Their faces hidden by veiled views of disdain towards the poor and unemployed, suffering slaves and a cold contempt for the ones who stand against the constant cover-up of criminal ——– actions that pass unheeded before the courts, which they manipulate to their own ends and the visor of innocence is strengthened by misinformation and… Continue reading Democracy lost.
Lockdown Terror
Creeping through to the cold kitchen, desperate, daring to decant a drink into her dirty cup from her school bag long since hung up, and the small heart in the little girl clung achingly to the hope that he would not hear. ——————————- Canned from his countless cans, his cantankerous snoring filled her head and… Continue reading Lockdown Terror
Echoes
Absorbed he bent his head, listening, to hear the echoes of days past and hearing nothing, lapses into sleep where he is young again, yearning. ————————- She was there laughing, but with no name and waking he frustratedly tugged the rug, warmly wrapping his legs which no longer walked his way.… Continue reading Echoes
The Passionate Waterfall
The strumming of the running stream, jumped and blundered, sloshing over rocks and boulders in its way, til toppling lavishly, like lovers flinging caution ————————— to a wrestling wind, it waits and then as an angel it falls, slowing motion, creating rainbows, raindrops, rushing, thundering as it collapses and crashes ——————- into a waiting pool… Continue reading The Passionate Waterfall
A Thought
A thought is but a fleeting moment in time, that like water slips into the small spaces and trickling through pervading the whole with its denigration or delight, hate or hope. ————————– The trickling consequences of biased thinking, busily blinds the sighted, and bruises the beauty of the hated, hunted, harried, human now bowed down… Continue reading A Thought
Deadly
There was a cloud of purple winged butterflies, fluttering to and fro, settling like thistledown on the flowers and leaves of the thickly wooded slopes of the rising morning misted mountains. —————————— Bees hummed amidst the ruby red geraniums, and their tiny legs filled with he mysteries of multi grains of pollen, carry back to… Continue reading Deadly
Children in Chains
Proudly the traders stood, as the ship came to port, T’was in Bristol, not so long ago whence they came, Each full of self importance, watching their black gold thrust from the very bowels of a boat to hell. —————— They stood in chains, naked, on show, picked over. Each body demonstrated to the purchasers… Continue reading Children in Chains
I have a Dream.
“I have a dream,” he spoke clearly and the people cheered and agreed. while government grew the cult of ‘white supremacy” no Klu Klux Klan, begat by burning crosses, visible but the silence of white supremacy shouted through the establishment til the rootedness grew like bindweed ——————————– but only those who threaded their twisting origins… Continue reading I have a Dream.
Super Powers
The labyrinth closes its teeth upon the walking weary, brides of empty pockets, and plates weighted with weeds for food, and the hungry minotaur of wealthy governments nibbling at their ills and taking away their children. ==================== Each turn brokered a new agreement to supplement their lot, and take away any rights and dreams, turning… Continue reading Super Powers
One rule for me
His eyes were darkly darting, as he surveyed from high. The ivory tower that chained the poor and the care workers to queues at a local food bank. ——————- He groaned as the media attacked him. He moaned behind the bricks at us while smiling thinly, and showing us whitened teeth, which have been polished… Continue reading One rule for me