Promises, Promises
...Place not your trust in princes,
who may dump you in the muck,
where, as history oft evinces
you will be for ever stuck.
A cardinal this lesson learned,
Thomas Wolsey for to name.
All his fa...
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Categories:
wolsey, history, power, society,
Form: Didactic
Oh Heavenly Bible
...Oh heavenly Bible,
he stood there holding you
A fibber, a republican, the people choice
So many times I saw him at the podium
Jeering and coming up against the people of God.
Yet, not a bible n...
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Categories:
wolsey, anger, anxiety, appreciation, black
Form: Free verse
Circumspice 5
...Part 5 -- Si Monumentum Requiris …
Some tattered banners (from the Crimean War?
so who on earth was fighting – and what for?)
That Holman Hunt thing, over on the right,
with Jesus and His lan...
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Categories:
wolsey, history, , memorial,
Form: Couplet