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on Ukraine
Gangster in White HouseDrones, shells, rockets hit KharkivMoscow turns the screw~n.b. Operating the world’s biggest racket, one as old as crime itself, the US President tells Ukraine to give up its mineral wealth and land in exchange for protection, otherwise things will get worse. Moscow, in on the action, gives a little demo to underline… Read more
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on time
As I a child I wonderedWhat life was like beforeWar broke out in EuropeCricket played on village greensActors shining from silver screensTube trains, trams, omnibusesFull of people reading newsheetsEditorials and commentariesOn threat and riskThe rights and wrongsThe unlikelihood of something worseNo-one would be mad enoughTo fire the shot, to call a bluffTo cross the line,… Read more
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on Ukraine
sunrise dulls night’s starsunder lunar indifferenceresistance is allthree years have spunwith nothing to celebrateexcept life itselfthis fight not overembattled Kyiv’s trams will runthere is still a pulsehospitals and schoolsbakeries and street marketsprecious exchangesmoney greases handsmerchants of war grow fatterUkraine their foir grasyellow and blue bandswheat sent by sea feeds the worldtherein grains of truthone man… Read more
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on Ukraine
A knock on the doorYour son will never returnYou laboured in vain~ n.b. One thousand Russian mothers a day are being told that the birth pains they endured are nothing to the unending pain of loss they will suffer from today. What hollow gains Moscow is making. CLP 18/02/2025 Read more
I write as I wonder as I wander.
Journey of Words 