god and austerity
God and Austerity
The supermarket that calls itself Forum,
has a bell tower, but now, in time of
austerity, no one flocks to buy anything
when its bells ring every hour.
Sunday, when I drove my wife to church
the car park was full of vehicles
the bells didn’t
toll in vain; when I looked through
the
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Categories:
austerity, addiction, art, bereavement, books,
Form: ABC
Another Austerity Christmas
He'll leave the baubles in the loft this year;
he so dislikes those sparkly plastic trees,
and real ones these days are far too dear.
The cost of heating home has put a squeeze
on almost everything that's fun, I fear.
He'll send some greetings texts, no Christmas card;
now that he's seen the cost of postage stamps,
using the pub's free
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Categories:
austerity, christmas, poverty, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Austerity
Dynasties of greed and its economic policies,
political discourse and its perpetual odysseys.
Deficits through poor implementation,
voted promises and false trust revocation.
Borrowed capital and meeting their existing obligation,
taxes, high prices and corrupted penetration.
Violence done to keep the system to maintain,
multiplicity of ignorant ignorance polished vain.
Hidden figures with plausible deniability,
equal copious applied without responsibility.
Tightened belts and overdraft bestowed
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Categories:
austerity, analogy, social, truth,
Form: Ballad
Austerity Financial Hardship
>Austerity (Financial hardship)
Where has all the money gone?
Sounds like the title to a song.
If of course it was a hit.
Folk would spend money on it.
Not in cash, would it flow!
But plastic credited numbers flow.
Into someone’s bank account you know..
Not mine as that is down quite low!
But where has all the cash now gone?
Our
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Categories:
austerity, anxiety, crazy, farewell, missing,
Form: I do not know?
Austerity
AUSTERITY ........................16.. 17/4/2012
Once glacial water clear and true, flowed beyond thoughts far and few.
Bores beneath the inner voices, deft of clue and honest choices.
Green, wild, harsh and rarely tame, nothing ever remains the same.
Constant change and constant station a birthright to a nation.
Careless whim and nonchalant disgrace looses people caring face.
Hardened brows and
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Categories:
austerity, social,
Form: Couplet
Austerity
Austerity?
Expensive cars chocking the approaches
to Vilamoura, the yacht and seaside town.
No austerity today, a man in an old Fiat
was laughed off the road, probably a waiter
on the way to work. No poverty no beggars
only shampooed dogs with golden collars.
And as always the poor, the silent majority,
stayed in their howls, sun is exclusively for
the perma-
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Categories:
austerity, parody,
Form: Blank verse
Austerity and God
God and Austerity
The supermarket which calls itself Forum,
has a bell tower, but now in time of
austerity no one flocks to buy anything
when its bells rings every hour.
Sunday, when I drove my wife to church
the car park was full and the bells didn’t
toll in vain; and when I looked through
the window
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Categories:
austerity, satire, god, people, time,
Form: Verse