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Browsing Category: Poetry
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
Robbery
Filoxenia is Greek for hospitality, And the word xenophile doesn’t Exist in the language the English Robbed of its meanings as well as Stealing its country’s treasures. The English-speaking world… Continue Reading
The Father
I was never meant to be a parent, My own mistreated childhood a Precursor to any kind of fears and Nightmares that being alone and grown Bring, living without a… Continue Reading
Always Limited
Limbo has its own peculiar Emptiness; nothing behind, nothing Ahead, a bright contradiction in The darkness of depression, a powerlessness In the face of decisions made beyond Our grasp, injustices… Continue Reading
Books
As if these old books weren’t dry Enough, the book burners of the World pour kerosene on the pages Of wisdom they ignored and hate, All the holy books of… Continue Reading
Journal
black ink on thick paper secrets dangers lies code snarl curl whim black ink on thin paper doubt fear hate spells dreams curses black ink yellow paper letter word sentence… Continue Reading
Hollow Beast
Daily banalities turned the church Of the hallowed poor into the bank Of a hollowed-out religion far removed From the faith it was. Under the gods Of money and status,… Continue Reading
Substance
The newspapers cut and pasted Into mounds of different meanings. Social media scree-shotted, and not A single fact checked; factless propaganda. What made sense at some forgotten Point is garbled… Continue Reading