#NewMusicFriday – 16/05/2025
Self-care takes up almost as much time as work nowadays. An irony. I have to admit the whole political situation has left me seriously deflated, when even a supposed centrist/leftish-of-centre… Continue Reading
Island Of Strangers
We’re already there. Where no-one leaves their doors unlocked, Where suspicion is the prime emotion, Where the sick are a burden, Where the poor are third class, Where trans people… Continue Reading
#NewMusicFriday – 09/05/2025
The music is all that matters. I started the show by uttering “Habemus Nova Musica Veneris.” It’s probably grammatically incorrect, but you get the drift. Not convinced by the new… Continue Reading
Stop it now, Labour!
A visceral post. Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery. And that’s just what Labour is doing by offering itself up as Reform Lite, including all the… Continue Reading
#NewMusicFriday – 02/05/2025
Utter chaos. On the show. And in the world. At one point the whole system just decided to stop making sound, so I had to pause recording and reboot the… Continue Reading
Same Old
The grey faces have it all; Anger, resentment, despair, That tiredness of spirit which Comes with daily strife and No change nor happiness in Sight, an ever-shrinking income When other… Continue Reading
Needles
On her table, he is a collection Of meridians and channels, Pulses, emotions, and phases, A puzzle of flesh, sinews, and bones, A network of blockages and gates That need… Continue Reading
basics
the people basic needs basic rights human rights food freedom health life the tyrants basic instincts basic wants inhuman desires inhuman urges greed money power death R 30/04/2025 15:18
Misery. Britain.
Two poems from one prompt today. Misery Misery treats itself to an espresso In one of the many hardly populated Cafés in the city centre. It chooses To sit right… Continue Reading
From A Place Of Safety
It’s an easy thing, from a place of safety, To tell the oppressed and threatened Not to cower, a different thing, when in Their place of danger, not to do… Continue Reading