Category: General
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Easter 2016
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I saw a man the other day to my surprise suspended from a single dot floating in the sky. He was attached to it by hands and feet nailed through. He looked dreadfully contorted. Perhaps the dot had fallen off some broken line or other. It drifted past on the wind the expression on the…
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The Emperor travels to Piedmont
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The last Emperor of Constantinople is still wandering Europe, hiding in huts and caves, bedding down beside the motorways, seeking cover, night after night, beside our continent’s frontiers all dressed out these days in barbed wire. Perhaps he seeks a new city, a new way of being, a way worthy of our race ; or…
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We Have Government
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We have government by massage, manipulation, lie. It attacks the body politic. We watch and we comply. Power is its only purpose deceit its only skill the electorate just putty for moulding to its will. Our “leaders” claim the right to rule through winning our consent their means of winning foul their ways of winning…
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Joining the Bombfest
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For the record, I was one of those who joined the Labour Party after the UK election of last May. Soon after that, I voted for Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party and Tom Watson as Deputy. I think that what is happening in the Labour Party is a sorry and miserable mess,…
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Truth tells – another time
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Aortal Bleeding Perhaps our Creator lacks a mind and therefore had no plan for how yours and mine would work. In which case our lives and history are just a continuous accident like a river nosing downhill chancing on points of give. But it’s hard not to decipher a certain deliberation verging on cruelty in…
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Going to Work
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The leaves are sodden they’ll take months to become useful again. I bagged them today in a world so warm I used my fingers to rake the grass clear of their wet colours. I imagine them now as I write with the wind getting up and the fox stirring for his scavenge through the…
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Truth tells, twice over
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Air Threat The space outside grows too dangerous to tolerate too frightening to explore. It has been poisoned. There was a time when danger threatened only across deep water but now no longer. All the systems, the traceries, the capillaries are fracturing right here on the doorstep a…
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Dignity and Light
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Two new poem collections are about to be uploaded on the website of the project I run, called “Poems for…“. One of them is on Learning Disability and is called “Poems for… Bridges to Learning Disability” The other is on mental ill-health and is called “Poems for…Self at Sea“. The poems in both collections bring……