Saturday, 5 July 2025

5th July 2025

older lady on Facebook

teaching self-defence for women

more like her, please

Misogyny and panic shake the world

and those old men who want to stay behind;

return to times ere citizens unfurled

the laws that ban our antisocial crimes.

Repeal permission for the right to live

without the fear of constant persecution fights

about the way you want to try to give

your neighbours the respect of human rights.

Farage complains he didn't vote for "His Great Land"

to let gays marry; lauds that "common sense"

returns when books from libraries are banned

and claims transgender issues an offence.

And like his idol from the USA

he vows to lock all poorer folk away.

Sensei Chelle

Nigel Farage brands same-sex marriage law ‘wrong’: ‘I didn’t support it’

Reform UK-run council removes trans books from children’s sections of libraries

Friday, 4 July 2025

4th July 2025

jitsu four times a week

my hip becomes damaged

a night's sleep

He calls to connect with leaders of faith

but just the Christians; for only they

are gullible enough to fall for swathes

of honeyed words and promises to pay

a nod or two towards their Holy Book

by the endorsement of a moral code

to punish those who, unelected, look

upon a more forgiving and enlightened road.

When the call becomes beset with woe

at first he blames the bosses of AT and T

who claim it's not their fault at all and so

he thinks it caused by spirt entity

If his assumption of a ghost be true

then could it be that God loves transkids too?

Thursday, 3 July 2025

3rd July 2025

purple poppy

admired as we walk past

destroyed an hour later

Mourn not for me when I have left this life

for I have lived a goodly length of time

and though I think I have endured strife

in truth, my very being was sublime.

For by my hand this painting doth exist;

these books, this poetry of meagre skill

ripples in the lake of memory persist

and in the minds of men, for good or ill.

And mayhap, in the future, someone reads

a novel of a life lived mostly free

and is inspired to make the change they need

become the soul they thought themself to be.

Though cans't forget me not, while in these strokes

another life is bettered 'midst these poorer folks.

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

2nd July 2025

bad dreams

DK's left-hand-drive Jag

no visibility

In Glastonbury, in the autumn of my years

a Punk-Rock rapper's lawful five-word chant

of 'Death, Death to the IDF' brought fears

of terrorism to the UK parliament;

because the trade relations rule

above the disregard for human life

and we, as a country, are a fool

to send them weapons and prolong the strife

while they kill the Palestinians who queue

unarmed and starving for the charity

of other nations while the IDF

encourage boycotts by the BBC.

We should condemn six hundred Gazan deaths

And not censor those opposing breaths.

https://www.inkl.com/news/welcome-to-britain-2025-where-a-musician-s-words-cause-more-outrage-than-the-murder-and-horror-in-gaza

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

1st July 2025

The night is hot

and full of wakefulness.

The dog's bad breath.

To govern a group of citizens well

you must be prepared to change opinion

because, historically, all leaders fell

from listening to the country's minions.

Be prepared to flip-flop your decisions

and follow orders form your richest peers

for every law in place will need revisions

when the wealthiest are forced to face their fears.

What better way to show the use of power

than to oppress the smallest folk in number

whether it be blacks or gays, or those who flower

until their human rights are torn asunder.

Unless it's folk from even bigger states

And then you just extend your deadline dates.

keir starmer changes his mind again

Monday, 30 June 2025

30th June 2025

The night is dark

and full of terrors.

Anxiety dreams

Noel Gallagher has reached the fine age

where he thinks that his opinions matter;

while Rod Stewart bangs on how good Farage

would be to make the English Fat Cats fatter.

Both condemn the young musicians on the shelves

for being 'woke' and having views opposed

to those of Rich, Old, White Men like themselves

while they forget that social justice grows

not from embracing current status quo

but calling out injustice. Do they remember

when they echoed Marley's call to throw

oppression down and Free Nelson Mandela?

Complacency opposes something new

do they believe that Russians love their children too?

Sunday, 29 June 2025

29th June 2025

anti-trans rhetoric

openly celebrated

pro-Palastine criminalised

I recall well the gathering of friends

to party while my father was away

and in the morning sought to make amends

by sweeping all the floors by light of day.

The vacuum cleaner had so little power

it would take a dozen passes to make clean

and that's exactly what this Flymo mower

does upon the grass grown summer green.

The first pass takes a few stalks, it is true,

although it takes a hefty strength to push

and pull in a repeating motion few

would have stamina to beat around the bush.

The wire which feeds it power is too short

though it does collect the cuttings, as it ought.