Richard Pierce

Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter

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Poetry

100/2023

Those icons on their self-built Pedestals, those corrupt Visceralities who spread Lies as fact, do not Wrestle With their conscience, for They have none. We might think They have no… Continue Reading

Poetry

99/2023

We were never meant to have A national identity. That way Always war lay. There was never a reason for Discrimination based on colour Except for the inferiors’ fear. Borders… Continue Reading

Poetry

98/2023

What once we were, Echoes of the classic myths Carved in a different alphabet Under the heat of a Mediterranean Sky. What once we were, In the battles’ mirrors, Untouchable… Continue Reading

Poetry

97/2023

the past creeps up on me from the most unexpected places to inflict its melancholy on my present moments burrow back to those days of immortality those hours that were… Continue Reading

Poetry

94/2023

We have taken the night off from our marriage, Dance in the muted candlelight with whomever We choose, our plague masks held in place by Locked chains we cannot undo… Continue Reading

Poetry

93/2023

the lovers the betrayal the man who lied the skin the blindfold the chains the open mouth the honey the ant hill the farewell the white bones R 03/04/2023 21:20