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See America burning

See America burning on a choking smoky white night amid the black light of raging fire

America, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, poem, poetry, race, racism

Ending Silence: America’s not so different

I’m sitting here feeling disgusted, watching yet another black man murdered at the hands of police.

America, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, Minnesota, no peace without justice, Non-fiction, racism, riots

Never Ending Time, by Elena Wenman

Lockdown is ever so painful, make it end / There’s technology, so many apps to try / great what will happen next, this might extend

distraction, lockdown, poem, poetry, technology

Sui generis

Of its own kind,
solo straining wings capturing clear breeze,
no higher nor lower a concept than self.

national poetry day, poem, poetry

Today’s news

I looked at my beautiful new wings / but shuddered at my old ones / and all the dust they bring.

ageing, birthday, growing old, national poetry day, poetry

My new short-story & poetry collection

I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce my new short-story and poetry collection, Burn The Word.

collection, Fiction, new, poetry, short story, writing

Once were trees

There are roots I’ve always known which wrap around my arms, holding me deep inside the earth, breathing my breath.…

national poetry day, nature, poem, poetry, self, trees

Exit painting left

After Kaveh Akbar    There is this loveable saint: He sees me in fallen down ditches, covered in bracken. 

kaveh akbar, poem, poetry

Liquidising Atoms

‘How do you accessorise a bomb? I’d probably go for sprinkles instead of nails’

ban the bomb, bomb, commercialisation, distraction, nuclear, poem, poetry

Social Audit

“The thing I don’t understand,” Shirley was saying as she’d shooed his hand away from the screen, scrolling and sliding through various pages, “is that we give you people so many areas in which you can thrive, work, play, and talk to fun, interesting and creative people. So why do you feel the need to go back to the web?”

audit, censorship, dystopia, Fiction, net neutrality, open web, short story, social media, web

Bluebird

‘Do not look for my body, my wings, to do but what I make of them.’

bluebird, celebrity, poem, poetry

Sine qua non

‘We became as reliant as the ocean to the sky, as vital as the heat at the centre of the earth to the thin stem threading together green leaves.’

beauty, condition, essential, family, poem, poetry, truth

Flag

‘I wore a flag right down to its first and last threads.’

flags, global, history, nations, poem, poetry, politics, war, world

Affordable Artwork

‘Being an artist means not averting one’s eyes – Akira Kurosawa’

art, beauty, fake news, poem, poetry, truth

On & On

‘Everything belongs to the rich; from your beating soul to your weeping heart, they bought it all many years hence.’

fascism, greed, poem, poetry, Trump

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