Poetry

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

Marge Piercy

Friday, 01 December 2023 11:28

Timeclock Mount Everest

Written by Fred Voss

in Poetry

Timeclock Mount Everest by Fred Voss All our lives we’ve made it to the timeclockKA-CHUNKwent the old-style factory clock when it stamped the old-style timecard we dropped into itor “enter”flashed the new-style timeclock when we clicked its mouseeither waywe threaded through 18-wheeler trucks full of ball bearingsor Chinese restaurant noodleson…

Wednesday, 29 November 2023 14:36

The Comeback Kings

Written by Paul Francis

in Poetry

The Comeback Kings by Paul Francis, with image by Martin Rowson Time for a golden oldies track -the Tony/Peter duo’s backto tell their fans they’re thrilled to bitsthey can replay their greatest hits.It’s leadership that matters most.“The party” is a fading ghost;commitments, values, Labour’s soul?Stuff that. It’s all about controland…

Wednesday, 29 November 2023 11:09

a healthy return

Written by Martin Hayes

in Poetry

a healthy return by Martin Hayes there was this placeand it wasn’t a town or a citybut people lived thereand there was one shop and one pubthey all went toand the shop had eggs and beans for the people to buybut the shop shut down when the distribution companycouldn’t get…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 23 November 2023 10:43

A Greater Loss

in Poetry

Written by Jenny Mitchell

A Greater Loss by Jenny Mitchell The first report is of a dozen migrants – eight men, three women and a child battered on the rocks, boat a pile of sticks floating on the surface with the dregs of clothes. As the camera swerves, it reveals a housebeneath the waves,…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 16 November 2023 21:27

The Breaking of Bread and Catastrophe: Two poems on Gaza

in Poetry

Written by Janet Sillett

The breaking of bread by Janet Sillett Families queuing for round flat loaveseach morning before dawn the struggle for bread Sharq Bakery in Gaza City bombed late October 2023in the doorway blood mixes with flour the smell of baking lingering in the space that is left I recall Jewish black…

Genocide in Gaza

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 15 November 2023 09:20

Mandatory Compliance

in Poetry

Written by Steven Taylor

Mandatory Compliance by Steven Taylor Everyone on television Even weathermen and womenFootball commentatorsComedians, and more serious folk Naturalists and gardeners The panels on the dancing showsThe people in the advertsThe winners of the Lottery All the politicians, presenters Wears a Poppy in RemembranceObserves the minute silence. Shush Gaza is too…

Suella Braverman Armistice Day

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 13 November 2023 14:11

Cameron's Crawl

in Poetry

Written by David Erdos

Cameron's Crawl by David Erdos Somewhere in Chess sits that secret momentWhen the board turns to fire as the predetermined vision Ignites, and when the parade of each piece before the gazeOf fate proves astounding, revealing how what’s decidedIs framed by both the cosmic black and star white The moving…

Foreign Secretary David Cameron

Friday, 10 November 2023 11:08

For Gaza

Written by Mike Jenkins

in Poetry

For Gaza by Mike Jenkins They dried up the terrainLike parched riverbeds with only names left They bombed the shops and warehouses -Every child's stomach a crater They cut off the electricitySo darkness was a way of life They stopped the journalists from entering;Who queued before danger like relief trucks…

Genocide in Gaza

Friday, 10 November 2023 11:05

In Gaza

Written by Kevin McCann

in Poetry

In Gaza by Kevin McCann, with image above by Martin Gollan There’s a boy, Maybe three, maybe four, Dirty knees, Dusty face, Tousled hair And within arm’s reach There’s another, Probably his brother, Head bandaged, One eye patched over, His tee-shirt blood streaked. They reach out, One to another, Try…

Genocide in Gaza

Wednesday, 08 November 2023 16:45

Yer Ower Voices! - Groundbreaking, funny and insightful

Written by Jack Caradoc

in Poetry

Yer Ower Voices! (Culture Matters) £12 , ISBN 978 1 912710 54 6 Editor: Mike Jenkins Dialect poems in Welsh and English from Cymru is the subtitle of this exciting book. What it means by that is dialects of Welsh English and dialects of Welsh language mainly, and hybrid dialects…

Monday, 06 November 2023 10:12

Uday, One Day

Written by Jim Aitken

in Poetry

Uday, One Day by Jim Aitken In memory of Uday Abu Mohsen who lived only one dayafter being killed during the Siege of Gaza, 2023. Uday was the baby boy’s name. Uday, it was.He would have known so little but he wouldhave known he was someone with being.He would have…

Gaza Israeli bombing Uday