So they asked, 'What's love got to do with it?' And I smiled as I thought of my reply Love, of course, is where all our answers sit Even if, most often, we don't know why Romantic love, the eros, takes control It's a selfish, desperate need-me love A piece of me to justify, inscroll Your life fitting mine like perfection's glove We can take solace in the refuge of Family love, the storge of Ancient Greek Or hold on tight to phileo, thereof The heart of friendship, when life seems less bleak But agapé is the crowning glory Love unconditional, tell your story
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Don’t fob me off with your toxic con
Soft Brexit is an oxymoron
We grin and lay down our hearts-filled flush
Then see the game is blackjack, and blush
Well now, there’s the rub
The price for talking politics with some guy in a pub
Waiting for this moment to pass
For someone to rescue us from this morass
Christmas used to be so simple
A stroll though the supermarket
Of plastic race tracks and
Pink wooden ovens
Of lego blocks
And lego friends
and lego Star Wars
and lego Potter
Now it’s getting more complex
With v-bucks and
iTunes credit
and travel and lessons
and a million hopes and dreams.
I’m less and less convinced
That I can pull off the Santa thing
This year.
BRAVE
Fearless
Selflessness
Never gave it a thought
Did what I knew I ought
Stepped up, cried out ‘This is wrong!’
“The right thing, not the easy thing”
I found the form here, on Shadow Poetry
The lazy conflation of want and need
Consumerism’s ever-open maw
The thoughtless idolisation of greed
Self-sacrifice on the alter of more
Our bellies full with abligurition
Starvation remains for too many poor
It’s lack of food, lack of nutrition
Failure to meet a basic human need
Hunger for stuff will destroy us indeed
Quests don’t have to be publicised
Unsung heroes can stay that way
I have no need of applause, vacuous or otherwise
Each challenge risen to is its own reward
Talk to me of gratitude and being
Let go of the banging drum
Out with the needless praise and the hollow ‘like’
Unfriend those vexations to the spirit
Disconnect from the constant noise
Kwanza lodge Kwanza River River of dreams River of schemes Schemes of lust Schemes of joy Joy in itself Joy in being Being here Being near Near to bliss Near to this This escape This repose Repose required Repose inspired Inspired by beauty Inspired by calm Calm as day Calm as night Night closes in Night enfolds Enfolds the spirit Enfolds the dream Dream of me Dream of you You in harmony You at peace Peace and quiet Peace flows Flows like a river Flows through everything Everything, everywhere Everything right Right for here Right for now Now, the moment Now, the place Place in time Place in history History winks History thinks Thinks of today Thinks of a way Way to make amends Way to move on On my own On the way Own Way