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A selection of poems
- May 10, 2020
- 0 min
Poem by Salah El Nagar from "Public Meeting Covid19 - Fighting Racism in East Anglia"
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A selection of poems
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
Oxford town
Oxford Town (after Brecht) A student gives the last slice of his pizza to a beggar and a man who was hungry is less so. (Although the wor...
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A selection of poems
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
Ex-Patriots
Ex-Patriots On our last morning we take coca-tea early in Confiteria Elis on the Avenue of the Sixteenth of July. The thin air of a high ...
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A selection of poems
- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
A windrush story
Windrush Story My father arrived in England in 1955 He came to work on an invitation, leaving behind his life He left his partner and his...
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A selection of poems
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
No one dies really
No one dies really. Death is an illusion. The flipside of a trick mirror. In truth all we are is energy. Encased in this flesh we call o...
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A selection of poems
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
Let's talk about racism
Let’s talk about Racism Let’s talk about Racism Let talk about its pain Let’s talk about Racism How it hurts, ruins and maims Let’s talk ...
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A selection of poems
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
Over the horizon
Over the Horizon A song Over the horizon one -one baby. This is the one. All the colours are somewhere over the rainbow. Somewhere over t...
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A selection of poems
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Nostalgia
Nostalgia, some ancient memory long forgotten. What a bitter sweet memory. A sweet and sorrowful yearning for a time that once was but al...
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A selection of poems
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Peace is war
Peace is war. War is peace. So what's not peace or war? It's us. We the people. And the choices we make. To infinty. Ad infinitum Raleigh...
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A selection of poems
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Politics
'Politics' When you can't go forward and you can't go back. and you are not welcome in between. When they view you as a parasite, and h...
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A selection of poems
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Refuge
Refuge a burly Danish cop with warm fair beard crouches in the road extending fingers gingerly to a frail brown girl agape with beamish m...
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A selection of poems
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Unfinished city song
Unfinished city song A swastika scratched with a bony finger stick on an inner city snowman with a carrot for a cock. Discarded shoes ha...
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A selection of poems
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Car wash
Car Wash Car wash sah? You avoid the face. Ragged trousers, flared and frayed, dragging in the oily dust; bare feet, black skinned, soles...
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A selection of poems
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Numbered by the dozen
Numbered by the dozen' I wish they were only number by the dozen, but they are numbered by the score. They are numbered by the hundreds,...
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A selection of poems
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
A winter has no spring
A Winter That Has No Spring So you tried upon my shores to land, your tanks, your troops and blood my sand. With weapons for your occup...
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