In some future time
when it’s all breaking down,
when stars fall like arrows,
can I come round?
Villanelle on historical relativism
It’s not hard to pull down a statue, happens every day.
Granite, bronze or concrete — it makes no difference my dear,
they come down quite easily, if there’s a will there’s a way. Continue reading
War of words
Roget’s thesaurus has more than enough synonyms for war in English. Here’s a few.
Wikipedia lists 59 active ongoing conflicts around the world, 14 of which have caused more than 1000 deaths in the current or past year.
War – what is it good for? by Edwin Starr (say it again)
Grandeur
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sorry, this only works on my site – come visit ] or try the PDF here.
Sum(mer) sonnet
If I were to engineer a blind here
obscuring all of this bright summer’s day,
and thru the tiniest chink, like Vermeer
or Newton, a memory-spectrum display. Continue reading
that ending (2)
Now our first/final embrace.
Flung through fantastic retinue
for years, felt frequencies,
flew thru flowing waters (what a rush) –
finding precursors. Continue reading
that ending (1)
…I saw a forest
where loneliness permeates
every sod. Continue reading
The river
[this looks much better on my site]
…on the desk the hands are lit.
Men are shuffling their feet,
tidy nails, a ring, a scar across the pinky —
watch hands & listen to the men… Continue reading
Kids’ stuff – Protection – update
A new funding campaign has opened for Protection the film from the team at Beyond Empathy who brought you the award-winning Rites of Passage. Continue reading
Sonnet (EM spectrum)
Given there have only ever been a handful of emotions —
tho, as our eyes evolved to particular lines in the spectrum,
so our sensible hearts may be dumb to all the high-energy
bursts & low-frequency murmurings which rain on us daily —
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