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Category Archives: About Britain
Dunkirk
Time stretches taut as a drumskin, each passing syllable a vibrating membrane with the, longed for hoped for prayed for.. Time stretches beyond the horizon each immeasurable step further from the vanishing point of the, longed for hoped for prayed … Continue reading
Posted in 20th.Century History, About Britain, Allegory, British History, Culture, Existential, Expression of Faith, History Poem, Identity, Nostalgia, Popular Culture, War
Tagged 20th.Century History, British History, Cinema, Culture, European History, Existential, Expression of Faith, Memory, Popular Culture
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Flaneur :- Arts Council Funded
The gallery was crowded, the Flaneur felt a frisson of ennui, ” comment? ” his forefinger jabbed toward the photograph, a man apparently stood on a mat that was adjacent a bus stop, a casual reading of the tableau would … Continue reading
Posted in About Britain, Culture, Ekphrasic Poetry, Media coverage, Popular Culture, social satire
Tagged Culture, Existential, Popular Culture, Social satire
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Tram Journey
Silhouettes embark the theatre on wheels, bantering chattering artistes of the verbal trapeze, accompanied by accordions of folding evening papers, keeping time with stone-tablet timetables clattering through blackened railway arches circumlocating city square, its familiar gargoyled spires furtively conspiring with … Continue reading
Metropolitan Ennui :- June 24,2016
On the retro-style barstools along the windows, millenials garbed in their faux-assemblage of the hat,faded cargo pants and designer leather sit staring at their i-phones or just gazing out into the drizzling rain, holding large artisanal coffee cups between their … Continue reading
Posted in About Britain, Allegory, British History, Contemporary Austerity Economics, Contemporary Society, Culture, Dystopia, Ennui, EU REFERENDUM 23 June 2016, Existential, Horror, Identity, Philosophy, Social History, social satire
Tagged British History, Contemporary Austerity economics, contemporary society, Dystopia, Ennui, Existential, Philosophy, Politics
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Broken Words
Listen listen to voices that can’t be heard, their soundless mutterings contain certainty possibly even the truth; Everything creates new perspectives, new words making us strangers in our own land, making us strangers in our own lives; leaving us trying … Continue reading
Posted in About Britain, Allegory, Contemporary Society, Dystopia, Ennui, Existential, Horror, Identity, Poetry Noir
Tagged contemporary society, Dystopia, Ennui, Existential, Horror, Identity, Poetry Noir
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Ancient Voices
Sublime exquisite, their expression, their emotion, their surreal evocation of an Age long since past, beyond memory: Revived, to seduce transfix in the Here, the for Now everlasting Here, Connecting nigh on five centuries how vibrant, mysterious,transparent cogent the notation … Continue reading
Te Deum laudamus :- mmxvi
That the Lord hath spared His disputatious people the rod of Babylon and the ire of Egypt; He hath shown His people a mercy none deserved to be shown; For He alone hath revived that exiled branch of Is-ra-el long … Continue reading
Posted in About Britain, About Wakefield, Allegory, British History, Contemporary Austerity Economics, Contemporary Society, EU REFERENDUM 23 June 2016, European History, Existential, Politics, Revolution
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The Prisoner
The difference between a prison cell and an open meadow on a bright Summer’s day is, all the pain all the exhaustion all the waiting all the longing all the desire all the determination all the suffering all the endurance, … Continue reading
Posted in About Britain, Allegory, British History, Contemporary Society, EU REFERENDUM 23 June 2016, European History, Existential, Expression of Faith, Faith-centred, Identity, Politics, Revolution
Tagged British History, contemporary society, EU REFERENDUM 23 June 2016, Existential, Politics
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Memo to a Dead Politician
Was it something that you said was it something that you did? were you always out in the open or did you keep somethings hid? Perhaps you spoke the truth, trouble is no-one ever saw the proof; A few things … Continue reading
An Exercise in Disappointment
We waited so long for answers years went past like trains in the night lights on, heading somewhere; Back at the station ticket in hand we waited till the memory of our waiting decomposed in a lights out going nowhere … Continue reading
Posted in About Britain, About Wakefield, Allegory, Contemporary Austerity Economics, Contemporary Society, Dystopia, Ennui, Existential, Horror, Identity, Nostalgia
Tagged About Wakefield, Contemporary Austerity economics, contemporary society, Dystopia, Ennui, Existential, Identity
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