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
Browsing Tag: poem
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
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
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
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