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BREXIT

16 Sunday Apr 2017

Posted by Worldly Winds in NaPoWriMo17, Poetry, Political

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Borders broken

Racist riptide

England exits

Xenophobic zeitgeist

Immigrants intimidated

Troubling times

 

Brexit 27.06.2016

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

Brexit First appeared in The Fat Damsel (Damsels Against Leave)

https://thefatdamsel.wordpress.com/alex-carr-malcolm/

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Left Behind

15 Saturday Apr 2017

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You sit and you smug

with your jury and judge,

do’s, don’ts, and should,

with a privileged view

and a principled coup;

but what do you know,

and what will you gain –

it’s all a big show,

a capitalist game.

 

Left Behind by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

2016

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The Old Gunner

08 Friday May 2015

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In light of the political disappointment today, I thought I’d share this poem again. I can’t begin to express my disappointment that we have to endure another five years of austerity cuts which seem to hit the most vulnerable people in society. Only hours after the results the DWP announce that ATW for the disabled will be severely cut.

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The Old Gunner

Last one to go down

Fighting hard

A shooting star

Bucks the trend

Yet to what end?

Keep your feet to the fire

Squash the poor man down

Loopholes and promises

It’s gunner change

It’s gunner end

Taxing the senses

Try hard to pretend

Banking your pence’s

And yet to what end?

Ground moonbeams roasted

And fed to the masses

Who don’t ask questions

Morals and molasses

Standoff at Dodge City

Ten paces at dawn

Ethical genocide

Battle lines drawn

Highway robbery

Caffeine snobbery

Dead man’s boots

Amazonian roots

The Old Gunner

Last one to go down

Fighting hard

A shooting star

Bucks the trend

Yet to what end?

 

© The Old Gunner 21.02.2013

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Picture Credit:Cowboy (Photo credit: Kevin Zollman)

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Jaundiced Outlook

04 Thursday Apr 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Daily life, Death, Poetry, Political

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Jaded mirror

reflecting death

of a conscience

rotting moral fibre

hair shirt decayed

and frayed

at the edges of society

jaundiced cynicism?

Constructive criticism

worships at the altar

of Celebrity.

 

© Jaundiced Outlook 04.04.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
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The Old Gunner

21 Thursday Feb 2013

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The Old Gunner

Last one to go down

Fighting hard

A shooting star

Bucks the trend

Yet to what end?

Keep your feet to the fire

Squash the poor man down

Loopholes and promises

It’s gunner change

It’s gunner end

Taxing the senses

Try hard to pretend

Banking your pence’s

And yet to what end?

Ground moonbeams roasted

And fed to the masses

Who don’t ask questions

Morals and molasses

Standoff at Dodge City

Ten paces at dawn

Ethical genocide

Battle lines drawn

Highway robbery

Caffeine snobbery

Dead man’s boots

Amazonian roots

The Old Gunner

Last one to go down

Fighting hard

A shooting star

Bucks the trend

Yet to what end?

 

© The Old Gunner 21.02.2013

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Cowboy (Photo credit: Kevin Zollman)

 

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