Arguably even more relevant today than when ee cummings published it in 1944. Often I reinterpret historical works, but in this case there is no need.
#Trump #BecomeDeath #EpsteinFiles #MidTerms #InsaneNarcissist
Here's my working title.
#WorldSheriff #Peace2026 #Khomeini?
A #byelection looms so I’ll post this now; have to pace the source material though.
#ReformUK launch their ‘shadow cabinet’ at a junket with 4 of their 8 MPs. Amongst the posts not filled are foreign sec, defence and justice. Braverman is made #Equalities minister, a post she immediately abolishes.
I do appreciate that ‘Haddocks’ isn’t quite seven layers deep btw, like some of my scribblings. Neither is the subject matter- this is light relief, not least from the Other Story. Later verses with better known characters get funnier- a couple have already written themselves.
#ReformUK’s Kent council raise council tax by 4%, despite a pledge not to, and slash children’s services.
Reform’s #Zahawi, a self confessed ‘big guy’ gets scared by a tired man on the streets of Chelsea, and Jim Ratcliffe says the UK is full of ‘tiny black holes’- think I heard that last correctly.
January 2026: On the home front, Robert #Jenrick and Suella #Braverman join the right-wing Reform UK from the Conservatives, three months out from the local elections. Probably just a co-incidence.
#Farage #Cheshire #Reform #Bosch
'And the world is like a pineapple whirling dangerously in space....'
youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS...
Great stuff England... 🎉
Stay focused though. 🏴
Go 🏴.
Go 🏴.
Four years can seem like an eternity...
#RugbyWorldCup2027
#DareToHope
#RaindropsKeepFalling
'Explaining things to the narcissist is like explaining why it was raining to the rain. The rain doesn't care and will just keep falling.'
Dr Ramani Durvasala, 'It's Not You: How to Identify and Heal from Narcissistic People.'
Definitely time for an uplifting contribution I feel... BRB.
(with apologies to Nigel Farage)
#Faradox #ThroughTheLookingGlass #Defections #LocalElections
#OneYear in; Donald Trump kidnaps Nicholas Maduro- a power mad dictator who claimed to win an election he lost. In unrelated US news, Congress slowly release redacted Epstein files, ICE agents kill an innocent, unarmed woman… and mid-term elections loom. #DeadCat #Kurtz #Delaware #Rubicon #Maduro
This is based on ‘#TheNewColossus’- written by a Jewish poet for the Statue of Liberty- after #Netanyahu both received backing for his #Gaza demands from Donald #Trump, and arrested peace campaigner #GretaThunberg, on #YomKippur. Sincere apologies that the first uploaded draft was imperfect.
#Irony
First new poem in this stream... written for the uk political #conference season, 2025.
A few days before, Nigel Farage had suggested that UK immigrants had been eating swans, mirroring #TheDonald's claim that US immigrants had been eating pets.
#Brexit #Farage #Wonderland #Sunak #SirKier
A short poem, but one of my favourites; written after the second #StateVisit of #TheDonald to the UK, in 2025. It was mostly at #Windsor Castle. Prior to the visit, #PresidentTrump had announced a new #ballroom would be built at the White House.
#Coleridge #Xanadu #AliBaba
This was written after the first visit of #PresidentZelenskyy to the #Trump White House, where he was heckled by #Donald’s lackeys. It provided catharsis at a dark turn in #geopolitics; the core satirical point rests on what you know of #ChristopherSteele and certain #RitzCarlton rumours.
#TieGate
‘Amess’ was sadly written shortly after the assassination of MP #DavidAmess, and described a wasteland of #Brexit despondency. It’s a straight forward #poem, perhaps more reflective of what I understood of his character, and expressly written to counterbalance ‘Cashmere’, above.
#Southend
This is a bit of a diversion from politics, but the connection was the 2019 #prorogation scandal, which included a high profile Tory delegation visiting #Balmoral to ‘mislead’ Queen Elizabeth. It’s probably the most researched poem I’ve written.
#Brexit #BorisJohnson #Jacobites
I felt under pressure to somehow narrate the messy political wars through #Brexit, and wrote a lot of dross. But this is a selection of, I hope, my better #poems; ‘Sounds’ was written for the 3rd anniversary of the assassination of MP #JoCox in 2019. The alternate title is ‘Cashmere’.
#Kashmir
So in Dec 2017 I wrote a satirical poem which seemed to catch the zeitgeist; Theresa May’s government was in deadlock over #Brexit, and the political climate awful. It was written in an afternoon, and started an occasional series of (mostly) #political #poetry. Here we go.
#Microwave #Keats
