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So there it isThe truth laid bareShe got the lotNot just a shareTo have been seen as fairAnd all won of her rageHer single minded intentCallous, insatiable greedTo a pathological extentRewarded at lengthNo compromiseNo mercyNo lamentThough he is at last at peaceAnd freed of her maliceThat is some comfort at least

As a kid, just a little tot, I remember walking alongside the big old pram. We lived then on the main industrial route, and I clearly remember the smell and choking feeling of the fumes from the trucks constantly going by. Later we moved to a new house but not far from that main road,Continue reading “ex-smoker”

It’s not just about historic injustices, but the inequalities and prejudices that persist, hard wired into every aspect of the system and so normalised we don’t even see it, much less recognise the ongoing impact. The thing is these inequalities have now become so extreme they increasingly polarise and marginalise underprivileged or ethnic groups. WeContinue reading “cycle of injustice”

When Mother Nature bites us backShows us whose the bossPay less heed to the fiscal tackAll talk of profit and lossOr hanker what we’re told we lackRemember there’s a ticking clockAnd to value life as precious stockIt should be obvious     Marcella  July 2020

The planet will survive the human raceAs another species takes its placeTo rule the skies or seas to traceThe ruins of our daysAs the earth restores itself

This will prove easier for me than for many. Isolation is a state of being I am only too familiar with. in the late hours the ghosts of long lost friends sit patiently with me and listen to my woes Dear friends long gone They walk with me too I like to think we mayContinue reading “lockdown lullaby”

Plastic discarded with easeLitters the seasDisposable PeopleLitter the streets

Since when is decency a dirty wordSnide derision hastily fired at any hint of humanity or compassionHatreds stirred in the name of national pride, yes we’ve seen it all beforeSlicked-back bully boysPolishing up their mannerstheir deceits and flattery disguise vicious diktats and denouncementsIncite us to despise this kind, that kind, even our own kindThey despiseContinue reading “brexit blues”

A place as real as any other occupying jagged and rusting fragments of memory the landscape pitted and scarred a minefield strewn with the rubble of old hurts and sorrows through which my mind habitually and skilfully dodges carefully swerving certain issues finding detours and diversions picking my way through the salvage of my pastContinue reading “brokenshire”

Cobblestones rattle out at a deserted bomb ravaged landscape disgruntlement dictated in his every step mocking echoes mark the path to this battlefront to find her waiting patiently? Happy domesticity, for who? Not she.. Having known the taste of freedom, to be told now again, ‘know your place!’ Shackled yet, she’ll black the hearth, redContinue reading “cobblestones”