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Poetry

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

Marge Piercy

The Starmer Epigram
Friday, 06 January 2023 16:36

The Starmer Epigram

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The Starmer Epigram by Steven Taylor Our lives no longer feel ground under them.At ten paces you can't hear our words. But whenever there's a snatch of talkit turns to the Holborn mountaineer, the ten thick worms of his fingers,his words like measures of weight, the florid suffocation of his…
A Happy - if only - New Year
Saturday, 31 December 2022 15:05

A Happy - if only - New Year

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A Happy - if only - New Year by David Betteridge Empire is no more and now the lion and wolf shall cease - William BlakeThe fox outruns the huntersand their baying hounds. The linnet, singing joyously,flies free from her cruel cage. The coral reef renews. A New Year dawns.…
Jesus Comes to the Christmas Parade
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 31 December 2022 12:07

Jesus Comes to the Christmas Parade

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Jesus Comes to the Christmas Parade by Rebecca Lowe Jesus came to the Christmas parade,strangely incongruous amongstall the dancing reindeer and artificial snow,almost apologetic, shuffling forwardin his cheap polyester robes.(The beard, at least, was real,unlike Santa's, which was lookingdecidedly threadbare). A troop of Army fusiliersmarched past, bearing a six-footinflatable Santa,…
Christmas poetry round-up, 2022
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 24 December 2022 08:53

Christmas poetry round-up, 2022

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Fran Lock unleashes her annual round-up of outstanding poetry collections; image above by Imtiaz Dharker So here it is, “merry” Christmas? Or not. Not a lot to be joyful about, is there? As the Tories inaugurate their own personal Nightmare Before Christmas. Which feels like it has been going on…
In solidarity with the people: Conservative Clerihews
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:39

In solidarity with the people: Conservative Clerihews

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Conservative Thinkers: thirty clerihews by Chris Norris Thomas HobbesSo feared violent mobsThat he wrote De CiveTo leave them no leeway. Edmund BurkeSaid revolt couldn’t work – Told a sanguinary storySo we wouldn’t vote Tory. Pitt the ElderIs thought to have held aDeep grudge toward George III,Who heartily concurred. Pitt the…
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