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on Ukraine
gathering placesare targets for crueltyline up your dead men~n.b. A military parade, of all things. What were the military leaders thinking when they organised this ceremonial event for their precious troops? A new Spion Kop moment, a ‘free hit’ for the ultra-sonic bombardiers of Moscow. CLP 05/09/2024 →
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on Ukraine
Claim and counter-claimWho knows now what to believe?The death of reason ~ n.b. All we know is innocent people are being killed on a daily basis…to what end? CLP 31/08/2024 →
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on Ukraine
more war leads to peaceso the theory goes, it meansmore civilians will die~ n.b. Ukraine is trying to hold captured Kursk territory. This so that they have something to trade when sincere peace talks begin. Sadly, this depends on whether those men in Moscow actually care, or not. CLP 19/08/2024 →
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on Ukraine
Enticed from bunkerTo unfamiliar landVenus flytraps close ~ n.b. The sense in pushing into Russia, rather than sitting like ducks in a bombarded home, is understood. The further from home that the Ukrainian forces push the greater their exposure to risk. It seems that Russia may be more vulnerable to a counter-attack than previously thought, →
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On Nagasaki
Do not forget thisthriving city foreverscarred in but a flash~n.b. And on the Third Day after Hiroshima, someone thought Nagasaki should be razed to the ground too. Who? Why? Really? Were two A-bombs really necessary?In history, the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on 9th August 1945, is barely mentioned, yet it suffered the full horror of →
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on travel
Africa is homeFrom whence all humans travelledWe are all migrants ~ n.b. The United Kingdom, as these islands and a bit of Ireland are called, are showing serious signs of not being united. Has the king of this Kingdom, anything to say about the racist rioters? The rioters are proud of an anthem which talks →
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on Ukraine
no relief from machinerysleep-less, ill-less, weary-lessit runs regardlesson another beautiful sunriseperfect for the harvestwho drives the combinesturning fields of wheatto ragged lines of strawto fields of goldwho runs the trailerspilling grainslike breadcrumbsa golden trailfrom field to barnand back again?who dries the grainbefore the auger spraysinto the storage binswho tests the moisture contentthe temperatureof the heaped →
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on Ukraine
UA, yellow blueon cars’ registration platesrush along A1urgency of menheading home to what remainsweighed down with angerthrough Austrian rainSlovakia swelteringjust next door, the warmuddy Danube flowspast tourist boats, cafés, barsas if nothing’s wrongn.b. On a road-trip, I have now seen the Danube, fast-flowing, a seething river of summer storm run-off, as it heads toward Ukraine →
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on Ukraine
waves of men sent outa thousand per day slaughtered Moscow’s heroics ~ n.b. Latest news from the front, that Russia’s military leaders are cynically despatching infantry to fight their war, despite extremely heavy losses, (estimated at 31,000 in May 2024, according to a NY Times report today), beggars belief. The men in Moscow forget that →
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