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Child Brides
Her sparkling shoes, and dress of white a princess she felt as she walked to her smiling groom. A glance to her father, looking the other way. A glance to her mother whose face was masked but her tears were not. It is legal, they said. ————————– He took her to their home He took…
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Self Worth
Where is the trickle of hope if in fear we live? We have let the powers rope us, tie us, knotting their twine of undermining and upsetting strings of self loathing. ——————– We shake and shiver in the shadows, shushing the voice that cries within us like a knife to cut the line that entangles,…
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Mother Earth
Her vital blood vessels, congested with synthetic carbons and an aortic aneurism of melting ice issuing and spilling over a splashed land. —————————— Her joints, arthritic and stiffened by politicians feasting on fine minerals. Muscles, fatigued by black, oil soaked economies, shunning the light. ———– Growth glands and physiology polluted by toxins derived from fertilisers,…
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A child of war
Scrabbling in the dirt, gripping her mud splattered space, facing the fury of human hatred, a child crying for a chance to be. ———————– Pulling herself up, handheld tight to the hideous sight, eyes blanketed and bleached a wretched one of warring men. ————————- Stooping to touch him, scrabbling in the ruins of love she…
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Indifference
Indifference. The sun was sinking below the sea, reddening the thundering waves, as they seek ever to wash away the ever encroaching, life taking — human indifference to its might. —- The orange tinted clouds breathed in the scent of salt and green rich trees that waved in the wind, and lifted the souls of…
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2019
Plastic polluted oceans tangling, wrapping wizened wild life in brackish brooks. Melting glaciers,, hectoring heat, fire fighting, deadly winds, bodies broken, whitened bones, whipped indifference buried in heaps. ——————– Brutal killings heavenly heroes, snatching or stealing, children of charity, running refugees, rife of rape, dearth of convictions, laughing leerers, wrecking whispers, tawdry tales and fascists…
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Separated
His heart broken by her careless words directed at his pain, as she left with their son emptying his pockets, ——————— and tearing his heart. He beats back the tears; and the loneliness of the silence, of their shared —————————– home pared of his peace. Mates pat him on the back where his son rode,…
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A Teenager
On through the desert on a donkey she rubbed her aching back and panted through the spasm in her stomach as the long ride and poor food, and a long laden pregnancy were stretching her system. ———————– He walked ahead of her and turned to check, she saw his smile and tried to return it…
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Fy Nghariad/ My love
Fy Nghariad – My love The words trip off the tongue, and write the limits of choice each thought a myriad possibilities, impossibly wanting a voice ——————— to describe a man of character, whose heart is known to more because of grateful generosity of his willingness to feel —————– their pain, and hold it in…
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Emergency Climate Over
The skeletal remains of the last of lives sightless eyes stare up at the bleaching sun, while the grit gilds them. ——————————– Broken cities dry as the dust from fallen homes and human bones silently cling to costly crippling pasts. ——————————- High over the hills stretches the storm ridden. hope hidden sky, where no bird…
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