The brutal bombs pounded the city, shrapnel flew and pierced each animal, plant, person and planted in each the determined hatred of the violence of warring sides. === The doom laden bang lit the sky, fear filled canisters exploding, threaten lives, homes and hearths of thousands of throbbing hearts. ==== The sirens screamed their warning.… Continue reading Anti-vax
They have a dream.
I have a dream, one cried. to subjugate and sully the lives of all those who are not like me. —— I have a dream, two cried. to bully and bait each and everyone who cannot be treated in my equality. —– I have a dream, the third said, to have power and control, to… Continue reading They have a dream.
A Little Child Will Lead Them.
I looked and saw thousands of children, spilling over the land, their eyes all alight and shining; bright as the sunlight on the bright blue sea. —— They danced and sang as they came, and their many hued faces laughing with delight – for these are cheerful children favoured by fortune . ——— I turned… Continue reading A Little Child Will Lead Them.
The Wisdom of Trees
Branches brush their velvety, mossy fingers evoking a rhythm of the beat of nature’s heart, a breeze blows and a gentler pace breathes. ———- A storm grows and they scratch and drum, with fearful passions striving forward to peace. ————– They chant the songs of the seasons, and break out new living leaves, that birth… Continue reading The Wisdom of Trees
Save the Jungle
I moved through the towering trees, with their mellifluous melody and various greens and browns, reds and yellows painting a kaleidoscope, and ————- a perfect canvas for the glory of nature there. Awed, as in a holy place I saw, the joyous sound of water over stone. I sat and watched its furious rushing forcing… Continue reading Save the Jungle
FGM
My mother was the knife that took it from me. She wielded it as it had been for her and the others. Held ——————————————— me down as I screamed. ‘Don’t let them do it, Mummy! Please! Please! Don’t. Stop it! Mummy! Til —————– they stuffed my mouth and then my eyes bulging in… Continue reading FGM
Deaf to the oppressed.
Are you listening? A lonely voice echoes off the cliffs of fixed ears that will only hear if its tune fits. — They called over and over, hoping in vain for the murmuring of many distant voices that crowded around, to tune out nuisance noise; to make a dent in the deepening declivity of intentions… Continue reading Deaf to the oppressed.
Where Land is Rare
I stood on the cliffs and looked out to blue, blue sea, the bobbing boats with lines and nets in the bounty. ——- An innocence spread out on the tortured ruins below the rippling waves where we came too late, too slow. – Heard the bells of the churches and cathedrals… Continue reading Where Land is Rare
Goodness Sown
Politics is the name but man -ipulation the game as they have learned to use our prejudices against us, leaning on us like toppling trees to sway our thinking and blow away our morality. Murdoch has tumbled the ——————— numbers to open he safe, of sanity and pushed the news into his own road. And… Continue reading Goodness Sown
A Moment of Grace
For a moment it blazed across the sky, deep rubies, amethyst and gold as the sun sank below the sea leaving me. I looked and saw through the colours into a lit space where all was possible beyond imagining, For a moment time stopped. Then the sun sank and darkness collected around me – yet… Continue reading A Moment of Grace