HOME FROM WAR – a poem This sonnet is in my last book, Guerrilla Country (published by Flight of the Dragonfly, 2024). It was also published in Shot Glass Journal in May 2023. Home from war In landscapes where trees used…

Home From War - a sonnet

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HOME FROM WAR – a poem This sonnet is in my last book, Guerrilla Country (published by Flight of the Dragonfly, 2024). It was also published in Shot Glass Journal in May 2023. Home from war In landscapes where trees used…

Home From War - a sonnet

philvernon.net/2026/04/16/h...

Prioritising Peace: What the UN Should Ask of Its Next Secretary-General | International Crisis Group The race to become the next UN Secretary-General is under way. Whoever gets the post will need to rebuild the organisation’s geopolitical standing on matters of war and peace.

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🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

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Who knew the royals supported Man City?

Did an aide actually type this message?

The trigonometry dream?

.. and a third

another Easter poem

Easter poems

.. and a third

another Easter poem

Easter poems

not worried about rising again?

Poem - 'On Turning Ten' by Billy Collins

Posting this on my birthday

The poem treats the 10th birthday as a quiet loss, a stepping out of childhood

This small shift, from 9 – 10, shows how growing up happens quietly & gradually

Full of humour & nostalgia & then ending with something deeper & more philosophical

#poetry
#poemoftheday

Map reading, a poem. This poem was published in the Irish poetry magazine Abridged last year. Map reading What, then, is time? If no-one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to he who asks, I do not know.- St. Augu…

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Map reading. A poem.

Map reading, a poem. This poem was published in the Irish poetry magazine Abridged last year. Map reading What, then, is time? If no-one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to he who asks, I do not know.- St. Augu…

philvernon.net/2026/03/28/m...
Map reading. A poem.

In Democracy in America, de Tocqueville comes across an (already) deserted settler home in the Eastern USA (on an island in a lake, from memory) and his reaction was "Quoi! Deja des ruines?" - I used it as an epigraph in my book of poems about conflict, as almost seemed like a prophesy... #fragility

... and civil society? (Clutching at straws)

I guess maybe we could have confidence in (some of) the States? Maybe?....

How Jews and Christians came to Muslims' defence What an open iftar revealed about Britain’s changing language on faith - and the solidarity now emerging in response

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Today in luxury surveillance

Colin Bancroft | wave 25 | spring 2026 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard Hear poet Colin Bancroft read poems for wave 25 of literary poetry journal iamb.

'Nothing good ever came from being the first one in. More people have walked on the moon than have won from the number one position, remember that.'

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I admire your patience in constantly re typing this gobbledegook

Trump as genetics expert now

Two things here.

One, you don't sit there and whine about media coverage and headlines if things are going well.

Two, the administration is just outright saying that they fully expect Ellison to use CNN to be a Trumpist propaganda organ.

Extraordinary

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.