Accountable? me? Please, don’t be daft, The sun shines out of my smiley mouth, my empty eyes twinkle like sparkling stars, my baffled brain works to shadow my hand. ————————— Why should I be challenged and accused? Why should you tell me that I am wrong? When will you understand that I am a person… Continue reading Crooked Leadership
Not the National Health Service
They clip along clinical corridors and treat the tedious and the tragic, each one reaching beyond their limits so that each one has hope. =========== Enclosing, muffling masks cover their sympathetic smiles, then it’s visors and space suits and visitors unwelcome, and the space is sanitised. =============== Theatres meant for healing lie empty, panicking… Continue reading Not the National Health Service
The Prisoner
as someone else charts her child’s precious years
Darkness
What happened to darkness? Was it where the bogeyman lived, the dragon under my bed, the time to touch, to tingle and enjoy a sweet sexy snog? —————————- Or was it the deep dark where callous criminals took advantage and left a small voice crying, terrified of the call ‘lights out’, well used by a… Continue reading Darkness
Exterminating Fires.
One moment in time a human
celebrated curling smoke rising
through their homes, and flickering
flames shone, softening their fear of
growing darkness and the waiting wilful wilderness.
Then like Saruman, they learnt
to use it to enslave, and invent
monstrous machines, turning
buried treasures to killing gases,
polluting their joy, stealing elite, innate innocence.
The fires now burn earth’s lungs,
animals lunge for safety, terrified
people flee, flames leaping
from vast fires, which fill the over
heated atmosphere with gas,
creating a string of dreadful, deadly disasters
Gifted to us by a gracious hand,
a blue planet, oceans for a heart,
forests to be breathe for creation,
and ice caps sparkling as eyes
and the call of children a clear call of conscience.
But, now the heart is diseased,
the lungs collapsing with cancer,
the melted poles reveal a terrible
lack of sight, amidst the call of
little ones, silenced by the grip of grim greed.
A Refuge from Incompetence.
Distraught on the rugged, stony cliff, she watched the surf spilling onto rocks. The sussurating sea, a rolling reminder to her of Autumn winds and whirling leaves. ———————————– The mizzling mist came heavily, hugging, and wrapping her with a welcome refuge shushing the hustling agitation in her haven, til eased, soothed, safe on her own… Continue reading A Refuge from Incompetence.
Fascist Take Over
Muttering behind their fisted hands, and murmuring voiced their complaints, and muted applause for a strangled clause, that moderates a response while killing goes on. ———————– Burbling streams that wear folk down, and buttering up the cream of influence, and bartered appeals that threaten children, through bargaining that weights the loaded die. ————————- Fractured opposition… Continue reading Fascist Take Over
A Fascist Symphony
Emboldened by the brazen bigotry of his bearing, he betrayed the people who gave him his power, a democracy broken by a peering, prying, lying leader and furthering his feathering by freely paving a patterned pathway in bribes and scandal. ———————————— Helpless we watch and wearily we retweet or write to those who should be… Continue reading A Fascist Symphony
Death Ripped Him from Her.
The jagged edges of his death cut through her heart, tearing it out and displaying it for all to see. She looked at it forcing the blood around her body hating it for keeping her alive when he had gone. ——————- Texting messages that showed hope, when she knew the the white… Continue reading Death Ripped Him from Her.
The Black Messiah
They pushed the cross over and his body banged the earth, His eyes wide staring, blood dried and his mouth of love set in rictus like a scream as he gasped for one more breath, his skin the colour of mahogany, peeled and a burned by —————– the sun which touched him, naked and humiliated… Continue reading The Black Messiah