In all our sanctuaries we sit at risk

Author: Rogan Wolf

  • Three Poems post-Brexit

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      Last Stand   The hyphen between I and Thou is our last stand and foothold. There’s nowhere else to retreat to. No set answer no fixed place. Centuries back the desert fathers came here and left strange word behind among skull and thigh bone and the odd green shoot forced into life through ardent…

  • Where to Look for Answers ?

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    Post Brexit, despair floods in, layer by layer ; the lamentable result itself, how it was arrived at, and the background from which the mayhem welled up, now cascading all over us. Any space anywhere for hope ? In search of hope, where might we expect to look ? To the steppe from whence the…

  • How can we Defend Free Speech from the Lie ?

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    This piece follows the recent UK referendum on our membership of the EU. Both the quality of the debate and the “decision” that came out of it have left many millions of people reeling and horrified. But how was that decision arrived at ? Why do so many of us find it impossible to accept…

  • Riding the Hyphen between I and Thou

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    With our present tumult and travails in mind, I have remembered a series of poems I wrote in the mid-nineties called “I Hyphen Thou.” I thought they might be relevant then, but they seem even more so now. Below are two short extracts. The idea of the hyphen is based on a book called “I…

  • Post-Referendum First Thoughts

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    At the time of writing, Britain is faced with what the experienced commentator Michael White has described as the worst political crisis of his lifetime. Not just our political parties, but much of our democratic process seem to be imploding. It seems that, having voted to break away from the EU, our nation itself feels…

  • The EU Referendum

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    We note a rising panic on our street on behalf of Remain. Apparently the Labour faithful are not responding to the cool economic arguments Remain has orchestrated. Down with Them Foreigners – that’s the winning one. Our sceptred isle is now encircled and infiltrated by loadsa terrorists and criminals and other high-speed novelties and bewilderments,…

  • After Pentecost

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      We perch on this bright speck in the universe yet poison it   reach out for the truth yet poison the truth   partake of God yet poison our godliness   were made one of another yet poison one other.   In the cause of Self and poisoning all Other   we have only…

  • Homecoming

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    It’s as if the landscape has gathered you into its arms making you not just welcome here but whole. It has reached out and found you where you alone could not. You are never lost among these contours. They map your interior. You are discovered here.   Rogan Wolf, April 2016… continue reading