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There was a young girl from Berlin
Who ordered a burger, eat in
When asked was it tasty
She said don’t be hasty
And chucked it away in the bin
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by Scooj
Category: 3. Poems
Surprise? (Germany v Japan)
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Unlikely result
although on their current form
not so unlikely
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by Scooj
Limerick #3
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Voting to leave the EU
was the stupidest thing we could do
this act of self-harm
has worked like a charm
for the fascists who pulled off their coup
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by Scooj
Abuse
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Tory government
pathological dislike
of public sector
abusive relationship
bullying, undermining
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by Scooj
As someone who has spent most of my career working for the public, I am sick of the abuse this government hurl at public sector workers, the very people who are ‘delivering’ Brexit , who teach, who heal, who care, who got this country through the pandemic, who protect the environment and regulate those who would do harm to people and nature, those who keep our streets safe and run fair courts, local service providers… the list goes on.
How dare they?
Unimaginable
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It isn’t thunder
or lightening lighting the sky
bombs fall on Ukraine
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by Scooj
Broken-hearted
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The tempo of the moment
I drag my feet behind me
slow, slow, quick, quick, slow
a leaden, broken-hearted, tango
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Newsbeats punctuate the day
fuelling my impotence
wading through treacle
a saddened, broken-hearted, people
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Generation’s legacy
it’s as if we’ve learned nothing
and Putin’s disdain
fragmented, broken-hearted, Ukraine
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by Scooj
* I always feel it is a bit of a risk writing poetry like this. I don’t have a particularly highly developed skill for it, but I just wrote the words on a notepad, and, well, I’m sharing them. I am struggling to come to terms with the war in Ukraine, but it is only one of several defining moments of our time which have been handled rather badly… Climate crisis, biodiversity crisis, COVID-19, nationalism and war. What a bloody mess.
Teflon-coated
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Surely, surely now
Boris Johnson should step down
worst Prime Minister
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But there is no chance of that
and everybody knows it
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by Scooj
Climate emergency
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Governments tell us
we need time to make changes
‘people aren’t ready’
meanwhile we see Rome burning
I sense a revolution
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by Scooj
- I am sickened by governments around the world asserting that making rapid changes to our fossil fuel habits will not be accepted by businesses or people. Surely the point here is that they must lead us through this difficult time, making those difficult choices, and selling the long-term benefits to their citizens. Sadly they are still in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry and other big players for whom change is costly and inconvenient. History will remember them for the pathetic cowards they are. They are failing in their duty to protect citizens and our beautiful home, Planet Earth. Time to change this ‘old order’.
Parsley in my ears
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Waiting for the boy
to watch the match together
the joy of playback
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shut out all noises or clues
I’ll put parsley in my ears
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by Scooj
This is a rather cryptic Tanka which I am composing while waiting for my son to get home from his late shift so that we can watch the England v Scotland match together on playback. I have to guard against hearing the neighbours shouting or turning on the radio or even using my phone in case I see or hear anything that might give away the score.
Putting parsley in my ears is an oblique reference to an Asterix cartoon book ‘Asterix the Gladiator’ in which the Roman soldiers put parsley in their ears so that they wouldn’t hear Cacofonix the bard singing, such was the dreadful noise he made.
School walk
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Children sit on walls
or wait on pavement corners
as they coalesce
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excited morning greetings
friendship groups saunter to school
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by Scooj
Natural adventures 