Croydon Part 3
...Croydons just a new build away
if it wasn't for the once East European office blocks fad
its now inviting human capital
to dwell in jolly new builds
and with the new Westfield proposed
most indi...
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Categories:
privatised, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Croydon Part Deux
...hoardings of shops on the isle of ridiculousness
the feral pigeons pontificate
the leaking roof of the civic theatre stays
you've seen better days
you've blundered into desperation
bankrupted t...
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Categories:
privatised, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The Trap
...This is the home of the heartless
Corporate concrete
Where you become captive
To the same things you thought set you free
Where solutions to society's problems
Don't correct anything
Class ...
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Categories:
privatised, addiction, conflict, corruption, deep,
Form: Free verse
Ancient Nursery Rhymes
...I’ve heard it said . . . our future is in peril and deadly danger
Those close to us are listening, to the whispers of a stranger
The Word of God lies hidden, in the depths of cold despair
Lying bu...
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Categories:
privatised, corruption, music,
Form: Rhyme
A Canopy of Gold
...Religion has been privatised like gas
I know in church we still can hear the Mass
Yet no Chaplain comes to dying men
I did my best alone without a plan.
Inside the holy sanctuary bare
I bec...
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Categories:
privatised, absence, adventure, allusion, angel,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Brexit Too
...Brexit 2
They don`t get it the politicians
why people voted to leave.
there is and rightly, so a deep
discontent among people, the see
their water, gas, train and bus prizes
privatised by p...
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Categories:
privatised, abuse, august, beach, color,
Form: Blank verse
Jeremy Corbyn
...I'm kind of taken by Jeremy Corbyn, the man and his success,
And believe that for the leadership role he may be able to dress;
I think what’s going unsaid is that he’s kind of in a way funny,
M...
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Categories:
privatised, future, leadership, political, poverty,
Form: Heroic Couplet