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: Poetry
Origin
Take science or faiths, all Often rightly maligned, to Explain where humanity Came from, and all branches Of these disciplines, beliefs, Superstitions, take us back To one singular point of… Continue Reading
Now
Now is a dangerous time In the world, when Grey men who want power Enlist mass support through Lies about immigration, and the Foreign, invent stories of A threat to… Continue Reading
The Racist
You say everyone’s equal. You’re anti-immigrant. You say colour doesn’t matter. You’re anti-immigrant. You say people must be safe. You’re anti-immigrant. You say you have foreign friends. You’re anti-immigrant. You… Continue Reading
The Truth
This is the truth. There Can be no argument. Anti-Zionism is not Anti-semitism. The facts are not Arguable. 83 percent Civilian casualty rate In Gaza. This is not Proportionality in… Continue Reading
Home
When he realised, with hindsight, after Both the monsters had died, that what He’d thought of as home and sanctuary Had been nothing but an illusion, he felt Ill and… 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
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
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