In all our sanctuaries we sit at risk

Self-Maiming

By Rogan Wolf December 14th, 2018 @ 10:43 am

References

“Que pensez-voz, Parrot ? What meneth this besynes ?”  from Speak, Parrot by John Skelton (c1460-1529).

“Human kind/Cannot bear very much reality” from Burnt Norton by TS Eliot (1888-1965)

The Parrot Calls for Order

Maybot with the Adults

• Links

  • About Me
  • Hyphen-21

• Hyphen-21 Projects

  • An Exhibition of Bilingual poems in Clifton Cathedral, Bristol.
  • Poems for…the wall

• Poems and Prose online or on film

  • A Light Summer Dying
  • Anchorite poems
  • Augustin doing life
  • Cat Vies with Hard Drive for my Soul
  • Copper Beeches
  • Despatches to my Gazan Son – audio with photographs
  • Dust
  • Exhibition of bilingual poems in Clifton Cathedral
  • Fables and Reflections
  • Gazze Risalesi – audio (in Turkish) with photographs
  • My Dark Angel
  • Of My Neighbour the Severn
  • Of Stone
  • Of the Hyphen (between I and Thou)
  • Owl in Stone
  • Parrot Addenda (Distilled Version)
  • Parrot Addenda – a running commentary on Brexit, in verse.
  • Poems for the Campaign
  • Poems in Memoriam in Time for Lent
  • Reflections on Breaking
  • Riding the Hyphen – three poem sequences
  • Riding the Hyphen – Video – A reading event in the Friend's Meeting House, London
  • Sayings
  • Shadow poems
  • Songs of the Carer
  • Speak, Parrot – an adaptation of a 16th century poem on freedom of speech
  • The Going
  • To the Centre for Mental Health
  • Travels of the Last Emperor
  • Words on a Cliff

• Some Previous Posts I Like Especially

  • A Drawing of Conclusions
  • A feature on "Poems for…the wall" in an Italian arts website called Margutte
  • Can Liberal Democracy Survive our Tumult ?
  • Despatches to My Gazan Son
  • The Crime of lying to the People – short Youtube video
  • To Lie
  • To Lie to a Sovereign People is a Crime of High Treason

• Work for Sale

  • Of Animal and Other Meetings – an illustrated book of poems for sale – hardback version £15 + VAT
  • Of Animal and Other Meetings – an illustrated book of poems for sale – paperback version – £8.50 +VAT

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