THE HOLLOW MEN I We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper togetherAre quiet and meaninglessAs wind in dry grassOr rats’ feet over broken glassIn our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour,Paralysed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossedWith direct eyes, to... Continue Reading →
The Daily Slaughter
550 so secret, so nifty, Per day in the UK? Yeah I suppose, is that OK? Never heard, never seen; But Oh my God, those called into being but have never been. My body, my choice; Their body, no choice. The human is sacred, So why do we degrade it? We think we’re just material... Continue Reading →
Recapture Me
Fleeing what I do not know, I flee to where I cannot go. Recapture me. The bridge between my heart and mind, you come across myself to find. Recapture me. You come and knock on imagination’s door, you come to show to know you; Is what eyes and ears are for. With ears that hear... Continue Reading →
“PITY THE NATION”
“PITY THE NATION” a Poem by Lawrence Ferlingetti Pity the nation whose people are sheepAnd whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liarsWhose sages are silencedAnd whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that raises not its voiceExcept to praise conquerorsAnd acclaim the bully as heroAnd aims to rule the worldBy... Continue Reading →
The End of Fear
Though the whole heaven be one eyed with the moon, Though the dead landscape seem a thing possessed, As one that singeth through the flowers of June. Yet I go singing through a land oppressed. * No more, with forrest-fingers crawling free O'er dark flint wall that seems a wall of eyes, Shall evil break... Continue Reading →
Psalm 23 – With A Vicious Twist of Irony
The Final post of 2020. Suitably ironic. It is a guest post by my brother David, who has written this present post, and two others 'The Covid Creed' here and 'If Shakespeare Did Covid' here, on the excellent website 'Conservative Woman' - I encourage you to go here for other high quality articles and cultural... Continue Reading →
A Psalm: The Lockdown of Covid
Psalm 137 Covid Version: In the lockdown of Covid, Indoors we stayed, and wept, When we remembered friends, family, sanity and jobs. In the churches we silenced our tongues, and muzzled our faces, For the Government required of us fearful obeisance to the gods of bureaucratic scientism & the spin of half-truths. Why should we... Continue Reading →
Every four days it kills more than the virus
A great video by the guys at Speak Life by Glen Scrivener (who has featured on this blog before here and here). The video is called 'Numbers' but my title is taken from a line later in the poem that should cause us to wonder what it could possibly be!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJufWVgRsPQ Numbers. That’s what... Continue Reading →
One Step Enough for Me
I am reading John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua, which is to say, as intellectually stimulating as it is and as he is, this Anglican turned Catholic turned recently canonized Saint, is very demanding (thanks Tony)!!! Anyway, I came across a poem he had read after following up on another thing, and came across a... Continue Reading →
The Donkey
A great little poem from the perspective of the donkey by the gentle giant that was G. K. Chesterton. Just right for Palm Sunday! The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. * With monstrous head and sickening... Continue Reading →
Gralefrit Theology 