was about the homeless. So many are these days.
thanx for the kind comments.
Brian - I think you may have had a point if the line had been 'fall only on lost souls in doorways' otherwise your comment supports the line as it is as lost souls are a sub-group of everyone ?
Ian
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 1st Jan 2020 16:59
Thanks Po. My first taste of patronisation of 2020.
<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 1st Jan 2020 16:18
Fireworks are completely random...they'll fall on anyone, not just the homeless.
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Martin Elder
Thu 2nd Jan 2020 09:41
Both cogent and pithy as always Ian.
Nice one mate