What is all our learning for if, still, we haven't learnt that war is a game that can't be won? That all is lost when once begun? Is there justice we can findthat doesn't leave the whole world blind? Each cut deeper than the last;Never learning from the past: Innocence lost at innocents' cost. If [...]
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A letter from her solicitor
I’m writing this to inform youmy client has intent to suefor whiplash, which she got that day.That’s how fast she looked away from the sight of your sad plight. Look!What’s that?Look over there!She thought she saw a millionairemattering much more than youwho swung so swiftly into view,She turned to see, as I explained,And that is [...]
A wish for a teacher
If I could I would Bottle summer Make August days a special feature Distill the essence of long lazy lunches Evenings on beaches Give a supply to every teacher To help them through a long dark term A tiny light A seed A germ of hope. One tiny drop each day – or two The [...]
The price of a life
What value one life?What matter whose life? They know the price of a life in Bani Walid.In the squalid, fetid torture campsWhere evil stamps its mark in skin.They know the price isEverything. Every thing a mother can beg or borrow or barter or sell;Everything they own as well;Every shred of dignity;Every hope;Humanity. Everything to save [...]
Talk about Boris
We don't see how we're being fleeced How thoroughly the wheels are greased By equity that they've released From us, by stealth.
Ali 