This is what I want to say
It is entirely appropriate that a poem I wrote in 2016 after the advisory referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU should still be relevant now, in a week… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Life
Indefinite Leave To Remain
A limited company masquerading As a political party demands the Indefinite leave to remain racist, Demands indefinite leave to keep Lying, and to begin ethnic cleansing. At the same time,… Continue Reading
Labour’s Love Lost – and they’ve lost their way, too
I am told it’s counterproductive to having their books read for authors to write political pieces, but I, for one, think we’re obliged to do so. Our words, all of… Continue Reading
Satire Is Dead
We live in an age where there Are two openly fascist countries In this world, one of which Was decimated by fascism In World War Two, The other of which… Continue Reading
The Reckoning – in life and in poetry
We’ve now been back from our annual Agios Nikolaos pilgrimage for a week longer than we were there for. That’s always a sad realisation, and one that, in me, evokes… Continue Reading
Stasis
I’ve been in a period of stasis for a little while, mainly health and tiredness induced. So now I’m going on hols. Perhaps my mojo will come bck. But here’s… Continue Reading
Advisory
It was the parents in Germany who attached the Advisory to me, scared of their little darlings Picking up the wrong lessons from the Englishman with earrings and hardly any… Continue Reading
Blessing
M and I got married 34 years ago today. That in itself is a blessing for me. If only I could remember all the words I have written for you,… 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
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