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2020 Slaughter
Timeless memories of days that mould our families, and friends come round for a coffee and a chat. While, the insistent echoes of government tell us what they want us to hear and what they wilfully want to do. And ——————————- so many hugless months have slowly palled and painted faces with sadness and tears…
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The Butterfly Effect
The butterfly floated thru’ the feathered branches and silently shimmered against the darker bark. ‘This is good, so good,’ said God and delightedly called other butterflies of diverse hues into life. ————————————————— They created a cloud of colours brighter than any rainbow, pale as sunlight on snow as they trickled together through the tousled trees.…
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Crooked Leadership
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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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