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Monthly Archives: March 2023
Undercliffe Cemetery – a prose poem
The monumental gates are broad. The pillared span admits respectable citizens, the high and the low, captains of industry and the foot soldiers; the wealth makers of money and markets, the wealth creators born to necessity and toil. The gradations … Continue reading
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Heartline Writers – Phenomenal Woman
Poetry, stories and singing for International Women’s Day Richard Wilcocks writes: “In Headingley’s Heart Centre, the Shire Oak Hall was full. A Powerpoint display was beginning on the large screen, ready to inform those present of the names of poets … Continue reading
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THE NEW HOUSEKEEPER
it will not stay as it was left, the boogie-woogie of books – jazzing up the room – will fall like a ton of fiction there will be no tambourines, no clinking of love triangles, the muse will not slip … Continue reading
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THE QUIRKY COAT
It was grey flannel, plain and droopy, with drawstrings and a large untidy hood, not some zany creation sporting pistachio pockets and baroque buttons, but an everywoman’s coat that somehow caught the attention of young up-to-no-gooders, who screamed like high … Continue reading
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Blue Electra
Out of the blue, she came with her silver wings, slicing through the unspun drifts of cloud, to rise higher than any bird was made to fly defying men, defying women’s place, defying gravity she flies, alone, across the wild … Continue reading
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The Call
I saw her again today, out there, scanning the horizon, her wild song calling them in. She was Kali, Ishtar, Isis and Athena, She was Gaia, Venus, the snake goddess, Minerva she knew why caged birds sang and now she … Continue reading
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The story of Mrs Phule and Fatima Sheikh
Savitribai Phule, Fatima Sheikh Even an ordinary person in India today would probably not know those names. So you are forgiven for wondering: who are they? They were 2 phenomenal women, One Hindu, a Dalit, that is an untouchable, the … Continue reading
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Woman
By the time I was born She’d already lived through two World Wars And had false teeth and grey hair I saw her often and ate a mountain of her blackcurrant jelly and coconut pyramids But it took many years … Continue reading
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CHOCOLATE CAKE and ATOM BOMBS (or Less Bombs, More Cake)
Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer diagnosed with tuberculosis Moves to the high desert country of New Mexico to recuperate. Two months before the US enters World War II Franklin D Roosevelt approves the development of the atom bomb And is of … Continue reading
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Woman Life Freedom
Woman Life Freedom is a Kurdish slogan, a rallying cry challenging violent patriarchal deadly authoritarian government . Used during the protests which erupted in Iran as a response to the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2023.My poem is about … Continue reading
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